Velesto Drilling has been awarded a contract by UAE-based Mubadala Petroleum for the provision of a jack-up drilling rig for Pegaga development drilling campaign offshore Malaysia.
Norwegian offshore safety watchdog has found 11 non-conformities related to the working environment and emergency preparedness following an audit on the Transocean Endurance rig.
Archer has entered into a Letter of Intent with a North Sea operator for the provision of drilling services using the modular drilling rig Archer Topaz.
Springfield and its partners have officially announced significant oil discovery following its maiden Afina-1 well drilling campaign in the West Cape Three Points Block 2, offshore Ghana.
Singapore’s Energy Drilling has been awarded a contract by PTTEP to provide drilling services on the Arthit field in Gulf of Thailand.
Maersk Drilling has signed agreements with Halliburton and Petrofac to collaborate on the exploration program to be delivered under Maersk Drilling’s master alliance agreement with Seapulse.
Rockrose Energy has informed that the Noble Houston Colbert jack-up drilling rig is preparing to drill the first of two planned infill development wells on West Brae in the Uk North Sea.
Japan Drilling Company has secured additional work for its Hakuryu-11 jack-up, which will see the rig employed offshore Vietnam.
BW Energy has completed the first of the phase 2 Tortue development wells located in the Dussafu Marin permit offshore Gabon.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted ConocoPhillips a drilling permit for a well in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority for exploration drilling in block 30/6 in the North Sea, using the West Hercules rig.
Equinor has concluded the drilling of an appraisal well on an oil and gas discovery near the Fram field in the North Sea offshore Norway, but came up dry.
Offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has secured a one-year extension for the Trident XIV jack-up rig offshore Nigeria.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. remained unchanged for yet another week, according to Friday rig count reports by Baker Hughes.
