Offshore drilling contractor Rowan Companies has been awarded two contracts for one jack-up drilling rig, while the dayrate for Rowan’s other jack-up could be slashed retroactively if the client exercises its extension option. According to the offshore driller’s latest fleet status report, Rowan’s h
A newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship owned by the offshore drilling contractor Transocean has arrived to a Gulf of Mexico location where it will operate for the oil giant Shell. In an e-mail to Offshore Energy Today, Shell’s spokesperson confirmed that the Transocean Deepwater Proteus arrived to the
Oil giant BP has reportedly removed two workers from its ETAP project, in the UK sector of the North Sea, after finding a syringe on an accommodation rig. According to Oil and Gas People, an oil industry’s job site, the incident happened on Prosafe’s 1982-built flotel Safe Caledonia that is under a
Panoro Energy, an independent oil and gas E&P company focused on West Africa, has informed that the Aje oil field offshore Nigeria is in the final stages of development operations. According to the company’s statement on Wednesday, the final hook up procedures are in progress with a view to the well
Two ultra-deepwater drillships being built in Singapore for one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors, Transocean, have been delayed for the second time. Transocean said on Tuesday that an agreement has been made with with Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary, Jurong Shipyard, to defer the de
Byron Energy has completed the drilling of the SM- 71 #1 well in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico intersecting hydrocarbon saturated sands in three intervals. This includes the primary D5 target, with a combined gross thickness of 150 feet/46 metres. The company started drilling the well, located at the Sout
Offshore Energy Today’s Bartolomej Tomić has interviewed Mr. Herman Ijsseling, the owner of the Dutch company Flying Focus. The company specializes in taking beautiful photos of maritime and offshore vessels and installations, as you can see in the gallery above. In the interview, Mr. IJsseling spea
Oil production has started at the Julia oil field in the Gulf of Mexico, ExxonMobil said on Tuesday. The first production well is now online and a second well will start production in the coming weeks, the company said. The Julia development is located approximately 265 miles southwest of New Orlean
French oil major Total is gearing up for exploration drilling operations in the Khan Asparuh licence in the Black Sea, offshore Bulgaria. The country’s Ministry of Energy said on Tuesday that the drillship Noble Globetrotter II was presented in Burgas, Bulgaria on Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Namely, No
CIMC Raffles’ shipyard in Yantai, China has completed repair works on two semi-submersible offshore drilling units (MODU) of the sixth generation, Polyarnaya Zvezda and Severnoye Siyaniye. The repairs have been completed under a survey by the classification society Russian Maritime Register of Shipp
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted the Norwegian oil company Statoil a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The drilling program for well 30/11-13 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well to be drilled from Songa Offshore’s Songa Delta drilling ri
Songa Offshore’s semi-submersible drilling rig Songa Encourage has received an Acknowledgment of Compliance from the Norwegian authorities making it the sixtieth offshore mobile facility to receive this declaration. An acknowledgement of compliance (AoC) is a declaration the Norwegian offshore safet
Offshore drilling contractor Paragon Offshore has received two contract extensions and one contract termination for its jack-up drilling rigs. According to Paragon’s latest fleet status report, the contract for Paragon’s 1979-built jack-up drilling rig Paragon M1162, operating in the UAE, was extend
Keppel Corp., a Singapore conglomerate, posted a 41 percent drop in net profit for the first quarter of 2016. The company’s profit was negatively affected by Keppel’s offshore rig building business, Keppel Offshore & Marine, as the low oil prices are taking a toll on everybody linked to the oil and
