Lundin Petroleum’s wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway has started drilling of exploration well 7220/6-2 on the Neiden prospect in the Barents Sea. The Neiden prospect is located in the northern part of PL609, some 60 km northeast of the Alta discovery and approximately 200 km from the Norwegian c
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has carried out an audit of ConocoPhillips’ maintenance management at Ekofisk C and J platforms of the Ekofisk Complex in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The objective of the audit, conducted from June 18 to August 28, 2015, was to assess how ConocoPh
Malaysia’s Perisai Petroleum has informed that Hess Corporation has hired its Perisai Pacific 101 jack-up rig. The company explained in a Bursa Malaysia filing on Friday that the contract agreed between its 51%-owned subsidiary Perisai Offshore Sdn Bhd and Hess, was actually a farm-out agreement. Th
Danish drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has reported that its jack-up rig Mærsk Giant is being repaired due to a damaged spudcan. The Danish company in a tweet on October 1, said that the rig would be ready for the new contract start with DONG Energy in November. The Marine Traffic data show that
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has carried out an audit of the management of emergency preparedness at Gullfaks B platform at the Statoil-operated Gullfaks oil and gas field in the Norwegian North Sea. According to the PSA, the objective of the audit conducted from September 9 to 11, 20
Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil, operator of production licence 169, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 25/11-28, offshore Norway. The well is dry. The company received a drilling permit from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to drill the well in August 2015. The well was drilled
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has carried out an audit of COSL Drilling’s follow-up of anchoring systems. Since 2010, there have been a number of anchor line failures on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The PSA says that during the period, COSL experienced a double line failure on the
Norway’s Sebastian AS will train the crew of new semi-submersible drilling rigs to be operated by Statoil in Norway. The rigs, built in South Korea, are owned by Songa Offshore drilling contractor. The first of four rigs, the Songa Equinox, will arrive in Norway in mid-October. According to the rig’
Ithaca Energy, the operator of the Greater Stella Area in the UK North Sea, has reached an agreement with Petrofac in respect of the “FPF -1” floating production facility contract awarded in 2011. According to Ithaca, the agreement will provide enhanced incentivisation for the timely delivery of the
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a new contract for the jack-up rig Maersk Resilient with Danish oil company Maersk Oil. The firm contract is for three years with an estimated contract value of $110 million. The contract is expected to start in October 2015, and Maersk Resilient will do work at vari
Transocean, an offshore drilling contractor, has laid up three of its rigs. According to its latest fleet status report, Transocean laid up its semi-submersible drilling rig, the Transocean Barents, the midwater floater GSF Rig 140 and high-spec jack-up rig GSF Galaxy II. The semi-sub Transocean Bar
VNG Norge AS has begun drilling the second Pil/Bue follow-up well with the spudding of exploration well 6406/12-5S on the Blink prospect in the Norwegian Sea. The Blink prospect is located in Licence PL586, which also contains the Pil and Bue discoveries, near the producing Njord field (Faroe 7.5%).
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use a modular drilling rig (MDR) to drill a new production well at Heimdal gas field in the North Sea. Statoil is the operator of the Heimdal field, located around 212 kilometres north-west of Stavanger. Production on t
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Tuesday that, in response to the decline in crude oil prices since mid-2014, the number of active offshore rigs has declined worldwide, dropping close to 20%—304 offshore rigs were operating in August 2015, down from 377 in August 2014. According
