Offshore driller Ocean Rig has informed that its drillship Ocean Rig Poseidon has been hired by Eni, and has started drilling programme in Angola.
Faroe Petroleum has failed to find hydrocarbons in the primary target of its Rungne exploration well in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Awilco Drilling expects higher rig utilization levels in the next two years.
UK-based Corallian Energy has revealed its plans to drill the Wick prospect in December 2018 with the Colter well to follow.
Results from an exploration well located in the Sampang PSC offshore Indonesia operated by Ophir Energy continue to indicate hydrocarbon bearing zones.
The NPD has granted Spirit Energy Norge a drilling permit for a well in the North Sea offshore Norway.
KrisEnergy has informed that the Mist jack-up rig has started drilling the Montha-1 exploration well in the G10/48 contract area in the Gulf of Thailand.
Canadian entity of the British oil major BP has not found commercial quantities of hydrocarbons in the Aspy well offshore Nova Scotia.
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority has given Aker BP consent to drill an exploration well offshore Norway using the Saipem-owned Scarabeo 8 drilling rig.
Equinor has once again pushed back the date for Verbier well drilling in the UK North Sea, changing it to the first quarter of 2019.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. climbed to 21 last week, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
Danish offshore driller Maersk Drilling has said it has entered into an agreement to sell the jack-up rig Mærsk Giant to an Australasian-based independent O&G operator.
World’s largest offshore accommodation company Prosafe has bid a farewell to one of its older flotels – the Safe Astoria.
Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority has conducted an audit of the Maersk Drilling-owned Maersk Reacher jack-up rig and found a number of non-conformities and improvement points.
