1430 results found for 'seadrill'

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  • Transocean rig spuds first of ten gas wells in Black Sea drilling campaign

    25 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    OMV Petrom and Romgaz have started drilling the first gas production well in their multi-well program in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea with a semi-submersible rig, owned by Transocean, a Switzerland-based offshore drilling giant.

  • Drillship reaches its destination to await its inaugural drilling assignment

    24 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects

    A newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship, acquired by Eldorado Drilling, has arrived in Malaysia, where it will stay until it secures its maiden drilling job.

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

    11 August 2013

    Top News of The Week August 5 – 10, 2013

  • Exxon Mobil’s Liberian offshore well comes up dry

    19 December 2016
    Exploration & Production

    Exxon Mobil has failed in its effort to find oil offshore Liberia. According to Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited, ExxonMobil’s partner in the Mesurado-1 well, the well is dry. Drilling started on the Mesurado-1 exploration well on November 21, 2016 utilizing the West Saturn drillship owned by Seadrill. The Mesurado-1 well is located about 50 miles offshore Liberia […]

  • Norsafe’s Newly Developed GES50 MKIII Freefall Lifeboat Sparks Huge Interest

    21 November 2012

    Norsafe has received orders for its newly developed GES50 MKIII freefall lifeboat worth NOK 400 million (approx $69.5 mln) over the course of one month, reinforcing its role as the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of maritime lifesaving systems. During October 2012 the sales department signed contracts for a value greater than NOK 400 million, thereby […]

  • Transocean drillship embarks on maiden gig with Petrobras in Brazil

    1 July 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    Transocean’s newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship has set the ball rolling on its inaugural drilling assignment with Petrobras in Brazil.

  • Northern Drilling’s CEO heads for the exit

    11 April 2024
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital

    Northern Drilling is gearing up to disclose a successor to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) position after its current CEO decided to step down from the role.

  • Well-Safe preparing for rig acceptance audits

    2 April 2021
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Equipment, Infrastructure, Operations & Maintenance, Safety

    Well-Safe Solutions has completed the intake of its new asset, the Well-Safe Protector, and is now preparing for rig acceptance audits in the coming weeks.

  • NADL: Near-term market outlook ‘extremely challenging’

    22 November 2016
    Exploration & Production

    North Atlantic Drilling Limited (NADL), a provider of harsh environment offshore drilling units, and a subsidiary of Seadrill, sees the near-term demand for its services as “extremely challenging.” The company posted a revenue of $136.7 million , down from $194.4 million in the third quarter of 2015, as the contract of its West Phoenix and […]

  • Norway: Statoil Gets Green Light to Use West Phoenix Rig on Troll Field

    7 July 2011
    Business & Finance

    Statoil has received consent to use the West Phoenix mobile facility for drilling and well operations on Troll. The consent relates to permanent plugback and abandoning (P&A) of wells on the Troll Oseberg Gas Injection (TOGI) subsea facility, as well as plugback and/or drilling and completion on production licences 054 and 085 (Troll Olje), where […]

  • DW: Nail-biting period ahead for offshore drillers

    19 January 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Companies in the deepwater drilling market have lost more than half of their value over the last year; Transocean, Seadrill, ENSCO and Diamond are currently priced 56% lower on average compared to January 2014 in line with the decrease in oil prices, Douglas-Westwood, an energy market intelligence company, wrote in its DW Monday report. DW […]

  • Hercules loses rig contract in Saudi Arabia

    26 February 2015
    Exploration & Production

    After it has been announced that Diamond Offshore is facing early termination for several of its rig contracts, another U.S.-based drilling contractor is facing a similar faith. Namely, Hercules Offshore has received a notice from Saudi Arabian oil company Saudi Aramco terminating its drilling contract for the Hercules 261 jack-up rig. The termination is expected to take […]

  • After worker suffers ‘crushing injuries’ during work on jack-up rig, probe reveals nonconformities

    1 March 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Operations & Maintenance, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    Norwegian offshore safety regulator has completed an investigation into an incident involving a personal injury during work on a drag chain on a jack-up rig.

  • Harbour Energy working to establish full potential of ‘play-opening well’ in Indonesia

    12 July 2022
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Harbour Energy has completed the drilling of the Timpan-1 exploration well, located 150 kilometres offshore Indonesia.

  • Global Maritime picks new U.S. country manager

    25 June 2018
    Business & Finance

    Global Maritime, a marine, offshore and engineering consultancy, has appointed a new country manager for the U.S.

  • BP evacuates Gulf of Mexico platform ahead of Irma

    7 September 2017

    Oil major BP has evacuated its Thunder Horse offshore platform and the West Vela drillship located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, as it braces for the Hurricane Irma.  BP said on Wednesday that with forecasts indicating potential impact this weekend in Florida and possibly later along the southeast Atlantic Coast, the company was taking […]

  • TMT ROVs on their way to Brazil

    12 June 2014
    Equipment

    Two Total Marine Technology ROVs have just passed deepwater acceptance tests to 3000m in the North Atlantic Ocean with perfect scores. The Typhoon MK2 ROVs are now on their way to Brazil as part of a five year contract with the giant Brazilian energy company, Petrobras. In total 12 TMT built Typhoon MK2 ROVs are […]

  • Investigation into West Phoenix rig fire reveals safety breaches

    4 March 2019
    Exploration & Production

    Norwegian offshore safety watchdog has found several breaches of the regulations following an investigation into a fire on the West Phoenix rig last year. 

  • Brasil: PLSV Sapura Diamante Kicks Off at Petrobras

    2 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Upstream oil and gas services provider SapuraKencana Petroleum Berhad (SapuraKencana), 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 […]

  • Transocean’s newbuild drillship going to Brazil for its inaugural job

    14 September 2023
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Transocean has secured a new long-term contract for a newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship, which will enable the rig to work with a national oil company offshore Brazil.

  • UK: Rolls-Royce to Supply Large Thrusters for Offshore Drilling Vessels

    25 July 2012
    Business & Finance

    Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, today announced orders worth over £70 million to supply large thrusters for offshore drilling vessels. These latest orders, which include options for additional thrusters, are from a variety of customers who are expanding their drillship fleets and are driven by greater demand in oil and gas exploration in deep […]

  • Norway: Faroe Petroleum Provides Preliminary Results from Cooper Well

    26 July 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 the preliminary results of the 6506/11‐9 S Cooper well in the Norwegian Sea (Faroe Petroleum 30%). The well has been drilled to a total depth of 5,330m below sea […]

  • Pacific Drilling holds off ‘Pacific Zonda’ delivery

    8 July 2015
    Exploration & Production

    Pacific Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor, has postponed the delivery of its newbuild drillship Pacific Zonda for the fourth quarter of 2015.  Namely, the delivery of the drillship, that is being built at Samsung Heavy Industries yard in South Korea, was postponed for October 2015 although the company’s previous plan was for the vessel to […]

  • The Netherlands: Dockwise Enters Master Service Agreement with Keppel

    21 December 2011
    Business & Finance

    Dockwise Ltd. announces that it has entered into a Master Service Agreement (MSA) with Keppel of Singapore for transportation of their jack-up and semi-submersible drilling units. The USD 55 million awards comprise contracts for transportation of four jack-up drilling rigs, one semi-submersible drilling rig, assorted dredging equipment, offshore transfer and elevation platforms and tugs & […]

  • Drilling permit to Equinor for North Sea wells

    20 November 2020
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders, Regulation & Policy, Rules & Regulation, Safety

    The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Equinor a drilling permit for two wells in the North Sea off Norway.