
OMV Norge, a subsidiary of Austria’s oil and gas company OMV, has made an oil discovery near the Gudurun field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) reported today, 20 April, that OMV Norge, operator of the production license 817, had completed the drillin

Transocean has tucked under its belt new contracts and extensions in Norway and Australia for four rigs in its drilling fleet, raising its total contract backlog to $8.6 billion.