GulfSlope Energy has executed a drilling services contract with EnscoRowan to secure and utilize the Ensco 102 jack-up rig.
Lundin Norway has made two oil discoveries in exploration wells 16/1-31 S (Jorvik) and 16/1-31 A (Tellus East) on the eastern edge of the Edvard Grieg field in PL338 on the Utsira High off Norway.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor a drilling permit for well 6507/2-5 S, which is located in the Norwegian Sea.
Greenpeace says it is like groundhog day for a BP-chartered drilling rig in the North Sea as the rig has made its third U-turn in as many days with activists at its tail the whole time.
The Arctic Sunrise, a Greenpeace ship, has forced a BP-chartered drilling rig – Paul B. Loyd, Jr. – to make its second U-turn in the North Sea in less than 48 hours.
Australian energy company Santos has started drilling the Roc South-1 well offshore Australia, using the Noble Tom Prosser jack-up drilling rig.
Perisai Petroleum Teknologi Berhad has received a letter of award from Petronas Carigali for the provision of jack-up drilling rig, Perisai Pacific 101 (PP101) for Samarang drilling campaign.
Kosmos has hired a Seadrill semi-submersible drilling rig for operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico
Early on Sunday afternoon a Greenpeace ship, the Arctic Sunrise, got ahead of the BP-chartered drilling rig Paul B. Loyd, Jr. 83 miles off Scotland and near the drill site of a new well in the North Sea as part of a protest that has been going on for over a week now.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea to Aker BP.
Equinor has made an oil and gas discovery in 6507/3-13. exploration well in the production license 159B the Norwegian Sea, and is thinking of a potential tie-up with the nearby Norne FPSO
The well, designated 7335/3-1 and named Korpfjell Deep, is located in production license 859 in the Barents Sea where Equinor is the operator.
Shell has hired a Dolphin Drilling semi-submersible drilling rig for work on the Knarr field in Norway.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. increased to 24 units last week, according to weekly rig count reports published on Friday by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
