Maersk Drilling has entered an agreement to invest $1 million in Clean Energy Systems to help develop a new technology called Carbon-Negative Energy.
OMV is the process of concluding the drilling of an appraisal well on the Hades gas/condensate discovery in the Norwegian Sea.
The U.S. offshore rig count has not changed for the third week in a row now, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes.
Aker BP has received safety consents from the Norwegian offshore safety watchdog to use two rigs for production drilling on two fields offshore Norway.
The U.S. weekly offshore rig count remained unchanged at 12 units for the second week in a row, according to a Friday report by Baker Hughes.
Maersk Drilling has secured an additional one-well contract from Aker BP for the low-emission jack-up rig Maersk Integrator.
BP’s environment plan for the Ironbark-1 exploration well has been approved by the Australian offshore regulator, NOPSEMA, and BP is preparing to drill the well in October 2020.
Vår Energi is resuming its drilling activities in the Barents Sea and the North Sea, which were postponed this spring due to the corona pandemic and oil price collapse.
Transocean has received a contract termination for its semi-submersible Paul B. Loyd Jr. in the UK. Furthermore, Transocean said that the delivery of the Deepwater Atlas drillship from a Sembcorp Marine yard could be delayed.
The COVID-19 pandemic has stymied oil and gas activity, a phenomenon which has now affected the drilling market both in terms of wells drilled and in terms of related demand for drilling equipment.
Caspian Sunrise has received regulatory and shareholder approvals for the acquisition of the Caspian Explorer drilling vessel.
Mubadala Petroleum has increased the production capacity on the Manora oil field in the Gulf of Thailand following the completion of the 2020 development drilling and workover program.
Equinor has made a minor oil discovery near the Vigdis field in the North Sea offshore Norway.
ExxonMobil’s environment plan for the plug and abandonment of Seahorse/Tarwhine wells offshore Australia is now under assessment by the Australian regulator.
