1460 results found for 'seadrill'

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  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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: […]

  • 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 […]

  • Bassoe: Mind-numbing boredom consumes the offshore rig market, but it won’t last

    11 February 2019
    Exploration & Production

    It’s gotta stop at some point. And it will. There’s more excitement coming.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 plus […]

  • Oslo Court: No Strong Evidence against Fredriksen CEO

    9 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    The Oslo District Court said in a ruling on Friday that there was no substantial evidence to support the involvement of now suspended Chief Executive Officer of the Fredriksen Group, Jo Lunder, in Vimpelcom corruption case, Reuters reports. However, Lunder is reported to have remained in custody over the weekend, following a prosecutor’s appeal. Lunder was apprehended by Norwegian police […]

  • BP terminates another rig contract

    31 March 2015
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    UK-based offshore drilling contractor Ensco has, from oil company BP, received a notice of early termination for ENSCO DS-4, a drilling rig operating in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The estimated effective date of the contract termination is July 2015 based on the projected completion of the customer’s current well program. Under the terms of […]

  • 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 […]

  • ‘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 […]

  • 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.

  • 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 […]

  • 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.

  • Transocean rig lines up more offshore drilling work in Norwegian waters

    5 June 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Transocean has landed a new contract extension for one of its semi-submersible rigs, which is working off the coast of Norway.

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]