Baker Hughes Incorporated has posted Weekly Rig Count reports to its Investor Relations website. According to Baker Hughes, offshore rig count is up this week. BHI Rig Count: U.S. -27 to 1893 rigs U.S. Rig Count is down 27 rigs from last week to 1893, with oil rigs down 29 to 1546, gas rigs up [&hel
DeepWell has been awarded a four year contract with Lundin for wireline services on the Edvard Grieg field, in the Norwegian North Sea. The contract also includes two options for a one year extension. The contract applies to all cased hole services, including tractor and electric wireline logging, a
Songa Trym, which was recently suspended from operations, is expected to resume operations on or about January 1, 2015.
Talisman Sinopec is returning its workers back to the Buchan Alpha platform in the North Sea, following an evacuation earlier this week. The company yesterday said it had flown 61 non-essential personnel from the semi-submersible platform, located 83 miles North East of Aberdeen, following severe we
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to carry out exploration drilling of well 30/11-11 in the Krafla prospect, in the North Sea. Statoil is the operator for exploration licences 272 and 035 in block 30/11 in the northern part of the North Sea. Exploration we
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway for modifications at Sleipner for connecting a gas pipeline from Gina Krog, in the North Sea. Gina Krog is an oil and gas find, located in blocks 15/5 and 15/6 in the central North Sea. Statoil is the operator of the field
Danish drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has received the Petroleum Safety Authority’s (PSA) Acknowledgement of Compliance (AoC) for the Maersk Interceptor jack-up drilling rig. Maersk Interceptor is a jack-up drilling rig, delivered by the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore in 2014. The unit, one of th
Norwegian Energy Company (Noreco) has informed that drilling of the Xana exploration well in licence 9/95 on the Danish continental shelf has started. Noreco is partner in the licence with an ownership of 20.1 per cent. The licence is located close to the gas discovery Svane, in the Danish sector of
Origin Energy has confirmed its Speculant-1 exploration well discovered potentially commercial quantities of gas in Waarre Formation reservoirs in the Otway Basin, offshore Victoria, Australia, within the Origin operated VIC/L1(v) permit. The Speculant discovery is a tilted fault block structure cov
ExxonMobil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway to use West Alpha drilling rig for production drilling, completion and installation of subsea equipment on the Balder field, in the North Sea. Balder was the first oil field to be discovered on the Norwegian Continental
Mermaid Maritime, a provider of subsea and drilling services for the offshore oil and gas industry, has marked the start of the construction of two of its offshore units, a vessel and a rig. The company took part in a steel cutting ceremonies for its performance class tender rig ‘MTR-3’ and DP2 mult
Songa Offshore has reported that its semi-submersible drilling rig Songa Dee is waiting for the weather to improve to continue its work for Statoil in the North Sea. Songa Dee is currently located at the coast of Norway. Once the weather conditions are improved, the rig will move to drilling locatio
Mermaid Maritime, a provider of subsea and drilling services for the offshore oil and gas industry, has received early termination of contract from its international upstream oil & gas client for the ‘MTR‐2’ tender drilling rig. The initial term of the contract was set to end in May 2015, but the ri
Centrica Resources Norge AS, operator of production licence 528 B, has informed it is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6707/10-3 S, in the Norwegian Sea. The well was drilled about 20 kilometers northeast of the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea. The primary and secondary explorati
