1430 results found for 'seadrill'

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  • Topaz Energy and Marine in senior management changes

    11 April 2017
    Business & Finance

    Offshore support vessel provider Topaz Energy and Marine has made several new appointments to its senior management team. Topaz said on Tuesday that the company named Martin Helweg as the new chief operating officer (COO), Hicham Hachkal as the HR director, and Robert Desai as the chief commercial officer (CCO). Helweg takes over the role […]

  • Indonesia: Premier Reports Successful Well Testing

    5 March 2012
    Business & Finance

    Premier Oil announces that the Lama formation within the Anoa field on Natuna Sea Block A (Indonesia) has been successfully tested. The WL-5 development well on Natuna Sea Block A was deepened to a total depth of 11,012 feet to investigate the exploration potential of the Lama Formation within the Anoa Field. The well encountered […]

  • Norway: Faroe Contracts West Navigator Drillship for Novus Prospect

    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 […]

  • More woes for Sevan Louisiana rig

    8 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

    Sevan Louisiana offshore drilling rig continues to experience equipment problems. The rig’s owner, Sevan Drilling has informed that 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,” Sevan Drilling […]

  • ‘Sevan Louisiana’ Rig Delivered

    23 October 2013

    Sevan Drilling has today, 23 October 2013, taken delivery of Sevan Louisiana from Cosco Quidong Shipyard in China. Sevan Louisiana is Sevan Drilling’s third deep water drilling rig and will start the transit to the US Gulf of Mexico It is expected that the rig will  start operation for LLOG Bluewater towards the end of Q1 2014, following […]

  • UK: Rolls-Royce Books USD 161 Million Orders from Major Drilling Contractors

    16 June 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, today announced orders worth over £100 million to supply propulsion systems for offshore construction and drilling vessels. The ships will be built at shipyards in Asia for a range of ship owners including Seadrill, Pacific Drilling, Noble, Ocean Rig and Pride. Anders Almestad, Rolls-Royce, President – Offshore said: “These […]

  • PSA Norway Consents Statoil to Use West Epsilon on Gudrun Field

    3 August 2011
    Business & Finance

      Statoil has received consent to use the West Epsilon mobile facility on the Gudrun field for drilling and completion of production wells. Gudrun is located in the central part of the North Sea. The field is part of production licence 025 and the plan is to develop the field with a process facility with […]

  • Damaged CHC helicopter removed from rig off Brazil following crash landing

    19 April 2017
    Exploration & Production

    A CHC helicopter that crash-landed last week on the Petrobras-operated Sevan Brasil drilling rig off Brazil has been removed from the helipad.  Following a “rough landing” by the helicopter owned by CHC’s Brazilian unit, BHS, a video emerged this week showing its landing on the rig’s helideck. The rig is located in the Santos Basin, in […]

  • UK: Rolls-Royce Books USD 161 Million Orders from Major Drilling Contractors

    16 June 2011
    Business & Finance

      Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, today announced orders worth over £100 million to supply propulsion systems for offshore construction and drilling vessels. The ships will be built at shipyards in Asia for a range of ship owners including Seadrill, Pacific Drilling, Noble, Ocean Rig and Pride. Anders Almestad, Rolls-Royce, President – Offshore said: […]

  • Total Receives Consent for Drilling in Barents Sea, Norway

    23 March 2011
    Business & Finance

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Total E&P Norge AS a drilling permit for well 7225/3-1, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations. Well 7225/3-1 will be drilled from the West Phoenix drilling facility at position 72o 54´ 58.35″ north and 25o 52´ 02.70″ east. The drilling programme for well 7225/3-1 concerns the drilling […]

  • MODU Market to Reach USD 54.8 Bln Value in 2013

    26 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Within the global oil and gas industry the mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) market is taking on an increasingly important role, say Visiongain in its report. Offshore hydrocarbon reserves will be one of the most important sources for the global oil and gas sector over the next decade and MODUs are an indispensable element of […]

  • ‘Sapura Topazio’ pipelayer named in The Netherlands

    20 February 2014

    Dutch IHC Merwede has named and launched the pipelaying vessel SAPURA TOPÁZIO in a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands.   The naming of the fully integrated IHC Merwede vessel was carried out by Puan Sri Datin Seri Yazreen Yahya, spouse of Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Shahril Shamsuddin, President and […]

