The well, designated 7335/3-1 and named Korpfjell Deep, is located in production license 859 in the Barents Sea where Equinor is the operator.
Shell has hired a Dolphin Drilling semi-submersible drilling rig for work on the Knarr field in Norway.
A fresh team of Greenpeace activists has re-boarded a Transocean-owned rig in Scotland hired by BP for UK North Sea operations just hours after Police Scotland declared the occupation over.
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CNOOC Petroleum Europe Limited, a subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, has exercised a one-well option for the Maersk Drilling-owned Maersk Innovator jack-up rig.
Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace are still occupying a Transocean rig, contracted by BP for drilling operations in the UK North Sea.
Norwegian engineering and construction services company Kvaerner has built and delivered a permanent caisson support structure for the Repsol-operated Yme New Development project located offshore Norway. Kvaerner said through its social media channels on Wednesday that its Verdal yard completed and
British oil major BP has served an injunction to Greenpeace in order to stop the actions of the environmentalist group’s activists aboard a rig currently under contract with the company.
Norwegian E&P player Aker BP has received consent from the PSA for exploration drilling in the North Sea using the Deepsea Nordkapp drilling rig.
Greenpeace activists have boarded an offshore drilling rig owned by Transocean and scheduled to start drilling for oil major BP in the UK North Sea in an attempt to hinder the oil company’s plans.
More than 1500 offshore workers in Norway might go on a strike if a wage settlement with the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association – representing the companies – is not reached.
The worldwide offshore rig count in May 2019 dropped by 11 units sequentially but was up 43 rigs year-over-year, according to monthly rig count reports by Baker Hughes.
Classification society DNV GL has signed a contract for the first Cyber Secure class notation with Stena Drilling.
Capricorn Norge has received consents from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority, for exploration drilling in the Norwegian Sea.
