Greek oil company Energean will drill an exploration well in the Karish North prospect, offshore Israel, with a planned spud date before end-March 2019.
Offshore liftboat specialist Gulf Marine Services has been awarded a contract to support a wind farm project in Europe for an international energy company.
Equinor has received consent from the PSA to drill an exploration well off Norway using the West Hercules drilling rig.
Let the newbuilds come. The jackup market is far from oversupplied.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Spirit Energy Norge a drilling permit for well 7322/7-1 located in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.
Aker BP has been given a permission by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate to drill three wells in the North Sea.
Dubai-based shallow-water drilling Shelf Drilling is set to get listed on the Oslo stock exchange (Oslo Børs)
Analysis by Rystad Energy shows that Borr Drilling would emerge with the largest and youngest jack-up fleet if rigs over 35 years were retired in the short term.
Offshore driller Transocean will retire four offshore drilling rigs of which two three are of the ultra-deepwater type and one is a mid-water floater.
Cairn Energy has farmed into Azinor Catalyst’s Agar Plantain well and the P1763 Licence on the UK Continental Shelf.
Prosafe, the Oslo-listed provider of offshore flotels has further extended its standstill agreement for delivery of Safe Nova and Safe Vega accommodation rigs built by Cosco in China.
Wellesley Petroleum has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to carry out exploration drilling in the North Sea using a Transocean-owned rig.
Shell has received consent from the PSA to drill an exploration well in production license 832 in the Norwegian Sea.
Ocean Rig has abandoned its previously announced plan to sell its only two semi-submersible drilling rigs to a subsidiary company.
