Woodside is exploring how the costs for its Sangomar project, located offshore Senegal, can be reduced and expenditure delayed due to the current coronavirus pandemic and the sudden fall of the oil price.
FAR Limited has temporarily suspended its plans to drill an exploration well offshore The Gambia as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Maersk Drilling has received a notification from Tullow Oil of early termination for convenience of the drilling contract for the drillship Maersk Venturer.
Global Energy Group has welcomed the first jack-up rig to berth at the Nigg Terminal jetty where it would be in lay up while it waits for its next contract.
Following EnQuest’s cancellation of mobilization of the Prosafe-owned Safe Zephyrus accommodation rig in the North Sea, Prosafe has said it will claim the full value of the contract.
Shelf Drilling has received an early contract termination for a jack-up rig operating offshore Nigeria.
Oil and gas company Byron Energy has hit oil and gas pay in the F5 well in the Gulf of Mexico but decided to suspend further activities due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. remained unchanged over the last week, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes Company.
A contract for the Shelf Drilling-owned jack-up drilling rig operating in the Middle East has been changed to end sooner than previously agreed.
i3 Energy has awarded a drilling contract to a Dolphin Drilling-owned rig and agreed on a sale of an interest in a block offshore the UK.
MOL Norge has made an oil and gas discovery near the Balder field in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Total has discovered hydrocarbons in the Upper Jurassic and Triassic sandstone reservoirs of its Isabella exploration well in Block 30/12d in the UK Central North Sea.
Prosafe has been awarded a contract to provide accommodation in support of the redundant subsea tank removal and safe re-habitation of the Thistle Alpha platform in the UK North Sea.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Capricorn Norge a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.
