Wintershall Dea has farmed out its 30% stake in the Shrek licenses (PL838/838B) in the Norwegian Sea to Lime Petroleum.
Norwegian offshore drilling contractor Dolphin Drilling ASA might file for bankruptcy.
Spanish oil firm Repsol has hired a Maersk Drilling drillship for offshore drilling in Mexico.
Aker BP has been given consent by the Petroleum Safety Authority to use the Deepsea Nordkapp drilling rig for production drilling on the Skogul field offshore Norway.
ADES International has been awarded a new two-year contract for its Admarine IV offshore jack-up rig in Egypt.
The number of offshore units in the U.S. has remained the same over the course of last week, according to Friday rig count reports by Baker Hughes, a GE company. Baker Hughes Rig Count: U.S. – 2 to 967 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 2 rigs from last week to 967, with oil rigs […]
Aker BP has received consents from the PSA for the use of the Deepsea Stavanger and Maersk Invincible rigs for exploration drilling and development of Valhall Flank West, respectively.
Oil & Gas UK, a representative body for the UK’s offshore industry, has said that there are no winners following Greenpeace’s 12-day protest over BP’s drilling plans in the UK North Sea.
Maersk Drilling has completed the sale of its jack-up rig Giant – formerly named Mærsk Giant – to the LOTOS Petrobaltic Group.
Environmental group Greenpeace has ended its protest in Scotland targeting BP-chartered drilling rig for its UK North Sea drilling operations after twelve days.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Capricorn Norge a drilling permit for a well located in the Norwegian Sea.
Kazakhstan’s state-owned oil and gas company KazMunayGas (KMG) has delivered a jack-up drilling rig named Satti to Azerbaijan’s SOCAR for operations in Azerbaijan’s sector of the Caspian Sea.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Aker BP a drilling permit for a well, which is located in the Norwegian Sea.
Singapore’s KS Energy, via subsidiary KS Drilling, has reached an agreement with ZPMC to cancel a jack-up rig construction order signed in 2014.
