Paragon Offshore, the largest shareholder of Prospector Offshore Drilling since last week, has lodged a formal request for an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of Prospector Offshore Drilling S.A. to be convened. At the meeting, Paragon will seek to appoint new board of directors. To
Maersk Drilling has informed that Hess has exercised the four one-well options included in the current contract for the jack-up rig Maersk Resolute. Maersk Drilling says that each of the four additional wells has an estimated duration of around 90 days implying an extension of the current contract b
Offshore Energy Today has reported on Friday that an explosion occurred on a Fieldwood Energy-operated Echo platform located in West Delta 105 block in the Gulf of Mexico. The company has released an update saying that it was a result of a cleaning operation. The incident occurred when employees of
Benthic, a global geosciences company, has been awarded a contract by a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for a deepwater geotechnical investigation in the Golfinho field off the coast of Mozambique. Benthic’s PROD (Portable Remotely Operated Drill), operating from the MPSV Jaya Vigilant,
GDF Suez has signed a contract with Idemitsu for the acquisition of 10% share in the license PL 420, in the North Sea. PL 420 is situated between the Gjøa field and the Skarfjell discovery, and contains the discovery Titan. The exploration well Atlas in the license started November 4, with the semi-
Singapore-based Hoidi International’s production division in China, will build legs for a COSL jack-up rig. Hoidi’s Tianjin Hoidi Group Co. Ltd. will construct the legs for the Gusto MSC CJ50-X120-E designed rig. The rig, to be named HYSY944, will be built by China Merchat Heavy Industry for China O
A twin-hull behemoth, a giant, the world’s largest vessel, largest catamaran, biggest offshore vessel, the world’s largest crane ship. This is how it has been described. It is the ‘Pieter Schelte’, and it is now on its way to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, sailing from South Korea, where it was recentl
The articles you have read the most this past week include the one on Halliburton’s take-over of Baker Hughes; the production kick off at Tubular Bells; two Greenpeace activists injured in protest against offshore drilling; Repsol starts drilling offshore Canary Islands; Gulf of Mexico platform blas
Ophir Energy plc has informed that its Tende-1 well in in East Pande licence offshore Tanzania, failed to find natural gas. The well, drilled by the Deepsea Metro I drillship, was targeting gas in a lower Cretaceous sandstone reservoir with a mean prospective resource estimate of 2.38TCF at a 15% ch
Maersk Drilling has informed that its drillship Maersk Venturer has started operations for Total in Malaysia. Offshore Energy Today has recently reported that Maersk Venturer has secured a short term contract with oil major Total, and now the company has released an update on its Twitter account say
In an e-mail sent to Offshore Energy Today Spanish oil company Repsol has confirmed that the company has started drilling offshore the Canary Islands, Spain. According to Repsol’s spokesperson, the drilling began yesterday and it is expected to last for six weeks. The company hired Rowan Renaissance
Jasper Investments Limited has informed that the sale of semi-submersible flotel Jasper Cosmopolitan to Alyan Offshore has fallen through after the buyer failed to meet the conditions of the previously announced agreement. Jasper Cosmopolitan is a converted accommodation semi-submersible flotel init
A merger agreement announced in September between South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries and Samsung Engineering has fallen through. According to The Korea Times, one of South Korea’s largest newspapers, Samsung Heavy Industries has cancelled the deal as shareholders opposing the merger requested th
Chinese offshore rig builder CIMC Raffles has today received an order to construct an offshore accommodation rig for C. Helios Limited The semi-submersible flotel of CIMC Raffles’ CR600 design will be able to accommodate 600 crewmembers. Since 2010, CIMC Raffles has delivered a total of nine deepwat
