Baker Hughes on Friday issued it weekly rig count for U.S. and Canada.
Sterling Resources Ltd., a Canada-headquartered oil and gas company, has announced that the Crosgan gas discovery appraisal well 42/15b-3 in the UK Southern North Sea, will be plugged. The well, operated by RWE Dea, and drilled by the Ensco 70 jack-up drilling rig, has reached a total depth of 8401
Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted an international rig count report for January 2015 on its Investor Relations website according to which the international offshore rigs are down by 24 from last month. The international rig count for January 2015 was 1,258, down 55 from the 1,313 counted in Decem
Lundin Petroleum’s subsidiary, Lundin Norway, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 26/10-1, off Norway. The well investigated the hydrocarbon potential of the Zulu prospect in PL674BS, which is located 100 km west of Stavanger on the Norwegian west coast and approximately 30 km northeast of th
Drilling contractor Noble Corporation has informed that the company will retire three of its semi-submersible drilling rigs Noble Paul Wolff, Noble Driller and Noble Jim Thompson. Noble Corporation also reported a fourth quarter 2014 loss from continuing operations of $595 million, or $2.38 per dilu
From 8 to 10 December 2014, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) carried out an audit of Lundin Norway AS and the Edvard Grieg development project, in the Norwegian North Sea. The Edvard Grieg field is being developed using a manned fixed facility comprising a processing facility, living quar
Maritime union RMT has slammed Shell UK’s decision to award to Swiss-based Allseas Group SA the contract for the decommissioning of three of its Brent platforms that are situated on the UK Continental Shelf using its newest vessel, the Pieter Schelte, for the task. Shell has today said it has begun
Royal Dutch Shell has started preparing plans for the decommissioning of the Brent Delta Platform in the UK North sea. The platform is one of four platforms located in the Brent oil and gas field. According to Shell, the Brent field has produced roughly 10 percent of all UK North Sea oil and gas and
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) UK has informed that an offshore services company, Bilfinger Salamis UK, has been fined for serious safety failings following an incident in which a worker died after plunging 23 metres from a platform into the sea. Lee Bertram, then 37, from Newcastle, Tyne and
Singapore’s Keppel FELS is on its way to deliver the fourth semi-submersible accommodation rig to Floatel International Ltd (Floatel) At a ceremony in Singapore, held on Saturday, January 31, the rig was named Floatel Endurance at the Keppel FELS yard. It will be deployed to work for Chevron in West
Europe’s “first and only oil and gas event focusing solely on topsides installations” is set to take place at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) on 16th and 17th March 2016. According to the press release, Topsides UK will tackle some of the challenges facing the industry by shinin
Wood Mackenzie’s Caspian upstream research team have assessed the most significant events of 2014 impacting the region’s oil and gas sector, including the Ukraine crisis and the collapse of global oil prices and significant progress with the region’s high profile megaprojects, identifying the key ar
Russian oil giant Rosneft will not be resuming its Kara Sea operations, offshore Russia’s north this year, Reuters has reported. The company in partnership with ExxonMobil in September last year made an oil discovery at the Universitetskaya-1 well, dubbed the world’s northernmost well in the world.
Offshore drilling contractor Ensco plc has earned first place for total customer satisfaction in the Oilfield Products & Services Customer Satisfaction Survey. Conducted by EnergyPoint Research, the annual survey is the industry benchmark for customer satisfaction in the global oilfield. The UK-head
