
Noble Corporation has got a new drilling assignment off the coast of Suriname, which will be conducted by its 2009-built semi-submersible rig, currently stationed in Trinidad and Tobago.

ADES Holding Company, part of Saudi Arabia-headquartered ADES Group, has landed a new multi-year drilling assignment for its jack-up rig with Thailand’s national oil and gas company PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP).

Seadrill has bid farewell to a jack-up rig that spent eight years out of work. The divestment is perceived as an enabler of the firm’s strategy to leave the benign jack-up market.

ADNOC Drilling has disclosed the arrival of two premium offshore jack-up drilling rigs in the Middle Eastern country’s waters.

Three players, two incorporated in the United States (U.S.) and one in the Middle East, recently set up a new joint venture, named Turnwell, which has ticked off its list the first batch of wells in its initial 144-well program under 20 days.

Brazilian drilling contractor Constellation Oil Services has secured further work off the coast of Brazil for its semi-submersible rig with the state-owned energy giant Petrobras. Petrobras has handed out a contract extension to Constellation for the Atlantic Star rig, which enables the semi-submers

As three rigs press play to resume hydrocarbon search at the Stabroek block on South America’s North Atlantic coast, this enables ExxonMobil to keep looking for more oil and natural gas resources off the coast of Guyana, with drillships owned by Noble Corporation and Stena Drilling.

U.S. offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has won a new offshore drilling assignment in the Gulf of Mexico for one of its drillships.

Aker BP has received the Norwegian authorities’ blessing to drill two exploration wells in the Norwegian Sea, off the coast of Norway, with a semi-submersible rig owned by Italy’s Saipem.

TotalEnergies has given more work to a semi-submersible rig owned by Northern Ocean (NOL) and managed by Odfjell Drilling.

Dolphin Drilling has disclosed a positive outcome of arbitration proceedings with Lagos-based General Hydrocarbons Limited (GHL), which has been made in the Norwegian player’s favor.

Equinor has found no hydrocarbons in two wells, which were drilled using one of Odfjell Drilling’s rigs in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.

OKEA and DNO have made arrangements to exchange partial stakes in two prospects off the coast of Norway, which are slated to be drilled with Odfjell Drilling and Transocean semi-submersible rigs.

Shelf Drilling has decided to remove its 1982-built jack-up rig from active service, following a recent suspension of operations in the Middle East.