Danish offshore drilling company Maersk Drilling has received a conditional letter of award from oil company Tullow for the provision of the Maersk Venturer drillship and additional services for a development drilling campaign at the TEN and Jubilee fields offshore Ghana…
Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling said Wednesday it had received a letter of award with the Indian oil company ONGC for the charter of its ultra-deepwater drillship Platinum Explorer.The rig contract is for two years and will begin once the current three-year contract with ONGC expires…
Offshore drilling contractor COSL Drilling has partnered up with maritime tech provider Kongsberg Maritime, and drilling equipment firm NOV, to cut greenhouse emissions and lower the cost of its offshore drilling operations.COSL’s project, called ‘Energy Control’…
Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling has signed a strategic framework agreement with dCarbonX, for what has been described as 'decarbonization exploration,' in the UK to support the development of offshore geoenergy resources.Stena Drilling…
A Valaris drillship went adrift on Tuesday evening, breaking free from moorings near the port at Hunterston, North Ayrshire, Scotland.According to BBC, which was the first to report on the incident on Wednesday, 'a major rescue operation has been ongoing overnight…
Oil and gas company Lundin Energy has drilled a dry well at its production license 533 B, in the Barents Sea, offshore Norway.The exploration well, formally named 7219/11-1, was drilled around 40 kilometers southwest of the Johan Castberg field…
Jens Berge, Chief Executive Officer of the troubled offshore drilling contractor Awilco Drilling has resigned from the company 'to pursue other opportunities.'In an announcement released Sunday evening (CET), Oslo-listed Awilco Drilling, which…
Singapore's Keppel Offshore & Marine, a company famous for its offshore rig construction, is set to undergo a major transformation, look for opportunities as a developer and integrator of offshore energy and infrastructure assets, and exit the offshore rig building business…
Neptune Energy has started drilling on the Seagull oil and gas development in the UK Central North Sea, the company said Thursday.Neptune is using the Gorilla VI (JU-248) jack-up rig, operated by Valaris. The company will drill four wells for…
Norwegian offshore drilling contractor Odfjell Drilling will retrofit two of its deepwater, semi-submersible drilling rigs with the Siemens Energy BlueDrive DC-Grid system, with the aim to reduce emissions.The Siemens Energy BlueDrive DC-Grid…
The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has this week given its consent to oil firms Chrysaor and Aker BP to use the COSL Innovator and Maersk Integrator drilling rigs, respectively, for their drilling projects offshore Norway.Chrysaor, which is working to complete its merger with Premier Oil…
Swedish oil and gas company Lundin Energy has not found commercial quantities of hydrocarbons at its exploration well targeting the Bask prospect in the southern Barents Sea, off Norway.The main objective of the well, drilled by the company's Norwegian subsidiary Lundin Energy Norway…
An offshore worker died last weekend in an incident aboard a Seadrill drillship deployed on a Kosmos Energy project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.'At approximately 1:45 pm Central Time on January 24, 2021, Kosmos Energy learned about the fatality…
U.S. offshore drilling contractor Diamond Offshore, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April 2020, said Monday it had entered into an agreement with certain creditors over its financial restructuring that should see $2.1 billion eliminated…
Oil and gas drilling rig contractor ADES has secured a new contract for the Admarine 5 jack-up drilling rig in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt.'The contract, secured with a top-tier client, covers a firm six-month period with the option to extend for an additional six months…