
Keppel Offshore & Marine has secured assignments for two additional jack-up rigs, which will be deployed in Saudi Arabia.

Northern Lights has confirmed the storage capacity of at least 5 million tonnes of CO2 per annum in the North Sea licence off Norway.

International Maritime Industries (IMI) has awarded a detailed design engineering contract for the construction of jack-up rigs to Zentech.

Aker BP has secured two types of permits from Norwegian authorities for drilling operations in the North Sea off Norway.

U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has made a discovery in waters offshore Angola after drilling an exploration well using a Valaris-owned drillship.

Offshore drilling contractor Diamond Offshore has been awarded a new drilling programme with Petrobras in Brazil for the Ocean Courage rig.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Aker BP a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea offshore Norway.

Oil and gas company Energean has made another commercial gas discovery in an exploration well offshore Israel.

Hess has picked Malaysia’s rig owner Velesto Energy to carry out the drilling work on a project located offshore Peninsular Malaysia.

Northern Ocean’s Deepsea Bollsta semi-submersible drilling rig is on its way to Namibia where it will work for the oil major Shell.

Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has started drilling the Calypso exploration well located in the Norwegian Sea.

Trillion has started the work planned for the second well in its 2022 – 2023 drilling campaign on a gas field in the Black Sea off Türkiye.

Transocean is expecting the demand for its rigs to remain high, leading to a further improvement in day rates and fleet utilisation.

Sonadrill, a 50:50 joint venture between Seadrill and Sonangol, has secured a 12-well extension in Angola for the Libongos drillship.