Offshore Drilling News
| Australia >> 8/27/2018 - ExxonMobil has commenced a A$120 million ($88 million) offshore exploration drilling off Australia’s southeast coast to search for new sources of natural gas. ... |
| Norway >> 5/16/2018 - AKOFS Offshore, a company owned by Akastor ASA, has entered into a Letter of Intent with Equinor for provision of year round light well intervention services (LWI) on the Norwegian continental shelf. ... |
| Vietnam >> 5/16/2018 - Rosneft Vietnam B.V. has started drillling of LD-3P (Lan Do field) production well as part of Block 06.1 development. Rosneft acts as an operator of this project which proves high level of its compete... |
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Norway >> 4/20/2018 - Saipem has been awarded new contracts in Offshore Drilling involving the sixth-generation semi-submersible rig Scarabeo 8, suitable for harsh environments. Drilling activities will take place offshore... |
| United Kingdom >> 3/15/2018 - Subsea 7 S.A. announced the award of a sizeable contract for a Conventional project, in shallow water, with offshore execution planned for 2019. No further details are disclosed at this time due to co... |
| United Kingdom >> 2/20/2018 - Prospects for the offshore oil drilling market are improving but profits for drillers are still under pressure and rates will not rise before 2019, the head of A.P. Moller-Maersk's energy business sai... |
| Netherlands/Holland >> 2/14/2018 - Atlas Professionals has developed a drilling assessment which will support employers looking to further build skilled and competent teams, and ensure a sustainable and safe environment offshore. ... |
| Australia >> 1/24/2018 - A Norwegian-Australian partnership has won its first Australasian contract after securing a subsea wellhead foundation contract for Woodside Energy's Ferrand exploration well in the Carnarvon Basin. ... |
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Egypt >> 11/15/2017 - ADES International Holding Ltd. (ADES), the London-listed company providing offshore and onshore oil and gas drilling and production services in the Middle East and Africa through its subsidiaries, is... |
| United States >> 10/17/2017 - Transocean Ltd. announced that the ultra-deepwater drillship Deepwater Invictus was awarded a two-year contract plus three one-year priced options with a subsidiary of BHP Billiton. The backlog associ... |
| Vietnam >> 8/2/2017 - Rosneft Vietnam B.V., a Rosneft subsidiary operating Block 06.1 on Vietnam shelf celebrates 15 years of safe offshore operations. In this period Rosneft Vietnam employees and contractors operated 5,40... |
| Russia >> 7/3/2017 - LUKOIL commenced installation of the accommodation block topside, weighing over 1.6 thousand tonnes, on the substructure in the Caspian Sea as part of Phase 2 development of Vladimir Filanovsky field.... |
| Mozambique >> 6/1/2017 - Saipem and Eni have signed a contract for offshore drilling activity in Mozambique, utilising the drillship Saipem 12000. The contract is of 15 months’ duration commencing mid-2019. It includes option... |
| Turkey >> 5/16/2017 - Valeura Energy Inc. (VLE) is pleased to announce that the first deep exploration well, Yamalik-1, under the Banarli farm-in agreement with its partner Statoil, commenced drilling on May 13, 2017. It i... |
| Mexico >> 5/2/2017 - As a representative of the Nation, the National Hydrocarbon Commission has signed with Pemex Exploracion and Produccion, the State’s Production Company, the Contract for Crude Oil Drilling under the s... |
| United States >> 4/28/2017 - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to extend offshore oil and gas drilling to areas that have been off limits - a move meant to boost domestic production but which could fall flat d... |
| Guyana >> 3/30/2017 - Exxon Mobil Corporation (XOM) announced positive results on the Snoek well offshore Guyana, confirming a new discovery on the Stabroek Block. Drilling targeted similar aged reservoirs as encountered i... |
| Norway >> 1/5/2017 - IKM Testing Thailand Co. Ltd has been awarded the service contract by Aibel for the Johan Sverdrup Drilling Platform. The platform deck for the drilling platform will comprise three modules. Aibel is ... |
| Colombia >> 1/2/2017 - Maersk Drilling has been awarded a one well contract with Repsol Colombia for the deepwater semi-submersible, Maersk Developer. The contract covers the drilling of the Siluro-1 Exploration Prospect we... |
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Mexico >> 12/28/2016 - In 5 December 2016, Mexico awarded eight out of ten blocks in its deep water round, R01-L04, with large Companies like Chevron, Exxon and Total among the winners of the National Hydrocarbons Commissio... |
