
Oil and gas company Lundin has decided to exercise its option for an additional well for an Odfjell Drilling-owned rig.

Maersk Drilling and Petrogas have agreed to exercise the previously agreed option to employ a jack-up rig to drill a well in the UK North Sea.

Upstream oil and gas company Serica Energy has started production from its Columbus field, located in the Central North Sea.

A new ultra-deepwater drillship named Santorini has been delivered to Italy’s Saipem by South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries.

IOG plc expects to continue working on a UK North Sea project soon following repairs to a damaged Noble Corporation-owned rig.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Energy Norway a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the Norwegian Sea.

Spain’s Repsol has been forced to halt production from its Yme field less than a month after the oil production started.

Borr Drilling’s jack-up drilling rig has spudded Kistos’ Q11-B well in the Dutch North Sea.

Neptune Energy has extended a contract for Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Yantai rig to include additional wells in the North Sea next year.

The Petroleum Safety Authority has discovered a total of four irregularities and improvement points during an audit of the Maersk Drilling-owned Maersk Reacher jack-up rig.

Turkey’s oil and gas giant TPAO has added another deepwater drillship to its fleet of drilling rigs, which are working in the Black Sea.

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract with ONE-Dyas, which will employ a jack-up rig to drill exploration wells in the Dutch North Sea.

Well-Safe Solutions has appointed a new director for strategy and business development, expected to secure more work for the firm’s decommissioning rigs and play a crucial role in further business expansion.

Offshore drilling contractor Awilco Drilling has now decided to scrap one of its rigs, which has been stacked for years.