
Spirit Energy, a North Sea operator, has finished a multimillion-dollar decommissioning campaign in the UK sector of the North Sea, plugging and abandoning (P&A) three gas wells that have reached the end of their productive lives and removing more than 234 tons of subsea infrastructure.

The North Sea may be a mature oil and gas basin, but it is still yielding more discoveries, as highlighted by two Norwegian energy companies, Equinor and Aker BP, which have struck gas/condensate on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), underscoring the potential to find and develop additional reso

Noble Corporation, a U.S.-based offshore drilling giant, has secured a new assignment for one of its jack-up rigs on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

Italy’s engineering, drilling, and construction services company Saipem is carrying out completion work with its 2000-built drillship for compatriot energy giant Eni on a gas well off the coast of Sicily, with the campaign scheduled to run through to late September 2026, according to an Italian Coas

Borr Drilling, an offshore drilling player with its corporate base in Bermuda, has lined up multiple new assignments and extensions of existing deals for its rig fleet off the coasts of Vietnam, Malaysia, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), and the Netherlands.

Norway’s oil and gas company Aker BP and its compatriot state-owned partner, Equinor, have come up dry in their latest North Sea exploration well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

Noble Corporation, a U.S.-based offshore drilling giant, has lined up a new assignment for a 12-year-old jack-up rig off the coast of Norway with ConocoPhillips Skandinavia, a subsidiary of the U.S.-headquartered energy company ConocoPhillips.


U.S.-headquartered energy services provider Expro has brought Enhanced Well Technologies Group (Enhanced Drilling) into its fold, extending its drilling technology capabilities.

Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor has made a new oil find on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), putting on the table a potential tie-back to the country’s largest oil development ever brought on stream in the Barents Sea.

Zagreb-headquartered INA Group, a member of the MOL Group, has found gas at the first well in its multi-well drilling campaign on its North Adriatic gas field off the coast of Croatia.

ADES Holding Company, an oil and gas drilling services provider that is part of Saudi Arabia-headquartered ADES Group, has landed new multimillion-dollar assignments for two jack-up rigs in Africa and Europe.

Odfjell Drilling, a 53-year-old offshore drilling player, has won a contract extension with Norway’s oil and gas player Aker BP for a 2019-built semi-submersible rig, which is working on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

Norway’s oil and gas player Vår Energi has obtained a drilling permit for operations in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, which will be undertaken with a semi-submersible rig owned by COSL Drilling Europe, an offshore drilling contractor.