Borr Drilling is optimistic and encouraged by signs of shallow water rig market recovery amid strong tendering and contracting activity.
Norwegian oil major Equinor has been given a drilling permit to drill a new wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea, offshore Norway.
Northern Drilling has no rigs in operation but it does have two new 7th generation ultra-deepwater drillships whose fate is still uncertain.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP and Equinor drilling permits for their wells in the Barents Sea and the Norwegian Sea.
BP, Baker Hughes, and Odfjell Drilling have entered into a tripartite agreement to work together to transform activity at the Clair field.
Maersk Drilling has made plans to sell one of its jack-up rigs to Havila, which will, in turn, lease and later sell the rig to the Yme field partners.
Italian company has signed a five-year framework agreement with the NCOC for operations on Kashagan, one of the largest fields in the world.
Dolphin Drilling has secured Energy Management System ISO 50001:2018 certification following an audit by DNV.
Equinor has exercised an option to add well intervention work at the Martin Linge to the previously agreed work scope for Maersk Intrepid.
Equinor has awarded a drilling contract to Odfjell Drilling for the use of the sixth-generation semi-submersible rig Deepsea Stavanger.
UK oil and gas company Serica Energy is frustrated after encountering difficulties while drilling its Columbus well in the North Sea.
Hibiscus Petroleum and Ithaca Energy are revisiting the concept development for a pair of North Sea discoveries.
Tailwind Energy has agreed to acquire BP’s entire working interest in the Shell-operated Shearwater field located in the UK North Sea.
Tailwind Energy has agreed to sell its entire working interest in the Conwy field in the East Irish Sea to Eni with effect from 1 July 2021.
