Six Greenpeace activists disembarked from Shell’s Arctic-bound oil rig in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, April 11, 2015, after spending six days camping on the structure to protest against Arctic drilling. The multi-national team of six people, Greenpeace activists, climbed aboard the Polar Pioneer
Bergen Group has decided to divest the company’s rig-service activity at Hanøytangen. The total transaction price is set to NOK 245 million ($30.2 million). Sale agreements have been concluded with Semco Maritime AS for the operational activity and with Hellik Teigen AS for the real estate. The well
Argos Resources’ subsidiary, Argos Exploration Limited (AEL), has entered into a farm-out agreement with Noble Energy Falklands Limited and Edison International related to the company’s 100 percent interest in production licence PL001, off the Falkland Islands. The licence covers an area of approxim
Operator Statoil has together with PL602 partners made a gas discovery in the Roald Rygg prospect in the Norwegian Sea. This is the second discovery made by Statoil in the Aasta Hansteen area spring 2015. The drilling of the Roald Rygg well 6706/12-3 started on March 22, 2015 with a Transocean Spits
Karoon Gas Australia’s Echidna-1 well, offshore Brazil, has intersected an oil bearing section in Paleocene sands, as shown on mudlog and Logging While Drilling data. The mudlog shows elevated gas readings and oil florescence in sandstones. Wireline logging will now be conducted to ascertain the ext
Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted Weekly Rig Count reports to its Investor Relations website. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -40 to 988 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 40 rigs from last week to 988, with oil rigs down 42 to 760, gas rigs up 3 to 225, and miscellaneous rigs down 1 to 3. U.S. […]
Noble Corporation, a UK-based offshore drilling contractor, has secured contracts for three of its drilling rigs in the Middle East. The contracts are for three jack-up drilling rigs. Noble did not disclose the name of the client or clients. It revealed that contract extensions have been granted for
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Talisman Energy Norge AS a drilling permit for well 15/12-24 S, in the North Sea. Well 15/12-24 S will be drilled from the Maersk Giant jack-up drilling rig, just northeast of the Varg field in the central part of the North Sea. The drilling prog
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-22 S, in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The oil company will drill the well using the Maersk Interceptor jack-up rig in production licence 001 B, after completing the drilling of appraisal
Total E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 627, is about to complete the drilling of wildcat well 25/6-5 S, in the Norwegian North Sea. The well is a gas discovery, which encountered a net 10 metre gas column in the high quality Middle Jurassic Hugin formation. The Skirne East exploration we
DeepOcean AS, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, has been awarded the Riser Installation contract for the Kristin and Heidrun platforms, located in the Norwegian Sea, by Statoil. The modification of these platforms is required in preparation of a possible tie-back from the near-by Maria-dev
Statoil has made an oil discovery in its Miocene Yeti prospect located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM). “The Yeti discovery expands the proven sub-salt Miocene play further south and west of the Big Foot field,” says Jez Averty, Statoil’s senior vice president, exploration for North America. “We ar
Danish drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has won a contract extension for one of its offshore drilling rigs. According to a tweet from the company’s official Twitter account, the semi-submersible drilling rig Heydar Aliyev has received a 160 day contract extension from BP. The rig is being used by
Falkland Oil and Gas Limited, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its license areas to the North, South and East of the Falkland Islands, has announced that the 14/20-1 ‘Isobel Deep’ exploration well was spudded, by Premier Oil as operator, on April 8, 2015. The well is located on licence
