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  • Transocean, Noble, COSL, Seadrill, and Valaris pinpointed as rig backlog powerhouses

    20 March 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy

    While taking a deep dive into the floater rig market and top floating rig managers based on the current total backlog for 2026, Westwood Global Energy, an energy market research and consultancy firm, has spotlighted five offshore drilling players – Transocean, Noble, COSL, Seadrill, and Valaris – as the ones that share the largest slices of this year’s backlog cake.

  • Dolphin Drilling lines up new gig to keep its rig busy until August 2030

    7 April 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Dolphin Drilling, an Oslo-listed, Aberdeen-headquartered owner and operator of a fleet of harsh environment mid-water and deepwater semi-submersible drilling rigs, has secured a potential long-term assignment for one of its semi-submersible rigs.

  • Dolphin Drilling’s 1977-built rig gets hold of new multi-year gig

    14 April 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Dolphin Drilling, an Oslo-listed, Aberdeen-headquartered owner and operator of a fleet of harsh environment mid-water and deepwater semi-submersible drilling rigs, has won a potential long-term job with an undisclosed oil and gas player for one of its semi-submersible rigs.

  • Uncertainty hovers over South African drilling ops, as oil push hinges on appeals outcome

    14 May 2026
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    While a specialist panel is being set up to review appeals, clouds still obscure the exact timing of hydrocarbon exploration activities, which are poised to begin once an environmental go-ahead is in hand, enabling the first well to be spud at an offshore block in South Africa’s Orange Basin.

  • Noble scores over half a billion dollars in drilling gigs for rig sextet

    29 April 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    U.S.-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has obtained new drilling assignments and extensions across multiple geographies for six floaters in its rig fleet, including jobs in Brazil, Australia, Guyana, the U.S. Gulf, Ghana, and Malaysia.

  • Allseas’ newbuild heavy transport vessel to sport Wärtsilä’s ‘future-proof’ engines

    22 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Transition, Vessels

    Wärtsilä has been hired to equip a new purpose-built semi-submersible heavy transport vessel (HTV), which will expand the fleet of Switzerland-based offshore contractor Allseas Group upon completion, with engines, featuring readiness to use alternative sustainable fuels and a modular design, said to enable a significant reduction in maintenance requirements and costs.

  • ExxonMobil pays $2.32 billion for Guyana-based FPSO, SBM Offshore remains in charge of ops

    5 February 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Netherlands-based SBM Offshore, a provider of the design, construction, installation, and operation of offshore floating facilities, and ExxonMobil Guyana, a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered energy giant ExxonMobil, have wrapped up the change of ownership process for a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit, which is deployed off the coast of Guyana.

  • Shell and TPAO welcome OMV Petrom as partner in Black Sea exploration project

    11 March 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Southeastern Europe’s integrated energy player OMV Petrom, an affiliate of Austria’s OMV, has joined the UK-headquartered energy giant Shell and Türkiye‘s national oil and gas giant, Türkiye Petrolleri A.O. (TPAO), at an offshore block in the Bulgarian sector of the Black Sea.

  • BP entrusts subsea decom and recycling job at UK field to DeepOcean

    18 June 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian ocean services provider DeepOcean has been hired by the UK-headquartered energy giant BP to lend a hand in the decommissioning and recycling of subsea equipment from a site where a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) worked at the operator’s field located West of Shetland, on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).

  • Rig search ongoing to get Southeast Asian gas drilling project back on track

    10 February 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    UK-based and AIM-listed Sunda Energy, formerly Baron Oil, is setting the stage to undertake its planned drilling campaign on a gas field off the coast of Timor-Leste, Southeast Asia.

  • Another ‘major’ North Sea decom job comes AF Offshore’s way

    13 February 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    AF Offshore Decom (AFOD), a subsidiary of AF Gruppen, has been hired on a new decommissioning project on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) by Ithaca Energy, a North Sea oil and gas operator and producer.

  • Ireland hit with multimillion-dollar arbitration claim over oil & gas project

    12 May 2026
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation

    Oil and gas company Lansdowne has embarked on an arbitration battle to pursue its Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) claim against Ireland over the country’s refusal to issue a lease undertaking for an oil and gas field in the North Celtic Sea, which is operated by Barryroe Offshore Energy’s subsidiary, Exola DAC.