  • IHC Merwede Launches Pipelaying Vessel SAPURA TOPÁZIO

    20 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the pipelaying vessel SAPURA TOPÁZIO in a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The naming of the fully integrated IHC Merwede vessel was carried out by Puan Sri Datin Seri Yazreen Yahya, spouse of Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Shahril Shamsuddin, President and […]

  • Siccar Point Energy hires West Hercules rig for UK work

    19 June 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Offshore driller North Atlantic Drilling Ltd (NADL) has been awarded a one-well contract with Siccar Point Energy E&P (SPE) for Seadrill’s semi-submersible drilling rig West Hercules. NADL is a harsh environment drilling contractor and Seadrill’s subsidiary who took over management of the rig in 2012. The driller informed on Monday that the contract with the […]

  • IHC Merwede Launches SAPURA TOPÁZIO

    20 February 2014

    IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the pipelaying vessel SAPURA TOPÁZIO in a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The 550t pipelaying vessel – ordered by Sapura Navegação Marítima, a joint venture between SapuraKencana and Seadrill – is the second in a series of five fully integrated offshore […]

  • IHC Merwede Launches Pipelaying Vessel SAPURA TOPÁZIO

    20 February 2014
    Business & Finance

    IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the pipelaying vessel SAPURA TOPÁZIO in a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The naming of the fully integrated IHC Merwede vessel was carried out by Puan Sri Datin Seri Yazreen Yahya, spouse of Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Shahril Shamsuddin, President and […]

  • West Mira first ever rig to receive DNV GL Battery notation

    8 November 2019
    Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Northern Drilling’s West Mira has become the first rig in operation to be awarded the DNV GL Battery Power class notation.

  • Top News of the Week August 5 – 10, 2013

    11 August 2013

    DOF Subsea USA Takes Delivery of ‘Harvey Deep-Sea’ DOF Subsea USA has taken delivery of the new build DPII Multipurpose Construction Vessel – Harvey Deep-Sea under a 4-year long term charter agreement with Harvey Gulf International Marine. CNPC, CSSC Ink Strategic Cooperation Agreement CNPC and China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) yesterday signed a strategic cooperation […]

  • Singapore: Jurong Shipyard Orders Drilling Equipment from TTS for New Jack-Up Rig

    20 June 2011
    Business & Finance

      Through its subsidiary TTS Energy AS, TTS Group ASA has signed a Letter of Intent with Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd in Singapore, for delivery of a high performance drilling equipment package for a new CJ70 Jack-up to be built for North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. The contract has a value of approximately NOK 350 million […]

  • More work with TotalEnergies in Africa for semi-submersible rig

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

    Northern Ocean has landed a contract extension for one of its semi-submersible rigs for activities in West Africa with TotalEnergies.

  • Safety nod for Equinor to use West Hercules rig in North Sea

    9 December 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority for exploration drilling in block 30/6 in the North Sea, using the West Hercules rig. 

  • Equinor gains consent to use West Hercules rig on Gladsheim

    18 July 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Equinor has received consent for exploration drilling in block 32/4 in the North Sea offshore Norway, using the West Hercules rig. 

  • South Korea: Aker Solutions Secures Drilling Equipment Order from HHI

    23 July 2012
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    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 […]

  • Sapura Rubi Starts Petrobras Job

    18 August 2016
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance

    SapuraKencana has delivered its sixth and final pipelaying vessel, Sapura Rubi on schedule to Petrobras, and the vessel started work in Brazil on August 14, 2016. SapuraKencana’s offshore operations in Brazil for Petrobras are being executed there by its Brazilian joint venture company Sapura Navegacao Maritima (SNM), a 50:50 venture with offshore drilling company Seadrill. In November […]

  • Sapura Rubi pipelay vessel starts working for Petrobras

    18 August 2016

    Malaysia’s SapuraKencana has informed that its sixth and final pipelay vessel Sapura Rubi has been delivered and started work with Petrobras in Brazil on August 14. SapuraKencana’s offshore operations in Brazil for Petrobras are being executed there by its Brazilian joint venture company Sapura Navegacao Maritima (“SNM”), a 50:50 venture with offshore drilling company Seadrill […]