Statoil is the operator for production license 104 and has received consent to drill exploration well 30/89 S on the Oseberg field. Statoil has allocated 54 days for the activity and will be drilling with the Songa Delta, in approximately 99m water depth…
Image from Lundin Petroleum. Lundin Norway, as operator for production license 708, has received consent to drill exploration well 7130/4-1 in the Barents Sea. Drilling is scheduled to begin in November 2015 and estimated to last 56 days…
Amid positive Q3 results, Houston-based Diamond Offshore is sending one of its vessels to the scrap yard after Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) cut contracts short for two of its vessels, resulting in an extension for another contract…
Helix Energy Solutions Group's dedicated DP3 well intervention unit, the Q5000, semisubmersible entered service last week and is currently on hire for an unnamed client in the Gulf of Mexico, the company announced on 27 October. Helix took delivery of the semisub in May…
Technip and South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) are teaming up to develop a joint design of a low motion semisubmersible production platform. Technip and SHI already work together under a consortium arrangement, the Technip Samsung Consortium…
The Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway has granted Lundin Norway consent to drill two wells: one in the North Sea, and one in the Norwegian Sea. In the central North Sea, Lundin will drill the Rolvsnes prospect. The exploration well 16/1-25S…
Lundin Norway has exercised a one month option for the provision of the Safe Boreas semisubmersible accommodation vessel at the Edvard Grieg Project in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The one month option extends on site operations…
Norway-based semisubmersible accomodation vessel provider Prosafe has signed its first job for the newbuild accommodation vessel Safe Notos under a new contract in the UK sector of the North Sea. The contract, which covers eight months…
Norway-based semisubmersible accommodation provider Prosafe has signed a contract with Petrobras for the provision of the Safe Eurus semisubmersible vessel for safety and maintenance support offshore Brazil. The contract, starting 1Q 2017 with a firm period commitment of three years…
The Norway Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted Lundin Norway consent to drill exploration well 7220/6-2 in the Barents Sea in a prospect called Neiden. Lundin is the operator for production license 609 in block 7220/6 in the Barents Sea…
Diamond Offshore’s Ocean America semisubmersible is mobilizing to drill the first well for Karoon Gas Australia in the northern Carnarvon basin exploration permit WA-482-P offshore Western Australia. The Levitt-1 exploration well is expected to be spud during the first week of July 2015…
Richard D'Souza Richard D’Souza’s career reads like a history of offshore energy development. Jeannie Stell gets his perspective. Reading the resume of Richard D’Souza, current vice president of Granherne Global Operations…
Premier Oil is hoping to spud an exploration well on the Baguss prospect in Block 13/24c in the UK North Sea in H1 2016, according to partner North Sea Energy. The Bagpuss well targets lower cretaceous sands, jurassic sands and a granite wash formation about 1400ft subsurface…
Blue Water Shipping signed a contract with Baku Shipyard covering the transport of two hull sections from Singapore to the newly established Baku Shipyard in Azerbaijan. Map from Blue Water…
In April, Transocean’s Deepwater Asgard drillship arrived in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) to work under a two-year contract for Chevron. The ship is a Daewoo Shipbuilding DSME 12000 design with dynamic positioning capabilities and can drill up to 35…
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