
E&P company Energean has signed a contract with Stena Drilling for its 2022 – 2023 growth drilling programme located offshore Israel.

After two weeks of no change, the number of offshore rigs in the U.S. increased by one unit last week, according to Baker Hughes.

Harbour Energy has experienced a negative impact on production during the first five months of 2021 due to planned maintenance and outages.

Noble Corporation has secured more work for two of its drilling rigs while one jack-up unit has been warm stacked in the UK.

Offshore drilling contractor Valaris has been awarded a three-year contract with North Oil Company offshore Qatar.

Oil and gas company Vår Energi has made a ‘significant’ discovery of oil and gas in the King and Prince exploration wells in the Balder area in the Southern North Sea offshore Norway.

The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. remained unchanged for two weeks in a row, according to a weekly rig count by Baker Hughes.

Offshore vessel owner Siem Offshore has been awarded a three-month firm contract for an AHTS with PSE Kinsale Energy.

Houston-based oil and gas company Vaalco Energy has hired one of Borr Drilling’s jack-up rigs for its 2021/2022 drilling program on the Etame field off Gabon.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted MOL Norge a drilling permit for an appraisal well in the North Sea off Norway.

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has been awarded two contracts for its rigs for operations in waters offshore Norway.

Offshore rig operator Japan Drilling Co. (JDC) has been awarded a drilling contract for a jack-up rig for operations offshore Qatar.

FAR Limited has contracted a Stena Drilling-owned rig to drill the Bambo-1 exploration well, located on its acreage offshore The Gambia.

Hurricane Energy has hired a Stena Drilling-owned rig for plug and abandonment of the Lincoln-14 well, located off the UK and restarted at Lancaster.