Aker BP has exercised the second 12-month option for the Deepsea Nordkapp rig under a contract entered into between the parties in April 2018.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. remained steady last week but dropped six units year over year, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes.
A bankruptcy court has approved an agreement between Seadrill Partners and Vantage Drilling under which Vantage will manage four Seadrill Partners’ floaters
Norwegian offshore safety authority has found serious breaches of regulations on a Valaris rig following an investigation of an incident from 2020.
Norwegian oil major Equinor has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for drilling and well operations on the Oseberg field using the Transocean Norge drilling rig.
PSE Kinsale Energy is preparing for the decommissioning campaign of its Kinsale area gas field located in the Celtic Sea off Ireland.
Vantage Drilling managed to cut its losses in the last quarter of 2020 when compared to the same period in 2019 despite lower revenues.
Houston-based Zentech has been awarded a contract by BW Energy related to a conversion of a jack-up rig to an offshore installation.
Oil and gas company Tullow Oil has encountered good quality reservoir but only minor oil shows at its exploration well located offshore Suriname.
Oil and gas company Serica Energy has started drilling the Columbus well located in the North Sea using a Maersk Drilling-owned jack-up rig.
Offshore rig owner Odfjell Drilling has been awarded more work for one of its semi-sibmersible rigs from Equinor in Norway.
Chrysaor has encountered hydrocarbons in the Jerv exploration well located in the North Sea offshore Norway, but the final results are yet to come in.
Norway’s safety watchdog has completed its investigation of an incident on the Seadrill-operated West Bollsta rig when a riser joint dropped during lifting.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Dea Norge a drilling permit for an appraisal well located in the Norwegian Sea.
