1460 results found for 'seadrill'

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  • Nod for Equinor to use West Hercules rig on North Sea pilot hole

    16 January 2020
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil major Equinor has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for exploration drilling in the North Sea using the West Hercules drilling rig.

  • New multi-million drilling gig keeps jack-up rig busy off Mexico

    2 February 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    SeaMex, a subsidiary of Paratus Energy Services Limited, has won a new drilling assignment for one of its jack-ups offshore Mexico.

  • Top News of the Week July 15 – 20, 2013

    21 July 2013

      Seadrill to Build Four New UDW Drillships (South Korea)   Shell’s Olympus on Its Way to U.S. GoM Mars Field   COSCO Secures USD200 Mln Semi-Submersible Construction Contract   SBM Offshore’s New FPSOs to Work in Lula Field Off Brazil   Norwegian Projects to Increase European Drilling Expenditure to $12.8 Bln in 2016   […]

  • Eidesvik Names New CFO

    2 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    Eidesvik has appointed Tore Byberg as the new chief financial officer. Byberg has comes from the position of CFO of Altibox, a position he has held since 2015. Prior to this, he was in Seadrill companies and held leading positions within finance. Byberg will start in his new position at latest February 01, 2019, Eidesvik noted.

  • Seadrill’s drillship picks up 1,095-day drilling job offshore Brazil

    18 December 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Seadrill has won a multimillion-dollar assignment off the coast of Brazil for one of its drillships, which will work for the South American country’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras.

  • Equinor in Barents Sea well incident

    21 January 2019

    Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor last week reportedly suffered a well incident during exploration drilling in the Barents Sea. 

  • ONGC’s plans to restore production from Mumbai high

    1 September 2006

    State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp’s (ONGC) plans to restore normal production from the fire-hit Mumbai High North oilfield have been hit by start-up problems. The floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, Crystal Sea, hired from SeaDrill of Norway, has not been able to start operations for past three months due to a fault […]

  • Brazil: OSX to Construct Pipe-Laying Vessel for Sapura

    29 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    OSX was hired by Sapura Navegação Marítima S/A for the construction of one PLSV (Pipe-Laying Support Vessel), for a total amount of approximately US$ 263 million, to be built and delivered by OSX at the Açu Shipbuilding Unit, in the north of the State of Rio de Janeiro. A PLSV is used for laying and […]

  • Popular news, May 25 – 31, 2015

    31 May 2015

    As the end of the last week of May approaches, we are bringing the weekly summary of the most popular articles on Offshore Energy Today. The most read story was the one on a man who was sentenced for lying to Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) inspectors in relation to the veracity of blowout preventer […]

  • South Korea: GE Signs Multi-Million Deal for New Drilling Platform

    2 May 2013
    Business & Finance

    GE’s Power Conversion business has signed a multi-million dollar contract with shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) of Ulsan, South Korea. GE will supply electric power, propulsion systems and drilling drives for a new semi-submersible drilling platform HHI is building for Seadrill Ltd., which is expected to work in either the North Sea or offshore Canada. […]

  • Asia Offshore Drilling Takes Delivery of New Jack-Up Rig from Keppel FELS

    18 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Mermaid Maritime Public Company Limited announced yesterday that Asia Offshore Drilling Limited (AOD), an associate company, has taken delivery of its third new‐build jack‐up rig, ʹAOD IIIʹ, from Singapore‐based builder Keppel FELS Ltd. (Keppel FELS). The Company founded AOD in 2010 and currently holds a 33.76% stake in the venture. Seadrill is AOD’s manager and […]

  • Worker suffers injury while working for BP off Canada

    19 September 2018
    Exploration & Production

    An offshore worker has been injured while working on Seadrill’s West Aquarius rig off Canada for BP. 

  • NADL sends rig fleet to Russian waters in $4B deal

    31 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. has announced that 6 binding offshore contracts have been executed with Rosneft Oil Company (“Rosneft”). The total revenue potential for the six contracts exclusive of mobilization is approximately US$4.25 billion. According to the agreement, any break rights expire after 100 days. The executed contracts include 5 year contracts for the West Navigator, […]

  • Sembcorp Marine to sell NADL rig for $500 million

    26 December 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has signed an agreement for the sale of the semi-submersible rig West Rigel to a buyer at a price of $500 million.

