Drydocks World, a Dubai-based service provider to the offshore oil & gas industry has completed refurbishment of National Drilling Company’s (NDC) offshore drilling rig Beynouna. According to Drydocks World, the company carried out a major repair on the Beynouna rig ahead of schedule. For Rig Beynou
Royal Dutch Shell has filed a complaint to a federal court in Alaska asking for an order to remove six Greenpeace activists who climbed aboard the Polar Pioneer drilling rig on Monday. Namely, the activists boarded the semi-submersible drilling rig Polar Pioneer which is being transported across the
SBM Offshore, the world’s largest provider of FPSO units, entangled in a bribery case investigation with Petrobras in Brazil, has denied media reports claiming the company has reached a settlement with the country’s authorities. The company was referring to a report by Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper,
Tap Oil Limited has informed that all eleven Manora development wells, located in the Northern Gulf of Thailand, have been completed and the drilling rig has now moved off location. Mubadala Petroleum is the operator of the Manora Oil Development joint venture and Tap Oil Limited has 30% interest. M
Norway’s Statoil has told Offshore Energy Today that the company has plugged and abandoned its Yeti wildcat located in the U. S. Gulf of Mexico. The well was drilled from January till March 2015 with the ultra deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig Maersk Developer. The rig is under contract with S
Greenpeace activists have boarded a semi-submersible oil drilling rig destined to drill for Shell, in the Chukchi sea, offshore Alaska. Six activists from around the world boarded the Polar Pioneer drilling rig yesterday in order to protest against Arctic drilling. The Polar Pioneer, which is being
Brazilian oil company Petrobras will stop operations on five offshore rigs leased from its compatriot supplier Schahin. According to Reuters, Schahin, the cash strapped provider of offshore platforms and drilling rigs, informed Petrobras on Thursday, April 2, it would gradually cease operations on t
Brian Chang, known as a founder of a China-based rig builder Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd., has resigned from the board of directors of the Norway-based Bergen Group. In an Oslo Bors filing today, Bergen Group, a Norwegian supplier of products, services and solutions to the offshore and maritime
KrisEnergy has announced that the Key Gibraltar jack-up rig has started drilling of the Rossukon-3 exploration well in G6/48 in the Gulf of Thailand. Rossukon-3 is the third exploration well to be drilled in the G6/48 contract area in 2015 following the evaluation of Rossukon-2 and Rossukon-2ST, whi
Pemex has informed that after a fire that occurred on the Abkatun Alpha platform, in the Bay of Campeche in Mexico last week, the company restarted production in the Abkatun central processing platform. On April 1, 2015, the incident on Abkatun Alpha platform spurred evacuation of 301 workers and ca
Energean Oil & Gas, the international oil & gas exploration and production company focused on the Mediterranean and North Africa, has announced that the inauguration ceremony for its new rig named “Energean Force” took place at the Perama Shipyards, in Piraeus, Greece on April 2, 2015. The rig, Ener
A story about a fire outbreak on an offshore oil platform in Mexico was by far the most read article this past week on Offshore Energy Today.
Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted Weekly Rig Count earlier than usual, on Thursday, April 2, 2015, due to the Good Friday holiday. The number of active offshore rigs in the U.S. has fallen further. To be counted as active a rig must be on location and be drilling. A rig is considered active from
Pemex has identified four workers killed in the Abkatun Alpha platform fire outbreak in Mexico’s Campeche Bay on Wednesday, April 1, 2014. In a statement issued yesterday, Mexico’s national oil company said that three of the deceased worked for Cotemar, and the fourth worker was a Pemex employee. Th
