Rigs Archives

video

27 days ago

Re-evaluation and new discovery push Türkiye’s Black Sea natural gas reserves up

Türkiye’s natural gas reserves in the Black Sea have been increased, following a new gas discovery a...

27 days ago

Following upgrades, two jack-up rigs kick off their new drilling gigs

Arabian Drilling has completed the upgrades on its new offshore rigs, which have now embarked on the...

27 days ago

28 days ago

Two jack-up rigs win long-term drilling assignments

Borr Drilling has secured long-term deals for two jack-up rigs with undisclosed oil and gas companie...

28 days ago

Update: Search suspended for four missing in chopper incident in Gulf of Mexico

The search for four people aboard a downed helicopter, which went down in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, h...

28 days ago

long read

28 days ago

Four missing after chopper goes down in Gulf of Mexico while departing from oil rig

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has launched a search and rescue (SAR) mission for four people aboard a ...

28 days ago

about 1 month ago

Seadrill enters $958 million deal to acquire Aquadrill

Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill has entered into an agreement to acquire Aquadrill, formerly k...

about 1 month ago

Shelf Drilling to keep jack-up rigs busy in Q2 2023

UAE-based Shelf Drilling has secured three-year contracts for two of its jack-up rigs for work offsh...

about 1 month ago

Rig workers evacuated following issue on Noble jack-up

Noble Corporation has evacuated all rig personnel after an issue was found on one of the legs of a N...

about 1 month ago

Offshore drilling contractor taps Scana company for deep-water riser system

Scana-owned PSW Technology has signed an agreement with offshore drilling contractor Northern Ocean ...

about 1 month ago

long read

about 1 month ago

Valaris’ new rig deals bring total backlog of $275 million

Valaris has been awarded new contracts for a drillship and three jack-up rigs and contract extension...

about 1 month ago

Dutch firm gets work on Perenco’s rig conversion project off Congo

Wagenborg Foxdrill has secured a contract for offshore derrick removal in Congo with a turnkey contr...

about 1 month ago

Industry Contribution

Haptic control development for mechatronic devices

The current generation of maritime remote-control systems has countless features to ensure ship safe...

4 months ago

Industry Contribution

The Pioneers of Offshore Engineering

GustoMSC, part of NOV’s Marine and Construction business, is recognized for providing advanced desig...

7 months ago

about 1 month ago

Drillship secures more work in U.S. Gulf of Mexico with BP

Aquadrill has extended the charter hire agreement with a subsidiary of Diamond Offshore Drilling for...

about 1 month ago

Equinor all set to drill North Sea wildcat

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

about 1 month ago

Murder on rig: Criminal inquiry into death of British worker off Qatar ongoing

Qatari authorities have launched a probe into the murder of one of the workers and the attack on ano...

about 1 month ago

Industry Contribution

How Clarksons helps offshore wind developers to understand the local marketplace

Written by David Matthews, Head of Strategy Offshore Renewables Division at Clarksons Platou Renewab...

7 months ago

about 1 month ago

BP hires Noble rig for North Sea work

Noble Corporation has secured a long-term contract for one of its jack-up rigs with BP for operation...

about 1 month ago

TotalEnergies picks semi-submersible rig for multi-country drilling programme

Northern Ocean has secured a contract for one of its semi-submersible drilling rigs for multi-countr...

about 1 month ago

More work lined up for semi-sub rig in Norway

Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has extended a contract for the use of a semi-submersible drillin...

about 1 month ago

Industry Contribution

Partner

The Next Generation of Offshore Crew Change

New modes of fast, reliable and fuel efficient transport for offshore crew and provisions promise to...

8 months ago

about 1 month ago

Rig moves to fourth well in Black Sea drilling campaign

Trillion Energy has spudded the fourth well in its 2022 – 2023 drilling campaign on a natural gas fi...

about 1 month ago

Odfjell asked to address nonconformities on semi-submersible rig

Norwegian offshore safety regulator has carried out an audit of Odfjell Drilling and its risk manage...

about 1 month ago

Chinese shipyard bags orders for two offshore platforms

China Merchants Jingling Weihai has received orders for two additional self-propelled, self-elevatin...

about 1 month ago

Offshore oil worker medevacked from Transocean rig

U.S. Coast Guard has performed an emergency evacuation of a male worker from an oil rig located 189 ...

about 1 month ago

Semi-submersible rig kicks off its drilling gig with Shell in Namibia

Northern Ocean’s Deepsea Bollsta semi-submersible drilling rig has arrived in Namibia where it start...

about 1 month ago

Wheels in motion to pick rig for drilling in Mediterranean waters

TotalEnergies and Eni have embarked on a rig selection process for exploration activities in a block...

about 1 month ago

Guyana partners wrap up deal to fund upcoming exploration well

Partners in the Corentyne block offshore Guyana have completed the previously announced agreement fo...

about 1 month ago

Transocean drillships rake in $1.04 bln thanks to new gigs

Transocean has won new long-term contracts for two of its ultra-deepwater drillships, adding around ...

about 1 month ago

Overview page containing news articles

List of the highlighted articles