Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has won new contracts worth around $610 million, the company has said in its fleet status report for September 2014. According to the report, its Transocean Leader semi-submersible drilling rig, currently working for Statoil on the Norwegian Continental Shelf,
Bibby Maritime has secured a new charter for floating accommodation vessel ‘Bibby Bergen’, starting 15th October 2014. The vessel is moving to support Bergen Group Hanøytangen AS, who have been awarded a contract from Dolphin Drilling AS for an upgrade and five-year class renewal survey on the semi-
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have announced that ATP Infrastructure Partners LP (ATP-IP) will pay a $1 million civil penalty for an unauthorized discharges of oil and chemicals from an oil pl
VAALCO Energy, Inc. today announced the start of a new six well drilling campaign offshore Gabon on its Etame Marin block. The development drilling campaign follows the recent on-schedule installation of the Etame platform and the Southeast Etame/North Tchibala (“SEENT”) platform. All work on this p
Sevan Drilling and Cosco have agreed to amend the termination rights of the construction contract for the Sevan Developer drilling rig and defer the delivery date. Delivery is deferred for 12 months with mutually agreed options, exercisable at 6 month intervals, to extend the delivery date for up to
Swedish oil company Lundin Petroleum AB has completed the drilling of the wildcat well 33/12-10 S, offshore Norway. The well investigated the hydrocarbon potential of the Vollgrav South prospect in PL631, which is located 150 km west of Florø on the Norwegian west coast and between the Gullfaks and
Odfjell Drilling has announced the signing of a cooperation agreement with William Jacob Management (WJM). Under the agreement, the companies will mutually deliver engineering services of offshore drilling facilities to the global energy market. The services will include conceptual and front end eng
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has carried out an audit of Statoil’s management of emergency preparedness at Veslefrikk. The PSA carried out an audit of Statoil’s management of emergency preparedness at Veslefrikk A and B from 25-28 August 2014. The objective of the audit was to gain an
Cabinda Gulf Oil Company Limited, a Chevron subsidiary in Angola, has extended the current contract for the ultra deepwater semi-submersible Mærsk Deliverer expiring in June 2015 by two years. Mærsk Deliverer has since 2012 been working for Chevron and its partners on the Tombua Landana field offsho
Karoon Gas Australia has informed the company expects to start the 2-4 well appraisal and exploration drilling campaign in the Santos Basin, off Brazil, during the second week in November 2014. The primary objective of the upcoming drilling program is to drill the lower risk appraisal well in the Ka
Soco International has made an oil discovery offshore the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). The discovery was made at the Lidongo X Marine-101 (“LXM-101”) well in the Congo basin. The LXM-101 well is located in the Marine XI Block, 23 kilometres north west of Pointe Noire in a water depth of approxim
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 7227/10-1, in the production licence 230, in the Barents Sea. The 7227/10-1 wildcat well will be drilled from the Transocean Spitsbergen semi-submersible drilling rig. The name of the prospect is “Saturn”
Maersk Oil North Sea UK Limited, operator of the Culzean development in the North Sea, has awarded a contract for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the project’s well head platform (WHP) jacket to Heerema Hartlepool Limited. Heerema will build the WHP jacket and piles, the well
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway has given Det norske oljeselskap ASA consent to use the Transocean Winner semi-submersible drilling rig for production drilling at Alvheim and Bøyla in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The background to this consent is Det norske‘s acquisition of Marathon O
