Faroe Petroleum is gearing up to start drilling an appraisal well on its Brasse oil and gas discovery in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. In an update on Thursday, Faroe said it would drill the appraisal well on the Brasse discovery in mid-2017. Faroe as the operator has entered into a contract
Norway’s offshore safety agency, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has confirmed that last week’s fire incident on board the Deepsea Atlantic rig is under investigation. The rig is under a contract with the Norwegian oil company Statoil on the Johan Sverdrup field, offshore Norway. The incident
A fire broke out on the Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig working for Statoil at the Johan Sverdrup field, off Norway. According to a report by the Norwegian news website Offshore.no, the fire broke out last Wednesday in the rig’s drill tower. After it was extinguished, it broke out again. The situation
The international offshore rig count for December 2016 was down both sequentially and year over year. According to reports on Monday by the oilfield services provider Baker Hughes, the international offshore rig count for December 2016 was 210, down 1 from the 211 counted in November 2016, and down
Danish offshore driller Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its fourth XLE jack-up rig, the Maersk Invincible, from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea. The company’s fourth and final XL Enhanced ultra harsh environment jack-up was named in South Korea in October 2016.
A water leakage on board Songa Offshore’s Cat D rig Songa Encourage has prompted an investigation to identify the cause of the incident. The drilling contractor said on Monday, January 2, 2017, that a water ingress was observed in a pump room on board the Cat D semi-submersible drilling rig Songa En
Danish offshore inspection specialist SubC Partner has signed a deal with Maersk Drilling for inspection services. The company will, under a three-year framework agreement, carry out offshore underwater inspection by ROV of Maersk’s offshore drilling rigs worldwide. SubC Partner says it has develope
Odfjell Drilling has secured further employment for its rig Deepsea Bergen with Faroe Petroleum in Norway. The drilling contractor said on Friday that the contract is for one well plus one well option on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The contract start is back to back with expiry of the current c
Danish drilling contractor Maersk Drilling said via its social media channels on Wednesday that its ultra-deepwater drillship Maersk Voyager has received its first subsea Xmas tree. The subsea Xmas tree received was for the upper completions phase of the Offshore Cape Three Points integrated Oil and
Aker BP, a new oil and gas player formed by merging BP Norge and Det norske, has made an oil discovery east of the Frigg field in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said on Friday that Aker BP, the operator of the production license 442, concluded drilling of w
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Eni Norge a drilling permit for an exploration well in the Barents Sea. The well 7318/12-1 will be drilled in a prospect named Boné-Bigorna from the Saipem-owned drilling rig Scarabeo 8. The company recently got a consent from the Petroleum Safet
Norwegian Coast Center Base (CCB), a service provider in technical maintenance and harbor operations, has received a letter of intent for a renewal survey of the COSLPromoter rig. The survey on COSL Drilling’s semi-submersible drilling rig will be performed in May 2017. CCB noted that this is the on
Statoil has received a drilling permit for an appraisal well at its Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. The well 16/2-22 S in production license 265 will be drilled from the Deepsea Atlantic semi-submersible drilling rig in the northwest extension of the Johan Sverdrup field. According to the Nor
Eni Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of the Italian oil company Eni, has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill an exploration well in the Barents Sea with the Scarabeo 8 drilling rig. The well is located in production license 716 in blocks 7318/11 and 7318/12, in the Baren
