Trident Energy is making inroads in its infill drilling campaign on Block G offshore Equatorial Guinea with a drillship owned by the U.S.-headquartered Noble Corporation.
Energean has started drilling activities at a well located on a natural gas field off the coast of Morocco, using a drillship owned by Stena Drilling, an Aberdeen-based offshore drilling contractor.
Shelf Drilling has pushed its total contract backlog to $2.1 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2024.
Seadrill has finished its drilling assignment at a field life extension project in the North Sea off the coast of Norway, which enabled its semi-submersible rig to go to a yard in Bergen.
A 1981-built non-propelled self-elevating cantilever jack-up rig has mobilized for the commencement of what will be the UK’s first CO2 well injection test. Perenco UK and Carbon Catalyst Limited secured a license to progress the Poseidon CCS project at the Leman gas fields in the UK southern North S
Singapore’s Seatrium has delivered the fourth out of five jack-up rigs to UK-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling, a year ahead of the planned delivery date. Completed and delivered on an accelerated schedule, the rig named Vali is of KFELS Super B Class, capable of operating in
Five rig-owning titans – Transocean, Valaris, Noble, Seadrill, and Diamond Offshore -which are seen as the crème de la crème of the offshore drilling contractors, have managed to increase their combined total backlog to a whopping $21.8 billion.
French oil major TotalEnergies has awarded offshore drilling contractor Northern Ocean with another contract extension for one of its semi-submersible rigs for continued work in Africa. TotalEnergies hired the Deepsea Mira rig on a multi-country drilling contract in December 2022 and exercised the f
Ocean Oilfield Integrated Solutions has wrapped up the quinquennial special periodic survey (SPS) and refurbishment work on one of its rigs at Khalifa Port, KEZAD, Abu Dhabi.
Transocean has landed a new long-term ultra-deepwater drillship assignment in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico with BP.
Dubai-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has decided to sell one of its jack-up rigs for $60 million to an undisclosed buyer.
Shell has embarked on drilling operations at a high-impact gas prospect in the UK sector of the North Sea with a jack-up rig, owned by Valaris.
With two of the world’s top five floating rig contractors merging into one, the market consolidation trend is ripe for further such moves, bringing the possibility of transformation endeavors in existing business models and a potential shift in offshore rig supply and demand dynamics.
Borr Drilling has won a series of new contracts, extensions, and potential assignments for three premium jack-up rigs, covering 1,779 days and bringing $332 million in contract revenue, including mobilization and demobilization compensation.
