Lundin Petroleum has temporarily suspended drilling of the exploration well 7220/6-2 on the Neiden prospect in PL609, in the Barents Sea. Lundin Petroleum started drilling the exploration well in October 2015, using the Island Innovator semi-submersible drilling rig, and has drilled a section of it.
Transocean, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors saw its revenue and utilization drop, due to a shrinking demand for drilling services caused by plunging oil prices. The market situation is not expected to change any time soon, the company said. The company on Thursday reported r
Cairn Energy has spudded the first appraisal well on the SNE oil field located 100km offshore Senegal. According to FAR Limited, a partner in the project, the SNE-2 well will be drilled in approximately 1,100 metres of water and drilled to a TDVSS (total vertical depth subsea) of approximately 2,770
A helicopter with two pilots aboard has reportedly crashed offshore the east coast of India. According to the country’s media, the helicopter owned by Pawan Hans was conducting a night landing test on an offshore oil installation when it ditched and sank. The incident happened on Wednesday approxima
Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil has reached a milestone this week, as it has been ten years since the high-pressure/high-temperature Kristin field in the Norwegian Sea came on stream. Discovered in 1996, the Kristin gas and condensate field is located in the south-western part of the Halten Bank
Statoil has, on behalf of the Johan Sverdrup licence, awarded a contract to Jacktel AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Master Marine AS, for providing accommodation services on the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. Jacktel AS has been awarded a contract for the Haven jack-up accommodation rig for
Songa Offshore, an offshore drilling contractor, informed on Wednesday that the Songa Equinox rig had arrived in Norwegian waters on October 22, 2015. Songa Equinox is the first rig in a series of four Category D rigs specifically built for and contracted to Statoil. The rig will start its eight-yea
Odfjell Drilling has secured more work for the Deepsea Metro I drillship, as Vietgazprom has exercised the first well test period for the vessel. To remind, the Deepsea Metro I began its contract with Vietgazprom in August 2015 in blocks 130 and 131 offshore Vietnam. The firm contract period is expe
iSurvey has secured a framework contract with Total E&P UK Limited for the provision of rig move navigation and positioning services. According to iSurvey, the framework contract with an effective date of October 12, 2015, is for three years. Under the contract, iSurvey will provide platform, rig an
Diamond Offshore Drilling, a Houston-based driller, has agreed to terminate contracts with Petrobras on the semi-submersible rig Ocean Alliance and the drillship Ocean Clipper. In exchange for the early termination, Petrobras will extend the contract for the semi-submersible Ocean Courage for an add
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) has inspected Eni Norge’s follow-up of electrical installation requirements on Goliat, the circular floating production, storage and offloading vessel (FPSO), in the Barents Sea. The Goliat FPSO is a circular FPSO of the Sevan 1000 type used for the develo
A memorandum of understanding between Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine, Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco), and the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri) to develop a “world-class” maritime yard in Saudi Arabia has expired. Bahri, one of the largest shipping companies in the world, revealed o
Songa Offshore, a Norwegian drilling contractor, has received a notice of cancellation of the drilling contract with Statoil for one of its semi-submersible drilling rigs, four months before the expiration of contract on March 4, 2016. The cancellation for the 1976-built Songa Trym rig becomes effec
Cairn Energy has started the appraisal program to evaluate the SNE oil discovery, offshore Senegal. According to FAR Limited, a partner in the project, the three wells SNE-2, SNE-3 and BEL-1 will be drilled back to back in a program that is estimated to be completed in mid-2016. Both SNE-2 and SNE-3
