Norwegian oil major Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) for the use of the Floatel Endurance mobile accommodation unit on the Martin Linge field.
Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use the Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig for three wells in the Barents Sea and another consent to drill a sidetrack in the North Sea.
Bahamas Petroleum Company is working on finalizing a long-form rig contract with Seadrill and preparing for drilling in The Bahamas in 2020.
Offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has received an award for a three-year contract for the Trident II jack-up rig.
Norwegian oil major Equinor has received consent from the PSA for exploration drilling in the North Sea using the West Hercules drilling rig.
Ghanaian company Springfield Exploration and Production Limited has started drilling the Afina-1x well located off the coast of Ghana.
Offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has secured a three-year contract extension for the High Island VII jack-up rig.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted DNO a drilling permit for a well located in the Norwegian Sea.
Northern Drilling has canceled the resale contract for the West Cobalt drillship with the South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).
The initial flow test of the Caley reservoir from the Santos-operated Dorado-3 appraisal well off Australia has confirmed the main oil pool in the field is capable of producing flow rates at the higher end of pre-drill expectations.
Shelf Drilling has secured contract extensions for four of its jack-up drilling rigs.
The worldwide offshore rig count in September 2019 decreased by four units sequentially, but increased by 43 units year-over-year, according to reports by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
i3 Energy has started drilling the SA-01 appraisal well at the Serenity field located in the UK North Sea using the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig.
Brazilian drilling contractor Sete Brasil has reached agreements with Singapore’s rig builders Keppel Offshore & Marine and Sembcorp Marine related to contracts for the construction of six semi-submersible rigs and seven drillships, respectively.
