Dolphin Drilling, an Oslo-listed, Aberdeen-headquartered owner and operator of a fleet of harsh-environment mid-water and deepwater semi-submersible drilling rigs, has revealed that one of its units is staying longer at an assignment off the coast of India with Oil India Limited, an exploration and
Aberdeen-based decommissioning services provider Well-Safe Solutions has landed a new decommissioning assignment at a field in the North Sea on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) and hired Archer and NMC Energy to lend a hand with the plug and abandonment (P&A) scope of work.
Eni Muara Bakau, a subsidiary of Searah that represents a joint venture between Eni and Petronas, has prolonged a drilling assignment being conducted off the coast of Indonesia by a semi-submersible rig owned by Brazil’s deepwater offshore drilling contractor Ventura Offshore.
A 2018-built semi-submersible rig, owned by Northern Ocean and managed by Odfjell Drilling, has finished its drilling assignment with the UK-headquartered energy giant Shell off the coast of Namibia, Africa.
Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor Transocean has lined up assignments for three of its harsh environment semi-submersible rigs with Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).
African energy exploration player Rhino Resources has shed light on the appraisal of an oil discovery in the Orange Basin, confirming a connected oil-bearing reservoir at its appraisal well off the coast of Namibia.
Vantage Drilling, a Bermuda-exempt offshore drilling contractor, has wrapped up its proposed business combination with Eldorado Drilling, an offshore drilling player backed by a group of well-known Norwegian investors, establishing what it describes as a scalable offshore drilling platform with “enh
Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor has secured a drilling permit for operations in the North Sea on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), which will be conducted with a semi-submersible rig owned by Odfjell Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor.
France’s energy giant TotalEnergies and Malaysia’s Petronas have kicked off a multimillion-dollar oil and gas exploration campaign off the coast of Papua New Guinea, Oceania. The duo is said to be drilling the country’s first ultra-deepwater exploration well in the Gulf of Papua.
Vantage Drilling, a Bermuda-exempt offshore drilling contractor, has confirmed that its proposed business combination with Eldorado Drilling, an offshore drilling player backed by a group of well-known Norwegian investors, is poised to be wrapped up soon.
Abu Dhabi-headquartered ADNOC Drilling, one of the Middle East’s drilling and integrated drilling services (IDS) providers, has taken delivery of its first automated walking island rig running on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, accelerating autonomous offshore operations in the United Ara
Perenco Vietnam, part of Anglo-French oil and gas player Perenco, has inked a gas sales and purchase agreement (GSPA) for a project off the coast of Vietnam, Southeast Asia.
ABL, part of Oslo-listed global consultancy Aqualis, has landed a hand to India’s government-owned energy giant Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) in the preparation for the monsoon season by helping reposition the offshore rig fleet deployed in the Asian country’s waters.
Italy’s engineering, drilling, and construction services giant Saipem is divesting its shareholding in Saudi Arabian Saipem (SAS) to close its shallow water drilling chapter in Saudi Arabia, as it continues its shift to deepwater plays. This move enables ADES Holding Company, part of Saudi Arabia-he
