Popular offshore industry news in 1Q 2019

The most popular news at Offshore Energy Today during the first quarter of 2019.

Most read articles in January

• Offshore worker dies on Total’s Culzean field off UK
• New contracts and extension for Borr Drilling rigs
• Saipem clinches $1.3B offshore work with Saudi Aramco
• Troubled offshore driller to see no more money coming in from biggest shareholder
• Transocean bags $830M drilling contract with Chevron for newbuild drillship
• World’s largest semi-sub rig arrives in Scotland ahead of North Sea gig
• ExxonMobil drops one PGS vessel from Guyana survey after incident with Venezuelan navy
• Noble denies buying another newbuild jack-up rig in Indonesia
• ExxonMobil in near-miss incident offshore Canada
• Equinor in Barents Sea well incident
  

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Most read articles in February

• New drilling contracts pour in for Ensco rigs
• Transocean lines up new offshore rig deals
• Leviathan jacket in touch-down offshore Israel
• Transocean to upgrade five offshore rigs with automated drilling control
• Total makes significant discovery offshore South Africa
• Seadrill, Sonangol create JV company Sonadrill in Angola
• Transocean to scrap Eirik Raude semi-sub rig, as reactivation costs too high
• Shell charters two Diamond Offshore semi-submersible drilling rigs
• Woodmac: Five offshore wells to watch in 2019
• Rystad: 33 FPSO vessels to be sanctioned from 2019 to 2021
• ExxonMobil strikes two more oil finds offshore Guyana
• Gunmen kill Anadarko contractor in Mozambique

Most read articles in March

• One worker dead after crane incident on Eni’s offshore platform
• Bristow helicopter crashes in Gulf of Mexico
• One killed, five kidnapped in pirate attack on offshore support vessel in Nigeria
• Pacific Drilling secures work for its drillships
• BP hires TechnipFMC to build FPSO for Tortue Ahmeyim project
• Odfjell Drilling to hire over 200 workers as two new semi-sub rigs join fleet
• Eni hits ‘major oil discovery’ offshore Angola
• Awilco orders new offshore rig from Keppel. Names new CEO
• Murphy sells Malaysian business to PTTEP for $2.1B
• World’s largest semi-submersible rig leaves Scotland port for North Sea job
• VIDEO: ‘Pioneering Spirit’ performs heaviest lift ever offshore on Johan Sverdrup

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