The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has issued a drilling permit to Lundin Energy Norway for a well located in the North Sea offshore Norway.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. decreased by one unit last week and by eight units year over year, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes.
Turkey stated that there is a possibility that it would cooperate with foreign companies to develop its massive discovery in the Black Sea.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for a well located in the Barents Sea off Norway.
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a three-well contract from Total for the 7th generation drillship Maersk Voyager which will be employed to drill development wells in Angola’s Block 17.
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has begun an investigation of the incident on the West Bollsta rig when a length of riser fell from the handling equipment during lifting.
Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling has won a deal from Chinese oil company CNOOC for the use of one of its drillships offshore Canada. The company also started using Intebloc’s data management system.
Offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has received a suspension notice for one of its jack-up drilling rigs.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has visited the Fatih drillship to announce an increase in discovered resources at the Tuna-1 (Danube-1) offshore well in the Black Sea.
The number of active rigs in the U.S. remained flat for the fourth week in a row, according to weekly rig count reports by Baker Hughes.
All rigs operating in the Gulf of Mexico have begun operating normally following the passing of Hurricane Delta, but nearly a quarter of oil output still remains shut-in.
Africa Energy has received approval from shareholders for a transaction which will see it increase its interest in a Total-operated block off South Africa.
Oil major BP has awarded a new contract for Seadrill Partners’ West Vela drillship for work in the U.S. part of the Gulf of Mexico.
Swedish oil and gas company Lundin has spudded the Polmak well in the Barents Sea offshore Norway, using the West Bollsta semi-submersible drilling rig.
