Noble Corporation, a UK-based offshore drilling contractor, has secured contracts for three of its drilling rigs in the Middle East. The contracts are for three jack-up drilling rigs. Noble did not disclose the name of the client or clients. It revealed that contract extensions have been granted for
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Talisman Energy Norge AS a drilling permit for well 15/12-24 S, in the North Sea. Well 15/12-24 S will be drilled from the Maersk Giant jack-up drilling rig, just northeast of the Varg field in the central part of the North Sea. The drilling prog
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Det norske oljeselskap AS a drilling permit for well 16/1-22 S, in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The oil company will drill the well using the Maersk Interceptor jack-up rig in production licence 001 B, after completing the drilling of appraisal
Total E&P Norge AS, operator of production licence 627, is about to complete the drilling of wildcat well 25/6-5 S, in the Norwegian North Sea. The well is a gas discovery, which encountered a net 10 metre gas column in the high quality Middle Jurassic Hugin formation. The Skirne East exploration we
DeepOcean AS, a subsidiary of DeepOcean Group Holding BV, has been awarded the Riser Installation contract for the Kristin and Heidrun platforms, located in the Norwegian Sea, by Statoil. The modification of these platforms is required in preparation of a possible tie-back from the near-by Maria-dev
Statoil has made an oil discovery in its Miocene Yeti prospect located in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GoM). “The Yeti discovery expands the proven sub-salt Miocene play further south and west of the Big Foot field,” says Jez Averty, Statoil’s senior vice president, exploration for North America. “We ar
Danish drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has won a contract extension for one of its offshore drilling rigs. According to a tweet from the company’s official Twitter account, the semi-submersible drilling rig Heydar Aliyev has received a 160 day contract extension from BP. The rig is being used by
Falkland Oil and Gas Limited, the oil and gas exploration company focused on its license areas to the North, South and East of the Falkland Islands, has announced that the 14/20-1 ‘Isobel Deep’ exploration well was spudded, by Premier Oil as operator, on April 8, 2015. The well is located on licence
Drydocks World, a Dubai-based service provider to the offshore oil & gas industry has completed refurbishment of National Drilling Company’s (NDC) offshore drilling rig Beynouna. According to Drydocks World, the company carried out a major repair on the Beynouna rig ahead of schedule. For Rig Beynou
Royal Dutch Shell has filed a complaint to a federal court in Alaska asking for an order to remove six Greenpeace activists who climbed aboard the Polar Pioneer drilling rig on Monday. Namely, the activists boarded the semi-submersible drilling rig Polar Pioneer which is being transported across the
SBM Offshore, the world’s largest provider of FPSO units, entangled in a bribery case investigation with Petrobras in Brazil, has denied media reports claiming the company has reached a settlement with the country’s authorities. The company was referring to a report by Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper,
Tap Oil Limited has informed that all eleven Manora development wells, located in the Northern Gulf of Thailand, have been completed and the drilling rig has now moved off location. Mubadala Petroleum is the operator of the Manora Oil Development joint venture and Tap Oil Limited has 30% interest. M
Norway’s Statoil has told Offshore Energy Today that the company has plugged and abandoned its Yeti wildcat located in the U. S. Gulf of Mexico. The well was drilled from January till March 2015 with the ultra deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig Maersk Developer. The rig is under contract with S
Greenpeace activists have boarded a semi-submersible oil drilling rig destined to drill for Shell, in the Chukchi sea, offshore Alaska. Six activists from around the world boarded the Polar Pioneer drilling rig yesterday in order to protest against Arctic drilling. The Polar Pioneer, which is being
