Scottish authorities are preventing the movement of three drilling rigs previously owned by Diamond Offshore and currently stacked at the Port of Cromarty Firth, following concerns about their destination and disposal.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted a drilling permit to Spirit Energy for an appraisal well in the Norwegian Sea.
British trade union RMT has raised concerns over the North Sea decommissioning industry, following the cash sale of three semi-submersible drilling rigs to be scrapped in India and Bangladesh.
Offshore Drilling contractor Stena Drilling is looking to cut workforce, being unable to find work for its three drillships currently idle in Las Palmas
Spirit Energy has received consent from the PSA for drilling and testing wildcat wells in the Norwegian Sea with the Island Innovator rig.
Lundin Norway has failed to find hydrocarbons after completing the drilling of wildcat well 7219/12-3 S in the Barents Sea off Norway.
BP has abandoned it exploration project at the Ravenspurn North field in the UK North Sea started more than a year ago.
Norwegian offshore safety regulator has given its consent to Lundin to use the COSLInnovator rig to for an exploration well offshore Norway.
Lundin Petroleum has completed the drilling of the Hurri exploration well 7219/12-3S located in PL533 in the southern Barents Sea.
The PSA has turned a notice of order given to Maersk Drilling following a fatal accident on the Maersk Interceptor drilling rig into a formal order.
The international offshore rig count for the last month of 2017 increased sequentially but dropped on a year-over-year basis, according to monthly rig count reports by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
The theme for 2017 was perseverance. For 2018, it’s adaptation.
Oil major Shell has taken a semi-submersible rig on a term charter from offshore drilling rig provider Saipem.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin a drilling permit for a well located offshore Norway.
