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Ventura Offshore’s Semi-Sub Rig to Keep Drilling for Eni in Asia

Oct 03, 2025

Eni has exercised an option to keep a semi-submersible rig from Ventura Offshore Midco, a subsidiary of Brazilian offshore drilling contractor Ventura Offshore, operational offshore Indonesia.This is the second of four optional wells exercised…

BP Eyes Partners for Bumerangue Oil Discovery off Brazil

Oct 03, 2025

BP will seek a partner for its major Bumerangue oil discovery in Brazil and could close a deal before making a final investment decision on the project, the oil major's country head said on Thursday.The British company, which currently holds 100% of the block…

Heerema Gets Decom Job at BP’s Andrew Platform

Oct 02, 2025

Heerema Marine Contractors has secured a decommissioning contract by BP for the Engineering, Preparation and Removal (EPR) of the Andrew platform’s topside and jacket.The scope includes the removal, transport and offloading of the topside, comprising the Flare and Kinnoull Module…

Norway Clears Harbour Energy’s Drilling Op in North Sea

Oct 02, 2025

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has granted Harbour Energy a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.The permit is for wellbore 35/8-8 S in production license 248 LS and 248 B.The license is operated by Harbour Energy with 60% working interest…

Transocean Lands $243M in Ultra-Deepwater Drillship Contract Extensions

Oct 02, 2025

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has secured contract extensions with BP and Petrobras for two of its ultra-deepwater drillships.In aggregate, the fixtures represent approximately $243 million in firm contract backlog.In the U.S. Gulf of America…

Rhino Resources Makes ‘High Liquid-Yield’ Gas Discovery off Namibia

Oct 02, 2025

Oil and gas firm Rhino Resources has made a gas condensate discovery off the coast of Namibia in a well spudded by Deepsea Mira semi-submersible drilling rig.The discovery was made as part of a drilling campaign in Block 2914A, in the Orange Basin…

Vallourec Bags Another OCTG Order from Petrobras

Oct 01, 2025

French tubular solutions supplier Vallourec has secured a new order from Petrobras for its Submagnético Free Flow oil country tubular goods (OCTG) solution designed to prevent inorganic scaling in production strings.The order covers the production and installation of more than 30 units…

Jan De Nul Orders Largest Rock Installation Vessel to Protect Subsea Infrastructure

Sep 30, 2025

Belgian marine contractor Jan De Nul has ordered a rock installation vessel, specifically built to strengthen the protection of offshore energy and subsea data infrastructure.The vessel, named George W. Goethals, will be the company’s largest rock installation ship to date…

Shell's Victory Gas Field in North Sea Comes On Stream

Sep 30, 2025

Shell has started production from the Victory gas field in the UK North Sea, located approximately 47 km north-west of the Shetland Islands.Shell is the full owner and operator of the field, whose peak production is estimated at around 150 million standard cubic feet per day of gas…

Noble Corporation’s Drillship Up for Another Drilling Job off Ghana

Sep 29, 2025

Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has signed a new contract with Amni International Petroleum Development Company in Ghana for the Noble Venturer drillship.The contract is expected to start once the rig is released from its current…

Drilling at Suriname's Block 5 to Begin in October

Sep 25, 2025

U.S. energy producer Chevron is expected to begin drilling at Suriname's shallow-water Block 5 next month, the country's oil minister, Patrick Brunings, said.'They will be drilling the Kori Kori well,' he said in a TV interview this week. 'If this well does indeed contain oil or gas…

Equinor Gets Clearance to Use Deepsea Bollsta Semi-Sub for North Sea Ops

Sep 23, 2025

Norway’s offshore industry safety watchdog Norwegian Ocean Industry Authority (Havtil) has given Equinor consent to use the Deepsea Bollsta semi-submersible rig for operations in the North Sea.The rig will be used for plugging, drilling and completion of wells on the Visund Sør field…

Hibiscus Petroleum Starts Drilling at Teal West Field off UK

Sep 19, 2025

Malaysian independent oil and gas exploration firm Hibiscus Petroleum has spudded a new well at the Teal West field in the North Sea, off the coast of the United Kingdom.The drilling operations is being done with Shelf Drilling’s Shelf Drilling Fortress jack-up rig…

Deepsea Mira Semi-Sub Spuds Appraisal Well for BW Energy off Namibia

Sep 19, 2025

BW Energy, together with NAMCOR E&P, has started drilling the Kharas well in the Orange Basin, offshore Namibia, with Northern Ocean’s Deepsea Mira semi-submersible drilling rig.The drilling of the appraisal well is taking place in the Kudu license (PPL003) operated by BW Energy…

Equinor’s North Sea Wildcat Well Yields No Oil and Gas

Sep 19, 2025

Equinor and its partners Vår Energi and Aker BP have drilled a dry exploration well in the North Sea.The wildcat well 34/8-20 S was drilled about 130 kilometres west of Florø, in the Narvi nord prospect.The well was first to be drilled in production license 554 E…

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