Norwegian survey and positioning services company iSurvey has won a second contract extension with AGR to provide rig move and positioning services for the company and its clients, Faroe Petroleum and Engie during their exploration-drilling campaigns in 2016. The semi-submersible rig Transocean Arct
Offshore drilling contractor Songa Offshore has launched a new refinancing package that will enable the company to take delivery of its fourth and final Cat D rig, the Songa Enabler, while the driller’s client Statoil has reduced the contract duration for two Cat D rigs already in operation. Songa O
Offshore drilling contractor COSL Drilling Europe will axe 230 jobs as a result of a contract cancellation for one if its semi-subs with the Norwegian company Statoil. To remind, Statoil recently terminated the contract for the offshore driller’s COSLInnovator rig, and suspended its contract for ano
Proafe’s tender support vessel Safe Scandinavia has completed onshore acceptance testing and is now mobilizing to the Oseberg Øst installation in the North Sea to start drilling support operations for Statoil. The Safe Scandinavia was converted from a semi-submersible accommodation rig to a tender s
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for well 35/8-6 S, offshore Norway. The well 35/8-6 S will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig in production licence 248, that contains the Vega field, located in the Norwegian sector of the North
The Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has authorized the oil and gas company Statoil to use North Atlantic Drilling’s (NADL) jack-up rig West Epsilon to permanently plug wells at Huldra 30/2-A, in the North Sea. The field is located north of Oseberg in production licence 051, offshore Norwa
While many of its peers are looking to cut costs by slashing jobs, KCA Deutag, a drilling and engineering contractor headquartered in Aberdeen, is recruiting 300 new offshore workers. According to Offshore.no, a Norwegian-language website covering the country’s offshore oil and gas industry, the rec
Noble Corporation, a UK-based offshore driller, will have to postpone a rig delivery to its client Statoil, following a crane collapse incident that happened in a Sembcorp Marine shipyard in Singapore on February 28 in which three workers were injured. According to the company, an initial investigat
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil Petroleum drilling permits for two wells, well 30/11-11 S and well 30/11-11 B, offshore Norway. Both wells will be drilled from Songa Offshore’s Songa Delta drilling rig and in production licence 035, Krafla, in the Norwegian section of t
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Det norske oljeselskap a drilling permit for well 16/1-26 S, offshore Norway. The well 16/1-26 S will be drilled from the Maersk Interceptor jack-up drilling rig in production licence 001 B, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The drilling
Transocean’s semi-submersible rig Transocean Arctic does not meet all the requirements when it comes to the management of emergency preparedness and the working environment, the Norwegian Petroleum Safety Authority said after it carried out an inspection of the rig from December 7 to 10, 2015. The o
Semco Maritime has won a contract with Paragon Offshore for intermediate classification and service works on the semi-sub drilling rig Paragon MSS1. The work on the 1979-built rig will be done in order to prepare the rig for a recently won contract in the North Sea. The service works will be perform
Deepwater drilling contractor Ocean Rig on Monday, March 7, 2016, signed a drilling contract for one of its semi-submersible drilling rigs, the Leiv Eiriksson, with Lundin Norway. The drilling contract is for a minimum of 3 wells, for drilling offshore Norway, with an estimated backlog of approximat
Rosneft Vietnam B.V., a company of Russia’s Rosneft group, has started drilling the exploration well PLDD-1X at Block 06.1, in the Nam Con Son basin, located offshore Vietnam. This is Rosneft’s first drilling project as an operator in the international waters. The design depth of the well will be ar
