Dana Petroleum, an oil and gas exploration and production company, has completed drilling operations on the Manatee-1 exploration well in the Bakassi West block in Cameroon. The well is operated by Dana Petroleum with 55% interest, and SDX Energy, an exploration and production company with assets in
Keppel FELS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine, has delivered two jack-up rigs to Mexican company, Grupo R. Built to Keppel’s proprietary KFELS B Class design, the rigs, Cantarell I and Cantarell II, will be chartered to Pemex, Mexico’s national oil company, for operations in the
Baker Hughes has posted Weekly Rig Count reports to its Investor Relations website, according to which the U.S. offshore rig count has gone up by one unit from last week’s count. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -12 to 464 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 12 rigs from last week to 464, with oil rigs down […]
Prosafe’s semi-submersible accommodation rig Safe Boreas is now operating in the UK North Sea on the Talisman Sinopec-operated Montrose Area Redevelopment (MAR) project. Talisman Sinopec Energy UK is the operator with a working interest of 58.97%, and Marubeni Oil & Gas (U.K.) is the sole partner. P
Perisai Petroleum Teknologi, a Malaysia-based upstream oil & gas service provider, is in discussions with a shipyard to postpone the delivery of a new jack-up drilling rig. Perisai ordered the jack-up rig Perisai Pacific 102 from Sembcorp Marine’s PPL Shipyard in Singapore back in February 2013 at a
Mubadala Petroleum has reported that drilling of the first of two development wells on the Manora field in the Northern Gulf of Thailand started on Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Mubadala Petroleum is the operator of the G1/48 concession containing the Manora Oil Development with 60% interest, and its par
Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill has been awarded an 18-month contract extension for the drillship West Tellus by Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras. The contract starts in April 2018 and secures work for the unit through the end of October 2019. The total backlog for the contract exten
GustoMSC, a Dutch designer of offshore drilling rigs has revealed a new jack-up rig design, the NG 3500X. According to the company, the rig is based on the “proven and seasoned” NG-2500X and NG-1800X designs, and comes in 2 distinct versions for accommodation & services and well intervention.
Offshore drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has let go 70 employees in Norway in relation to the company’s jack-up rig Maersk Reacher. In an e-mail to Offshore Energy Today, Maersk Drilling spokesperson confirmed that the 2009-built jack-up drilling rig Maersk Reacher is currently working, but the
Offshore drilling contractor Atwood Oceanics announced on Monday that its drilling services contract with Woodside Energy for one of its semi-submersible rigs has been suspended and transferred to another drilling rig. According to Atwood, the drilling contract for the 1982-built drilling rig Atwood
Norwegian oil company Statoil has re-mobilized previously suspended COSL Drilling’s semi-submersible rig COSLPromoter, and sent it back to the Troll field, offshore Norway. To remind, Statoil recently decided to stop drilling operations with the COSLPromoter until it was “safe to discontinue well op
Dutch marine engineering firm Fugro is to supply ROV drilling support services on board the Ocean Guardian drilling rig under a new contract awarded by Dana Petroleum. Operating one of its fleet of FCV 600 ROVs, specifically designed for North Sea drill support activities, Fugro will carry out drill
Drilling contractor Songa Offshore is pressing on with its defence in an arbitration case with South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME). According to Songa Offshore’s statement on Monday, the drilling contractor submitted its defence in the arbitrations initiated by DS
Byron Energy has started with sidetrack well operations after failing to free the stuck drill pipe in its SM 6 #2 well located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The well was spud in February 2016 with Hercules Offshore’s Hercules 205 jack-up drilling rig. Byron Energy reported on March 18, 2016, that the
