Equinor has received a drilling permit for two exploration wells in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, which will be drilled with a semi-submersible rig owned by Odfjell Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor.
Damen Shiprepair, part of the Dutch shipbuilding giant Damen Shipyards Group, has hosted a naming ceremony for a self-elevating heavy lift jack-up, being repurposed from two former units by decommissioning services specialist Petrodec, at its yard in Rotterdam.
Aker BP has made a new oil discovery in the Norwegian Sea, off the coast of Norway, with a semi-submersible rig owned by Italy’s Saipem.
As part of Türkiye’s mission to cut its reliance on foreign natural gas and diversify its sources of supply, the country is conducting oil and gas exploration activities. One of the drillships tasked with searching for hydrocarbon reserves has made a new natural gas discovery in the Black Sea.
Norwegian authorities have handed out a drilling permit for an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea, which is expected to be drilled this month using one of Odfjell Drilling-managed semi-submersible rigs.
Equinor has secured a drilling permit for an exploration well in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, which will be drilled next month with COSL Drilling Europe’s semi-submersible rig.
Equinor Low Carbon Solutions, a subsidiary of Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor, has drilled two appraisal wells in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, which are said to possess suitable properties for the injection and storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Transocean, Noble Corporation, Valaris, Seadrill, Shelf Drilling, and ADES have reported a combined total backlog of $31.17 billion in the first quarter of 2025.
Aker BP has secured drilling permits for three exploration wells in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, which will be drilled this month with a semi-submersible rig owned by Odfjell Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor.
Shelf Drilling (SHLF) has shed more light on the latest developments across its rig fleet, confirming the arrival of two jack-ups in West Africa and the start of drilling work in Norwegian waters for another unit.
OMV Norge, a Norwegian subsidiary of Austria-headquartered oil and gas player OMV, has received a drilling permit from the country’s authorities for a wildcat well duo in the Norwegian Sea, enabling it to undertake drilling activities this month with a semi-submersible rig managed by Odfjell Drillin
U.S.-headquartered offshore drilling giant Noble Corporation has confirmed the receipt of a certificate related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) rig technology from DNV, an energy expert and assurance provider.
Dolphin Drilling has confirmed that its 35-year-old semi-submersible rig is now focused on its plug and abandonment (P&A) mission in the UK sector of the North Sea.
Dolphin Drilling has tweaked the terms of the deal for its multimillion-dollar facility agreement with security, among other things, over the 1990-built semi-submersible rig it acquired from Transocean, providing for amortization relief of the installments payable for the three months from April to
