Norwegian oil major Equinor has received safety consent from the country’s offshore safety watchdog to use the Maersk Intrepid jack-up rig on the Martin Linge field offshore Norway.
Equinor has drilled a dry well near the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.
Apache has made what it says is a major oil discovery at the Kwaskwasi-1 well drilled offshore Suriname in Block 58.
Tullow Oil has postponed the drilling of its exploration well on a block located offshore Suriname. Meanwhile, Tullow is looking to hire a rig for the well.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor a drilling permit for wells located in the Norwegian Sea.
Maersk Drilling has entered an agreement to invest $1 million in Clean Energy Systems to help develop a new technology called Carbon-Negative Energy.
OMV is the process of concluding the drilling of an appraisal well on the Hades gas/condensate discovery in the Norwegian Sea.
The U.S. offshore rig count has not changed for the third week in a row now, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes.
Aker BP has received safety consents from the Norwegian offshore safety watchdog to use two rigs for production drilling on two fields offshore Norway.
The U.S. weekly offshore rig count remained unchanged at 12 units for the second week in a row, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes.
Maersk Drilling has secured an additional one-well contract from Aker BP for the low-emission jack-up rig Maersk Integrator.
BP’s environment plan for the Ironbark-1 exploration well has been approved by the Australian offshore regulator, NOPSEMA, and BP is preparing to drill the well in October 2020.
Vår Energi is resuming its drilling activities in the Barents Sea and the North Sea, which were postponed this spring due to the corona pandemic and oil price collapse.
Transocean has received a contract termination for its semi-submersible Paul B. Loyd Jr. in the UK. Furthermore, Transocean said that the delivery of the Deepwater Atlas drillship from a Sembcorp Marine yard could be delayed.