  • Keppel FELS Delivers Third New‐Build Jack‐Up Rig to AOD

    18 July 2013

    Mermaid Maritime Public Company Limited announced on July 17th that Asia Offshore Drilling Limited (AOD), an associate company, has taken delivery of its third new‐build jack‐up rig, ʹ AOD III ʹ , from Singapore ‐ based builder Keppel FELS Ltd. (Keppel FELS). The Company founded AOD in 2010 and currently holds a 33.76% stake in […]

  • Brazil: OSX to Build PLSV for Sapura

    29 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    Brazil’s OSX has been hired by Sapura Navegação Marítima S/A for the construction of one PLSV (Pipe-Laying Support Vessel), for a total amount of approximately US$ 263 million, to be built and delivered by OSX at the Açu Shipbuilding Unit, in the north of the State of Rio de Janeiro. A PLSV is used for […]

  • Trøim Follows Fredriksen. Joins SapuraKencana Board (Malaysia)

    20 May 2013

    Tor Olav Trøim, a Norwegian businessman and engineer, often described as the right hand of a Norwegian-born Cypriot oil tanker and shipping tycoon John Fredriksen, has been appointed as Non Independent & Non Executive of Malaysia’s oilfield services provider SapuraKencana. To remind, Fredriksen himself entered the board last week. Trøim, born in 1963, has served as Vice-President and a […]

  • GE to Power Seadrill’s New Semi-Submersible

    2 May 2013

    GE’s Power Conversion business has signed a multi-million dollar contract with shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) of Ulsan, South Korea. GE will supply electric power, propulsion systems and drilling drives for a new semi-submersible drilling platform HHI is building for Seadrill Ltd., which is expected to work in either the North Sea or offshore Canada. […]

  • VIDEO: Installation of ROV Deck on Semi-Submersible Rig

    25 January 2013

    Check out this video in which Harris Pye installs new ROV deck on Seadrill’s semi submersible rig West Aquarius. Harris Pye is a rapidly expanding global organisation specialising in the provision of repairs, upgrades and conversions to the marine, offshore oil and gas and associated onshore industrial sectors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7q8MP4ecY4   [mappress] January 25, 2013

  • Top News of the Week March 4 – 9, 2013

    10 March 2013

    Top News of the Week March 4 – 9, 2013

  • Santos Encounters Gas Pay Offshore Bangladesh

    16 February 2012

    Australia’s Santos yesterday reported a gas discovery offshore Bangladesh, explaining that Sangu-11 has penetrated a new gas reservoir in the Sangu area with approximately 20 metres of good quality gas pay. The well will be completed and tied into the Sangu facilities and will provide incremental gas to Chittagong in the coming months once marketing […]

  • Norway: NADL Raises USD 300 mln Through Private Placement

    28 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    North Atlantic Drilling Ltd, a leading offshore harsh environment drilling company, 77 pct owned by Seadrill, has, via Private Placement, successfully placed 150,000,000 new ordinary shares at US$ 2.00 per share, raising gross proceeds of US$300 million. The private placement was directed towards Norwegian and international investors, and the minimum order in the placement was […]

  • Drilling stops on Wintershall Dea field after serious rig incident

    23 March 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    An investigation has been launched following a serious incident on the West Mira rig, which happened while the rig was working for Wintershall Dea.

  • Statoil to Use West Epsilon for Gudrun Drilling Ops (Norway)

    25 June 2013
    Business & Finance

    Statoil Petroleum as has received consent to use the West Epsilon rig for production drilling. The consent relates to production drilling of well 15/3-A-14 on the Gudrun field. Water depth at the site is 109 metres. The expected start-up for drilling is July 2013. The duration of the activity is estimated at approx. 10 days. […]

  • More Delays on Sevan Louisiana

    8 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    As previously reported on August 19th and August 27th, the Sevan Louisiana continues to encounter operational difficulties due to the BOP and supporting systems. The original issue with the BOP has been rectified, however the BOP tensioner support systems still needs further repair and replacements prior to operation. Spare equipment has been sourced from Seadrill’s […]