Offshore driller Odfjell Drilling will employ more than 200 personnel in Norway as two new semi-submersibles join the company’s fleet this year.
Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority for exploration drilling in the North Sea with the Transocean Spitsbergen rig.
Swedish oil company Lundin Petroleum has filed the plan for the development of the Solveig field offshore Norway. The field was previously called Luno II.
Polish oil company PGNiG will drill its first operated exploration well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf using the Odfjell Deepsea Nordkapp semi-submersible drilling rig.
Shell is preparing to start drilling an exploration well in the Black Sea offshore Bulgaria within days.
The NPD has granted MOL Norge, a Norwegian unit of the Hungarian oil company MOL, a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.
The Chinese oil and gas company CNOOC has reportedly chartered one of the world’s largest semi-submersible drilling rigs – the Bluewhale I.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for a well offshore Norway.
Just as Singapore’s Jadestone Energy was getting ready to start its infill drilling program at the Stag oilfield located offshore Australia, the company was forced to halt its operations due to tropical cyclone Veronica.
Castex Energy has failed to find commercial hydrocarbons at the Main Pass Block 273 B-2 appraisal/development well in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. dropped to 20 units last week, according to weekly rig count reports released by Baker Hughes on Friday.
UK-based offshore driller Awilco Drilling and Singapore’s rig builder Keppel have officially signed a contract for the construction by Keppel of a new semi-submersible drilling rig.
Norwegian offshore driller Island Drilling has been awarded a contract by CNOOC for the Island Innovator rig for operations offshore the UK.
Norwegian oil major Equinor has received consent from the PSA to use the Transocean Equinox rig on the Visund field.
