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Posted: 7 months ago

Ocean Oilfield begins maintenance and upgrade work on GMS’ jack-up barge

Ocean Oilfield Integrated Solutions has started its new maintenance and upgrade assignment on a jack...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

Dolphin Drilling pops up as front-runner in India’s rig tender

Dolphin Drilling has emerged as the lowest bidder in Oil India Limited’s rig tender for a long-term ...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

Transocean’s newbuild drillship going to Brazil for its inaugural job

Transocean has secured a new long-term contract for a newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship, which will...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

TotalEnergies eyes sanctioning of $9 billion oil project off Suriname next year

TotalEnergies is laying the groundwork to make a final investment decision (FID) for a large oil pr...

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  • Business & Finance
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

BW Energy brings on stream fourth well off Gabon as Borr rig spuds fifth one

BW Energy has started production from the fourth well in its multi-well programme offshore Gabon. ...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

BP hires Valaris drillship and jack-up for work in Brazil and Indonesia

Valaris has secured a new contract and extension for a drillship and a jack-up rig, which will carry...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

With reactivation out of the way, Saipem takes delivery of drillship destined for ops off Africa

Saipem has taken delivery of a recently chartered seventh-generation drillship, which is destined to...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 7 months ago
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Posted: 7 months ago

WATCH: Ukraine seizes control over Black Sea oil & gas drilling platforms from Russia

Following a military operation, Ukraine has brought back into its fold platforms in the Black Sea of...

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  • Authorities & Government
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

US offshore rig count gets a slight boost

Baker Hughes’ weekly rig count report shows that the number of offshore rigs in the United States wa...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

Valaris rig starts drilling work in Gulf of Mexico

Offshore drilling contractor Valaris has confirmed the start of a new contract for one of its semi-s...

Categories:
  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

Gears in motion for Aker BP to spud North Sea prospects with Odfjell rig

Aker BP has received consent from Norway’s offshore safety regulator for exploration drilling in the...

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  • Authorities & Government
Posted: 7 months ago
Industry Contribution

Make the industry cleaner and safer by a multidisciplinary approach

Reducing the carbon intensity is the main theme for the Maritime industry. The International Maritim...

Posted: over 2 years ago
Industry Contribution

Outwitting technical limits – Designing the blueprint for MARIN’s Zero Emissions Lab

In 2017, the Maritime Research Institute Nederland (MARIN) started researching the concept of a Zero...

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  • Research & Development
Posted: 10 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

Island Drilling secures more work for its rig’s upcoming gig in Africa

Island Drilling has received a third contract extension for its rig from Trident Energy related to w...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

Borr jack-up rig kicks off its new five-year drilling assignment

Borr Drilling has confirmed that one of its jack-up rigs, which recently left a shipyard in the UAE,...

Categories:
  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

International offshore rig count continues its upward trend

Baker Hughes’ international rig count report shows a further increase in the number of offshore rigs...

Categories:
  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 7 months ago
Industry Contribution

Heavy Lift, Light Impact: Industry Looks to Heavy Lift Cranes for Sustainable Solutions

As the demand for sustainable technology grows in the offshore heavy lift industry so does the need ...

Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: 7 months ago

Noble drillship gets new job in Gulf of Mexico

Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has secured a new contract for one of its seventh-gen...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

Another rig deal for COSL as exploration activity heats up off Norway

Vår Energi has picked a sixth-generation semi-submersible rig from COSL Offshore Management for dril...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

New offshore drilling gigs for two COSL rigs bringing $369 million

Equinor has hired two semi-submersible rigs from COSL Offshore Management for drilling operations on...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 7 months ago
Industry Contribution

Pon Power: “Our retrofit IMO III solution makes sustainability possible”

It had been discussed in the market for some years and on 1 January 2021, it became a fact that newl...

Posted: over 2 years ago
  • long read
Posted: 7 months ago

Despite higher day rates, new rig orders not on the cards soon, says Westwood

While Westwood believes that a newbuilding cycle will not happen anytime soon, any new rig orders ar...

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  • Market Outlooks
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

New 21-month gig for Transocean’s deepwater drillship off India

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has secured a long-term deal for one of its ultra-deepwater ...

Categories:
  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 7 months ago

More work in West Africa for two Borr Drilling jack-up rigs

Borr Drilling has secured a letter of award (LOA) for two premium jack-up rigs with an undisclosed c...

Categories:
  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 7 months ago
Posted: 8 months ago

Equinor getting ready to spud two North Sea wells with Shelf Drilling and Transocean rigs

Equinor has received consent from the country’s offshore safety regulator to use rigs owned by Shelf...

Categories:
  • Authorities & Government
Posted: 8 months ago
Posted: 8 months ago

Neptune all set to kick off North Sea drilling ops with Odfjell Drilling-managed rig

Neptune Energy has secured a drilling permit from the Norwegian authorities for an exploration well ...

Categories:
  • Authorities & Government
Posted: 8 months ago
Posted: 8 months ago

Seatrium delivers second of three newbuild jack-up rigs to ADNOC Drilling

Singapore-headquartered Seatrium has handed over the second of three newbuild jack-up rigs to the UA...

Categories:
  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 8 months ago
Posted: 8 months ago

Neptune embarks on drilling ops with ADES rig

Neptune Energy has kicked off drilling activities at an exploration well in the North West El Amal c...

Categories:
  • Exploration & Production
Posted: 8 months ago
Posted: 8 months ago

WATCH: Borr rig departs shipyard after reactivation to embark on five-year drilling gig

Abu Dhabi-headquartered Ocean Oilfield Integrated Solutions has wrapped up the reactivation and upgr...

Categories:
  • Project & Tenders
Posted: 8 months ago

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