Norway’s Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved Chrysaor’s acquisition of a stake in the Grevling discovery offshore Norway.
UK-based offshore driller Ensco has won a new contract for one of its ultra-deepwater drillships.
Wellesley Petroleum has successfully appraised the Grosbeak discovery in the Northern North Sea
Equinor has made an oil discovery in production license 532 located on the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.
Claxton has been contracted to support MOL Norge on its first well program on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
Fred Olsen. Energy has decided to scrap two of its drilling rigs, one semi-submersible and one drillship.
The current fundamentals in the market aren’t driving values; buyers are.
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a one-well extension with Petrogas for its Maersk Resolute jack-up rig.
Transocean has won a number of new contracts for its drillships and semi-submersible drilling rigs, which will operate in Canada, UK, China, Mexico, Norway, and Malaysia.
Offshore driller Rowan, soon to merge with Ensco, has said it has won a contract for its Rowan Stavanger jack-up rig with Norway’s Equinor.
Aker BP has confirmed hydrocarbons during the drilling of appraisal wells on the Gekko oil and gas discovery in the North Sea.
Rowan Companies has received a contract extension for one of its drillships and a one-well contract for an idle jack-up drilling rig.
Faroe Petroleum has started drilling the Rungne exploration well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well located offshore Norway.
