The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP a drilling permit to drill a wildcat well in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.
Nearly 20 jackups left the offshore rig fleet during the first quarter of the year.
Offshore driller Rowan Companies has secured work for its drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, UK, Norway, and Saudi Arabia.
Transocean has been awarded new contracts for its drilling rigs for work offshore Norway, Australia, and Canada.
Statoil has received consent from the PSA to put the Oseberg H platform offshore Norway into commission.
Spanish oil company Repsol has encountered oil offshore Gabon with the Ivela-1 exploration well.
Lundin Norway has started drilling operations for an extended well test on the Alta discovery in the southern Barents Sea – testing a completely new type of oil reservoir on the Norwegian shelf, consisting of karstified carbonates. A successful outcome will provide important information to progress
Diamond Offshore Drilling has launched its Sim-Stack service, the offshore drilling industry’s first cybernetic BOP service enabling Diamond Offshore to continuously and accurately assess BOP status.
An offshore drilling vessel caught fire while operating in the South China Sea offshore Miri, Malaysia, early Tuesday morning.
Aker BP has drilled a dry well southwest of the Knarr field in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Gulf Marine Services (GMS) has won a new long-term contract award for one of its mid-size class vessels.
Quadrant Energy has started drilling the Phoenix South-3 well located offshore Australia.
Odfjell Drilling has been awarded a conditional letter of intent (LOI) by Statoil for a drilling contract for Deepsea Atlantic rig.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. is up to 16 units, according to Friday’s report by Baker Hughes.
