Offshore drilling contractor Rowan Companies has been awarded two contracts for one jack-up drilling rig, while the dayrate for Rowan’s other jack-up could be slashed retroactively if the client exercises its extension option. According to the offshore driller’s latest fleet status report, Rowan’s h
Oil giant BP has reportedly removed two workers from its ETAP project, in the UK sector of the North Sea, after finding a syringe on an accommodation rig. According to Oil and Gas People, an oil industry’s job site, the incident happened on Prosafe’s 1982-built flotel Safe Caledonia that is under a
Offshore Energy Today’s Bartolomej Tomić has interviewed Mr. Herman Ijsseling, the owner of the Dutch company Flying Focus. The company specializes in taking beautiful photos of maritime and offshore vessels and installations, as you can see in the gallery above. In the interview, Mr. IJsseling spea
French oil major Total is gearing up for exploration drilling operations in the Khan Asparuh licence in the Black Sea, offshore Bulgaria. The country’s Ministry of Energy said on Tuesday that the drillship Noble Globetrotter II was presented in Burgas, Bulgaria on Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Namely, No
CIMC Raffles’ shipyard in Yantai, China has completed repair works on two semi-submersible offshore drilling units (MODU) of the sixth generation, Polyarnaya Zvezda and Severnoye Siyaniye. The repairs have been completed under a survey by the classification society Russian Maritime Register of Shipp
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted the Norwegian oil company Statoil a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea, offshore Norway. The drilling program for well 30/11-13 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well to be drilled from Songa Offshore’s Songa Delta drilling ri
Songa Offshore’s semi-submersible drilling rig Songa Encourage has received an Acknowledgment of Compliance from the Norwegian authorities making it the sixtieth offshore mobile facility to receive this declaration. An acknowledgement of compliance (AoC) is a declaration the Norwegian offshore safet
Offshore drilling contractor Paragon Offshore has received two contract extensions and one contract termination for its jack-up drilling rigs. According to Paragon’s latest fleet status report, the contract for Paragon’s 1979-built jack-up drilling rig Paragon M1162, operating in the UAE, was extend
UK’s Hurricane Energy has conditionally raised funds for its exploration campaign in the North Sea, west of Shetland Islands. The company on Monday said that £52.1 million would be raised through a proposed issue of 347,245,265 New Ordinary Shares at a price of 15 pence per share, subject to shareho
Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has received a two-year contract extension for a jack-up drilling rig, stacked two semi-subs, and reduced dayrates for two drillships. In its latest fleet status report, Noble said that the contract for the jack-up drilling rig Noble Hans Deul was exten
Offshore drilling contractor Sevan Drilling and China’s Cosco shipyard have agreed to exercise the second six-month option to delay the delivery of Sevan’s newbuild rig, the Sevan Developer. Sevan Drilling and Cosco have agreed to exercise the second six-month option to extend the deferral agreement
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap another drilling permit for an appraisal well on the Ivar Aasen field, offshore Norway. According to the directorate, the well 16/1-26 A will be drilled from Maersk Drilling’s jack-up rig Maersk Interceptor in production licence
An appeals court in London has issued a final ruling in a case between the Irish oil and gas exploration company Providence, and Transocean, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors. The dispute began in 2012 when Transocean laid a claim for Providence to pay $19 million in outstandi
Following a report earlier today on Statoil’s exploration drilling efforts in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, the company has been granted a drilling permit for two other wells in the same North Sea permit. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, a government agency whose task is to manage the o
