Offshore Drilling News
| 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 ... |
| Australia >> 4/16/2019 - Santos has announced the successful appraisal of the Corvus field, with Corvus-2 confirming a significant gas resource in the Carnarvon Basin, offshore Western Australia. The well, located in petroleu... |
| Norway >> 4/5/2019 - Saipem has been awarded new contracts in offshore drilling in Norway and the Middle East totalling over USD 200 million. ... |
| United Kingdom >> 3/18/2019 - Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organisation, has been selected by global offshore drilling company Seadrill to transform and maintain... |
| Norway >> 2/8/2019 - The Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA) has approved Lloyd’s Register (LR) as a recognised classification society for the construction of mobile units in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). This fol... |
| 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.... |
