Singapore’s KrisEnergy has hired a jack-up drilling rig operated by PV Drilling for drilling operations offshore Cambodia.
A Maersk Drilling-owned drillship is expected to restart operations in Africa for French oil major Total following a suspension of the contract, which started at the end of April.
French oil major Total expects to spud the Luiperd-1 well located offshore South Africa by the end of this month.
Equinor has received safety consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) to use the Deepsea Atlantic rig on the Gullfaks field located offshore Norway.
Shelf Drilling has seen a couple of its rig contracts suspended and one terminated early while another termination has been rescinded.
Bahamas Petroleum Company has been granted an interim force majeure extension to the second exploration period for its southern licences in The Bahamas
Drilling has been completed on the Wintershall Dea’s Dvalin field in the Norwegian Sea, propelling the project into the final development phase before first gas. Wintershall Dea said on Wednesday that, overcoming severe weather conditions at the beginning of the year and avoiding any impact of the C
Offshore drilling contractor Awilco Drilling is looking into ways to finance its remaining commitments for a newbuild rig ordered at Keppel.
Stena Carron, a Stena Drilling-owned drillship, has arrived on location at the Kaieteur Block, offshore Guyana, to drill the Tanager-1 well for ExxonMobil.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wellesley Petroleum a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea.
TechnipFMC ROV Services has recently deployed two new Gemini ROV systems for Shell, operating on contracted deepwater rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. The Gemini ROV is the latest innovation from TechnipFMC’s ROV Services group and leverages precision robotics to improve productivity and reduce rig days
Pacific Drilling has been awarded a contract by Murphy Oil for ten firm wells for its drillship Pacific Sharav in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
The U.S. offshore rig count stayed flat again, as the number of active rigs is steady at 12 for the fifth week, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes.
Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has won a six-month deal for the Noble Sam Croft drillship with ExxonMobil in Guyana.
