Equinor has failed to find hydrocarbons at the wildcat well 16/5-7, near the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea, offshore Norway.
Norwegian E&P player Aker BP has made an oil find in the Liatårnet well located in the North of Alvheim and Krafla-Askja (NOAKA) area offshore Norway.
UK-based Hurricane Energy has spudded the Lincoln Crestal well in the Greater Warwick Area offshore UK using the Transocean Leader semi-submersible rig.
The European Union is reportedly preparing to hit Turkey with sanctions over the country’s drilling operations in the contested waters offshore Cyprus.
Irish oil and gas operator Providence has yet to receive funds from China’s APEC as part of the previously agreed loan regarding to Barryroe project farm-out offshore Ireland.
Cairn Energy’s Lynghaug well in the Norwegian Sea has come up dry.
European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič has this week expressed support for Cyprus in light of Turkey’s “illegal drilling activities,” in the Mediterranean Sea.
Oil and gas company Lundin Norway will spud the Goddo well (16/5-8 S), located in license PL 815 offshore Norway, shortly.
The PSA has found irregularities during an audit related to an application for an Acknowledgment of Compliance for the Transocean Norge mobile drilling rig.
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority has given its consent to Aker BP to drill an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea, using the Deepsea Stavanger drilling rig.
Offshore accommodation rigs operator Prosafe has taken delivery of its newbuild unit Safe Eurus from a shipyard in China.
The discovery will soon be put on stream via the new, unmanned, and remote-operated H platform
The worldwide offshore rig count in June 2019 rose by 9 units sequentially and rpse by 56 units year-over-year, according to monthly rig count reports by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
With nearly 60 offshore rigs, China is doing everything it can to boost oil and gas production. And the country’s energy independence policy is keeping rig supply out of the global market.
