Aberdeen-based Rigmar Services has been awarded a contract for the operations, technical and commercial management of Prime Meridian Docks in Takoradi, Ghana. Rigmar said on Wednesday that under the terms of the agreement, it will provide the management team and key technical personnel, while recrui
Romanian provider of offshore integrated services for oil and gas industry, Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP), has been awarded an offshore drilling contract in Tunisia. The contract was awarded by Numhyd, a jointly owned and managed oil company, founded by the Tunisian Company of Petroleum Activities
UK-based oil and gas company Hurricane Energy started drilling the 205/21a-7 well on the Lancaster field, West of Shetland on Wednesday, July 6. The well, located in licence P1368 Central in which Hurricane has a 100% interest, was spudded using the Transocean Spitsbergen drilling rig. The 205/21a-7
Offshore drilling contractor Songa Offshore has informed that a suspension period for its semi-sub rig Songa Delta will start later than expected. The 1981-built Songa Delta drilling rig was recently suspended by Statoil and the 75% suspension rate of $277,000 per day was supposed to start from the
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for well 35/11-20 A, in the North Sea offshore Norway. The well 35/11-20 A will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig, after completing the drilling of wildcat well 16/5-6 for Tullow Oil Norge in producti
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given ExxonMobil a consent to use a new subsea well on the Balder field, offshore Norway. PSA said on Monday that ExxonMobil has been given consent to use another subsea well, designated E-29-AH located 3,500 meters from the B
UK’s drilling waste management firm TWMA has secured a £1.5million contract with Apache on the WilPhoenix drilling rig in the North Sea Beryl field. As part of TWMA’s waste management solution, the one-year contract will utilize the company’s TCC RotoMill® for offshore processing and EfficientC® for
U.S. weekly offshore rig count dropped to 19 active drilling units, the oilfield services provider Baker Hughes informed in its weekly report on Friday. BHI Rig Count: U.S. +10 to 431 rigs U.S. Rig Count is up 10 rigs from last week to 431, with oil rigs up 11 to 341, gas rigs down 1 to […]
Offshore drilling contractor Rowan Companies has been awarded several contracts extensions for its drilling rigs with a reduced dayrate. The drilling contractor’s drillship Rowan Resolute has been awarded blend and extend amendment with Anadarko in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Extension is at a dayrate
Quadrant Energy, an Australian oil and gas exploration company, has experienced drilling challenges that resulted in a delay during drilling operations at its Outtrim East-1 well, offshore Australia. The Outtrim East-1 well is located within the WA-155-P(1) exploration permit in the North West Shelf
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has carried out an audit of BP Norge’s OHAS management on the Skarv floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, offshore Norway. PSA said on Friday that the audit on the Skarv FPSO was conducted from April 12 to Apr
ExxonMobil said on Thursday that drilling results from the Liza-2 well, the second exploration well in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, confirm a ‘world-class discovery’ with a recoverable resource of between 800 million and 1.4 billion oil-equivalent barrels. “We are excited by the results of a
Maersk Drilling’s jack-up drilling rig, the Maersk Highlander, has set off on its voyage to the Culzean gas field in the UK sector of the North Sea. The newbuild harsh environment jack-up rig will work for Maersk Oil on its operated Culzean gas field. Maersk Drilling informed through social media ch
Oil and natural gas exploration and production company Stone Energy has terminated a long-term deepwater rig contract with offshore drilling contractor Ensco. Stone hired Ensco’s 2010-built drilling rig Ensco 8503 for the company’s multi-year deep water drilling program in the Gulf of Mexico in Octo
