Offshore Drilling News
| 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... |
| Libya >> 7/16/2009 - ExxonMobil Exploration Company announced that its affiliate, ExxonMobil Libya Limited, has started drilling the first deepwater exploration well in Libya. The A1-20/3 well is being drilled in Contract... |
| Egypt >> 7/13/2009 - PTTEP announced the drilling result of an exploration well, SAER Offshore – 1X in the eastern part of Sidi Abd El Rahman Offshore Block, Egypt. Spudded on March 29, 2009, the well was drilled to a tot... |
| Israel >> 7/7/2009 - Noble Energy, Inc. announced results from its Tamar appraisal well, known as Tamar-2, offshore Israel in the Matan license. At a total depth of 16,880 feet and in 5,530 feet of water, the well is loca... |
| Russia >> 7/2/2009 - Gazprom's delegation took part in the celebrations dedicated to the start of exploration drilling in the Kirinskoye field offshore the Sakhalin Peninsula. ... |
| Libya >> 6/26/2009 - Exxon Mobil Corp is beginning to drill the first of three deep water exploration wells off the coast of Libya. The exploration program would start in the next couple of days, according to an interview... |
| Vietnam >> 6/26/2009 - Lundin Petroleum AB announces that the exploration well 06/94-TV-1X (Toung Vi-1X) offshore Vietnam has reached a target depth of 2,700 meters. The primary target of the well was the oil potential of t... |
| Tunisia >> 6/10/2009 - PA Resources has completed the drilling of a new production well at the Didon field offshore Tunisia. ... |
| Nigeria >> 12/29/2008 - Seadrill has today taken delivery of the ultra-deepwater drillship West Capella from Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea in line with the initial construction schedule. The drillship will subseque... |
| China >> 10/10/2008 - ODIM awarded an order worth about NOK 95 million for two advanced deepwater cranes by China's Zhejiang Shipyard, a subsidiary of Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group. The contract relates to two 150-tonne O... |
| China >> 6/25/2008 - Roc Oil (Bohai) Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of ROC, reported that the initial phase of the 2008 development drilling programme has been completed with four new wells drilled and completed and b... |
| Mauritania >> 5/7/2008 - Roc Oil (Mauritania) Company advised that the Banda NW ST-1 sidetrack well had been suspended. The results of the wireline logging, Modular Dynamic Tester (MDT) pressure testing and sampling indicate ... |
| Ghana >> 5/6/2008 - Tullow Oil plc announced that the Mahogany-2 well, which is being drilled to appraise the Jubilee field offshore Ghana, has intersected a significant column of light oil. Results of drilling, wireline... |
| Nigeria >> 5/1/2008 - Addax Petroleum Corporation announced the successful appraisal of the Ofrima North discovery in OML137, offshore Nigeria. Commenting, Jean Claude Gandur, President and Chief Executive Officer of Addax... |
| Malaysia >> 4/22/2008 - Maersk Contractors awarded two contracts by Brunei Shell Petroleum for drilling offshore Brunei and one well in Malaysia. The first contract is for the MAERSK COMPLETER in direct continuation of its c... |
| Mauritania >> 4/16/2008 - Roc Oil (Mauritania) Company advised that the Banda NW appraisal well had reached a Total Depth of 2,703 mBRT and a wireline logging programme is underway. Following completion of the wireline logging... |
| Mauritania >> 4/9/2008 - Roc Oil (Mauritania) Company advised that the Banda NW appraisal well commenced drilling on 2 April 2008. The well is located approximately 2 kilometres west of the 2002 discovery well, Banda-1 and ab... |
