
ADES has expanded its global presence by spreading its wings to the eleventh country, thanks to an offshore drilling assignment one of its jack-up rigs will undertake off the coast of Nigeria.

OMV has received a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for a wildcat well in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, enabling it to undertake drilling activities next month with a semi-submersible rig owned by Transocean, an offshore drilling contractor.

Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) has confirmed a large hydrocarbon discovery at an offshore field in the country’s territorial waters, bolstering its expectations of discovering more offshore oil and gas to boost the country’s energy arsenal.

Orlen Upstream Norway, part of Poland’s Orlen Group, has wrapped up drilling activities at a wildcat well in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea, undertaken with one of the Odfjell Drilling-managed rigs, without finding any commercial volumes of hydrocarbons.

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Serica Energy has kicked off drilling operations at the next well in its multi-well drilling campaign and work-over program in the North Sea, with a rig from COSL Drilling Europe, which has one more well lined up with the British player on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).

ExxonMobil has made a new gas discovery in the western region of the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Egypt, with a drillship owned by Valaris, an offshore drilling contract.

Vår Energi has found more gas in the Barents Sea, thanks to the drilling operations, which were conducted with one of COSL Drilling Europe’s semi-submersible rigs off the coast of Norway.

Borr Drilling has confirmed a temporary suspension of operations notice for a jack-up rig trio working off the coast of Mexico, North America.

U.S.-headquartered rig technologies and drilling solutions player Helmerich & Payne (H&P) has wrapped up its business combination with KCA Deutag.

Talos Energy has made a new oil and natural gas discovery in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, thanks to its ongoing drilling activities with a drillship owned by Seadrill.

Chevron has drilled an exploration well in the Orange Basin off the coast of Namibia, which did not yield any commercial hydrocarbon quantities.

The batch of new projects, which are expected to reach the EPC stage this year, is anticipated to lead to awards worth billions of dollars for jobs related to associated subsea equipment, offshore platforms, floating production units, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) equipment and facilities, based o

UK-headquartered energy giant BP has wrapped up drilling activities at two wells, targeting to bring them on stream next month.