UK-based drilling contractor Ensco has agreed with a South Korean shipyard to postpone the delivery of a newbuild drillship by two years. Ensco recently entered into an amendment to the Ensco DS-10 drillship construction contract with the shipyard constructing it, Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI). Ens
Danish drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has been awarded a new contract with Petrogas E&P Netherlands B.V. for the jack-up rig, Maersk Resolute. Maersk Drilling said on Monday that the firm contract covers the drilling of the two wells, A8 and A9 in the A12 block of the Dutch continental shelf. T
Irish oil and gas exploration company Providence Resources has been given consent to progress to the second phase of the Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 2/14 in the southern Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland. The FEL 2/14 drilling project lies in 2,250-meter water depth in the southern Porcupine
North Atlantic Drilling Ltd (NADL) has been awarded a contract extension from Statoil for the jack-up rig West Elara. The offshore driller informed on Friday that the contract is for a firm one-well extension plus one optional well. The work will start in direct continuation of West Elara’s existing
Statoil has completed investigations of a well control incident on the offshore Troll field and a hydrogen leak at Mongstad, and revealed that the Troll incident could have been fatal. On October 15, 2016, a serious well control incident occurred off Norway on a drilling rig Songa Endurance, while i
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for wellbore 7219/12-1 A, in the Barents Sea offshore Norway. The wellbore 7219/12-1 A will be drilled from the Ocean Rig’s semi-sub rig Leiv Eiriksson. The drilling program for wellbore 7219/12-1 A relates to the
The 2016 total offshore discovered liquids resources reached only slightly below 2.3 billion bbl, 90% lower than in 2010, Energy intelligence group Rystad Energy has informed. The group says the drop is most significant to the overall decline in discovered volumes; and in fact, total global discover
Prosafe, an owner and operator of semi-sub accommodation rigs, has decided to sell one of its units for scrap after buying two new ones from Axis Offshore. Following the completion of the acquisition of Safe Nova and Safe Vega through a deal made with Axis in November 2016, Prosafe has now taken a f
Denmark’s Port of Esbjerg on Tuesday shared a photo on its social media channels showing the Ensco 72 jack-up drilling rig departing after a service stay. According to the update from the port, the Ensco 72 had left earlier this week after a two-month stay during which the rig underwent comprehensiv
Songa Offshore has informed that its Cat D rig Songa Encourage is undergoing repairs in Norway, following water leakage on the rig in early January. To remind, on January 2, 2017, a water ingress was observed in a pump room on board the semi-submersible rig Songa Encourage. At the time of the incide
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum a drilling permit for wellbore 6507/3-12, in the Norwegian Sea. The wellbore 6507/3-12 will be drilled from the Deepsea Bergen semi-submersible drilling rig. The Norwegian Sea prospect where the exploration well will be drilled
Statoil Petroleum has made an oil discovery northwest of the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea, offshore Norway. Statoil was given consent to drill the exploration well in block 6608/10 with the Deepsea Bergen rig and a drilling permit for the well 6608/10-17 S in November 2016. The drilling of the C
Drilling contractor North Atlantic Drilling has been awarded a one-well contract for the semi-submersible rig West Phoenix. The contract is for work in the United Kingdom, West of Shetland with the French oil giant Total. In a statement on Tuesday, North Atlantic Drilling said the contract was in di
The offshore rig market has been flooded with newbuilds over the past 10 years. Now oversupply is killing utilization and dayrates.
