Norwegian offshore safety watchdog has given DNO Norge consent for the use of the Borgland Dolphin rig for a permanent plugging of wells offshore Norway.
Borr Drilling has won a new contract and signed four letters of intent and one letter of award for its fleet of jack-up drilling rigs.
Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has secured more work for a drillship in the Gulf of Mexico and for a semi-submersible in Myanmar.
Transocean sank to a net loss in the last quarter of 2020 compared to the prior quarter but managed to reduce its losses in the y-o-y comparison.
Drilling operations on the Chrysaor-operated Jerv exploration well, located offshore Norway, started on 18 February 2021, using the COSLInnovator rig.
Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling has ordered a fourth managed pressure drilling (MPD) system for the Stena Forth drillship.
Transocean has secured new contracts for its fleet, bringing the total backlog to $7.8 billion, but it has also decided to retire the Leiv Eiriksson.
Vantage Drilling has entered into an agreement to manage Seadrill Partners’ drilling rigs following the latter’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Owner of the Harland & Wolff shipyards, InfraStrata, is acquiring the assets of Scotland’s Burntisland Fabrication (BiFab) at Methil in Fife and Arnish in Western Isles. BiFab officially went into administration in December 2020 after a deal for jacket foundation work for the Neart Na Gaoithe (NnG)
Offshore drilling contractor Maersk Drilling has won new contracts for two of its drilling rigs. One contract is with Shell and the other one is with NAM.
Oi and gas company Wintershall Dea has completed the top hole drilling campaign on the Nova field located in the North Sea offshore Norway. Wintershall Dea received consent from the Norwegian offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for production drilling and completion on the No
Equinor has exercised the option to add development drilling of one additional well at the Martin Linge field to the work scope of the Maersk Intrepid.
Oil and gas company MOL Norge has drilled a dry well located at Mandal High in the southern North Sea offshore Norway.
Norwegian oil major Equinor has been given a drilling permit to drill a new wildcat well in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway.
