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
Premier Oil plc has announced that the Isobel Deep re-drill (well 14/20-2) has confirmed the oil discovery encountered in the original Isobel Deep well, offshore the Falkland Islands. In addition, this re-drill has discovered new hydrocarbons in additional sandstones. According to Premier, the opera
Prosafe, an owner and operator of semi-sub accommodation vessels, has re-established the main tow for its flotel Safe Bristolia in the North Sea. The tow line was re-established on Friday, January 8, 2016, and the Safe Bristolia has reassumed the tow at midnight. The Safe Bristolia was being relocat
According to Baker Hughes’ Weekly Rig Count reports, the U.S. offshore rig count has climbed up for a second week in a row. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -34 to 664 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 34 rigs from last week to 664, with oil rigs down 20 to 516, and gas rigs down 14 […]
The international offshore rig count for December 2015 has dropped by 88 rigs when compared to the same period last year, according to a report by Baker Hughes, an oilfield services provider. The international offshore rig count for December 2015 was 250, down 9 from the 259 counted in November 2015
Songa Offshore, a Norway-based midwater drilling contractor, has received the Petroleum Safety Authority’s Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for its Songa Endurance drilling rig. Songa Endurance is a semi-submersible drilling rig and the second of four Cat D rigs that Songa is building for Statoil
Lundin Malaysia, a subsidiary of Swedish oil company Lundin Petroleum, has completed the drilling of the Imbok-1 well, offshore Malaysia. The company said that the well, which was targeting hydrocarbons in Miocene aged sands, encountered minor oil shows and was plugged and abandoned. The well, locat
Prosafe, the owner of semi-submersible accommodation rigs, is still waiting for the weather to improve to re-attach its flotel Safe Bristolia to a tug vessel in order for it to continue its journey to Poland. The Safe Bristolia was heading to Gdansk attached to an anchor handling tug vessel Sea Lynx
Brazil’s state-owned oil and gas company Petrobras has cancelled its contract with a drilling contractor Ensco for the drillship DS-5 over corruption charges. Petrobras hired the drillship from Pride International, a company Ensco took over in 2011. Petrobras alleged that there were irregularities w
Prosafe still has not managed to establish the towline for its semi-sub accommodation vessel the Safe Bristolia that broke loose in the North Sea. To remind, after the towline connecting the Safe Bristolia to an anchor handling tug vessel Sea Lynx snapped due to heavy weather, the vessel was left dr
