Suretank, a provider of engineered solutions to the offshore o&g industry, has manufactured and delivered specialized helifuel re-fuelling tanks and jettison skids for two rigs operating in the Gulf of Thailand. Suretank said on Tuesday that the equipment was manufactured for offshore driller Shelf
China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL), a Chinese offshore services provider, has won a contract to perform drilling operations in Papua New Guinea for the Australian oil & gas company, Twinza Oil. COSL said on Wednesday that the contract had already been signed by the two parties. According to the
Offshore driller Rowan Companies has been awarded new contracts and contract extensions for its jack-up drilling rigs working in the UK, Norway, Saudi Arabia and Trinidad. In its fleet status report on Wednesday, the driller reported that the 2011-built jack-up drilling rig Rowan Norway has been hir
Oil exploration and production company Aker BP has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to drill an exploration well in the North Sea using the Maersk Interceptor drilling rig. The PSA said on Wednesday that the well would be drilled in a prospect named Nordfjellet in block 25/
Norway’s offshore safety watchdog, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), has found a number of non-conformities and improvement points during an audit of the Maersk Intrepid rig. The PSA said on Wednesday that it carried out an audit of Maersk Drilling’s management of emergency preparedness and empl
Australian energy company Cooper Energy has hired Norway’s offshore vessel provider Solstad Farstad to support its drilling operations within the Bass Strait region of Australia. Namely, the Australian company has awarded a contract to Solstad Farstad for two anchor handling tug and supply vessels,
Australian oil and gas company Quadrant Energy has hired one of Transocean’s semi-submersible drilling rigs to drill the Phoenix South-3 well offshore Western Australia. Carnarvon Petroleum, Quadrant’s partner in the permit, informed on Tuesday that the contract to drill the Phoenix South-3 well has
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Statoil a drilling permit for a wildcat well and pilot well in the Norwegian Sea. The wells, designated 6507/8-9 and 6507/8-U2, will be drilled using the Deepsea Bergen semi-sub after the drilling rig completes the drilling of appraisal well 31/7
Nature Group, an oil, gas, and maritime waste collection and treatment company, has secured a five-year contract with Maersk Oil in the central North Sea. Nature Group said on Tuesday that the contract would see the company mobilize offshore slop processing environmental units and operational staff
Oil company Lundin Norway has declared its third option to extend the existing contract of the Ocean Rig-owned semi-submersible rig, Leiv Eiriksson. In addition, Ocean Rig has granted Lundin two additional options to drill further wells in the future, the driller said on Monday. As a result of these
Danish offshore contractor Maersk Drilling is looking to reduce well costs through digital collaboration with the American conglomerate General Electric (GE). Following the positive outcome of their pilot project, Maersk Drilling and GE have extended the scope of their digital partnership. The colla
Norwegian oil company Statoil has made a small gas discovery in the Blåmann well, between the Snøhvit and Goliat fields, in the Barents Sea off Norway. Statoil kicked off its offshore exploration campaign in the Barents Sea off Norway with the Blåmann well in May. Recoverable volumes are estimated a
Singapore’s offshore driller KS Drilling and China’s rig builder COSCO Nantong have agreed to further postpone the delivery date for a jack-up drilling rig by two more years. KS Drilling entered the contract with COSCO Nantong to build two jack-up drilling rigs based on the LeTourneau Workhorse Clas
Vantage Drilling has secured a contract for one of its jack-up drilling rigs, the Topaz Driller. The Topaz Driller has been awarded a six-month contract with PETRONAS Carigali Ketapang for work in Indonesia, after completion of the current contract with Ophir Energy in Thailand. “This continues the
