ADES Holding Company, an oil and gas drilling services provider that is part of Saudi Arabia-headquartered ADES Group, has secured the green light to restore all temporarily suspended offshore rig operations in Saudi Arabia, as offshore activity across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region conti
Italy’s engineering, drilling, and construction services company Saipem is carrying out completion work with its 2000-built drillship for compatriot energy giant Eni on a gas well off the coast of Sicily, with the campaign scheduled to run through to late September 2026, according to an Italian Coas
Brazilian state-owned energy giant Petrobras has found hydrocarbons in a frontier well located in ultra-deep waters off the coast of Amapá, deepening Brazil’s Equatorial Margin exploration quest.
Borr Drilling, an offshore drilling player with its corporate base in Bermuda, has lined up multiple new assignments and extensions of existing deals for its rig fleet off the coasts of Vietnam, Malaysia, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), and the Netherlands.
Norway’s oil and gas company Aker BP and its compatriot state-owned partner, Equinor, have come up dry in their latest North Sea exploration well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
Seadrill, a Bermuda-headquartered offshore drilling contractor, has obtained multimillion-dollar deals and extensions of existing assignments for a semi-submersible rig and two drillships in the Americas and Asia.
Noble Corporation, a U.S.-based offshore drilling giant, has lined up a new assignment for a 12-year-old jack-up rig off the coast of Norway with ConocoPhillips Skandinavia, a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered energy company ConocoPhillips.
Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras has added to South America’s energy riches with a fresh gas discovery off the coast of Colombia.
United Arab Emirates-based energy heavyweight Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and the U.S.-headquartered technology player SLB have deployed a platform running on artificial intelligence (AI) across a fleet of more than 120 rigs to cut downtime and improve drilling performance at onshore and
Noble Corporation, a U.S.-based offshore drilling giant, has fitted one of its drillships with new equipment, reflecting its confidence in a strengthening offshore drilling market and busier years ahead for the global rig fleet.
Bermuda-incorporated offshore drilling contractor Valaris has confirmed the completion of its assignment with the UK-headquartered energy giant BP off the coast of Trinidad before the expected timeline.
Scotland-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Odfjell Drilling has disclosed the return to work of its 17-year-old semi-submersible, following repairs in the wake of an equipment-handling incident that ended rig activity earlier this year.
BC Ventures, a 50/50 joint venture between subsidiaries of Bermuda-based Borr Drilling and CME as its long-term well construction partner in Mexico, has completed the acquisition of five jack-up rigs from Fontis Finance, an indirect subsidiary of Bermuda-headquartered Paratus Energy Services. For a
U.S.-headquartered energy services provider Expro has brought Enhanced Well Technologies Group (Enhanced Drilling) into its fold, extending its drilling technology capabilities.
