
Noble Corporation has landed a new drilling campaign in western Africa, which one of its drillships will carry out off the coast of Ghana.

Ventura Offshore has secured a long-term drillship contract with Petrobras, a compatriot state-owned energy giant, for operations at two oil field developments off the coast of Brazil.

Seadrill has won a multimillion-dollar assignment off the coast of Brazil for one of its drillships, which will work for the South American country’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras.

Switzerland-based Transocean has secured a multi-well contract extension for one of its drillships off the coast of India.

Constellation Oil Services has won a new multi-year assignment off the coast of Brazil for one of the drillships in its rig fleet with the state-owned energy giant Petrobras.

Equinor has struck oil and gas once again in an area where previous commercial discoveries were made, putting tie-back to existing infrastructure on the table as a development option to combine the recent discoveries.

Equinor has found shallow gas during drilling activities with an Odfjell Drilling-owned semi-submersible rig at a well in the Norwegian Sea off the coast of Norway.

Noble is bent on enhancing its operational safety and performance with simulator technology for dynamic positioning (DP) training and analysis, which will be provided by Kongsberg Digital.

Following a new oil discovery near an asset that is already in operation, Vår Energi and its Equinor, are in the process of contemplating a tie-back of their latest discovery to the existing floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit in the Barents Sea.

Equinor has begun drilling activities with one of Transocean’s rigs at a field in the Norwegian Sea, which will be tied back to an existing floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit off the coast of Norway.

Aker BP has found no hydrocarbons at a well in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. One of Odfjell Drilling’s semi-submersible rigs was in charge of drilling operations.

Galp has started drilling another well in the Orange Basin, where oil discoveries were also made during its first campaign within license PEL 83 off the coast of Namibia.

Vår Energi has discovered oil resources in an appraisal well near the Goliat field in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway. As the firm believes the new find has unlocked further potential in the area, it plans to drill 20 more wells in the Barents Sea over the next four years.

Houston-based Vaalco Energy has disclosed a new contract with Borr Drilling for a jack-up rig that will carry out its 2025/2026 drilling program off the coast of Gabon, Africa.