Offshore Drilling News
| Russia >> 3/12/2013 - Operations are scheduled to start at the beginning of June and will be carried out in Dolginskoye oil field, located in the Pechora Sea, in the south eastern part of the Barents Sea, the continental s... |
| Malaysia >> 10/24/2012 - ROC advises that BC Petroleum Sdn Bhd ("BCP"), the Company incorporated to operate and manage the Balai Cluster Risk Service Contract ("RSC") in Malaysia, has drilled the Bentara-2 well to a total dep... |
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Russia >> 7/9/2012 - Drilling of prospecting and appraisal well No.3 has begun at the North-Veninskaya formation in the Veninsky license block, a part of the Sakhalin-3 project. The KANTAN 6 jack-up drilling rig is drilli... |
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Vietnam >> 4/19/2012 - TNK-BP announced that the group’s subsidiary TNK Vietnam has successfully completed the drilling of two development wells on the Lan Do offshore field in Vietnam. ... |
| Israel >> 2/6/2012 - Noble Energy, Inc. announced a natural gas discovery at the Tanin prospect offshore Israel. The discovery well was drilled to a depth of 18,212 feet and encountered approximately 130 feet of gross nat... |
| Vietnam >> 1/19/2012 - TNK-BP announced that the Group has commenced its first offshore drilling operations on the Lan Do field development project offshore Vietnam. ... |
| Vietnam >> 12/14/2011 - Northern Offshore, Ltd. announced that the Joint Operating Company Vietgazprom, a joint venture between Petrovietnam and Gazprom, (“VGP”) has selected the drillship Energy Searcher for an upcoming dri... |
| South Korea >> 3/31/2011 - ATWOOD OCEANICS, INC., a Houston-based international drilling contractor, announced that, Atwood Oceanics Pacific Limited ("AOPL"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Atwood Oceanics, Inc. (the "Company"), ... |
| United States >> 1/19/2011 - Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world's biggest shipyard, clinched a USD 1.03 billion (KRW 1.14 trillion) order to build two new deepwater drillships for Noble Drilling Holding, LLC., a leading offshore... |
| United States >> 1/3/2011 - Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. announced that a subsidiary, Diamond Offshore Drilling Limited, has entered into a turnkey contract with Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. for construction of a new ul... |
| India >> 12/10/2010 - Vantage Drilling Company is pleased to announce that the ultra-deepwater drillship, the Platinum Explorer, has set sail from Singapore and is enroute to India to commence a five year contract with Oil... |
| Philippines >> 11/5/2010 - ATWOOD OCEANICS, INC., a Houston-based international drilling contractor, announced that the ATWOOD FALCON has been awarded an extension by Sarawak Shell Berhad / Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Ltd. of... |
| United Kingdom >> 11/3/2010 - Bridge Energy, the Oslo Axess-listed oil and gas exploration and production company is pleased to announce that on Tuesday 2nd November Bridge Energy completed the decommissioning of the Tristan NW fi... |
| New Zealand >> 11/2/2010 - Origin Energy advises that the Korimako-1 exploration well had reached total depth of 1,946m and, the current operation is plugging and abandoning the well. The well was drilled vertically using the s... |
| United Kingdom >> 10/27/2010 - Britain has granted licenses to probe for oil and gas in some of Europe's most challenging seas in a bid to stem the steady decline in UK production, the government said. ... |
| Vietnam >> 4/6/2010 - SOCO International plc has been informed by the Hoan Vu Joint Operating Company, Operator of Block 9-2 in the Cuu Long Basin offshore Vietnam, that the second phase of development has begun on the Ca ... |
| Vietnam >> 4/1/2010 - Scorpion International Ltd., a wholly-owned affiliate of Scorpion Offshore Ltd., signed a contract with a local operator for a drilling program offshore Vietnam utilizing the Offshore Resolute. ... |
| Iran >> 11/18/2009 - Oil Industries' Engineering & Construction (OIEC) declared the company intends to identify qualified contractors for the execution of all services for drilling offshore oil and gas wells. ... |
| Australia >> 9/21/2009 - Australian Worldwide Exploration Limited (“AWE”) reports that the semi-submersible drilling rig Kan Tan IV operated by Maersk Drilling is ready to commence drilling operations for a consortium of comp... |
| Norway >> 9/7/2009 - Lundin Petroleum AB has successfully completed the drilling of exploration well 16/1-12 on the Luno Extension prospect located in Block 16/1, PL 338, in the Norwegian North Sea. The exploration well w... |
