A Transocean-owned drillship has experienced two operational incidents while working in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for Shell.
Billionaire John Fredriksen’s Seatankers Group has acquired an interest in Seadrill’s rival offshore drilling contractor Valaris.
Lundin has received consent from the offshore regulator to use the Deepsea Stavanger rig for exploration drilling in the Norwegian Sea.
PGNiG is in the process of concluding the drilling of a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea, as the well turned out to be dry.
Offshore drilling contractor Valaris has appointed Anton Dibowitz as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
Stena Drilling has revealed an agreement with South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries related to an option to buy a newbuild drillship.
Australia’s FAR Ltd has temporarily stopped drilling the Bambo-1 well located off The Gambia after experiencing significant fluid losses.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. went down to 13 units last week, according to Baker Hughes’ weekly rig count report from last Friday.
Maersk Drilling has secured a one-well contract with OMV (Norge) for a high-pressure, high-temperature exploration well off Norway.
POGC has started drilling operations in an attempt to find new hydrocarbon reserves at the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf.
South Korea’s shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries has agreed to sell a former Ocean Rig drillship to an unnamed European company.
UK’s Ardersier Port, which was one of the largest oil rig fabrication yards in the world, is now set to be transformed into Europe’s first fully circular energy transition facility.
ModuSpec has been chosen to verify whether the Well-Safe’s rig is fit for purpose to complete the upcoming decom campaigns in the North Sea.
TotalEnergies has started drilling the Venus-1X exploration well located offshore Namibia, using a Maersk Drilling-owned drillship.
