Nearly 20 jackups left the offshore rig fleet during the first quarter of the year.
Offshore driller Rowan Companies has secured work for its drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, UK, Norway, and Saudi Arabia.
Transocean has been awarded new contracts for its drilling rigs for work offshore Norway, Australia, and Canada.
Statoil has received consent from the PSA to put the Oseberg H platform offshore Norway into commission.
Lundin Norway has started drilling operations for an extended well test on the Alta discovery in the southern Barents Sea – testing a completely new type of oil reservoir on the Norwegian shelf, consisting of karstified carbonates. A successful outcome will provide important information to progress
Odfjell Drilling has been awarded a conditional letter of intent (LOI) by Statoil for a drilling contract for Deepsea Atlantic rig.
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority has given its consent to Wellesley Petroleum to drill an exploration well in the North Sea using the Transocean Arctic rig.
UK-based Stena Drilling is the first drilling contractor to receive the notation Drill(MPD) for its harsh environment drillship Stena Carron.
Danish offshore driller Maersk Drilling and vessel provider Maersk Supply Service have established a joint venture company focused on decommissioning market.
Aker BP has drilled a dry exploration well and encountered gas column in an appraisal well near and on Ærfugl field offshore Norway.
Preliminary results of Spirit Energy’s Fogelberg appraisal well located in the Norwegian Sea indicate that the reservoir quality is better than that seen in the original discovery well.
Lundin Norway has started drilling well 7220/11-5 on the Alta discovery in PL609 in the southern Barents Sea. Following drilling, the well will be used for extended well testing.
The international offshore rig count for March 2018 dropped both sequentially and year-over-year, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
The next generation of harsh environment semisubs is on its way as the Norwegian oil industry takes a step forward in its quest for optimization and sustainability.
