Caspian Sunrise has received regulatory and shareholder approvals for the acquisition of the Caspian Explorer drilling vessel.
Equinor has made a minor oil discovery near the Vigdis field in the North Sea offshore Norway.
Noble Corporation has received several new contract extensions for its drilling rigs and cancellation of a drilling contract in Vietnam.
Neptune Energy has decided to drill a sidetrack well to further evaluate the size of its Dugong discovery located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
Aker BP has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to use the Maersk Invincible rig for operations on the Hod field offshore Norway.
Wintershall Dea last December installed three Xmas trees on its Dvalin gas development, which has now moved from the drilling phase to the completion phase.
Equinor has discovered gas and condensate in an exploration well 30/2-5 S Atlantis, which is located near the Kvitebjørn field in the North Sea.
Equinor has signed a letter of intent with Odfjell Drilling for the Deepsea Atlantic rig to drill 12 wells during phase 2 of the Johan Sverdrup field development in Norway, following its work on phase 1.
A court in Scotland has slapped Greenpeace with an £80,000 ($100,000) fine for attempting to stop British oil major BP from drilling for new oil at the Vorlich offshore oil field.
Spirit Energy has drilled a dry well near the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea offshore Norway.
Oil and gas exploration firm Neptune Energy has hit hydrocarbons at the Dugong well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea.
COSL Drilling Europe has signed a letter of intent for the use of COSLInnovator rig on the Norwegian Continental Shelf starting early next year.
The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), Norway’s offshore safety regulator, has approved two offshore drilling projects.
The worldwide offshore rig count in June 2020 dropped by 65 rigs year-over-year and 2 rigs sequentially, according to a report by Baker Hughes.
