1430 results found for 'seadrill'

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  • CPOC, Hess Extend T-6 Contract (Malaysia)

    17 October 2012
    Business & Finance

    Malaysia’s SapuraKencana today announced that it has, through its subsidiary, Tioman Drilling Company, secured a contract extension for the deployment to and utilisation for the self-erecting tender rig, the T-6. Carigali-PTTEPI (CPOC) and Carigali Hess have decided to extend the T-6 Contract for a further duration of three months commencing from 21 April 2013 until 20 […]

  • Popular news, Mar 30 – Apr 5, 2015

    4 April 2015
    Exploration & Production

    A story about a fire outbreak on an offshore oil platform in Mexico was by far the most read article this past week on Offshore Energy Today.

  • BP restarts drilling offshore Canada after June leak

    24 July 2018
    Exploration & Production

    BP has resumed drilling operations offshore Nova Scotia, Canada, after it had stopped it following an offshore leak in June.

  • Update: Fredriksen CEO Put on Leave Following Arrest in Norway

    6 November 2015
    Business & Finance

    Chief Executive Officer of the Fredriksen Group, Jo Lunder, who was apprehended by Norwegian police in Oslo on Wednesday, has been put on leave by the Group until further notice, according to Norwegian news agency NTB. Lunder is suspected of being involved in an alleged bribery case in Uzbekistan while working as head of VimpelCom, a Russian mobile operator. As […]

  • Statoil gets green light to plug Huldra wells with ‘West Epsilon’

    14 March 2016
    Exploration & Production

    The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has authorized the oil and gas company Statoil to use North Atlantic Drilling’s (NADL) jack-up rig West Epsilon to permanently plug wells at Huldra 30/2-A, in the North Sea. The field is located north of Oseberg in production licence 051, offshore Norway. According to the PSA, Statoil will be […]

  • Popular news, February 23 – March 1, 2015

    1 March 2015
    Exploration & Production

    What sparked your interest the most in the previous week was an article containing an infographic that details how oil prices affect everything. A research was carried out to investigate how the price of oil has had a huge effect on the global economy and how it impacts our lives in general. You will find that the […]

  • Lundin Begins Exploration Campaign Offshore Malaysia

    10 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Lundin Petroleum, a Sweden based oil and gas exploration and production company has kicked off its 2012 Malaysian drilling campaign with the spud of the Tiga Papan 5 well in the SB307 & SB308 Block offshore Sabah, East Malaysia. The well will target mid-Miocene aged sands of the Tiga Papan Unit previously tested in 1982 […]

  • Norway: PSA Inspects West Elara for Emergency Preparedness

    11 January 2012
    Business & Finance

    Norwegian governmental supervisory body, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) conducted an audit of how emergency preparedness aspects are reviewed on board the West Elara jack-up rig. The objective of the audit activity was to verify the organisation and management system on the facility as regards the preparedness discipline, as well as in relation to […]

  • Oceanteam Shipping Gets New Captain

    25 July 2016
    Business & Finance

    Oceanteam Shipping has appointed Holger Reurslag, an experienced offshore energy player with a 25-year career in the offshore construction, drilling and production sector, to the role of the Company Captain. As the Company Captain, Reurslag will be responsible for a wide range of managerial tasks, including the management of the vessel’s crew and the execution of quality, health, safety […]

  • Qatar Petroleum takes eight jack-up rigs for North Field Expansion project

    2 May 2019
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Qatar Petroleum has awarded contracts for a total of eight offshore jack-up drilling rigs required for the North Field Expansion Project offshore Qatar. 

  • Seven drilling contractors unite for well control equipment failure tool

    14 January 2016
    Equipment, Exploration & Production

    Seven drilling contractors, including major players like Transocean and Seadrill, have joined forces to create a reporting tool for capturing well control equipment failures. According to one of these offshore drillers, Maersk Drilling, the tool captures all failures in a third party system and gives the equipment owners more leverage to instigate equipment improvements with […]

  • ExxonMobil hires rig for work in Canada

    18 November 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    ExxonMobil has awarded a deal for operations in Canada to a rig owned by SFL Corporation and managed by Odfjell Drilling. 

