1430 results found for 'seadrill'

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  • Transocean to sell entire jack-up fleet to new offshore driller

    20 March 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Norwegian offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling, formerly known as Magni Drilling, is planning to buy 15 jack-up drilling rigs from Swiss-based Transocean for $1.35 billion.  Borr Drilling announced on Monday the signing of a letter of intent with Transocean for the acquisition of 15 high-specification jack-up rigs. The transaction consists of Transocean’s entire jack-up fleet, including ten rigs […]

  • RWE-Dea to Use West Alpha Rig near Heidrun, Offshore Norway

    26 September 2011
    Business & Finance

    RWE-DEA Norge AS has received consent to carry out exploration drilling in the Norwegian Sea with the West Alpha mobile facility. The consent relates to drilling of exploration well 6507/7-15S which is part of production licence 435 with RWE-DEA Norge AS as the operator (40%). The other licensees are Norwegian Energy Company ASA (20%), Maersk […]

  • Saudi Aramco extends deals for two AOD jack-ups

    29 July 2016
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Asia Offshore Drilling (AOD) has received three-year contract extensions for two jack-up rigs from Saudi Aramco.  AOD is an associate company of Mermaid Maritime and Mermaid has 33.76 percent equity stake in AOD while the other 66.24 percent equity is owned by Seadrill. The extension is for two jack-up drilling rigs,  AOD I and AOD II, […]

  • AOD cuts down jack-up day rates for Saudi Aramco

    28 May 2015
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Mermaid Maritime Public Company’s drilling associate, Asia Offshore Drilling Limited (AOD), has reached an agreement with its customer Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) to reduce the operating day rates for three jack-up rigs.  The rigs in question are AOD I, AOD II, and AOD III and their day rates will be reduced by 10 percent. The operating […]

  • Mermaid Maritime Reports Positive Results (Thailand)

    25 December 2012
    Business & Finance

    Mermaid Maritime Public Company Limited (“Mermaid”) reported net profits of Baht 86.0 million in the financial year that ended on 30 September 2012 (“2012”), the first positive result since 2009. Net profits increased 153.3% compared to net losses of Baht 161.3 million in the financial year that ended on 30 September 2011 (“2011’). As a […]

  • Archer Names New Board Members

    24 September 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Archer has elected Kjell-Erik Østdahl as chairman of the board and James O’Shaughnessy as a new board member in the company to fill a vacancy on the board. Kjell-Erik Østdahl has had a tenure of 21 years at Schlumberger in a number of senior positions within operations, business development, marketing and executive management in China, […]

  • ExxonMobil spuds Canadian well

    21 October 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Oil major ExxonMobil has started drilling operations on a well located offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 

  • ExxonMobil spuds first Liberia well

    23 November 2016
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Oil giant ExxonMobil started drilling operations on the Mesurado-1 exploration well offshore Liberia on Tuesday, November 22, 2016. According to Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited (COPL), an international oil and gas exploration and development company and a partner in the project, Exxon is utilizing Seadrill’s 2014-built drillship West Saturn. The well, targeting oil in Late Cretacous sands, is […]

  • Odfjell Drilling-managed semi-sub rig stays with TotalEnergies in Africa

    9 August 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders, Vessels

    French oil major TotalEnergies has awarded offshore drilling contractor Northern Ocean with another contract extension for one of its semi-submersible rigs for continued work in Africa. TotalEnergies hired the Deepsea Mira rig on a multi-country drilling contract in December 2022 and exercised the first option under the contract at the end of 2023. Now, the firm term of the […]

  • Eidesvik fills vacant CFO position

    2 November 2018
    Business & Finance

    Offshore support and construction ships owner Eidesvik has filled the recently vacated chief financial officer (CFO) role.

  • PSA: All NCS drilling contractors audited

    8 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has carried out an audit in the form of competence mapping in the drilling domain, directed at all drilling contractors.

