"Maersk Drilling" News

Maersk to Spin off Drilling, Hand Total Shares to Investors

Aug 17, 2018

A.P. Moller-Maersk said on Friday it would spin off its offshore drilling operation and list it in Copenhagen next year, the latest move by the Danish shipping company to focus entirely on transport and logistics.Maersk, which cut its full-year profit outlook this month…

Op/Ed: Connecting to the Future of Offshore

May 04, 2018

120 miles out at sea, 6,000-horsepower devices lift drilling equipment weighing up to 3 million pounds out of holes lying 10,000 feet beneath the water. Keeping such sea monsters in good working order, often for years at a time, is no mean feat…

Tullow signs up Maersk drillship for Ghana drilling

Jan 03, 2018

Danish drilling rig operator Maersk Drilling has won a four-year contract with Tullow Oil for use of the deepwater drillship Maersk Venturer offshore Ghana. The contract, signed in December 2017, is expected to start in February 2018…

"Serious shortcomings" found following fatal incident investigation

Jan 04, 2018

An investigation into a fatal incident on the Maersk Interceptor jackup rig last month has identified “serious shortcomings” in systems and processes for materials handling. Following its investigation, Norway’s Petroleum Safety Authority…

UPDATE: 1 dead, 1 injured in Maersk rig incident

Dec 07, 2017

UPDATE: One Maersk Drilling worker is dead and another injured following in an incident on the Maersk Interceptor jackup drilling rig, working at the Tambar field offshore Norway, on Thursday, 7 December. Aker BP said that the 'serious incident' was reported at 12…

Aker Solutions to modify module for Yme redevelopment

Dec 13, 2017

Maersk Drilling has picked Aker Solutions for modification work on a production module on the Maersk Inspirer jackup rig so that it can be used on Repsol's Yme field offshore Norway.  Repsol is looking to redevlop the field, after removing an existing platform facility…

Tambar restarts production, investigation continues

Dec 13, 2017

Production has restarted from Aker BP's Tambar platform, offshore Norway, where a man died last week after in serious incident on the rig, which remains under investigation. Tambar is about 16km southeast of Ula facilities in 68m water depth in the Norwegian North Sea…

Investment plans on the UKCS

Dec 28, 2017

UK operators have gone a long way to reducing their costs and are even starting to look at investment, delegates attending the Oil & Gas UK Share Fair in Aberdeen early November learned. Elaine Maslin reports (First published in the December 2017 OE…

Repsol files revised Yme field plan

Dec 20, 2017

A revised plan for development and operation (PDO) for the Yme field in the Norwegian North Sea has been submitted to Norway's Ministry of Petroleum and Energy by operator Repsol. Repsol says it's going to invest about US$960 million (NOK8 billion) in the Yme New Development project…

Rystad: 2017 discovered oil, gas resources down

Dec 21, 2017

How did global oil and gas exploration fare in 2017? It depends on who you ask. Photo from Maersk Drilling. Rystad Energy reported today (21 December) that 2017 was another record low year…

Repsol awards Yme FEED to Atkins

Dec 14, 2017

Spanish oil firm Repsol has awarded UK engineering firm Atkins a contract for structural front end engineering design (FEED) and detailed design services for work on the Yme field offshore Norway. Repsol Norge is moving forward with a new attempt to develop the Yme field…

Total hires Maersk Deliverer off Malaysia

Oct 10, 2017

Total E&P Malaysia has signed a 60-day contract for the Maersk Deliverer semisubmersible to drill offshore Southeast Asia, bringing the vessel out of warm stacking. The contract covers the drilling of one exploration well in the Block DW-N Sabah offshore Malaysia…

Maersk jackup to drill at Nexen’s Buzzard field

Nov 01, 2017

Nexen Petroleum UK has awarded Maersk Drilling a contract for the drilling of three wells and options for nine additional wells at the Buzzard field in the Central North Sea. The drilling campaign is for the Buzzard Phase II Development Project and is planned to commence around July 2018…

Aker BP agrees two drilling and wells alliances

Nov 21, 2017

Norwegian oil firm Aker BP (Aker BP) has agreed two drilling and well alliance agreements for its assets in the Norwegian sector. One is with Maersk Drilling and Halliburton for use of jackups, and one is with Odfjell Drilling and Halliburton for semisubmersibles…

Repsol moves on Yme, contracts for Maersk and Kvaerner

Nov 16, 2017

Repsol Norge is moving forward with a new attempt to develop the Yme field offshore Norway.  The firm has awarded a contract to Maersk Drilling for use of the combined drilling and production jackup Mærsk Inspirer for five years, with a five-year extension…

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