Odfjell Drilling has secured further employment for its rig Deepsea Bergen with Faroe Petroleum in Norway. The drilling contractor said on Friday that the contract is for one well plus one well option on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The contract start is back to back with expiry of the current c
Danish drilling contractor Maersk Drilling said via its social media channels on Wednesday that its ultra-deepwater drillship Maersk Voyager has received its first subsea Xmas tree. The subsea Xmas tree received was for the upper completions phase of the Offshore Cape Three Points integrated Oil and
Aker BP, a new oil and gas player formed by merging BP Norge and Det norske, has made an oil discovery east of the Frigg field in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said on Friday that Aker BP, the operator of the production license 442, concluded drilling of w
Lamprell, a provider of engineering and contracting services to the energy industry, has completed construction of the jack-up drilling rig, Al Gharbia, and delivered it to Abu Dhabi’s National Drilling Company (NDC). Lamprell said that completion and delivery of the jack-up rig, on time and on budg
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Eni Norge a drilling permit for an exploration well in the Barents Sea. The well 7318/12-1 will be drilled in a prospect named Boné-Bigorna from the Saipem-owned drilling rig Scarabeo 8. The company recently got a consent from the Petroleum Safet
Norwegian Coast Center Base (CCB), a service provider in technical maintenance and harbor operations, has received a letter of intent for a renewal survey of the COSLPromoter rig. The survey on COSL Drilling’s semi-submersible drilling rig will be performed in May 2017. CCB noted that this is the on
Statoil has received a drilling permit for an appraisal well at its Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. The well 16/2-22 S in production license 265 will be drilled from the Deepsea Atlantic semi-submersible drilling rig in the northwest extension of the Johan Sverdrup field. According to the Nor
Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has decided to cold stack another one of its semi-submersible drilling rigs amid challenging drilling market. In its latest fleet status report for a period between November 23 until December 20, 2016, the driller said on Tuesday that the 1980-built dri
Offshore drilling contractor Atwood Oceanics has been awarded a one-well drilling services contract with the energy company Woodside, offshore Australia. Atwood reported on Monday that one of its subsidiaries agreed the contract with the Australian energy company for the 2011-built, ultra-deepwater,
Eni Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Italian oil company Eni, has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill an exploration well in the Barents Sea with the Scarabeo 8 drilling rig. The well is located in production license 716 in blocks 7318/11 and 7318/12, in the Baren
UK-based oil and gas company Hurricane Energy has completed the drilling and logging phase of the Lincoln well, located west of the Shetland Islands, after making an oil discovery. Hurricane started drilling the Lincoln well on November 8, 2016, with the Transocean Spitsbergen semi-sub drilling rig.
Exxon Mobil has failed in its effort to find oil offshore Liberia. According to Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited, ExxonMobil’s partner in the Mesurado-1 well, the well is dry. Drilling started on the Mesurado-1 exploration well on November 21, 2016 utilizing the West Saturn drillship owned by Sea
U.S. weekly offshore rig count remained unchanged for the second week in a row, according to rig count reports by the oilfield services provider Baker Hughes. BHI Rig Count: U.S. +13 to 637 rigs U.S. Rig Count is up 13 rigs from last week to 637, with oil rigs up 12 to 510, gas rigs […]
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin a drilling permit for an appraisal well in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The NPD said on Friday that the wellbore 7120/1-5 will be drilled from the Ocean Rig-owned Leiv Eiriksson semi-submersible drilling rig. The drilling program for
