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Equinor to use Maersk rig on Martin Linge

Norwegian oil major Equinor has received safety consent from the country’s offshore safety wat...

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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. ...

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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...

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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. ...

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Equinor gains drilling permit for Norwegian Sea wildcats

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

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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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OMV delineates Hades discovery in Norwegian Sea

OMV is the process of concluding the drilling of an appraisal well on the Hades gas/condensate disco...

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U.S. offshore rig count stays flat for another week

The U.S. offshore rig count has not changed for the third week in a row now, according to a Friday r...

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Aker BP cleared for production drilling on two fields

Aker BP has received safety consents from the Norwegian offshore safety watchdog to use two rigs for...

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U.S. weekly offshore rig count flat for two weeks straight

The U.S. weekly offshore rig count remained unchanged at 12 units for the second week in a row, acco...

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Maersk Drilling secures more rig work with Aker BP

Maersk Drilling has secured an additional one-well contract from Aker BP for the low-emission jack-u...

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BP to drill Ironbark well in October

BP’s environment plan for the Ironbark-1 exploration well has been approved by the Australian ...

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Vår Energi resumes offshore drilling activities

Vår Energi is resuming its drilling activities in the Barents Sea and the North Sea, which were post...

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Transocean gets contract termination in UK

Transocean has received a contract termination for its semi-submersible Paul B. Loyd Jr. in the UK. ...

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Rystad: Number of oil and gas wells set to hit 20-year low

The COVID-19 pandemic has stymied oil and gas activity, a phenomenon which has now affected the dril...

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Kazakhstan player gets approval to buy Caspian Explorer

Caspian Sunrise has received regulatory and shareholder approvals for the acquisition of the Caspian...

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Mubadala boosts Manora output capacity

Mubadala Petroleum has increased the production capacity on the Manora oil field in the Gulf of Thai...

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Equinor hits minor oil discovery near Vigdis

Equinor has made a minor oil discovery near the Vigdis field in the North Sea offshore Norway. ...

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ExxonMobil preparing for P&A campaign in Australia

ExxonMobil’s environment plan for the plug and abandonment of Seahorse/Tarwhine wells offshore...

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U.S. offshore rig count steady at 12 units

The U.S. weekly offshore rig count remained unchanged at 12 units, according to a Friday report by B...

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Mixed results for Noble rigs

Noble Corporation has received several new contract extensions for its drilling rigs and cancellatio...

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Neptune Energy gears up for Dugong sidetrack

Neptune Energy has decided to drill a sidetrack well to further evaluate the size of its Dugong disc...

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Watch Odfjell Drilling rig mobilize to South Africa

The Odfjell Drilling-owned drilling rig Deepsea Stavanger has recently been mobilized from Norway to...

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Aker BP cleared to use Maersk rig on Hod

Aker BP has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to use the Maersk Invincible rig fo...

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Watch complex operation of installing Dvalin Xmas trees

Wintershall Dea last December installed three Xmas trees on its Dvalin gas development, which has no...

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