Australian oil and gas explorer Karoon has started tendering for a drilling rig which would drill the Marina-1 well offshore Peru.
Vantage Drilling sank deeper into the red in the last quarter of 2018 when compared to the prior-year period as its rig utilization and revenues dropped.
MMA Offshore has been awarded a drilling support contract by Australia’s energy company Santos.
The Petroleum Safety Authority has completed an investigation into an incident involving dropped objects on the Maersk Invincible drilling rig.
Offshore driller Rowan Companies has been awarded a drilling contract for a jack-up rig with Repsol in Guyana.
Cairn Energy has said it has hired the Stena Don semi-submersible drilling rig for the Chimera exploration well offshore the UK.
Italian oil company Eni has announced “a major oil discovery” in Block 15/06, in the Agogo exploration prospect, in Angola’s deep water.
i3 Energy, a company owning the undeveloped Liberator oil field and Serenity prospects in the North Sea, is raising cash to fund the multi-well drilling program in the area.
A little over a year ago, Awilco Drilling was just a company with two old North Sea semisubs. Now they’re on the offensive.
UK-based oil and gas company Cairn Energy will drill three wells in Mexican waters this year, two as operator and one as a partner.
Asia Offshore Drilling Limited (AOD) has secured a three-year contract extension for a jack-up drilling rig in the Middle East.
Offshore drilling giant Transocean has secured contracts for ultra-deepwater drillships, the Ocean Rig Corcovado and Ocean Rig Mykonos with Brazil’s Petrobras.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. was unchanged at 22 units last week, according to weekly rig count reports released by Baker Hughes, a GE company, on Friday.
UK offshore drilling contractor Awilco Drilling has exercised an option to order its second harsh-environment semi-submersible drilling rig from Keppel in Singapore for a price of $425 million. It has also decided to name a new CEO.
