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Fraser Well Management Wins Well Operator Services Gig at Devil’s Hole Horst Well in North Sea

Feb 22, 2022

Fraser Well Management (FWM), a well engineering and project management specialist, has won a well operator services contract from North Sea Natural Resources Ltd (NSNRL) to deliver the Devil’s Hole Horst (DHH) appraisal well in the Central North Sea…

Schlumberger Launches 'Unique' 3D Reservoir Mapping-while-drilling Service.

Feb 22, 2022

Oilfield services giant Schlumberger on Tuesday announced the GeoSphere 360 3D reservoir mapping-while-drilling service. 'The service leverages advanced cloud and digital solutions to deliver real-time 3D profiling of reservoir objects. This…

ExxonMobil Spuds Cutthroat Well Offshore Brazil

Feb 21, 2022

ExxonMobil has started drilling at the Cutthroat prospect in a deepwater block in the Sergipe Alagoas Basin, offshore Brazil.The news of the drilling start-up was shared by Enauta, one of Exxon's partners in Block SEAL-M-428, where the well site is located…

Odfjell Drilling to Take Over Management of SFL's West Linus Jack-Up Rig from Seadrill

Feb 21, 2022

SFL Corporation, the owner of the West Linus jack-up drilling rig, has signed a rig management deal with offshore drilling firm Odfjell Drilling for the provision of management services for the harsh-environment unit.The rig, delivered in 2014…

Coastline Exploration Signs Seven PSAs for Offshore Blocks in Somalia

Feb 21, 2022

East Africa-focused oil and gas company Coastline Exploration has signed seven Production Sharing Agreements ('PSAs') covering offshore, deep-water blocks of the Federal Republic of Somalia. Coastline, established in 2018, said that the PSAs…

TotalEnergies Makes 'Significant' Oil and Gas Find Offshore Suriname

Feb 21, 2022

TotalEnergies said Monday it has made a significant new oil and associated gas discovery at the Krabdagu-1 well offshore Suriname. Made in the central area of offshore Block 58, the discovery follows previous discoveries at Maka, Sapakara, Kwaskwasi and Keskesi…

Drilling Growth: ADNOC Drilling, Schlumberger, Halliburton, Weatherford Net ADNOC Deals

Feb 18, 2022

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) on Thursday awarded framework agreement awards worth $1.94 billion 'to enable drilling growth.'The company, which plans to boost crude oil production capacity to 5 million barrels per day (mmbpd) by 2030…

Trillion Energy to Use GSP Offshore's Jack-Up for Black Sea Drilling Campaign

Feb 17, 2022

Black Sea-focused oil and gas company Trillion Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Romanian offshore drilling company GSP Offshore for drilling services at Trillion's planned SASB natural gas production and development program in the Black Sea…

Aquadrill's Polaris Drillship Catches Fire in Sri Lanka

Feb 17, 2022

Aquadrill's Polaris drillship caught fire earlier this week at Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka. According to the port authorities, the incident happened Tuesday, and the fire was quickly extinguished.'The Hambantota International Port Emergency Response Unit (ERU) together with the port’s Quality…

Factbox: Offshore Discoveries Turn Tiny Guyana into Oil Hotspot

Feb 17, 2022

A string of offshore oil discoveries has turned Guyana, a tiny South American country with fewer than 800,000 people, into one of the hottest exploration and production frontiers in decades.Since 2015, oil companies operating off its coast have…

Oil and Gas Firms in Norway Raise Investment Forecasts

Feb 17, 2022

Oil and gas firms in Norway have raised this year's investment forecasts as they seek to benefit from pandemic-era tax incentives intended to boost activity, a national statistics office (SSB) survey showed on Thursday.The biggest business sector in Norway now expects to invest 159…

Transocean's 8th-gen Deepwater Titan Drillship Completes Drydocking in Singapore

Feb 16, 2022

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has said this week that its eighth-generation Deepwater Titan drillship has completed drydocking in Singapore.The Deepwater Titan is Transocean's first 20,000 psi ultra-deepwater drillship, and will, once delivered…

Equinor Extends Offshore Drilling Contracts with Archer, KCA Deutag, and Odfjell Drilling

Feb 16, 2022

Norwegian oil and gas firm Equinor has exercised extension options worth 8 billion Norwegian crowns (~$898,7 million) with Archer, KCA Deutag, and Odfjell Drilling. The contracts include drilling, completion, intervention services, plugging…

UAE's Dragon Oil Strikes Oil in Gulf of Suez

Feb 15, 2022

United Arab Emirates-based Dragon Oil has made its first oil discovery in the Gulf of Suez, the Egyptian petroleum ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.The discovery is one of the largest in the area in the past 20 years, it said, adding…

Aker BP to Use Odfjell's Deepsea Nordkapp Drilling Rig for KEG Development Wells

Feb 15, 2022

Norwegian oil and gas company Aker BP has exercised a scope-based option to use Odfjell Drilling's Deepsea Nordkapp semi-submersible drilling rig to drill development wells at the recently approved Kobra East Gekko (KEG) project.Odfjell Drilling…

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