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Posted: about 1 year ago

Green light for Norwegian oil & gas player to spin the drill bit at North Sea prospect

Wellesley Petroleum has received consent from Norway’s regulator for exploration drilling in the Nor...

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  • Business Developments & Projects
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

TotalEnergies racks up ‘substantial resources’ for potential oil development off Suriname

TotalEnergies has completed the drilling and a flow test at an appraisal well in Block 58 offshore S...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Fresh oil discovery in Barents Sea

Norwegian oil and gas player Vår Energi has made a new oil discovery in the Barents Sea off Norway, ...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

New oil & gas discovery in North Sea with tie-back on the horizon

Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has made a new commercial oil and gas discovery in the No...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Seadrill drillship kicks off its gig off Brazil

Seadrill has revealed that one of its drillships embarked on its assignment at a field offshore Braz...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Shell’s UK prospect seen as one of North Sea’s ‘largest natural gas discoveries’ in over a decade

Shell has completed flow test results for the Pensacola well in the North Sea, which is said to have...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Contract extension for Stena’s drillship

Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling has secured a contract extension with energy giant BP fo...

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  • Vessels
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Fresh UK gig for Stena Drilling rig

Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling has secured a new contract for a semi-submersible rig wi...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Aker BP all set to spud North Sea wildcat with Saipem rig

Aker BP has secured a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for an exploration well in the ...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

U.S. offshore rig count goes down a notch

Baker Hughes’ rig count report: The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. dropped for the third week i...

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  • Business & Finance
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

January brings increase to offshore rig count

The international offshore rig count recorded an increase of ten units in January 2023 compared to D...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

$10 million raised to cover ongoing arbitration costs regarding two cancelled drillships

Northern Drilling has raised $10 million for litigation costs arising from the ongoing arbitration p...

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  • Business & Finance
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Jack-up rig deal opens offshore energy sector doors to Swedish player

Sweden’s Echandia has received an initial order for battery systems to curb emissions and boost ener...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

‘Abundance’ of gas pay at Black Sea well exceeds expectations

Trillion Energy has drilled another well in its 2022 – 2023 drilling campaign on a natural gas field...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
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On emission reduction quest, Odfjell Drilling furnishes rig with new upgrade

Offshore drilling contractor Odfjell Drilling has upgraded one of its semi-submersible drilling rigs...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Diamond Offshore-managed drillship kicks off its new gig in Gulf of Mexico

Diamond Offshore has revealed that a drillship – managed on behalf of Aquadrill – has started ...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

New 910-day gig for Transocean’s ultra-deepwater drillship

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

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Neptune brings another well on stream at North Sea gas field

Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has started production from the tenth well at its operated gas fi...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Significant emissions and cost savings on the cards for Middle East operator’s rig fleet

Energy consultancy Xodus has outlined a roadmap for a 60 per cent reduction in total CO2 emissions f...

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  • Transition
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Dolphin Drilling rig weeks away from kicking off its gig off Nigeria

Dolphin Drilling has completed a five-year recertification of a semi-submersible rig, which is now r...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

QatarEnergy joins TotalEnergies and Eni on two exploration blocks in Mediterranean’s gas-rich waters

TotalEnergies andEni have completed the transfer of a partial interest to QatarEnergy for two offsho...

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  • Business & Finance
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

U.S. offshore rig count slips down few more notches

Baker Hughes’ weekly rig count report shows that the number of offshore rigs in the U.S. took a tumb...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
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Posted: about 1 year ago

Drilling campaign in Gulf of Mexico on Murphy’s agenda for 2023

Houston-based oil and gas company Murphy Oil is working on progressing its 2023 drilling campaign in...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Rig revamped into MOPU getting crowned

ONGC has set the wheels into motion to crown a jack-up rig, which was recently converted into a mobi...

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  • Exploration & Production
Posted: about 1 year ago
Posted: about 1 year ago

Ocyan scores new long-term gig for semi-sub rig

Ocyan has secured a new long-term operating deal for a semi-submersible rig, which will carry out op...

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  • Project & Tenders
Posted: about 1 year ago

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