Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill is laying off 162 offshore workers in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico as one of its drillships will be out of work soon.
Swift Drilling has been awarded a long-term contract by Wintershall Noordzee to perform a plug and abandonment campaign in the Dutch and German North Sea.
Italy’s oil and gas company Eni and Russia’s Novatek will start drilling an exploration well in waters offshore Montenegro later this month.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. has dropped for the second week in a row and is now stands at 13 units, according to a weekly rig count report by Baker Hughes.
Noble Corporation has won several new contracts for its fleet of drilling rigs, which will see three of its units come back from the warm-stack mode.
Norwegian offshore safety agency, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA), has given Equinor consent to drill two exploration wells offshore Norway, using the West Hercules rig. The wells named 30/11-U-1 and 30/11-U-2 are located in Production licence 035 and 272 in the North Sea. The licences a
Petrodec has reactivated Haeva jack-up rig to DNV standards and the unit is now reporting for duty as the company’s second decommissioning vessel.
Norwegian offshore safety watchdog has given Seadrill two orders and a decision on a coercive fine after serious breaches of the regulations.
Norwegian oil and gas major Equinor has made an oil discovery near the Johan Castberg field, located in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.
Total has decided to conclude drilling operations on the Keskesi East-1 discovery well off Suriname before reaching deeper targets due to substantial pressure increases.
Chinese ship and rig builder Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (SWS) delivered two JU2000E jack-up rigs – the Guoshun and Guoxin – on 3 March.
Aban Offshore is selling two jack-up rigs, a drillship, and a floating production unit owned by Aban and two jack-ups and a drillship owned by subsidiaries.
Oil major ExxonMobil is nearly ready to start drilling the second of three exploration wells at the Canje Block located offshore Guyana.
Samsung Heavy will have to pay $411 million to rig owner Stena Drilling after losing a dispute related to the termination of a rig construction contract.
