Turkish navy on Friday reportedly threatened to use force against Eni-operated Saipem 12000 drillship, after the rig’s captain tried to move the drillship to the Block 3 offshore Cyprus.
UK-based offshore drilling giant Ensco, which further expanded its rig fleet through an acquisition of the U.S.-based rival Atwood Oceanics, on Tuesday released its quarterly fleet status report, revealing a number of new contracts and extensions for its fleet.
AkerBP has received consent from the PSA to use the Deepsea Stavanger rig for workover and recompletion of wells on the Skarv field.
With their acquisition of Paragon Offshore, Borr Drilling isn’t just a cool feat of financially-engineered asset playing anymore. They’re a real drilling contractor.
Borr Drilling has made a binding tender agreement to offer to purchase all outstanding shares in Paragon Offshore.
Norway’s Statoil has received consent from the PSA for work on two wells on the Troll field using two Songa Offshore-owned Cat D drilling rigs.
The bottom of the market appears to have passed but 2018 will still be a tough year
Finland’s Wärtsilä and the Danish drilling contractor Maersk Drilling have teamed up to create a 25-year thruster maintenance strategy for Maersk’s three semi-submersible rigs and four drillships.
Transocean has won a number of new contract awards for its drilling fleet consisting of drillships and semi-subs with emphasis on a long-term gig with Shell for one of its drillship.
Contract backlog for offshore driller Transocean has been reduced due to changes in the drilling contract for one of its drilling rigs.
Awilco Drilling has lost an opportunity for a potential contract for its only active rig as an unnamed operator no longer plans to run the drilling campaign for which the rig was hired.
Talks between UK-based offshore driller Awilco Drilling and oil company Alpha Petroleum related to the hire of the WilPhoenix rig have come to naught but Awilco has found another operator interested in hiring the rig.
Offshore driller Stena Drilling has signed a contract with Nexen Petroleum U.K. Limited for the Stena Spey drilling rig.
Houston-based offshore driller Diamond Offshore has won several new contracts for its drilling rigs.
