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Posted: 10 months ago

Stena Drilling lands drillship deal with Repsol in Mexico

Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling has won a drilling contract with Spanish oil company Rep...

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  • Exploration & Production
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Regulator issues order following 'West Mira' incident

Norwegian offshore safety regulator, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has completed its investi...

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  • Safety
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Aker BP taps Odfjell Drilling for more rig work

Aker BP has awarded further work to the Odfjell Drilling-owned Deepsea Stavanger rig, scheduled to b...

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  • Exploration & Production
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Odfjell gets early termination and new gig for semi-submersible

Offshore driller Odfjell Drilling has received a notice of early termination from oil major BP for t...

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  • Business & Finance
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U.S. weekly offshore rig count down a notch

The number of active offshore rigs in the U.S. is down by one unit over the last week, according to ...

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  • Infrastructure
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Maersk Drilling to decrease CO2 emissions by 50 pct by 2030

Danish offshore drilling company Maersk Drilling has set a target of lowering the intensity of CO2 e...

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  • Transition
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Wellesley bites the dust in Norwegian well

Oil and gas company Wellesley Petroleum has drilled a dry well north of the Gjøa field offshore Norw...

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  • Business & Finance
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Equinor picks up drilling permit for North Sea well

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has issued a drilling permit to Equinor for a wildcat well...

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  • Exploration & Production
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Sapura Energy nets over $203M in new contracts

Oil and gas services provider Sapura Energy has announced two major project wins in South America, a...

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  • Business & Finance
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Seadrill agrees debt payment suspension with creditors

Seadrill has entered into an agreement with some of its lenders for the suspension of debt payments ...

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  • Business & Finance
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Equinor cleared to use Askeladd Phase 1 facilities

Norway’s safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given Equinor consent to use Ask...

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  • Authorities & Government
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Seadrill to take full control of Asia Offshore Drilling

Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill has bought from Mermaid Maritime the minority holding of the s...

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  • Business & Finance
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Apache kicks off drilling ops on fresh well off Suriname

Apache has gathered further reservoir and technical data from its Kwaskwasi-1 discovery well located...

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  • Exploration & Production
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Turkey bringing in another drillship for Black Sea ops

Turkey is bringing in another drillship for operations in the Black Sea only weeks after announcing ...

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  • Exploration & Production
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Neptune Energy gets nod to drill Norwegian Sea well

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has issued a drilling permit to Neptune Energy for well 64...

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  • Authorities & Government
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Shelf Drilling cancels charter for two jack-up rigs

Offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has terminated a bareboat charter agreement with China M...

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  • Business & Finance
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Well-Safe buys Seadrill rig

Well-Safe Solutions has acquired the West Epsilon jack-up rig from Seadrill sparking another job boo...

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  • Business & Finance
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U.S. offshore rig count stuck at 15 units

The U.S. weekly offshore rig count has not changed over the last week and remains flat at 15 units, ...

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  • Infrastructure
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JDC lands new job for jack-up rig in Japan

Japan Drilling Co. (JDC) has been awarded a contract by Mitsui Oil for the provision of a jack-up ri...

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  • Business & Finance
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Noble Corp. secures more rig work but day rates suffer

Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corp. has won more work for some of its drilling rigs but has als...

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  • Business & Finance
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Equinor hires Noble rig for Valemon campaign

Noble Corporation has been awarded a contract by Equinor for drilling three wells at the Valemon fie...

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  • Business & Finance
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Neptune Energy starts drilling Bue well off Norway

Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has started drilling the Bue well on the offshore Fenja field in ...

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  • Exploration & Production
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ExxonMobil boasts new oil discovery offshore Guyana

Oil major ExxonMobil has made its 18th discovery offshore Guyana at the Redtail-1 exploration well. ...

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  • Exploration & Production
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Equinor to drill fresh Martin Linge wells

Equinor has decided to drill new wells on its operated Martin Linge field, located offshore Norway, ...

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  • Exploration & Production
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Worldwide offshore rig count in August down 74 units Y-o-Y

The worldwide offshore rig count in August 2020 dropped by 74 rigs year-over-year but is up 3 rigs s...

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  • Exploration & Production
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