Songa Offshore on Thursday took delivery of its fourth and final Cat D rig, Songa Enabler, from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Korea. Songa Enabler is the last rig in a series of four Category D rigs specifically built for and contracted to Statoil. According to its owner, Songa
Sevan Drilling has received an early contract termination from Petrobras for one of its cylindrical drilling rigs in Brazil, rate reduction for another, and a short-term gig for the terminated rig from Shell. According to the company’s statement on Wednesday, Sevan Drilling amended contracts for the
After attempts to free stuck drill pipe failed, Byron Energy, the operator of several blocks in the Gulf of Mexico, has temporarily abandoned its SM 6 # 2 well in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, and is now preparing to spud the SM71 #1 well. The SM-6 #2 well, the first one to be drilled as part of [&hellip
William Jacob Management (WJM), an engineering and project management services firm, has secured its initial contract to complete the detailed engineering and design of its first Mobile Offshore Support Services Vessel, the MOSS V. Northport Marine LLC will be the first client to receive delivery of
Offshore driller Maersk Drilling has received a notice of early contract termination from Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited (CABGOC), Chevron Corporation’s affiliate in Angola, for the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible rig Mærsk Deliverer. Mærsk Deliverer has been on contract with CABGOC since May 201
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
