
Trillion Energy is now days away from kicking off its 2022 – 2023 drilling campaign on a natural gas field in the Black Sea offshore Türkiye.

Oil and gas company DNO Norge has awarded a drilling contract to a semi-submersible rig for a one well located offshore Norway.

Island Drilling Company has signed a contract with Trident Energy to provide a drilling unit and associated services for a campaign off Equatorial Guinea.

Dolphin Drilling has undertaken an equity issue to take advantage of increased day rates in the offshore drilling market.

Canadian offshore regulator has laid charges against Transocean related to an incident on one of the contractor’s rigs back in September 2019.

Equinor has secured a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for two wells located in the Norwegian Sea.

Offshore drilling contractor Valaris has revealed new contracts and contract extension awards, with an associated backlog of $149 million.

UK’s competition regulator has now completed its review of the business combination between Noble Corp. and Maersk Drilling.

Diamond Offshore Drilling has announced new contracts for one of its own semi-submersible rigs and for a drillship managed for Aquadrill.

Seadrill has entered into a binding share purchase agreement with ADES to sell the legal entities that own and operate seven jack-ups in Saudi Arabia.

UAE’s ADNOC has awarded framework deals described as “largest-of-its-kind” totalling $1.83 bln for drilling-related services to five firms.

The start of Trillion’s 2022 – 2023 drilling campaign on a gas field in the Black Sea has been delayed until rig repairs are completed.

Aker BP has completed has concluded the drilling of a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea but failed to find hydrocarbons.

Northern Ocean has secured a contract award from Shell for operations in Namibia, where the major made an oil discovery earlier this year.