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Posted: 14 hours ago

New bundle of opportunities for Noble drillship in Africa

Noble Corporation has unveiled a set of new assignments for one of its drillships off the coast of A...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 14 hours ago
Posted: 18 hours ago

Noble drillship put in charge of previously interrupted drilling campaign offshore Africa

Trident Energy has decided to resume its infill drilling campaign on Block G offshore Equatorial Gui...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 18 hours ago
Posted: 1 day ago

Wheels in motion to gauge commerciality of recent oil discoveries offshore Namibia

Galp is in the process of evaluating the commerciality of oil discoveries, which were made in the he...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 1 day ago
Posted: 4 days ago

Petrobras hits oil for second time this year in ultra-deep waters of Brazil’s Equatorial Margin

Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has made an oil discovery at another well in the E...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 4 days ago
Posted: 5 days ago

Transocean drillships staying longer in Gulf of Mexico and Angola

Transocean has won contract extensions for two floaters in its rig fleet, prolonging drillships’ ass...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 5 days ago
Posted: 6 days ago

Fresh oil discovery making room for potential tie-back to existing North Sea infrastructure

Vår Energi has found more oil in the Balder area, located in the central North Sea off the coast of ...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 6 days ago
Posted: 8 days ago

Valeura racks up a trifecta of oil & gas discoveries offshore Thailand

Valeura Energy has pulled off a hat trick in the Gulf of Thailand by making three new offshore oil d...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 8 days ago
Posted: 11 days ago

Stena Drilling drillship goes to work in Morocco as Energean takes the helm at gas field

Stena Drilling has tucked a new drilling assignment under its belt, thanks to a drillship deal with ...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 11 days ago
Posted: 11 days ago

Shelf Drilling jack-up rig’s stay in Norwegian waters prolonged

Shelf Drilling has secured a contract extension for one of its jack-up rigs with Equinor for operati...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 11 days ago
Posted: 13 days ago

Aker BP gets thumbs-up for hydrocarbon search in North Sea with Noble rig

Aker BP has secured a drilling permit for an exploration well in the North Sea off the coast of Norw...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 13 days ago
Posted: 14 days ago

Another drillship begins its maiden voyage

A newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship has left Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea and start...

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  • Business Developments & Projects
Posted: 14 days ago
Industry Contribution

Laying plans – Looking ahead to the cable laying vessels of tomorrow

With the many offshore wind farm construction projects currently taking place or planned for the fut...

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  • Vessels
Posted: 11 days ago
Industry Contribution

Successful field weld qualification of F550 TMCP toughcore

Excellent suitability for medium pressure LCO2 transport tanks is proven. By exploring various trans...

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  • Research & Development
Posted: about 1 month ago
Posted: 14 days ago

Borr Drilling pulls off a hat trick as three rigs win multi-million gigs

Offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling has landed new assignments for three premium jack-up rigs...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 14 days ago
Posted: 15 days ago

Green light for drilling of Gulf of Mexico oil & gas prospects with Noble and Seadrill drillships

LLOG Exploration has confirmed the approval of drilling activities at three wells in the U.S. Gulf o...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 15 days ago
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Posted: 18 days ago

With suspension of 12 more jack-ups, rig pool in Middle East narrows down

ADES, COSL, and Arabian Drilling have joined the rig owners that have confirmed a temporary suspensi...

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  • Business & Finance
Posted: 18 days ago
Industry Contribution

Towards a new generation with the Damen Offshore Carrier

The development of Damen’s Offshore Carrier vessel (DOC) was sparked by a desire to increase efficie...

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  • Vessels
Posted: 4 months ago
Posted: 18 days ago

‘Win-win’ deal with Nigerian oil & gas firm enabling drilling rig to move to India on time

Dolphin Drilling has struck a deal regarding past due payment amounts and remaining work under a dri...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 18 days ago
Posted: 18 days ago

Aramco hands out 12-month jack-up rig suspension to Borr Drilling

Borr Drilling has received a notice of temporary suspension of operations for one of its jack-up rig...

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  • Business & Finance
Posted: 18 days ago
Posted: 18 days ago

Valaris jack-up rig’s gig with Aramco suspended

Valaris has confirmed the receipt of a suspension for one of its 19 contracted rigs working for Saud...

Categories:
  • Business & Finance
Posted: 18 days ago
Industry Contribution

DNV approves F550 TMCP toughcore for LCO2 Transport and Storage

Next milestone for voestalpine Grobblech´s F550 TMCP toughcore for LCO2 transport and storage. Class...

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  • Certification & Classification
Posted: 4 months ago
Posted: 19 days ago

Noble drillship’s stay with Petronas prolonged offshore Suriname

Noble Corporation has secured more work off the coast of Suriname for one of its seventh-generation ...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 19 days ago
Posted: 19 days ago

Norwegian firm picks up work on Noble rig

Norway-based Soiltech has won two contracts for drilling waste management on a jack-up rig owned by ...

Categories:
  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 19 days ago
Posted: 20 days ago

More upgrade and conversion work for oil & gas infrastructure comes Seatrium’s way

Seatrium Limited has got a hold of a batch of new multi-billion dollar contracts for oil and gas ves...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 20 days ago
Posted: 20 days ago

Dana Petroleum joins Shell and Deltic as partner in North Sea asset

Deltic Energy has wrapped up the sale of a partial stake in a Shell-operated license, containing a p...

Categories:
  • Business & Finance
Posted: 20 days ago
Posted: 21 days ago

Pursuit of appeal for arbitration ruling regarding two canceled drillships hits a wall

Northern Drilling is contemplating its next steps after its attempts to appeal the court’s arbitrati...

Categories:
  • Business & Finance
Posted: 21 days ago
Posted: 21 days ago

Transocean drillship’s Gulf of Mexico drilling campaign extended by 365 days

Transocean has picked up a multi-million contract extension in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for a drillsh...

Categories:
  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 21 days ago
Posted: 21 days ago

Offshore drilling gigs for four jack-up rigs get suspended

Shelf Drilling has acknowledged the issues arising from a suspension of operations for four jack-up ...

Categories:
  • Business & Finance
Posted: 21 days ago
Posted: 22 days ago

Jack-up rig kicks off multi-well offshore drilling campaign in Oman

Masirah Oil, a subsidiary of Singapore’s Rex International, has embarked on a multi-well drilling pr...

Categories:
  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 22 days ago

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