Repsol has made two significant offshore oil discoveries in Mexico’s deepwater with its Polok-1 and Chinwol-1 exploration wells in Block 29 in the Salina Basin.
Petrofac has postponed the beginning of the plug & abandonment program on Rubie and Renee fields in the UK North Sea. As a result, Awilco Drilling’s rig has been put on standby.
The worldwide offshore rig count in April 2020 has dropped 28 rigs year-over-year and 19 rigs sequentially, according to rig count reports by Baker Hughes Company.
German oil and gas company Wintershall Dea has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for production drilling and completion on the Nova field using the West Mira drilling rig.
The U.S. active offshore rig count last week dropped by one unit compared to the previous week, Baker Hughes Company said on Friday in its weekly rig count report.
Borr Drilling has decided to sell two jack-up rigs for total cash proceeds of $15.8 million.
The UK Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) has approved IOG’s field development plan for the Core Project Phase 1 located in the UK North Sea.
Transocean recorded a wider loss in the first quarter of 2020 when compared to the same period last year due to impairments on assets.
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract by Equinor for the drilling of three and plugging of one well on the Martin Linge field offshore Norway.
Valaris booked $3 billion loss in the first quarter of the year affected by impairments and fleet utilization decline.
Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has drilled a dry well near the Oseberg field in the North Sea off Norway.
Oil and gas company Spirit Energy has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for exploration drilling in the Barents Sea using the Leiv Eiriksson drilling rig.
Equinor has extended the charter for a Floatel International-owned accommodation rig for operations on a field offshore Norway.
Diamond Offshore has filed a complaint against Australia’s Beach Energy claiming that the oil company’s termination of a drilling contract for the Ocean Onyx rig is invalid.
