Proafe’s tender support vessel Safe Scandinavia has completed onshore acceptance testing and is now mobilizing to the Oseberg Øst installation in the North Sea to start drilling support operations for Statoil. The Safe Scandinavia was converted from a semi-submersible accommodation rig to a tender s
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for well 35/8-6 S, offshore Norway. The well 35/8-6 S will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig in production licence 248, that contains the Vega field, located in the Norwegian sector of the North
The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has authorized the oil and gas company Statoil to use North Atlantic Drilling’s (NADL) jack-up rig West Epsilon to permanently plug wells at Huldra 30/2-A, in the North Sea. The field is located north of Oseberg in production licence 051, offshore Norwa
An offshore worker has died after suffering fatal injuries on a platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. On Friday, March 11, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), an agency under the United States Department of the Interior, responded to a reported fatality on Platform A, Green Can
Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted Weekly Rig Count reports, according to which the U.S. offshore rigs have gone back up by three units after dropping by three in the week before. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -9 to 480 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 9 rigs from last week to 480, with oil rigs […]
While many of its peers are looking to cut costs by slashing jobs, KCA Deutag, a drilling and engineering contractor headquartered in Aberdeen, is recruiting 300 new offshore workers. According to Offshore.no, a Norwegian-language website covering the country’s offshore oil and gas industry, the rec
Noble Corporation, a UK-based offshore driller, will have to postpone a rig delivery to its client Statoil, following a crane collapse incident that happened in a Sembcorp Marine shipyard in Singapore on February 28 in which three workers were injured. According to the company, an initial investigat
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum drilling permits for two wells, well 30/11-11 S and well 30/11-11 B, offshore Norway. Both wells will be drilled from Songa Offshore’s Songa Delta drilling rig and in production licence 035, Krafla, in the Norwegian section of t
Offshore drilling contractor Paragon Offshore has posted a loss for the fourth quarter of 2015 due to impairment charges. The company on Thursday reported a fourth quarter 2015 net loss of $23.3 million, as compared to fourth quarter 2014 net income of $2.8 million. According to the drilling contrac
Offshore driller Hercules Offshore has seen cuts in dayrates for three of its drilling rigs operating in Saudi Arabia. Hercules Offshore on Thursday said that it received from Saudi Aramco on March 9, 2016, a notice reducing the dayrates under its five year contracts for the Hercules 261 and Hercule
Keppel FELS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine, is on track to deliver a fifth high-specification accommodation semi-submersible to Floatel International. The semi, which is built to Keppel’s SSAUTM 5000NG design, was named Floatel Triumph during a ceremony held earlier on Friday
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Det norske oljeselskap a drilling permit for well 16/1-26 S, offshore Norway. The well 16/1-26 S will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor jack-up drilling rig in production licence 001 B, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The drilling
Transocean’s semi-submersible rig Transocean Arctic does not meet all the requirements when it comes to the management of emergency preparedness and the working environment, the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority said after it carried out an inspection of the rig from December 7 to 10, 2015. The o
Semco Maritime has won a contract with Paragon Offshore for intermediate classification and service works on the semi-sub drilling rig Paragon MSS1. The work on the 1979-built rig will be done in order to prepare the rig for a recently won contract in the North Sea. The service works will be perform
