Norway’s offshore safety watchdog has given its consent to Aker BP for the use of the Maersk Interceptor drilling rig on the Ivar Aasen field offshore Norway.
Russian driller Eurasia Drilling Company has reportedly won a contract extension for one of its four jack-up rigs.
Neptune Energy has hired the newly built Beacon Atlantic semi-submersible drilling rig for up to 16 wells offshore Norway.
Norwegian oil company Aker BP has made an oil and gas discovery northwest of the Bøyla field in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Siccar Point Energy has started drilling an offshore exploration well at the Blackrock prospect in the UK, using one of the world’s largest semi-submersible drilling rigs, the Ocean GreatWhite.
Odfjell Drilling-owned semi-submersible drilling rig Deepsea Bergen will stop by for a short stay at Norway’s offshore services provider Coast Center Base (CCB).
The Petroleum Safety Authority has completed an investigation into an incident involving dropped objects on the Maersk Invincible drilling rig.
Cairn Energy has said it has hired the Stena Don semi-submersible drilling rig for the Chimera exploration well offshore the UK.
i3 Energy, a company owning the undeveloped Liberator oil field and Serenity prospects in the North Sea, is raising cash to fund the multi-well drilling program in the area.
A little over a year ago, Awilco Drilling was just a company with two old North Sea semisubs. Now they’re on the offensive.
UK offshore drilling contractor Awilco Drilling has exercised an option to order its second harsh-environment semi-submersible drilling rig from Keppel in Singapore for a price of $425 million. It has also decided to name a new CEO.
Corallian Energy has completed its Colter appraisal campaign off the UK, which has included the Colter North and the new Colter South prospects, discovering that the Colter prospect is smaller but the Colter South prospect is larger than expected.
The Petroleum Safety Authority has given a notice of order to Ocean Rig regarding the working environment and emergency preparedness on the Leiv Eiriksson rig.
Since the oil price crash in 2014, the global MODU market has suffered through a rig demand collapse, which coupled with a vast oversupply of units resulted in dismal utilisation and dwindling day rates.
