Equinor has received consent for exploration drilling in block 32/4 in the North Sea offshore Norway, using the West Hercules rig.
GranEnergia has been awarded a 93-day contract by Petrobras to support the P31 and P-50 FPSO maintenance campaign with its DP3 accommodation Floatel CSS Olympia.
Australian oil and gas firm Santos is gearing up to drill the second appraisal well at the Dorado field offshore W. Australia.
Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill Limited has secured a contract for the West Gemini drillship in West Africa.
Oil and gas company Premier Oil has said that drilling of the Tolmount East appraisal well located in the UK Southern North Sea will start shortly.
The 6th generation drillship was delivered from the Samsung shipyard in 2008.
The EU will stop high-level dialogues with Turkey and will reduce pre-accession assistance to Turkey for 2020.
Equinor has failed to find hydrocarbons at the wildcat well 16/5-7, near the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea, offshore Norway.
Following last week’s results from the first two targets, which proved to be dry, Australian energy giant Santos has failed to find hydrocarbons at the other two Roc South-1 targets as well.
Oilfield services company Expro has been awarded a contract by Pacific Drilling for the provision of an intervention riser system (IRS) on Petronas’ Chinguetti field offshore Mauritania.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. increased to 26 units last week, according to weekly rig count reports by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
Norwegian E&P player Aker BP has made an oil find in the Liatårnet well located in the North of Alvheim and Krafla-Askja (NOAKA) area offshore Norway.
UK-based Hurricane Energy has spudded the Lincoln Crestal well in the Greater Warwick Area offshore UK using the Transocean Leader semi-submersible rig.
Offshore driller Odfjell Drilling has signed a firm contract with French oil major Total for drilling offshore South Africa.
