
UAE-based ADNOC Offshore has handed out a contract to its sister company ADNOC Drilling for three island rigs to support expanding operations at a development project offshore Abu Dhabi.

Dolphin Drilling has tweaked the terms of the deal for its multimillion-dollar facility agreement with security, among other things, over the 1990-built semi-submersible rig it acquired from Transocean, providing for amortization relief of the installments payable for the three months from April to

A semi-submersible rig forming part of Odfjell Drilling’s fleet has undergone maintenance ahead of its contract with Aker BP in the North Sea.

Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling International has signed a conditional letter of award (CLOA) for an ultra-deepwater drillship from its fleet with an unnamed client.

A newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship, managed by Ventura Offshore Midco, a subsidiary of the Brazilian deepwater offshore drilling contractor Ventura Offshore, has started its inaugural offshore drilling assignment in Brazilian waters with the South American country’s energy giant Petrobras.

With gas production increase in mind, Italy’s energy giant Eni is set on drilling two additional wells at a natural gas field in the Mediterranean off the coast of Egypt.

Petrobras has disclosed the arrival of a jack-up rig, owned by Borr Drilling, a UK-headquartered offshore drilling contractor, in Brazilian waters, where it will undertake well decommissioning activities at oil and gas assets off the coast of Brazil.

UAE-based offshore fabrication contractor Lamprell has got a hold of an extension of its multi-year deal with Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s energy heavyweight.

Equinor has received the go-ahead from the country’s authorities to use one of Transocean’s semi-submersible rigs for drilling operations at a field off the coast of Norway.

Shelf Drilling (SHLF) has now received an order from the Norwegian offshore safety regulator after a probe into the management of data security risks for industrial ICT systems on board one of its jack-up rigs working off the coast of Norway.

ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy have wrapped up drilling activities off the coast of Cyprus, carried out with a drillship owned by Valaris, an offshore drilling contractor.

Saipem has taken steps to make changes to a deal outlining the duration a chartered seventh-generation drillship will spend in its rig fleet.

Aker BP has secured a drilling permit for an exploration well in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, which will be drilled this month with a semi-submersible rig owned by Odfjell Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor.

Noble Corporation has secured a long-term extension with Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras for one of its semi-submersible rigs off the coast of Colombia, South America.