Irish oil and gas company Providence Resources has mobilized the Stena IceMAX drillship to Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 2/14, in the southern Porcupine Basin off Ireland, with expected arrival in early July. FEL 2/14 is operated by Providence, with 56% interest, on behalf of its partners Capri
UK-based offshore driller Ensco has reportedly secured a contract for its Ensco 122 jack-up drilling rig in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. According to VesselsValue, Dutch national oil company NAM will take the rig on a five-month drilling contract starting October 1 and ending February 28, 2018
Drilling contractor Seadrill has reportedly been awarded a contract with Malaysian oil giant Petronas for the West Capella ultra-deepwater drillship. According to data from VesselsValue, Petronas hired Seadrill’s drillship for a three-month contract starting October 1 until December 31, 2017. No det
Offshore driller Island Drilling Company has been awarded a drilling contract with the Austrian oil firm OMV in Norway. The contract is for one well at the Wisting license, located in PL 537 in the Barents Sea, with the rig Island Innovator. Start-up is scheduled for the third quarter of this year,
Maersk Drilling has reportedly managed to find a contract for its Maersk Convincer jack-up drilling rig. According to a report by VesselsValue, Shell has hired the jack-up rig on a contract long one year and three months. The contract, of an undisclosed value, is expected to start in 2018, according
Danish offshore driller Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the jack-up Maersk Resolve by Wintershall. The rig has been warm-stacked since the end of 2016. The one-well contract will have a duration of approximately 86 days, with further options included, Maersk Drilling reported on Wedn
The Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found two improvement points during an audit of the COSLPromoter semi-submersible drilling rig. The PSA said on Wednesday that the audit was conducted on June 7 and 8 and that it focused on the management of integrity in s
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given Statoil a consent to use the Bideford Dolphin rig for drilling and completing well 34/7-A-10 on the Snorre field in the North Sea. The PSA said on Tuesday that drilling on Snorre was scheduled to begin on July 7, 2017, a
Offshore driller North Atlantic Drilling Ltd (NADL) has been awarded a one-well contract with Siccar Point Energy E&P (SPE) for Seadrill’s semi-submersible drilling rig West Hercules. NADL is a harsh environment drilling contractor and Seadrill’s subsidiary who took over management of the rig in 201
Exploration and production player Aker BP has completed the drilling of a wildcat well in the North Sea off Norway. The well is dry. The well 24/9-11 S was drilled about 7 kilometers west of the Volund field, 11 kilometers southwest of the Alvheim field and 230 kilometers northwest of Stavanger in t
Offshore drilling contractor Songa Offshore is reportedly thinking of scrapping its semi-submersible rig Songa Trym. The rig has been stacked without a contract since the late 2015, and according to Sysla.no, if the driller doesn’t find work for the unit soon, the rig’s fate will be sealed. Namely,
Offshore driller Noble Corporation has been awarded new contracts for one of its drillships under which the unit will operate in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and later Suriname. In its latest fleet status report issued on Thursday, Noble informed that the 2013-built drillship Noble Bob Douglas has been a
Oil company Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill a well in the Hoop area in the Barents Sea with the Songa Enabler drilling rig. According to the PSA’s statement on Thursday, the company has received consent to drill the well 7325/4-1 at Gemini Nord in the
Following a letter of intent in April, offshore driller Odfjell Drilling has now signed a contract with Wellesley Petroleum for the semi-submersible drilling rig Deepsea Bergen. In its Oslo Stock Exchange filing on Friday, Odfjell Drilling said it has signed the contract with the Norwegian oil and g
