Popular offshore industry news in 3Q 2018

These were the most read news on Offshore Energy Today during the third quarter of 2018.

Most read articles in July

• ADNOC awards contracts for ‘world’s largest 3D seismic survey’
• Transocean lands 11-well contract with Chevron
• Transocean scores 13-well deal for 1983-built offshore drilling rig
• Transocean retires four floaters, lands new semi-sub deals
• Keppel wins $51 million in FPSO, FSRU contracts
• Shell hires Seadrill drillship for five wells in Malaysia
• Shelf buys jack-up rig from Diamond Offshore for $90 million
• Ocean Rig says rig demand picking up. Announces new deals
• Chevron puts all UK Central North Sea assets up for sale
• New deals pour in for Ensco rigs
• SBM Offshore scores another FPSO job with Exxon in Guyana

Most read articles in August

• Visit first ever offshore platform on Google Streetview
• Pacific Drilling could soon have five rigs drilling simultaneously
• Shearwater to buy Schlumberger’s seismic business
• SBM Offshore: Liza 2 would be our largest capacity FPSO ever
• Saipem bags $700M in offshore contracts in Guyana and Congo
• Noble retires three rigs as net loss deepens
• Ocean Rig in talks to reactivate warm-stacked rigs as inquiries hit 2012 high
• World’s largest jack-up operator says demand growing
• Subsea 7 lands ‘substantial’ offshore contract
• ARO wins 18 years worth of offshore drilling contracts with Saudi Aramco

Most read articles in September

• Transocean moves to buy Ocean Rig for $2.7 billion
• Seadrill bags drilling deal with Exxon in Canada
• Noble buys new jack-up rig, wins first contract
• Chevron approached for Rosebank project share
• Shell idles Noble drillship
• Shell changing North Sea rotas to 2/3 pattern
• Eni cuts first steel for Coral South FLNG
• Ocean Rig’s drillship set to drill Tullow’s well offshore Namibia
• Transocean bags 300-day deal for newbuild rig with Equinor
• Total makes large gas discovery offshore UK

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