Baker Hughes Incorporated announced today that the worldwide offshore rig count for February 2015 rose to 379 active units. The number rose up from January this year, which had 370 rigs, and February 2014, with 374. The rig data provider separates the rigs into two groups, North America (U.S. and Ca
Statoil has informed that the licensees in the Johan Castberg and Snorre 2040 licences have decided to spend more time on the projects. “Castberg and Snorre 2040 are two major and important projects in our portfolio, and it is important that we find sound and robust development solutions for them,”
Falkland Oil and Gas Limited (FOGL) has announced that the 14/15-5 ‘Zebedee’ exploration well, off the Falkland Islands, was spudded, by Premier Oil as operator, on March 6, 2015. The well is being drilled with Eirik Raude semi-submersible drilling rig that arrived on site a few days earlier. The we
ENI Norge has entered into a contract with IKM Elektro AS for the provision of overhaul and repairs of electric motors, generators and heaters on the Goliat FPSO, in the Barents sea, off Norway. The contract has a duration of three years with options for extensions, and will be performed as an Integ
Guyana’s Government Information Agency (GINA) has informed that the Deepwater Champion drillship is in position at the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana. The drillship is scheduled to start drilling for ExxonMobil today, March 5, 2015. According to the agency, this oil exploration project is worth $20
The photo above shows one of the world’s largest jack-up drilling rigs being loaded on a heavy lift vessel in Singapore. The recently delivered ‘Maersk Integrator’ rig is owned by the Danish offshore drilling company Maersk Drilling. The rig, built by Keppel shipyard in Singapore, is now sailing to
The recently delivered ‘Greatdrill Chaaru’ jack-up drilling rig will work for the national oil company of India, ONGC. The information was revealed today by Lamprell, the company that built the rig. The rig, owned by Greatship Global Energy Services Pte. Ltd, will join its sister rig the “Greatdrill
VAALCO Energy has on March 2, 2015, spudded the post-salt Kindele-1 well, its first exploration well on Block 5 offshore Angola. VAALCO contracted the Transocean “Celtic Sea” semi-submersible rig to drill the Kindele-1 well to a planned total depth of 2,250 meters in a water depth of approximately 1
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has decided to launch an investigation into an incident that occurred on Transocean Barents on March 4, 2015 when a roughneck suffered crush injuries. According to the PSA, the injured drill floor worker was on the monkey board, about 10-12 metres in the d
Greatship Global Energy Services Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based subsidiary of Greatship (India) Limited (GIL), has taken delivery of a jack-up drilling rig. The rig, of Le Tourneau Super 116(E) design, was delivered by Lamprell Energy Ltd. in UAE. The rig was named Greatdrill Chaaru. The Greatdrill Ch
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has set up a working group to examine possible means of reducing costs on the Norwegian Continental Shelf associated with rig movements between the shelves in the North Sea. The group’s reporting is to include suggestions for measures to help streamline mo
Lundin Petroleum has kicked off drilling operations of exploration well 33/2-2S in PL579, offshore Norway. The well will investigate the hydrocarbon potential of the Morkel prospect in PL579,which is located 180 km west of Florø on the Norwegian west coast and approximately 40 km northwest of the Sn
Falkland Oil and Gas Limited, and Rockhopper Exploration plc have informed that the drilling unit Eirik Raude has arrived in the North Falkland Basin (NFB). The semi-submersible rig will shortly be moving to location to drill the first well, on the Zebedee prospect, of the six well drilling campaign
Lundin Norway AS (Lundin) has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway(PSA) for exploration drilling of well 7220/11-2, in the Barents Sea with Island Innovator rig. Lundin was granted a drilling permit for well 7220/11-2 from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) in January 2
