Shell and Chevron are returning personnel to their offshore assets in the Gulf of Mexico and all rigs to drill sites in a bid to resume operations since the anticipated disturbance, which was expected to turn into a hurricane, is no longer considered to present a safety risk.
Borr Drilling has ticked all the items on the list it made to prepare its recently delivered jack-up rig for its inaugural drilling activities off the coast of Africa.
Dolphin Drilling has kicked off its drilling assignment off the coast of India after one of its semi-submersible rigs returned to the Asian country for a new 14-month hydrocarbon exploration campaign.
Transocean, Noble Corporation, Valaris, Borr Drilling, and Odfjell Drilling have secured a combined total backlog of $23.22 billion in the third quarter of 2024, which is higher than $23.03 billion in the second quarter of 2024 and $22.7 billion in the third quarter of 2023.
Hibiscus Petroleum has confirmed that facilities related to a decommissioned oil field infrastructure, which reached the end of its service life, have got a new lease on life thanks to a rig-to-reef project off the coast of Malaysia.
TotalEnergies has kicked off drilling activities at an exploration well close to previously made light oil discovery in the prolific Orange Basin off the coast of Namibia with a semi-submersible rig owned by Northern Ocean and managed by Odfjell Drilling.
Stena Drilling has brought one of its drillships back to Egyptian waters to embark on a drilling assignment with Chevron in the mostly unexplored West Mediterranean (West Med) blocks off the coast of Egypt.
UAE-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling (SHLF) has landed long-term extensions with Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production, a subsidiary of the U.S. oil major Chevron, for assignments two of its jack-up rigs are working on off the coast of Thailand. These two-year contract
Trident Energy has brought online its first infill well on Block G off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, drilled with a drillship owned by the U.S.-headquartered Noble Corporation.
ExxonMobil is going in hot pursuit of more hydrocarbons in the Stabroek block off the coast of Guyana thanks to ongoing drilling operations, which are being carried out with drillships owned by Noble Corporation.
Vantage has bolstered its managed services by divesting two jack-up rigs, which enable ADES to expand its rig fleet.
A further insight into the preliminary findings related to a recent gas discovery, made by the UK-headquartered energy giant Shell in the North Sea, indicates recoverable resources level may be at the lower end of pre-drill estimates.
Scana-owned PSW Technology, a Norwegian provider of services and solutions to the drilling industry, has renewed a frame agreement with what it says is an international rig company. The framework agreement includes subsea services and will commence in the first quarter of 2025, extending for a perio
Odfjell Drilling has entrusted Norway’s Coast Center Base (CCB) with the special periodic survey (SPS) job for one of the harsh environment semi-submersible rigs it manages on behalf of China’s CIMC. Another rig, which the drilling contractor is managing on behalf of Northern Ocean (NOL), has begun
