Tidewater Inc. announced its 2025 results with Quintin Kneen, Tidewater’s President and CEO, commenting, “Although 2025 was anticipated to be a down year for the offshore industry, I am pleased to say that by all measures Tidewater was able…
Asia Pacific’s upstream sector heads into 2026 with a combination of near-term project delivery and high-impact frontier drilling. A wave of large offshore gas schemes is moving towards FID or first production, just as a new set of wildcats tests unproven deepwater plays…
Deep Value Driller has agreed to sell its seventh-generation drillship Deep Value Driller to Eldorado Drilling for $300 million in cash, scrapping an earlier agreement to sell the vessel to Saipem for $272.5 million.The Oslo-listed company has…
Halliburton has launched the RangeStar Geothermal Well Spacing and Intercept Service, a magnetic ranging solution designed to improve speed, accuracy and automation in geothermal well development.The new service, part of Halliburton’s RangeStar magnetic ranging portfolio…
Tronics, a TDK group company, has expanded its high-performance MEMS inertial sensor portfolio with the launch of the AXO315®T1, a high-temperature digital accelerometer designed for energy sector drilling applications. The AXO315®T1 MEMS accelerometer…
Malaysia’s oil and gas services Velesto has secured a drilling contract worth approximately $16.5 million from Jadestone Energy for operations at the East Belumut field offshore Malaysia.The contract, awarded to Velesto’s wholly owned subsidiary Velesto Drilling…
Talos Energy announced its operational and financial results for the three and 12 months ended December 31, 2025, with CEO Paul Goodfellow, saying: '2025 marked the start of our transformation – building the foundation for the future.'In June…
Saipem has released its preliminary results for the fourth quarter and financial year 2025, confirming, for the fourth consecutive year, the trajectory of growth and improvement in profitability together with a further acceleration in cash generation…
Africa-focused oil and gas company Vaalco Energy has achieved ‘solid initial results’ from its Gabon drilling campaign and confirmed its operatorship of the Kossipo field offshore Côte d’Ivoire, as it advances plans to grow production in both countries…
Shell has launched a multi-well offshore drilling campaign in Egypt’s Mediterranean waters using Stena Drilling’s Stena IceMax drillship, marking the start of a new development phase at the West Mena gas field.Egypt’s Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources…
Akrake Petroleum Benin, an indirect subsidiary of Rex International Holding, has achieved first oil from the AK-2H well at the Sèmè Field Block 1 offshore Benin, as drilling complications and cost overruns prompt a strategic and financial review…
Borr Drilling has reported a drop in revenue in its unaudited results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2025.Highlights include:•Fourth quarter total operating revenues of $259.4 million, a decrease of $17.7 million or 6% compared…
Dolphin Drilling Offshore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dolphin Drilling, and Sapura Drilling Asia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vantris Energy, have entered into a marketing agreement for the semi-submersible drilling unit Blackford Dolphin…
Equinor and its partners have drilled a dry well on the Vikingskipet prospect in the Barents Sea.Wildcat well 7018/5-2 was drilled in production license 1236, about 190 kilometers west of Hammerfest and about 140 kilometers southwest of the Snøhvit field…
Saipem has reached agreement on the main terms and conditions to acquire the seventh-generation drillship Deep Value Driller for $272.5 million.The Deep Value Driller is a high-specification ultra-deepwater drillship built in 2014, featuring GustoMSC P10000 design and able to accommodate 210 people…