Semco Maritime and Skipavika enter into strategic agreement on service preparedness for all rigs at the port facility Skipavika Terminal near Bergen. The agreement also comprises an intention to develop the submarine base Olavsvern near Tromsø as a rig service center…
Motive Offshore Group has expanded its business with a six figure investment in a quayside fabrication facility in Dundee Port. After successfully negotiating with the port to take over the site, which boasts a deepwater quay side facility…
Odfjell Drilling has signed a conditional letter of award with an oil major for a one well contract to be drilled by the sixth generation semisubmersible, Deepsea Stavanger, offshore South Africa. The contract commencement is back to…
Rig builder and engineering firm Lamprell has delivered jackup drilling rig Al Hudairiyat for Abu Dhabi’s National Drilling Co. (NDC), within budget and on schedule. The rig is the eighth of an order or nine jackup rigs for NDC and the…
Houston's Offshore Energy Center is hosting an open house to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig and Museum on Wednesday, 26 April. Admission at the Ocean Star, in Galveston, is free for the day. The…
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for well 16/1-27. Well 16/1-27 will be drilled from the Island Innovator drilling facility, at position 58°50’18.11” north and 2°11’56.83” east, in a southwesterly…
Norwegian outfit Borr Drilling has taken delivery of the Frigg (formerly Hercules Resilience) and the Ran (formerly Hercules Triumph) jackup drilling rigs from Hercules Offshore. The two rigs, bought for US$130 million late last year…
Nido Petroleum is set to drill its Galoc-7/7ST appraisal well in Block C1 SC 14 offshore the Philippines, starting in March. The firm has agreed a one-well drilling contract for the Odfjell Drilling operated ultra deepwater drillship Deepsea Metro I for the work…
Maersk Drilling has been awarded a new contract with Petrogas E&P Netherlands for the jackup, Maersk Resolute. The firm contract covers the drilling of the two wells, A8 and A9 in the A12 block of the Dutch continental shelf. The drilling…
North Atlantic Drilling (NADL) has been awarded a firm one-well extension plus one optional well from Statoil for the jackup West Elara. The work will start in direct continuation of West Elara's existing contract with Statoil and the…
Songa Offshore's newbuild semisubmersible drilling rig Songa Encourage has been taken close to Kristiansund, Norway, for equipment overhaul and repair following a water ingreses into a pump room on 2 January. The rig is expected to be back in operations early February 2017…
Baker Hughes and Schlumberger are to be awarded contracts for integrated drilling and well services on Statoil's two new Cat J jackup rigs, Askepott (translated as Cinderella) and Askeladden (a character from Norwegian folklore). The…
North Atlantic Drilling has been awarded a one-well contract for the semi-submersible West Phoenix for work in the UK, West of Shetland. The contract is in direct continuation with the West Phoenix' existing contract and the total backlog is estimated to be $17 million…
GE Oil & Gas and Transocean signed a US$180 million contractual service agreement (CSA), to further maximize productivity and lower operating costs for Transocean. As a pioneer of new business models and performance-based service agreements…
North Atlantic Drilling has again extended a newbuild rig contract standstill agreement with Singapore's Sembcorp Marine. Sembcorp Marine's subsidiary Jurung Shipyard has been building the semisubmersible drilling rig West Rigel, on which a standstill agreement had already been put in place…