The Norwegian oil company OKEA has been given permission to drill its first operated wells offshore Norway.
A COSL-owned jack-up rig has been mobilized for Conrad Petroleum’s two-well campaign at the Duyung PSC in the West Natuna basin, offshore Indonesia.
CGX Energy has hired PGS to conduct a 3D seismic survey over its Corentyne Block offshore Guyana. CGX has also deferred all operational obligations under its drilling rig contract for the Ralph Coffman jack-up due to the re-sequencing of commitments in the Corentyne Block.
Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has canceled the orders with Samsung Heavy Industries for two Ocean Rig drillships under construction
Hurricane Energy has started drilling the third and final well in its Greater Warwick Area campaign located in the West of Shetland area off the UK.
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has confirmed that a settlement of its EUR 100 million ($109.7M) five-year senior secured bond took place on September 20.
Oil major BP has confirmed a ‘world-scale gas resource’ offshore Senegal after drilling the Yakaar-2 appraisal well, using the Valaris DS-12 drillship.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. dropped for a second week in a row, according to weekly rig count reports published on Friday by Baker Hughes.
Norwegian oil major Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill an exploration well for CO₂ verification in the North Sea using the West Hercules rig.
The PSA has found improvement points during an audit of OKEA’s planning of its first drilling operations on the NCS.
Equinor has exercised two options of two months each for the Maersk Drilling-owned Maersk Intrepid jack-up rig to continue working at the Martin Linge field offshore Norway.
UAE-based offshore oil rig builder Lamprell has yet to receive a firm order for the construction two jack-up rigs for which it signed a letter of intent in December 2018.
MOL has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for exploration drilling in the North Sea using the Deepsea Bergen drilling rig.
Japan’s Inpex has submitted its environment plan for the Ichthys development drilling campaign WA-50-L – Phase 2 to the Australian regulator, NOPSEMA.
