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Shelf Drilling
Shelf Drilling has seen a couple of its rig contracts suspended and one terminated early while anoth...

BPC granted force majeure extension for Bahamas licence
Bahamas Petroleum Company has been granted an interim force majeure extension to the second explorat...

Wintershall Dea wraps up drilling phase at Dvalin
Drilling has been completed on the Wintershall Dea’s Dvalin field in the Norwegian Sea, propel...

Awilco eyes options to finance rig order at Keppel
Offshore drilling contractor Awilco Drilling is looking into ways to finance its remaining commitmen...

Stena drillship arrives on Exxon's well location in Guyana
Stena Carron, a Stena Drilling-owned drillship, has arrived on location at the Kaieteur Block, offsh...

Wellesley ready to drill Norwegian Sea wildcat
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wellesley Petroleum a drilling permit for a wildcat ...

TechnipFMC deploys two new Gemini ROVs for Shell
TechnipFMC ROV Services has recently deployed two new Gemini ROV systems for Shell, operating on con...

Pacific Drilling gets 10-well job in Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Drilling has been awarded a contract by Murphy Oil for ten firm wells for its drillship Paci...

U.S. offshore rig count flat for five weeks on the trot
The U.S. offshore rig count stayed flat again, as the number of active rigs is steady at 12 for the ...

ExxonMobil hires Noble Corp. drillship for Guyana drilling
Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has won a six-month deal for the Noble Sam Croft dril...

Offshore rigs may be stepping stones for non-native species
Scientists from around the UK, led by the Heriot-Watt’s International Centre for Island Technology, ...

Spirit Energy bites dust near Ivar Aasen field
Oil and gas company Spirit Energy has hit a duster near the Ivar Aasen field in the central part of ...

SRO Solutions replaces software systems on six Stena rigs
UK-based tech firm SRO Solutions has replaced asset management software systems on six Stena Drillin...

ST Engineering completes Diamond Offshore drillship upgrade
ST Engineering Halter Marine and Offshore, a company of ST Engineering North America, has installed ...

Neptune's Dugong largest oil discovery in Norway this year
Oil and gas exploration firm Neptune Energy has stated that it made the largest oil discovery in Nor...

First accommodation vessel to resume work for Petrobras
Semi-submersible accommodation vessel OOS Tiradentes has become the first offshore rig to resume ope...

Borr Drilling wins deals for three warm-stacked rigs
Offshore drilling rig owner Borr Drilling has won deals for three of its warm-stacked jack-up drilli...

ConocoPhillips gets drilling permit for Norwegian Sea well
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted ConocoPhillips a drilling permit for a well lo...

U.S. offshore rig count at 12 for four weeks straight
The U.S. offshore rig count has remained flat for another week, making this the fourth week straight...

Equinor to use Maersk rig on Martin Linge
Norwegian oil major Equinor has received safety consent from the country’s offshore safety wat...

Equinor comes up dry in Barents Sea well
Equinor has drilled a dry well near the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. ...

Apache in fresh oil discovery off Suriname
Apache has made what it says is a major oil discovery at the Kwaskwasi-1 well drilled offshore Surin...

Tullow delays Suriname well with rig hunt under way
Tullow Oil has postponed the drilling of its exploration well on a block located offshore Suriname. ...

Equinor gains drilling permit for Norwegian Sea wildcats
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor a drilling permit for wells located in the N...

Maersk invests in new tech to enable carbon-neutral drilling
Maersk Drilling has entered an agreement to invest $1 million in Clean Energy Systems to help develo...
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