
A semi-submersible rig forming part of Odfjell Drilling’s fleet has undergone maintenance ahead of its contract with Aker BP in the North Sea.

Equinor has received the go-ahead from the country’s authorities to use one of Transocean’s semi-submersible rigs for drilling operations at a field off the coast of Norway.

Shelf Drilling (SHLF) has now received an order from the Norwegian offshore safety regulator after a probe into the management of data security risks for industrial ICT systems on board one of its jack-up rigs working off the coast of Norway.

ExxonMobil and QatarEnergy have wrapped up drilling activities off the coast of Cyprus, carried out with a drillship owned by Valaris, an offshore drilling contractor.

Saipem has taken steps to make changes to a deal outlining the duration a chartered seventh-generation drillship will spend in its rig fleet.

Aker BP has secured a drilling permit for an exploration well 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.

Zenith Energy, an Aberdeen-headquartered well engineering consultancy and project management company, has finished its scope of work for a well drilled at a concession in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Poland.

Valaris’ rig has come to the North Sea to help a gas field and its infrastructure to get a new lease on life off the coast of the Netherlands as the first CO2 transport and storage project in the European Union (EU).

Petrogas E&P has crossed the finish line at its drilling program in the UK sector of the North Sea, which led to a gas discovery drilled by a 16-year-old jack-up rig owned by Noble Corporation, a U.S.-based offshore drilling giant.

Serica Energy is bringing its multi-well drilling campaign and work-over program in the North Sea to an end, as a rig from COSL Drilling Europe has started drilling the final well in this campaign on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).

Norwegian state-owned energy giant Equinor has awarded compatriot Island Drilling with a well plugging contract on the fields it operates on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS), while Archer and Baker Hughes Norge have won contracts for full-range delivery of plugging services.

OMV Petrom and Romgaz have started drilling the first gas production well in their multi-well program in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea with a semi-submersible rig, owned by Transocean, a Switzerland-based offshore drilling giant.

Stena Drilling has welcomed the award of an Abate (P) notation, which DNV has now bestowed upon another one of its drillships following the rig owner’s addition of multiple technical and operational measures for the rig to cut its fuel consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Equinor has received the go-ahead from the country’s authorities to use one of Odfjell Drilling’s semi-submersible rigs for drilling operations at a block in the North Sea off the coast of Norway.