From 16 to 18 September 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway carried out an audit of work by OSM Offshore (OSM) to identify and follow up groups at particular risk and emergency preparedness on board the Haven jack-up accommodation vessel. The PSA says that groups at particular risk hav
From 11 to 24 September 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authoority (PSA) Norway carried out an audit of Statoil focused on the company’s management of emergency preparedness on the Snorre B platform located in the Norwegian North Sea. The PSA says that the objective of the audit was to gain an overview o
Shell has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use Transocean Barents to drill a production well at Ormen Lange, in the Norwegian Sea. Ormen Lange is a gas field located in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea. Norske Shell AS (Shell) is the operator of the field, w
Mubadala Petroleum, Operator of the Manora Oil Development joint venture, has informed that drilling of the MNA-07 and MNA-08 development wells, in the Gulf of Thailand, has now started and the MNA-05 well has been completed. Platform commissioning at Manora is well underway with hook up and commiss
As a partner in the WA-424-P Joint Venture, IPB Petroleum says it has been informed that the Stena Clyde drilling rig departed the Puffin field location this morning (November 4) and that the rig is currently under tow to the Pryderi-1 location in WA-424-P, offshore Western Australia. After two dela
Rosenberg WorleyParsons has been awarded an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract for ConocoPhillips’ capacity increase project on the Ekofisk Complex in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. Contract value is estimated to 167 million AUD ($145.8 million). The compan
Nearly five years after the Deepwater Horizon explosion led to the release of roughly 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are still working to answer the question: Where did all the oil go? During the 2010 crisis, some of the oil gushing from the seafloor appeared as slick
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has held a naming ceremony for four semi-submersible rigs, Hull No. 3031, 3032, 3034, 3035, ordered by the Norwegian-based Songa Offshore. Around 290 guests attended the naming ceremony held in H quay, at the Okpo shipyard, on October 24,
Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary PPL Shipyard has secured a US$240 million contract to build a new jack-up drilling rig from BOT Lease Co., Ltd (“BOTL”). BOTL is a leasing company of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ which is under the umbrella of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. The contract value may be
Baker Hughes has posted Weekly Rig Count reports to its Investor Relations website. U.S. offshore rigs dropped both on weekly and yearly levels. BHI Rig Count: U.S. +2 to 1929 rigs U.S. Rig Count is up 2 rigs from last week to 1929, with oil rigs down 13 to 1582, gas rigs up 14 to […]
Vantage Drilling Company has reported net income for the three months ended September 30, 2014 of $751,000 or $0.00 per diluted share, excluding gains for the early retirement of debt and an upward revision to the tax provision, as compared to earnings of $6.8 million or $0.02 per diluted share for
Keppel Offshore & Marine has secured a contract from BOT Lease Co., Ltd (BOTL), an affiliated company of The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, for a KFELS Super B Class jack-up rig worth about US$240 million. Scheduled for completion at end 2016, the rig – which is provisionally named Hakuryu 15 – will
Songa Offshore SE has announced that the documentation for the USD 1.1 billion senior secured credit facility for the financing of the last two Cat D drilling rigs, Songa Encourage and Songa Enabler, has been completed and the loan agreements have been signed by all parties. The financing consists o
InterMoor, an Acteon company, has successfully completed its contract supporting the decommissioning of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation’s Red Hawk spar in the Gulf of Mexico. The Red Hawk spar is the deepest floating production platform to date to be decommissioned in the Gulf of Mexico. It is also t
