1444 results found for 'seadrill'

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  • BG Gets the Go-Ahead For Drilling with West Alpha Rig in Norwegian North Sea

    21 February 2011
    Business & Finance

    BG Norge AS has received consent to use the mobile facility West Alpha for drilling of wells 15/12-E1H and 6/3-A1H in the southern part of the North Sea. The wells (the Gaupe field) belong to production licence 292 and are located approx. 240 kilometres southwest of Stavanger, near the UK shelf border. The water depth […]

  • KrisEnergy finds no pay at Mancharee-1 (Thailand)

    25 August 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    KrisEnergy Ltd., an independent upstream oil and gas company, has announced that drilling operations have concluded at the Mancharee-1 exploration commitment well in G10/48 in the Gulf of Thailand, where the Company is developing the Wassana oil field. Mancharee-1, which started drilling on 8 August 2014, reached a total depth at 12,205 feet (3,720 metres) […]

  • Iran to Develop Arash Gas Field on Its Own?

    2 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Iran decided to develop the Arash gas field on its own if Kuwait doesn’t answer to an offer to develop the field together. Iran said it would launch full-scale development of the offshore Arash gas field in the Persian Gulf if Kuwait does not respond to its offer of joint development, Fars News Agency reported. […]

  • Archer chairman resigns

    9 November 2017
    Business & Finance

    The chairman of offshore services provider Archer Limited, Ørjan Svanevik, has resigned from the company’s board of directors.

  • Noreco Gets Go-Ahead to Drill with West Alpha Rig Off Norway

    8 September 2010

    Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) has received consent to conduct exploration drilling in the North Sea with the mobile installation West Alpha. The well is part of production licence 545 and is located approx. 110 kilometres southwest of Haugesund. Well 17/6-1 has the following geographical coordinates: North 58º 44′ 15.461″, East 3º 55′ 34.931″. Water […]

  • Tug Fairmount Sherpa Tows UDW for 11,500 Miles

    15 April 2014
    Business & Finance

    Tug Fairmount Sherpa has towed rig Sevan Louisiana safely from Singapore to Curaçao. During the 11,500 miles voyage via Cape of Good Hope, stops were made in Port Louis (Mauritius), Walvis Bay (Namibia) and Port of Spain (Trinidad) to take bunkers and for crew changes. The Sevan Louisiana is a so called Ultra Deep Water […]

  • New regional director named for Mermaid Subsea

    6 September 2016
    Business & Finance

    Mermaid Maritime has named Graham McKnockiter as the Subsea Group’s Regional Director, Western Hemisphere. The company said on Monday that McKnockiter has extensive work experience in the offshore oil and gas industry. According to Mermaid, his appointment will contribute to the company’s strategy of streamlining and enhancing its subsea services business unit in the Middle East […]

  • Northern Drilling cancels drillship order from DSME

    19 August 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Infrastructure, Vessels

    Billionaire John Fredriksen-owned offshore drilling firm Northern Drilling has cancelled a drillship resale contract with the South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).

  • Private equity aids Shelf Drilling in jack-up trio buy

    12 July 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Private equity investment firm Castle Harlan and its partners, Champ Private Equity and Lime Rock Partners, have supported Shelf Drilling in a recent acquisition of three premium jack-up rigs, and the investors are eager to support further fleet expansion if the price is right. The acquisition of the rigs in the Middle East has been […]

  • Speedcast to provide communications solution for West Bollsta rig

    9 August 2019
    Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Remote communication and IT solutions provider Speedcast has been awarded a new multi-year contract on the West Bollsta semi-submersible rig.

  • No more rigs in Northern Drilling’s fleet after second drillship gets cancelled

    18 October 2021
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Market Outlooks, Project & Tenders, Rules & Regulation, Vessels

    John Frederiksen’s Northern Drilling has now cancelled resale contracts for both of its newbuild drillships with South Korea’s DSME.

  • Hibiscus abandons Sea Lion dry hole (Australia)

    16 November 2015
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Hibiscus Petroleum last week said that the drilling operation at the Sea Lion-1 well, offshore Victoria, Australia was unsuccessful, and no commercial volumes of oil and gas were found. In an update on Monday, November 16, 3D Oil Limited, a partner in the VIC/P57 area where the well is located, said that the Sea Lion […]

  • BPC creates fund to enable local investment for Bahamians

    6 January 2020
    Business & Finance

    Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) has incorporated a Bahamas-based mutual investment fund with the aim of owning BPC shares.

