Offshore Drilling News
| Norway >> 4/19/2021 - Plugging of wells at the Valhall field centre has been completed six years earlier and more than five billion Norwegian kroner cheaper than originally planned. The work has also been delivered without... |
| United Kingdom >> 4/19/2021 - Awilco Drilling PLC has confirmed that a contract has been signed with Ithaca Oil and Gas Limited for the provision of WilPhoenix for a single exploration well at Fotla in Block 22/1b. The well will c... |
| Australia >> 2/26/2021 - Solstad Offshore ASA (“Solstad”) is pleased to confirm that the large AHTS Normand Ranger has been awarded a contract in Australia for commencement in 2Q 2021. The vessel will mobilise from Norway and... |
| Scotland >> 2/15/2021 - Stena Drilling confirms that a 4th MPD system has now been ordered for Stena Forth with delivery expected in Q3/4 2021. The purchase of this additional managed pressure drilling system means that Sten... |
| Suriname >> 12/15/2020 - Fugro in the Caribbean has received a contract award from PETRONAS Suriname E&P B.V. (PSEPBV), a subsidiary of PETRONAS, for the provision of positioning services for an exploration programme in Block... |
| Australia >> 8/3/2020 - Solstad Offshore ASA (“Solstad”) is pleased to announce that the AHTS’s Normand Saracen and Far Senator, along with the PSV Normand Leader, have been awarded a contract with BP Developments Australia ... |
| Norway >> 5/15/2020 - Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) have given Wintershall Dea consent to use the West Mira mobile drilling facility for production drilling on the Vega field.
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| China >> 12/17/2019 - Subsea 7 announced the award of a sizeable contract by Offshore Oil Engineering Co. (COOEC), for CNOOC’s Lingshui 17-2 Gas Field Development Project - Steel Catenary Risers Installation Services. The ... |
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United Kingdom >> 12/11/2019 - Maersk Drilling has signed agreements with Halliburton and Petrofac to collaborate on the exploration programme to be delivered under Maersk Drilling’s master alliance agreement with Seapulse. ... |
| United States >> 11/22/2019 - Oilfield services company Halliburton has introduced the Xtreme Single-Trip Multizone (XSTMZ) system for completing wells in deepwater and ultra-deepwater conditions up to 15,000-psi. ... |
| Norway >> 11/1/2019 - Island Drilling Company AS is pleased to announce that the company has signed a Contract with Capricorn Norge AS the 31th of October, to drill one well on Duncan prospect — Block 35/8 in the North Sea... |
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Egypt >> 10/11/2019 - ADES International Holding PLC (ADES) is pleased to announce that it has entered, through its subsidiary ADES S.A.E., into a second deepwater drilling campaign with a top tier international oil compan... |
| Norway >> 10/2/2019 - Transocean Ltd. (RIG) announced that it has successfully deployed the world’s first hybrid energy storage system aboard a floating drilling unit. The system is now operational on the Transocean Spits... |
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United Arab Emirates >> 9/24/2019 - Weatherford International plc (WFTIQ) has signed a $220 million, three-year contract with the Abu Dhabi Company for Offshore Petroleum Operations Limited ("ADNOC Offshore") to provide directional dril... |
| Australia >> 9/16/2019 - Cooper Energy (COE) provides the following update on its offshore Otway gas exploration program
in VIC/P44 (Cooper Energy Operator and 50% interest holder). ... |
| Angola >> 9/12/2019 - ION Geophysical has announced a new 2D multi-client program offshore West Africa. The industry-supported NamibeSPAN program covers the underexplored Namibe basin offshore southern Angola. The datase... |
| United Arab Emirates >> 9/4/2019 - Northern Offshore Drilling Operations, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Northern Offshore, Ltd., is pleased to announce a firm Letter of Award (“LOA”) for the high-specification jack-up drilling uni... |
| United Arab Emirates >> 7/22/2019 - Saipem has been awarded new contracts in offshore drilling in Romania and Abu Dhabi worth over 160 million USD. According to one contract, the company will drill a well in Romania’s Black Sea waters, ... |
| United States >> 6/13/2019 - C-Innovation, LLC (C-I), an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore (ECO) and its family of companies, has been awarded a significant contract to perform Riserless Light Well Intervention (RLWI) activiti... |
| Mexico >> 4/29/2019 - Repsol and LLOG Exploration Offshore have announced the signing of an Asset Exchange and Joint Participation Agreement to accelerate plans and optimize the economics of projects in the deepwater Gulf ... |
