UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency said Monday that a team of additional six people would join the salvors on board the grounded drilling rig Transocean Winner, as part of the ongoing salvage operation. The semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Winner ran aground near Dalmore Beach on the Isle o
Brazil’s struggling offshore drilling company Sete Brasil has reportedly filed a draft reorganization plan for the company. The drilling company was formed in 2010 to own and operate a large fleet of drilling rigs, to be used by the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras. This was supposed to be a 28-rigs, $
Quadrant Energy has failed to find hydrocarbons in the Driftwood-1 commitment well on the WA-320-P permit, offshore Western Australia. The Quadrant-operated WA-320-P permit is located in the Carnarvon Basin and the Driftwood-1 commitment well is located in WA-320-P in the Barrow sub-basin of the Nor
Norwegian oil firm Det norske oljeselskap has obtained approval to use the Maersk Interceptor jack-up for drilling at the Ivar Aasen field in the North Sea. The field is an oil and gas field in the North Sea, around 175 kilometers west-south-west of Karmøy in Rogaland county. Water depth in the area
Following last week’s grounding of the Transocean Winner rig off the Isle of Lewis, a salvage team is starting a full assessment of the damage to the rig. The rig ran aground last Monday while being towed from Norway to Malta, due to severe weather. According to a statement by UK’s Maritime and Coas
Vietnamese drilling rig builder PetroVietnam Marine Shipyard has delivered the Tam Dao 05 jack-up drilling rig to Vietsovpetro, the joint Russian-Vietnamese company for oil and gas exploration. Following 32 months of construction, the handover ceremony was held on Friday, August 12, 2016, in Vietnam
The number of active offshore rigs in the U.S. did not change during last week, the oilfield services provider Baker Hughes reported on Friday. BHI Rig Count: U.S. +17 to 481 rigs U.S. Rig Count is up 17 rigs from last week to 481, with oil rigs up 15 to 396, gas rigs up 2 […]
Maersk Drilling, a drilling contractor part of Denmark’s Maersk Group, delivered a profit of $164 million for the second quarter of 2016. This is a drop compared to the profit of $218 million realized in the second quarter of 2015. Revenue was $566 million, down 9.3% from $524 million a year ago. Re
Ocean Rig UDW, an offshore drilling company, has reached an agreement with Samsung Heavy Industries to postpone drillship deliveries and reschedule certain installments for the rigs currently being built in South Korea.
No pollution has been detected as a result of the Transocean Winner drilling rig running aground near a beach in the Isle of Lewis in the UK. Offshore Energy Today reported earlier on Thursday that two fuel tanks on the grounded semi-submersible rig had been breached causing concerns that oil from t
Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling on Thursday posted a loss for the second quarter of 2016 after emerging from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February. The drilling contractor, with a fleet of three ultra-deepwater drillships and four jack-up drilling rigs, reported a net loss of approximate
Russian oil company Rosneft has found a gas condensate discovery at an exploration well located in the Nam Con Son basin, offshore Vietnam. Rosneft started drilling the well, the company’s first drilling project as an operator in the international waters, in March 2016 with the Hakuryu-5 semi-submer
Image by John Gray/Dell-licious-Ness Two fuel tanks on the grounded semi-submersible rig Transocean Winner have been breached and it remains unclear how much oil has leaked into the environment. To remind, the Transocean Winner drilling rig ran aground near a beach in the Isle of Lewis in the UK aft
Saipem’s 6th generation, semi-submersible, drilling rig Scarabeo 8 is now staying at Westcon’s yard in Olen, Norway. The rig arrived at Westcon for classing activities and, according to Westcon, it will stay there until the end of the year. The semi-sub is under a contract with the Italian oil compa
