Norwegian oil company Statoil has awarded two contracts at a total value of more than NOK 4.35 billion ($558 million) to Odfjell Drilling for drilling wells on the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea, offshore Norway. Odfjell Drilling has been awarded contracts both for the Deepsea Atlantic semi-s
Baker Hughes Incorporated has issued its Weekly Rig Count reports, and offshore rigs in the U.S. have climbed up from the previous week. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -9 to 859 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 9 rigs from last week to 859, with oil rigs down 7 to 635, gas rigs down 1 to 221, […]
Oil giant Chevron has decided to follow its UK North Sea peers when it comes to changing offshore workers’ shift patterns. The company is implementing three weeks offshore, three weeks onshore rotation. In a statement sent to Offshore Energy Today, Chevron said: “In order to be competitive for the l
Prosafe Offshore Limited, the owner and operator of semi-submersible accommodation rigs, has received Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway for Safe Boreas. Safe Boreas is a semi-submersible accommodation rig delivered by Jurong Shipyard in Singapore an
ExxonMobil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use Jotun A and Jotun B, in the North Sea, beyond the originally planned lifetime. Jotun is a oil field located around 25 kilometres north of Balder in the central North Sea. Water depth is 126 metres. The field has
Lundin Petroleum has completed the drilling of appraisal well 7220/11-2 and sidetrack 7220/11-2 A in the western part of the Alta discovery in PL609, in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway. The wells were drilled about six kilometres southwest of the Alta discovery well and about 190 km northwest of Ha
Aqualis Offshore, a London-based offshore marine and engineering consultancy, has been reappointed by United India Insurance Company to provide marine warranty services to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), offshore India. According to the press release, Aqualis will provide marine
The Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) informed that drilling of the Niobe exploration well in UK licence P1889, in the North Sea, has started. Noreco is partner in the licence with a current equity interest of 22.5 %. Suncor Energy UK Limited is the operator with 49.5% equity interest and Trap O
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-23 S, in the Norwegian North Sea. According to the NPD, well 16/1-23 S will be drilled from the Rowan Viking jack-up drilling rig in production licence 338. The drilling programme for well 16/1-23
Erin Energy Corporation, formerly known as CAMAC Energy, has informed that it is continuing the completion operations on the Oyo-7 well, located in OML 120 offshore Nigeria, and production from the well is expected to start by mid-June. Kase Lawal, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer commented: “Wi
Alaska’s senator Lisa Murkowski has paid a visit to a controversial oil rig moored in the Port of Seattle, destined to drill for oil in the U.S. Arctic. The senator shared photos of the visit to the Shell-operated Polar Pioneer semi-submersible drilling rig through social media, expressing excitemen
CIMC Raffles has started the construction of the semi-submersible drilling rig Beacon Pacific for Beacon Pacific Group Ltd., at its Yantai Shipyard, in China. According to the press release, the rig is based on GM4-D design and CIMC Raffles has cooperated with Global Maritime on the basic design and
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 602, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 6706/11-2 in the Norwegian Sea. The well encountered gas. The well was drilled about 20 kilometres west of the Aasta Hansteen field in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea. The objective of the wel
Maersk Drilling has received the Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) from Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway for the Maersk Integrator jack-up drilling rig, deeming the rig good for deployment in Norwegian seas. Maersk Integrator is one of the world’s largest jack-up drilling rigs, delivered by