  • SapuraKencana PLSV starts Petrobras job

    2 July 2014
    Business & Finance

    Malaysia’s upstream oil and gas services provider SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad, has reached a key milestone in its international operations by starting ahead of schedule its first pipe-laying support vessel (PLSV) work for state-run Petrobras in the pre-salt waters off Brazil. This maiden foray for the SapuraKencana in Brazilian waters was undertaken by its brand new PLSV “Sapura […]

  • Brazil: OSX Receives USD 263 Million Order for New PLSV

    29 February 2012
    Business & Finance, Project & Tenders

      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 […]

  • Canada: BP done with Aspy well plugging. Moves rig away

    13 December 2018
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    BP has completed the plugging and abandonment of the Aspy-1 well offshore Nova Scotia, Canada, and the drilling rig has moved away.

  • Noreq to Supply Lifesaving Packages for Multiple Newbuild Rigs in Singapore

    20 October 2011
    Business & Finance, Equipment

    During recent weeks, noreq has been awarded several major contracts with Asian yards. Both Korea and Singapore is growing to be very important markets for Noreq. Some weeks back it was made official that Noreq was awarded the contract for Lifeboat packages for Maersk drillships being built with Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea. This week, […]

  • IHC Merwede Splashes SAPURA DIAMANTE Pipelayer

    27 September 2013

    IHC Merwede has successfully named and launched the pipelaying vessel SAPURA DIAMANTE in a ceremony at the company’s shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel, The Netherlands. The naming of the innovative offshore vessel was carried out by Mrs Christina Lucia Duarte Pinho, the Executive Manager of Petrobras E&P Service. The 550t pipelaying vessel – ordered […]

  • Transocean’s 2009-built drillship lands 300-day deal offshore India

    4 September 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Transocean has picked up a multimillion-dollar contract for one of its drillships off the coast of India.

  • Shelf Drilling scoops two jack-up rig contracts

    12 September 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Shelf Drilling, a shallow water offshore drilling contractor, has secured contracts for two of its jack-up drilling rigs in Dubai.  Shelf’s two drilling rigs, Shelf Drilling Tenacious and the Shelf Drilling Mentor (previously called the West Mischief), have each won a two-year contract with Dubai Petroleum, including two one-year options. The planned startup of operations is January 2018, […]

  • Ophir set to drill Ivory Coast wildcat in May

    9 March 2017
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Oil company Ophir Energy is planning to spud an exploration well off Ivory Coast in May with the Seadrill-owned drillship West Saturn.  Ophir entered the country in 2016 by signing a production sharing contract with African Petroleum for Block CI-513. The agreement entailed drilling an exploration well within two years of the signing of the PSC. The company […]

  • Lundin cleared to drill Barents Sea well

    12 May 2020
    Authorities & Government, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure, Regulation & Policy

    Swedish oil company Lundin Energy has been given a drilling permit to drill the 7219/11-1 well in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway.

  • West Elara rig cleared to begin drilling at Ekofisk

    12 October 2017
    Exploration & Production

    American energy corporation ConocoPhillips has received consent to use the West Elara drilling rig for drilling and completion of water injection wells at the Ekofisk field in the North Sea. Norway’s safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Watchdog (PSA), said on Wednesday that the consent regards drilling wells on the Ekofisk 2/4 VC. According to the […]

  • Consent for Equinor to use West Hercules rig in North Sea

    9 October 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian oil major Equinor has received consent from the PSA for exploration drilling in the North Sea using the West Hercules drilling rig.

  • Equinor gains consent to use West Hercules rig for Korpfjell Deep well

    28 March 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Equinor has received consent from the PSA for exploration drilling in the Barents Sea using the West Hercules drilling rig.

  • Unithai checks over Shelf Drilling jack-up ahead of Thai ops

    7 June 2017
    Exploration & Production

    Thailand’s Unithai Shipyard and Engineering has recently completed maintenance of a jack-up drilling rig for the Dubai-based jack-up contractor, Shelf Drilling. The rig has now been moved out from the yard for operations in the Gulf of Thailand, the shipyard said in a statement on Tuesday. Unithai did not reveal the name of the rig. However, […]