  • Fourth piece of Cheniere’s multibillion-dollar LNG puzzle crossing the finish line in Texas

    26 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    U.S. energy player Cheniere Energy has tucked a new milestone under its belt at its liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility, with the substantial completion of the fourth train, which is part of its expansion project on the La Quinta Ship Channel, along the north shore of Corpus Christi Bay in Texas, United States.

  • Baker Hughes breathing life into offshore LNG export terminal in Texas

    24 March 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    U.S.-headquartered energy technology giant Baker Hughes has landed a new assignment in the Lone Star State, which will enable it to work on bringing to life a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal off the coast of Matagorda, Texas.

  • Borr Drilling’s CEO: Middle East conflict brings uncertainty but empowers long-term rig outlook

    21 May 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Market Outlooks, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders

    Borr Drilling, an offshore drilling player with its corporate base in Bermuda, has secured 13 contracts year-to-date, enhancing its backlog by adding 2,250 days and $274 million in jack-up rig deals.

  • Excelerate Energy’s FSRU finds job at Jordan’s LNG terminal ahead of Iraq gig

    7 May 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    Excelerate Energy, a U.S.-based liquefied natural gas (LNG) and power infrastructure company headquartered in Texas, has secured a new assignment for its newbuild floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) at an LNG terminal in Jordan.

  • Investigation ongoing: Three dead and one injured in Southeast Asian FSO incident

    26 May 2026
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Human Capital, Regulation & Policy, Safety

    Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas heavyweight Petronas has shed light on a tragic offshore incident connected with a floating storage and offloading (FSO) unit working at a field off the coast of East Coast Peninsular Malaysia, Southeast Asia.

  • North Sea oil platform automation enhancement on ABB’s UK worksheet

    12 June 2026
    Automation, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, IT & Software, Project & Tenders, Technology

    Switzerland-based electrification and automation technology provider ABB has been hired to upgrade the automation and control systems on an offshore platform, which operates approximately 100 kilometers northeast of Aberdeen at one of the UK’s largest North Sea oil fields.

  • Oil & gas operator keeping Saipem’s 2012-built rig busy into 2028

    19 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Italy’s engineering, drilling, and construction services giant Saipem has landed a third contract extension for its 13-year-old semi-submersible drilling rig with Aker BP, a Norwegian oil and gas player, for operations off the coast of Norway.

  • Archer staying on North Sea platform drilling and maintenance duty for three more years

    19 December 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Operations & Maintenance

    Norway’s oil and gas player Aker BP has prolonged an assignment Oslo Stock Exchange-listed oil services company Archer is carrying out in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.

  • License extension out of the way, as Stamper advances multi-basin mission offshore Namibia

    13 May 2026
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy

    Canada-headquartered Stamper Oil & Gas Corp., a Namibia-focused oil and gas exploration company, has confirmed an extension of a Namibian offshore petroleum exploration license (PEL), as energy majors continue to move in across multiple basins in the African country to pursue hydrocarbon exploration activities.

  • Canada’s first large-scale LNG export project firing on all cylinders as it ignites second train

    7 November 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    LNG Canada, a joint venture company encompassing Shell, Petronas, PetroChina, KOGAS, and Mitsubishi, has put into operation mode the second train at its liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal in Kitimat, Canada’s British Columbia.

  • FPSO FEED award to BW Offshore turning the key on Canada’s $12-billion oil project

    29 April 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    With a front-end engineering and design (FEED) deal to Oslo-headquartered BW Offshore for a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) unit, Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor is continuing to lay the groundwork for the development of its oil project off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

  • Multi-year LNG offtake with Japanese player in Woodside’s bag

    15 January 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Woodside Energy Trading Singapore, a subsidiary of Australia’s energy giant Woodside, has sealed a sale and purchase agreement (SPA) with Japan’s JERA for a long-term supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) during Japan’s peak winter period.

  • Four Borr Drilling rigs’ ops in Middle East on ‘standby’

    9 March 2026
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Safety

    Given the current situation in the Middle East, Borr Drilling, an offshore drilling player with its corporate base in Bermuda, has shed light on the operational status of its rig fleet deployed in the region, highlighting that these jack-ups will be ready to resume activities once circumstances improve to ensure the safety of its employees and assets.