Spanish oil company Repsol has received consent from the Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), to use the Maersk Inspirer jack-up rig on the Yme field offshore Norway.
Odfjell Drilling’s semi-submersible drilling rig Deepsea Stavanger is preparing for drilling operations off South Africa, where it will start a firm contract with French major Total. The dual derrick, dynamic positioned (DP), semi-submersible is set to work in demanding environmental conditions char
Equinor has drilled a dry well near the Fram field in the North Sea offshore Norway.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. has dropped for the third week in a row and now stands at just 12 active units, according to a weekly rig count report by Baker Hughes.
Oil and gas company Wintershall Dea has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for production drilling on the Vega field using the West Mira drilling rig.
Seadrill has been hit by early termination of a drilling contract for a drillship operating in Southeast Asia.
Shelf Drilling booked a loss of $185 million in the first quarter of 2020 due to rig impairment charges and is taking actions to reduce costs and preserve liquidity amid challenging market situation.
The future of Prosafe’s contract for the Safe Zephyrus flotel with Shell is uncertain following Shell’s decision not to perform its previously planned work at the Shearwater field this year.
UAE-based Mubadala Petroleum has decided to drill, complete, and put on production three wells in the Manora field in the Gulf of Thailand.
Due to the limited impacted of the COVID-19 outbreak during the first quarter of 2020, offshore drilling contractor Odfjell Drilling was able to post a higher profit than in the first quarter of 2019.
Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has conducted ‘the world’s first’ dual drilling operation from an integrated subsea template structure at the Fenja field in the Norwegian North Sea.
Oil and gas company Spirit Energy has been given a drilling permit to drill the 7321/8-2 S well in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway.
Borr Drilling has joined a growing list of offshore drilling contractors facing a possibility of being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
The government of Ghana is pushing for a fast-track development of a new oil discovery made by domestic operator Springfield E&P through a unitization agreement between Springfield and Eni.
