Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted Weekly Rig Count reports to its Investor Relations website according to which the U.S. offshore rig count has once again remained unaffected. BHI Rig Count: U.S. +19 to 876 rigs U.S. Rig Count is up 19 rigs from last week to 876, with oil rigs up 21 to 659, gas [
Paragon Offshore, an offshore drilling contractor, has signed an agreement with Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., LTD., to extend the delivery date of the jack-up rig Prospector 6 to April 15, 2016. Paragon said that, under the terms of the agreement, no payments are due to the shipyard until th
Cue Energy Resources has informed that a multi well workover campaign to further increase production from Maari field, offshore New Zealand, is scheduled to start in August 2015. The Maari growth drilling campaign was completed with the last of four new wells, MR10, put in production in early July,
Primeline Energy Holdings Inc. has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the drilling operations of the forthcoming exploration programme in Block 33/07 in the East China Sea. In the last few months, Primeline has been in discussion with a number of potential drilling contractors in the region to secu
Japan has called China to reconsider its accelerated offshore oil and gas activities close to disputed waters of the East China Sea. On the other hand, according to China’s news agency Xinhua, China urged Japan to create a more favorable atmosphere regarding the East China Sea question. Namely, in J
Norwegian oil and gas major Statoil, operator of production licence 146, has found gas/condensate in the Julius prospect near the Ekofisk field in the North Sea, and is now in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 2/4-23 S. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has said that the
Global Marine, a provider of engineering and underwater services, has secured a contract with Subsea 7 to provide personnel and equipment to support the delivery of a submarine fibre optic link between platforms in the North Sea for UK oil and gas major, BP. Under the contract, Global Marine will be
Maersk Drilling’s jack-up rig, the Maersk Integrator, has started drilling operations on the Gina Krog field, in the Norwegian North Sea, on July 20, 2015. The rig is operating for Norway’s oil and gas giant Statoil and it will drill wells until sometime in 2019. Statoil received consent from the Pe
Baker Hughes Incorporated, an oilfield services company that is soon to be merged with Halliburton, has reported a loss of $188 million in its second quarter of 2015 compared with a profit in the same period a year earlier. According to Baker Hughes’ 2Q 2015 report, revenue for the current quarter w
With the sail away of the Cygnus Alpha Compression Module yesterday evening (July 20, 2015), the last of four main structures left Heerema Hartlepool, part of Heerema Fabrication Group (HFG), after two and a half years of construction. According to Heerema, the Cygnus Bravo Wellhead Platform (BWHP)
Noreco Norway has informed that the Haribo exploration well in the North Sea has been drilled to total depth without encountering hydrocarbons. The well will now be plugged and abandoned as the targeted high porosity reworked chalk reservoir was not found. Spudded on June 21, 2015 the well was drill
InterMoor Inc., an Acteon company, has completed its role in the installation campaign for BP’s Juniper gas project, offshore Trinidad and Tobago. The final stage of the project involved hooking up Diamond Offshore Drilling’s Ocean Victory semi-submersible drilling rig to the preset mooring spread I
VAALCO Energy, Inc., an oil production company, has brought online the Southeast Etame 2-H well, the first development well drilled in the Southeast Etame Field, offshore Gabon. According to the company, the well was brought online at the rate of approximately 3,400 barrels of oil per day (approxima
Rowan Companies, a Houston-based drilling contractor, has sold two jack-up drilling rigs effective July 1, 2015. In addition, Rowan has signed several new contracts and contract extensions. Namely, the Rowan Alaska and the Rowan Juneau have been retired from service as drilling units as the company
