Aker BP has secured a drilling permit for an exploration well in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, which will be drilled this month with a semi-submersible rig owned by Odfjell Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor.
Noble Corporation has secured a long-term extension with Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras for one of its semi-submersible rigs off the coast of Colombia, South America.
Zenith Energy, an Aberdeen-headquartered well engineering consultancy and project management company, has finished its scope of work for a well drilled at a concession in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Poland.
A jack-up rig, owned by Borr Drilling, has departed from a yard in Singapore to embark on a voyage toward its recently booked drilling assignment off the coast of Southeast Asia.
ConocoPhillips is laying the groundwork to kick off seabed surveys this month ahead of exploration drilling activities for which a semi-submersible rig owned by Transocean has arrived in the Otway Basin to find commercially viable natural gas reserves to keep fears of shortfalls at bay.
Hanwha Drilling, part of South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean, has held a naming ceremony for a seventh-generation drillship, which will work off the coast of Brazil for Petrobras, the South American country’s energy giant.
Valaris’ rig has come to the North Sea to help a gas field and its infrastructure to get a new lease on life off the coast of the Netherlands as the first CO2 transport and storage project in the European Union (EU).
ADES has tucked a multi-year contract renewal in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) under its belt, which enables one of its previously suspended jack-ups to work for Aramco once again.
Borr Drilling has secured a batch of assignments for three jack-up rigs and shed more light on the contracting developments and movements across the rest of its jack-up fleet.
KE STP and BG International, subsidiaries of UK-headquartered energy giant Shell operating in Suriname, have signed a contract with Stena Drilling for a mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU) from its fleet.
Lime Petroleum, a Norwegian subsidiary of Singapore’s Rex International, has signed a contract with Borr Drilling for a modern-built jack-up rig from its fleet to be used for a drilling campaign in West Africa.
Japan’s Eneos Drilling, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eneos Xplora, has entered into a contract with Japan Vietnam Petroleum Company (JVPC) to supply a jack-up rig from its fleet for a drilling assignment offshore Vietnam.
Petrogas E&P has crossed the finish line at its drilling program in the UK sector of the North Sea, which led to a gas discovery drilled by a 16-year-old jack-up rig owned by Noble Corporation, a U.S.-based offshore drilling giant.
Serica Energy is bringing its multi-well drilling campaign and work-over program in the North Sea to an end, as a rig from COSL Drilling Europe has started drilling the final well in this campaign on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
