A new, twelve-well drillship contract has been awarded to a joint venture between Seadrill Limited and Angola’s oil and gas player Sonangol.
A Norwegian union is working to avoid the downsizing of 200 workers of the West Mira rig following a recent contract termination.
Offshore drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has secured a one-well contract extension for one of its rigs with Total in Suriname.
Canadian government has awarded funding to several projects that could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore oil & gas operations, including a project using floating wind turbines to power oil & gas assets. The project, being developed by floating wind techno
Dolphin Drilling has secured a Letter of Intent with Wellesley Petroleum for the drilling of an HPHT exploration well on the NCS.
Shelf Drilling is seeing encouraging signs of an improving jack-up market with an increase in the global number of contracted jack-ups.
Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill Partners has secured a contract for one of its drillships with an undisclosed client in Malaysia.
Offshore drilling contractor Valaris has been awarded a contract extension for one of its jack-up drilling rigs by Mubadala Petroleum.
Diamond Offshore has named a former boss of Pacific Drilling and a former executive of Noble Corporation as the company’s President and CEO.
Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor has exercised one additional well for the Odfjell Drilling-owned Deepsea Atlantic rig.
Harbour Energy has drilled a dry exploration well on the Ilder prospect off Norway, ending a two-well campaign with disappointing results.
Vantage Drilling has been awarded several new contracts, which will see its rigs operate in South East Asia, Middle East, and Africa.
The number of offshore rigs in the U.S. remained unchanged over this week, according to a weekly rig count by Baker Hughes.
Canadian offshore petroleum regulator has fined Suncor Energy and Transocean over an unauthorized fluid discharge from a rig back in 2018.
