Offshore drilling company Seadrill Partners’ second-quarter revenues rose, boosted by a rig litigation win.
Equinor has exercised the second of six one-month options to extend the charter of the Safe Boreas accommodation rig.
Azinor Catalyst has mobilized the Transocean Leader drilling rig for the Agar Plantain exploration and appraisal well on the UK Continental Shelf.
Aker BP has received consent from the PSA to use the Maersk Invincible rig on the Valhall Flank North and South fields.
Danish maritime giant Maersk has decided to “demerge” its drilling business Maersk Drilling via a separate listing of Maersk Drilling on Nasdaq Copenhagen in 2019.
Independent Oil and Gas has secured funding for the upcoming drilling of the Harvey appraisal well in the UK North Sea.
The Prospector 5 jack-up rig has left Damen Verolme Rotterdam and started its journey to the UK continental shelf.
Wintershall has received consent from the PSA for exploration drilling in the Norwegian Sea.
Norwegian oil company Equinor has completed the appraisal drilling on the Sigrun oil and gas discovery in the North Sea offshore Norway lifting its previous resource estimate for the discovery. Equinor is thinking of potentially developing the discovery via the nearby Grane platform.
Shelf Drilling, which describes itself as world’s largest offshore jack-up rig owner, has seen an uptick in jack-up rig utilization this year and expects rig demand to pick-up.
Oslo-listed driller Awilco Drilling will stop paying dividends as the company says it has entered the growth and investment mode, following a recent order of a new rig, to be marketed in the Norwegian sector.
Jack-up rig specialist Shelf Drilling has found more work for its Trident VIII jack-up.
Spanish oil firm Repsol will be using the Rowan Stavanger jack-up rig to support its work on the Yme field development.
The PSA has given consent to Equinor for exploration drilling in the North Sea, using the Deepsea Bergen.
