Pura Vida Energy has reached a conditional agreement with an offshore drilling contractor which will fund a three-well drilling program in the Nkembe block, offshore Gabon. The term sheet envisions the drilling contractor providing a jack-up rig and fund the costs of the rig for the three-well progr
Denmark’s Port of Esbjerg on Tuesday shared a photo on its social media channels showing the Ensco 72 jack-up drilling rig departing after a service stay. According to the update from the port, the Ensco 72 had left earlier this week after a two-month stay during which the rig underwent comprehensiv
Songa Offshore has informed that its Cat D rig Songa Encourage is undergoing repairs in Norway, following water leakage on the rig in early January. To remind, on January 2, 2017, a water ingress was observed in a pump room on board the semi-submersible rig Songa Encourage. At the time of the incide
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum a drilling permit for wellbore 6507/3-12, in the Norwegian Sea. The wellbore 6507/3-12 will be drilled from the Deepsea Bergen semi-submersible drilling rig. The Norwegian Sea prospect where the exploration well will be drilled
Cairn Energy is gearing up to start the third phase of its drilling program offshore Senegal in late January, aiming to further evaluate the SNE discovery. Cairn has so far drilled six successful wells in Senegal and the 2017 drilling program plans for two new, firm wells. The new wells are meant to
Statoil Petroleum has made an oil discovery northwest of the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea, offshore Norway. Statoil was given consent to drill the exploration well in block 6608/10 with the Deepsea Bergen rig and a drilling permit for the well 6608/10-17 S in November 2016. The drilling of the C
Drilling contractor North Atlantic Drilling has been awarded a one-well contract for the semi-submersible rig West Phoenix. The contract is for work in the United Kingdom, West of Shetland with the French oil giant Total. In a statement on Tuesday, North Atlantic Drilling said the contract was in di
The offshore rig market has been flooded with newbuilds over the past 10 years. Now oversupply is killing utilization and dayrates.
ExxonMobil on Thursday reported positive results from its Payara-1 well offshore Guyana. Payara is ExxonMobil’s second oil discovery on the Stabroek Block and was drilled in a new reservoir. The company said that the Payara-1 well targeted similar aged reservoirs that were proven successful at the c
Faroe Petroleum is gearing up to start drilling an appraisal well on its Brasse oil and gas discovery in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. In an update on Thursday, Faroe said it would drill the appraisal well on the Brasse discovery in mid-2017. Faroe as the operator has entered into a contract
Norway’s offshore safety agency, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has confirmed that last week’s fire incident on board the Deepsea Atlantic rig is under investigation. The rig is under a contract with the Norwegian oil company Statoil on the Johan Sverdrup field, offshore Norway. The incident
A fire broke out on the Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig working for Statoil at the Johan Sverdrup field, off Norway. According to a report by the Norwegian news website Offshore.no, the fire broke out last Wednesday in the rig’s drill tower. After it was extinguished, it broke out again. The situation
The international offshore rig count for December 2016 was down both sequentially and year over year. According to reports on Monday by the oilfield services provider Baker Hughes, the international offshore rig count for December 2016 was 210, down 1 from the 211 counted in November 2016, and down
Drilling contractor North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. (NADL) has once again postponed the delivery of a newbuild drilling unit West Rigel ordered at Sembcorp Marine’s Jurong Shipyard. In addition to several previous delays, the latest one being announced in October 2016, NADL on Monday announced a stands
