Prosafe, an owner and operator of offshore accommodation rigs, has postponed its last portion of the payment due to Jurong Shipyard for the newbuild flotel Safe Zephyrus for June 2017. Namely, the final delivery instalment of the Safe Zephyrus will be reduced by $30 million and, according to Prosafe
Suncor Energy Norge, operator of production licence 571, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 25/10-14 S, in the Central North Sea. The well is dry. The well was drilled in the central part of the North Sea, about five kilometres west of the Balder field and about 200 kilometres north-west of
Norwegian drilling company Odfjell Drilling has won a contract for its Deepsea Stavanger semi-submersible drilling rig. The contract is with JX Nippon Exploration and Production (U.K.) Limited (“JX Nippon”) for one exploration well located West of Shetland on the UK Continental Shelf. “The contract
Baker Hughes has posted yet another Weekly Rig Count reports and yet again, offshore rigs in the U.S. are down, together with the overall rig count. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -14 to 650 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 14 rigs from last week to 650, with oil rigs down 1 to 515, and gas […]
Offshore driller Noble Corporation has issued a monthly rig fleet status report, where, under the section titled New Contracts/Extensions/Modifications/Letters of Intent, the company posted this: “Nothing to Report”. While there are no new contracts on the horizon, Noble’s current contracts are not
Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill Ltd has reached an agreement with Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Enigneering (DSME) to defer the delivery of two ultra-deepwater drillships. According to the new schedule, the West Aquila and West Libra drillships will now ne delivered in the second quarter of 2018
Offshore Energy Today is bringing you an exclusive interview with Craig Mann, the creator of a series of images that combine life offshore with one of the most popular movie franchises of all time, Star Wars. Mann agreed to share with us the story behind this project and how it all came about. We ca
One of South Korea’s major drilling rig builders Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co, has informed that it has agreed to delay a delivery of two drillships at the request of a client. Drilling companies have been negatively impacted by low oil prices, cuts in spending by their clients – the
Finland’s solutions provider for offshore oil and gas industry Wärtsilä, has signed a long-term maintenance agreement with Prosafe, the world’s largest owner of semi-submersible accommodation vessels also known as flotels. The 10-year agreement covers the diesel engines onboard Prosafe’s new build f
Malaysian offshore services provider SapuraKencana has revealed it has, through its subsidiaries, recently secured three contracts worth $117 million in total. First, SapuraKencana HL Sdn. Bhd. has won a contract to provide hook-up & commissioning works for a compression system and high pressure/hig
Total E&P (Total) has received consent from the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority to drill an exploration well, in the North Sea off Norway, using the Maersk Gallant jack-up rig. Total is the operator for production licence 618 with an ownership interest of 60 per cent and it has received consent
Seven drilling contractors, including major players like Transocean and Seadrill, have joined forces to create a reporting tool for capturing well control equipment failures. According to one of these offshore drillers, Maersk Drilling, the tool captures all failures in a third party system and give
German oil and gas company Wintershall has started drilling the Kvalross exploration well 7224/2-1 located in the Barents Sea. Licence PL611, which contains the Kvalross prospect, is located in the Norwegian Barents Sea to the south of OMV’s Wisting and Hanssen oil discoveries. The company gained a
Songa Offshore, an offshore drilling contractor, has informed that one of its Cat D rigs operating for Statoil offshore Norway has experienced a blowout preventer (BOP) failure. According to the owner of the rig, while performing a final test on location, Songa Endurance experienced BOP equipment fa