  • Aker Solutions Bags Equipment Contract for New Semi-Submersible Drilling Rig, Norway

    23 July 2012

    Aker Solutions has signed a contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries to supply a complete drilling equipment topside package to a new semi-submersible drilling rig the South Korean yard is building for Seadrill, the rig operator. The contract includes an option to supply one more drilling equipment package. “We are very pleased to deliver our first […]

  • NYSE to delist Diamond shares after bankruptcy filing

    28 April 2020
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    Following its filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Diamond Offshore Drilling has received a delisting notice from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

  • SapuraKencana: Fourth PLSV starts Petrobras gig in Brazil

    19 February 2016

    SapuraKencana’s fourth pipelaying support vessel (PLSV) Sapura Jade has started working with Petrobras in Brazil. SapuraKencana’s first PLSV, Sapura Diamante, entered the market on June 28, 2014. SapuraKencana’s offshore operations are being executed in Brazil for Petrobras by its Brazilian joint venture company Sapura Navegacao Maritima (SNM), which is a 50:50 venture with offshore drilling company Seadrill. In November […]

  • Ophir Spuds Well Off Ivory Coast

    2 May 2017
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    African Petroleum informed the Ayamé-1X exploration well, offshore Ivory Coast, was spudded on Saturday April 29, 2017 using the Seadrill West Saturn drillship. The well, operated by Ophir Energy, is located on the CI-513 licence. African Petroleum holds a 45% interest in the licence, with Ophir Energy holding 45% and PETROCI the remaining 10%. The Ayamé […]

  • AOD jack-up wins three-year extension in Middle East

    11 March 2019
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Asia Offshore Drilling Limited (AOD) has secured a three-year contract extension for a jack-up drilling rig in the Middle East. 

  • Up to Four Aframaxes for Samsung Heavy

    28 March 2018

    Unisea Shipping placed an order for up to four Aframax tankers at SHI.

  • Deepwater Tornado well pays off for Talos

    4 June 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Talos Energy has completed drilling operations on the Tornado 3 sidetrack well, in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, which successfully discovered pay.

  • $10 million raised to cover ongoing arbitration costs regarding two cancelled drillships

    3 February 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    Northern Drilling has raised $10 million for litigation costs arising from the ongoing arbitration pertaining to cancelled orders for two drillships with the South Korean shipbuilder, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).

  • ‘West Mira’ to become world’s first hybrid offshore rig

    11 December 2018
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Siemens will supply a battery-based energy storage solution to the West Mira which will make it the world’s first hybrid offshore drilling rig.

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    8 June 2014

    Most popular offshore news of the week

  • Saudi Aramco Hires Two AOD’s Jack-up Rigs

    14 March 2013

    Asia Offshore Drilling Limited (“AOD”), has signed drilling contracts whereby AOD’s jack-up drilling rigs ‘AOD II’ and ‘AOD III’ will be providing drilling services to the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (“Saudi Aramco”) for operations in offshore Saudi Arabia. The drilling contracts have been entered into and will be managed by Seadrill Limited on behalf of AOD. Together with ‘AOD […]

  • Ophir spuds exploration well off Ivory Coast

    2 May 2017
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Ophir Energy started drilling the Ayamé-1X exploration well, offshore Ivory Coast, on Saturday, April 29, 2017, using the Seadrill-owned West Saturn drillship. The well, operated by Ophir Energy, is located on the CI-513 license. African Petroleum holds a 45% interest in the license, with Ophir Energy holding 45% and PETROCI the remaining 10%. Ophir took […]

  • West Navigator Drillship to Support Faroe’s Novus Prospect, Norway

    28 September 2012
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, announces that it has contracted the West Navigator drillship to drill the Faroe operated Novus prospect in Norway in the second half of 2013. This licence is located to the […]

  • Ophir ditches Ivory Coast block

    7 March 2018

    UK-based Ophir Energy has decided to exit from Block 513 offshore Cote d’Ivoire.