While Velesto, which is set on actively pursuing new assignments in Southeast Asia for its jack-up fleet, is due to send one of its rigs to Sarawak soon for a previously secured drilling campaign, another of its jack-ups has got a hold of a job off the coast of Vietnam.
Well-Safe Solutions has hit a new saturation diving milestone in the UK waters with one of its rigs, which is said to be the only semi-submersible in the North Sea with saturation dive spread capability.
OMV has made a new gas discovery in a wildcat well off the coast of Norway with a semi-submersible rig owned by Transocean.
BW Energy has started drilling the next well on its agenda at an oil field in the Dussafu license off the coast of Gabon, Africa, with a jack-up rig owned by Borr Drilling.
Trident Energy is making inroads in its infill drilling campaign on Block G offshore Equatorial Guinea with a drillship owned by the U.S.-headquartered Noble Corporation.
Energean has started drilling activities at a well located on a natural gas field off the coast of Morocco, using a drillship owned by Stena Drilling, an Aberdeen-based offshore drilling contractor.
Shelf Drilling has pushed its total contract backlog to $2.1 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2024.
Seadrill has finished its drilling assignment at a field life extension project in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, which enabled its semi-submersible rig to go to a yard in Bergen.
A 1981-built non-propelled self-elevating cantilever jack-up rig has mobilized for the commencement of what will be the UK’s first CO2 well injection test. Perenco UK and Carbon Catalyst Limited secured a license to progress the Poseidon CCS project at the Leman gas fields in the UK southern North S
Singapore’s Seatrium has delivered the fourth out of five jack-up rigs to UK-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling, a year ahead of the planned delivery date. Completed and delivered on an accelerated schedule, the rig named Vali is of KFELS Super B Class, capable of operating in
Five rig-owning titans – Transocean, Valaris, Noble, Seadrill, and Diamond Offshore -which are seen as the crème de la crème of the offshore drilling contractors, have managed to increase their combined total backlog to a whopping $21.8 billion.
French oil major TotalEnergies has awarded offshore drilling contractor Northern Ocean with another contract extension for one of its semi-submersible rigs for continued work in Africa. TotalEnergies hired the Deepsea Mira rig on a multi-country drilling contract in December 2022 and exercised the f
Ocean Oilfield Integrated Solutions has wrapped up the quinquennial special periodic survey (SPS) and refurbishment work on one of its rigs at Khalifa Port, KEZAD, Abu Dhabi.
Transocean has landed a new long-term ultra-deepwater drillship assignment in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico with BP.
