TotalEnergies has discovered new gas condensate resources during drilling operations with a Shelf Drilling-owned jack-up rig at a well in the Harald East area. This gas will be exported through the Tyra facilities in the Danish sector of the North Sea.
Netherlands-based Mammoet has been hired by Damen Shiprepair to assist with a jack-up leg repair for a rig owned by the U.S.-headquartered Noble Corporation.
A new merger may soon be visible on the rig market horizon, as the Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor Transocean is now allegedly contemplating a business combination with its Bermuda-headquartered rival Seadrill.
Galp has embarked on its second exploration and appraisal program in the Orange Basin where oil discoveries were made during the first campaign within license PEL 83 off the coast of Namibia, which is situated close to recent discoveries made by Shell and TotalEnergies.
Transocean has got hold of a new batch of contracts and extensions in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, India, Norway, and Australia for six floaters, encompassing four drillships and two semi-submersible rigs.
UK-based and AIM-listed Sunda Energy, former Baron Oil, has disclosed a new timeline for the drilling of an appraisal well at a gas field off the coast of Timor-Leste.
Shelf Drilling has now received the Norwegian offshore safety regulator’s stamp of approval after the watchdog’s initial rejection of its application to obtain an acknowledgment of compliance (AoC) for one of its jack-up rigs, which is gearing up for work on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) wit
Noble Corporation is expecting a ramp-up in drilling demand for the floater fleet from late 2025 and 2026, which will spur further rig reactivations, as it perceives the oil and gas production from deepwater reservoirs as an important factor in the global security of energy supply.
A court decision, which was interpreted to pose a serious threat to new and existing oil and natural gas operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico with some fearing that it would have unintended consequences for the offshore wind program as well, has been replaced with a new one.
Canarship has confirmed the arrival of a semi-submersible rig to the Port of Las Palmas. This rig is owned by Norway’s Island Drilling.
BW Energy has brought online another well on its list at an oil field in the Dussafu license off the coast of Gabon, Africa.
While the preliminary findings indicate the presence of gas, Shell is continuing activities at its high-impact gas prospect in the UK sector of the North Sea, thus, more information will be available following a comprehensive review.
Island Drilling has wrapped up its plug and abandonment (P&A) campaign off the coast of Mauritania, Africa, which is being carried out with its 2012-built semi-submersible rig.
ADC Energy has been hired on a multi-year assignment related to the selection and acceptance of up to three offshore drilling rigs, which will work at a recently greenlighted oil project in Suriname’s Block 58 operated by TotalEnergies.
