Helicopter services provider Bristow has secured a contract to support TAQA’s operations in the East Shetland Basin.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for an appraisal well in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Tullow Oil has secured an Ocean Rig-owned drillship and drilling preparations are well underway for an exploration well offshore Namibia.
A Transocean-owned semi-submersible drilling rig has started the final leg of its journey from Port Louis (Mauritius) to Australia on the way to drill the Phoenix South-3 well for Quadrant Energy.
The international offshore rig count for February 2018 decreased both sequentially and year-over-year, according to a Wednesday report by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
An offshore rig worker has filed a million dollar lawsuit, claiming she found a hidden camera in her quarters while working on the Transocean-owned Deepwater Invictus drillship.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. sank to 14 units, according to Friday rig count reports by Baker Hughes, a GE company.
Brazilian state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has reached a possible settlement with its compatriot rig lessor Sete Brasil to charter four and terminate contracts for 24 drilling rigs.
The Petroleum Safety Authority has given Lundin Norway its consent to drill an exploration well in the North Sea with the COSLInnovator rig.
MHWirth, a company owned by Akastor, has been selected by Awilco Drilling for delivery of the drilling equipment package, with options for further three packages.
Statoil and its partners have contracted the West Phoenix rig for exploration drilling on the UK and Norwegian continental shelves from the summer of 2018.
U.S. offshore driller Rowan Companies returned to quarterly profit despite lower revenues helped by the sale of rigs to a joint venture with Saudi Aramco. For the fourth quarter 2017 Rowan reported a net income of $112 million compared to a net loss of $24.4 million in the fourth quarter of 2016. Th
This will be the market’s first newbuild offshore rig order in four years.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for an appraisal well in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.