  • Accelerate Oil & Gas: 17 Anchor Companies Participate in Networking Sessions

    2 April 2013
    Business & Finance, Research & Development

    Accelerate Oil & Gas team confirmed the participation of 17 anchor companies to take part in the round-table networking sessions which is being organised in conjunction with ABEMI / SEBRAE-Petrobras. The session aims to facilitate face to face meetings with anchor companies developing projects in the oil & gas sector which are looking for products […]

  • Probe underway after worker suffers ‘serious injury’ on jack-up rig

    14 November 2022
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Human Capital, Outlook & Strategy, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Norway’s safety regulator is investigating an incident involving “serious personal injury” on a jack-up rig, working in the North Sea.

  • New gas discovery deemed as ‘major development’ for Southeast Asia

    19 December 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Abu Dhabi-headquartered energy company Mubadala Energy has made a significant gas discovery offshore North Sumatra, Indonesia.

  • Consent for ConocoPhillips to use West Linus rig on Tor

    29 November 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Oil major ConocoPhillips has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for production drilling on the Tor field using the West Linus drilling rig.

  • Popular news, November 24 – 30, 2014

    30 November 2014

    The article on the massive ‘Peter Schelte’ multi-purpose heavy-lift, transportation and pipeline installation vessel leaving South Korea was the most read story of the last week of November. Scroll down for more popular stories from this past week.

  • Rosneft to buy share in North Atlantic Drilling

    26 May 2014
    Business & Finance

    Rosneft, North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. and Seadrill Limited signed an Investment and Cooperation Agreement at the 18th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum to form a long-term partnership with a view to capture the opportunities in developing Rosneft’s offshore and onshore projects until at least 2022. The signing ceremony was led by Vladimir Putin, the President […]

  • Popular offshore industry news in 3Q 2018

    2 January 2019

    The most popular news at Offshore Energy Today during the third quarter of 2018.

  • Kosmos Energy wins Ghana legal battle with Tullow Oil

    18 July 2018

    US-based Kosmos Energy, one of the developers of the West African FLNG project, said Wednesday it won a legal dispute with UK’s Tullow Oil concerning the termination of a contract in Ghana. Kosmos unit Kosmos Energy Ghana HC was successful in its arbitration against Tullow Ghana Limited in a dispute over responsibility for expenditures stemming from termination of […]

  • WATCH: IHC Launches PLSV Sapura Rubi

    21 August 2015
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Royal IHC has named and launched the pipelaying support vessel Sapura Rubi in a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The Sapura Rubi was ordered by Sapura Navegação Marítima, a joint venture between SapuraKencana and Seadrill. It is the fifth in a series of five fully integrated pipelaying vessels that […]

  • Brazil: Ecopetrol and Anadarko Confirm the Presence of Oil in Offshore Block bm-c-29

    30 September 2010

    In accordance with standards set by the Brazil National Petroleum Agency (ANP), regulator of the Brazil oil sector, Anadarko, the operator of Block BM-C-29, reported that it has confirmed the presence of hydrocarbons in the Itauna well in which Ecopetrol is a 50% partner through its affiliate in Brazil. The well was drilled by Seadrill’s […]

  • Keppel FELS Completes Two Jack Up Rigs for Transocean

    4 February 2013
    Business & Finance

    Over two consecutive days on 2 and 3 February 2013, Keppel FELS held naming ceremonies for twin jackup rigs built for Transocean, and another jackup rig built for Asia Offshore Drilling (AOD), which is majority owned and managed by Seadrill Limited. For the early completion of two of these rigs, Keppel FELS will receive a […]

  • Singapore: Keppel FELS Names New Rigs Ahead of Schedule

    4 February 2013

    Over two consecutive days on 2 and 3 February 2013, Keppel FELS held naming ceremonies for twin jackup rigs built for Transocean, and another jackup rig built for Asia Offshore Drilling (AOD), which is majority owned and managed by Seadrill Limited. For the early completion of two of these rigs, Keppel FELS will receive a […]