Maersk Drilling, a Danish offshore drilling contractor, has shared a photo of its fourth XL Enhanced jack-up rig taking shape at the DSME shipyard in South Korea. The driller said through social media that its XLE-4 rig, designed for ultra-harsh environment drilling, will become ‘the biggest and mos
Offshore driller Pacific Drilling has regained compliance with the New York Stock Exchanges’s continued listing requirements. The drilling company previously announced that it received a notice from the NYSE on January 13, 2016 that Pacific Drilling did not satisfy the $1.00 minimum share price stan
Quadrant Energy has set the timing and location of the Roc-2 well in WA-437-P, offshore Australia. Quadrant is the operator of the exploration permit with 80% interest, and Carnarvon Petroleum is its partner. Carnarvon said on Wednesday that the well has been designed to appraise and test the Roc-1
Oilfield services provider Baker Hughes reported on Tuesday that the international offshore rig count for May 2016 was up by nine rigs sequentially and down by 55 rigs year over year. This is the second month in a row that the international offshore rig count is exhibiting similar behavior as Baker
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has scheduled the appraisal well on the Skipper oil discovery, which lies in the Northern North Sea, to be drilled in July 2016. In January, IOG postponed the drilling of the Skipper well, that lies in Block 9/21a in licence P1609, due to low oil price and bad weather i
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Engie E&P Norge a drilling permit for well 36/7-4, offshore Norway. The well 36/7-4 will be drilled from the Transocean Arctic drilling rig after the rig concludes the drilling of wildcat well 31/7-1 A for Faroe Petroleum Norge in production lice
Japan’s Inpex has started drilling an exploration well offshore Japan. The well was spudded on Sunday, June 5. The drilling operations are part of a project commissioned by the Agency of Natural Resources and Energy of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan for the agency’s “Hei
Offshore drilling contractor North Atlantic Drilling could set up a joint venture company with a Singapore shipyard. Namely, the Seadrill subsidiary on Tuesday said it would extend its standstill agreement for the delivery of the West Rigel semi-submersible drilling rig from Jurong Shipyard in Singa
Seadrill, an offshore deepwater drilling contractor, has reached a safety milestone offshore Congo. Seadrill stated via social media on Monday that its jack-up rig the West Ariel has marked its eighth straight year without lost time injury (LTI). The KFELS ‘B’ class, independent jack-up rig, was bui
U.S. weekly offshore rig count dropped to 21 active drilling units, oilfield services provider Baker Hughes informed in its weekly report on Friday. BHI Rig Count: U.S. +4 to 408 rigs U.S. Rig Count is up 4 rigs from last week to 408, with oil rigs up 9 at 325, gas rigs down 5 to 82, […]
Global integrated drilling waste management and environmental services company, TWMA, has been awarded new contracts with a total worth of £500,000 ($720,500). TWMA said that the contracts are for its EfficientC skip and ship and onshore processing services. The company said that one of the projects
The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has authorized the oil and gas exploration company Tullow Oil to drill an exploration well in the North Sea with the Borgland Dolphin semi-sub. The well 16/5-6 will be drilled in block 16/5 in the North Sea production licence 776, in a prospect called R
A joint venture between a Russian and Norwegian oil company, Rosneft and Statoil, has started drilling the exploration well in the Sea of Okhotsk. The Sea of Okhotsk lies south of the Arctic zone boundary and the sea depth on the drilling site is less than 150 m. The signal to begin drilling was giv
Malaysia’s UMW Offshore Drilling has received a conditional Letter of Award from Petronas Carigali Sdn. Bhd. (PCSB) for a contract for the provision of a jack-up drilling rig. The UMW Naga 6 jack-up rig has been selected for the job. The contract duration has been set to two years plus one-year exte
