Danish maritime giant Maersk has decided to “demerge” its drilling business Maersk Drilling via a separate listing of Maersk Drilling on Nasdaq Copenhagen in 2019.
Independent Oil and Gas has secured funding for the upcoming drilling of the Harvey appraisal well in the UK North Sea.
The Prospector 5 jack-up rig has left Damen Verolme Rotterdam and started its journey to the UK continental shelf.
Offshore driller Ensco has said it has resolved its issues with Petrobras and is now back on track to potentially secure more work with the Brazilian oil giant.
Shelf Drilling, one of the world’s largest jack-up rig owners, has secured a contract for one of its jack-up drilling rigs.
Wintershall has received consent from the PSA for exploration drilling in the Norwegian Sea.
New Age, the operator of the Etinde block offshore Cameroon, has completed the drilling of the IM-6 appraisal well, and the result has been described as “disappointing.” The IM-6 spudded on May 21. It was the first of two planned appraisal wells to be drilled in 2018 by the Etinde Joint Venture part
Norwegian oil company Equinor has completed the appraisal drilling on the Sigrun oil and gas discovery in the North Sea offshore Norway lifting its previous resource estimate for the discovery. Equinor is thinking of potentially developing the discovery via the nearby Grane platform.
Shelf Drilling, which describes itself as world’s largest offshore jack-up rig owner, has seen an uptick in jack-up rig utilization this year and expects rig demand to pick-up.
Vietsovpetro, a Russian-Vietnamese joint company for oil and gas exploration, has hired two PV Drilling jack-up rigs.
Oslo-listed driller Awilco Drilling will stop paying dividends as the company says it has entered the growth and investment mode, following a recent order of a new rig, to be marketed in the Norwegian sector.
Jack-up rig specialist Shelf Drilling has found more work for its Trident VIII jack-up.
Spanish oil firm Repsol will be using the Rowan Stavanger jack-up rig to support its work on the Yme field development.
The PSA has given consent to Equinor for exploration drilling in the North Sea, using the Deepsea Bergen.
