Offshore drilling firm Valaris has won a contract extension with Aramco in Saudi Arabia for one of its standard-duty modern jackup drilling rigs.The Saudi national oil company has elected to extend the charter of the VALARIS JU-140 jack-up by 183 days…
Offshore drilling rig owner Valaris announced on Tuesday it has been awarded a three-year contract with U.S. supermajor Chevron in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.The contract for the ultra-deepwater drillship Valaris Relentless (VALARIS DS-18) is expected…
Solstad Offshore has won a new contract for its construction support vessel Normand Ocean with subsea services provider DeepOcean.DeepOcean will use the 107,6 meters long vessel for its Inspection, Maintenance and Repair, and light construction projects in the North Sea…
Offshore drilling rig owner Valaris said Tuesday it had won a drillship contract with TotalEnergies in Ivory Coast.The contract is for the ultra-deepwater drillship Valaris DS-12. Total E&P Côte d'Ivoire B.V, an Ivory Coast subsidiary of the…
Offshore drilling firm Valaris has secured a contract for one of its jack-up rigs in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.Valaris, which on April 30, 2021 completed its financial restructuring and emerged from chapter 11, said Wednesday that the jack-up…
Indian oil and gas company ONGC has chartered a jack-up drilling rig from the Indian offshore drilling contractor Jindal Drilling & Industries.Jindal said this week that the ONGC had sent a letter of award for the charter hire of the jack-up drilling unit Jindal Explorer…
GE Renewable Energy plans to recruit 300 employees at its LM Wind Power wind turbine blade manufacturing site in Cherbourg, France, in 2021. 'Every new hire will go through an intensive training program at the factory's ‘Center of Excellence' to learn wind turbine blade manufacturing processes…
GE Renewable Energy said Wednesday it would open a new blade manufacturing facility in Teesside in the North East of England. GE's subsidiary LM Wind Power plans to set up and operate this plant which will be dedicated to the production of its 107-meter- long offshore wind turbine blades…
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…
U.S. oilfield services provider Danos has said it has been awarded a multi-year contract for production operations with an unnamed major oil and gas producer in the Gulf of Mexico. 'As a result, Danos has transitioned 107 personnel to the company’s…
Two offshore drilling rigs, previously used for oil and gas exploration beneath the seabed, could soon help with space exploration.Namely, according to multiple reports this week, a company linked to billionaire Elon Musk bought two deepwater semi-submersible drilling rigs last year…
U.S. crude oil production rose 286,000 barrels per day in September to 10.86 million bpd, as production increased in North Dakota and in offshore waters in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.Oil production rose 61,000 bpd in North Dakota and 315,000 bpd in the offshore Gulf of Mexico…
Abu Dhabi's national oil company ADNOC said Thursday it had awarded a contract worth up to $519 million to Chinese seismic contractor BGP to further expand the scope of what it says is the world’s largest combined 3D onshore and offshore seismic survey…
Brazilian oil and gas company Petrobras has launched an opportunity disclosure stage (teaser) for the sale of 50% of its stakes in the offshore oil fields - known as the Marlim Cluster - in the Campos Basin, offshore Brazil.Petrobras is looking to sell stakes in the deepwater concessions of Marlim…
The world's largest offshore wind turbine in operation, GE's Haliade-X prototype, has been upgraded, or 'uprated' and is now operating at a 13 MW power output.The Haliade-X wind turbine prototype has been spinning in Rotterdam since November 2019…