Oil & gas, exploration and production company Tullow Oil has completed drilling of the exploration well 16/5-6 on the Rome prospect in the Central North Sea, offshore Norway. Tullow informed on Thursday that the well, located in the production licence 776, did not encounter any hydrocarbons and will
Romanian provider of offshore integrated services for oil and gas industry, Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP), has been awarded an offshore drilling contract in Tunisia. The contract was awarded by Numhyd, a jointly owned and managed oil company, founded by the Tunisian Company of Petroleum Activities
UK-based oil and gas company Hurricane Energy started drilling the 205/21a-7 well on the Lancaster field, West of Shetland on Wednesday, July 6. The well, located in licence P1368 Central in which Hurricane has a 100% interest, was spudded using the Transocean Spitsbergen drilling rig. The 205/21a-7
Offshore drilling contractor Songa Offshore has informed that a suspension period for its semi-sub rig Songa Delta will start later than expected. The 1981-built Songa Delta drilling rig was recently suspended by Statoil and the 75% suspension rate of $277,000 per day was supposed to start from the
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for well 35/11-20 A, in the North Sea offshore Norway. The well 35/11-20 A will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig, after completing the drilling of wildcat well 16/5-6 for Tullow Oil Norge in producti
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has given ExxonMobil a consent to use a new subsea well on the Balder field, offshore Norway. PSA said on Monday that ExxonMobil has been given consent to use another subsea well, designated E-29-AH located 3,500 meters from the B
UK’s drilling waste management firm TWMA has secured a £1.5million contract with Apache on the WilPhoenix drilling rig in the North Sea Beryl field. As part of TWMA’s waste management solution, the one-year contract will utilize the company’s TCC RotoMill® for offshore processing and EfficientC® for
Offshore drilling contractor Rowan Companies has been awarded several contracts extensions for its drilling rigs with a reduced dayrate. The drilling contractor’s drillship Rowan Resolute has been awarded blend and extend amendment with Anadarko in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Extension is at a dayrate
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has carried out an audit of BP Norge’s OHAS management on the Skarv floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel, offshore Norway. PSA said on Friday that the audit on the Skarv FPSO was conducted from April 12 to Apr
Maersk Drilling’s jack-up drilling rig, the Maersk Highlander, has set off on its voyage to the Culzean gas field in the UK sector of the North Sea. The newbuild harsh environment jack-up rig will work for Maersk Oil on its operated Culzean gas field. Maersk Drilling informed through social media ch
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) expects to take Transocean’s drilling rig and start drilling the Skipper appraisal well, in the UK North Sea, in the second half of July 2016. IOG will take Transocean’s 1974-built Sedco 704 semi-submersible drilling rig on contract for the Skipper appraisal which lies
Offshore drilling contractor Dolphin Drilling has reportedly announced a round of layoffs that will affect over 150 employees. According to Offshore.no, a Norwegian-language website covering the country’s offshore oil and gas industry, the reduction will affect just under 140 offshore and 25 onshore
Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has revealed audit results for North Atlantic Drilling’s capacity and competence within drilling and the arrangements for employee participation at the jack-up rig, the West Linus. PSA said on Wednesday that the audit at the West
Norwegian oil major Statoil has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), to drill an exploration well offshore Norway with Songa Offshore’s semi-submersible rig. PSA said that the consent allows Statoil to use the Songa Delta semi-submersible drilling rig
