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BP Books Stena Drilling Drillship for Offshore Well in Canada

Jul 05, 2022

British oil major BP has awarded a drilling contract to Stena Drilling for the use of its Stena IceMAX drillship in Canada.The contract is for one well and is scheduled to start in 2023.BP will use the drillship to drill a well off the coast of Newfoundland…

Hezbollah Sends Drones Towards 'Gas Rig' at Israel's Karish Offshore Gas Field

Jul 04, 2022

Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Saturday it had sent three unarmed drones towards an Israeli Mediterranean gas rig , which the Israeli military said it had intercepted. [Reuters illustrated the news with a photo of Stena Drilling's Stena IceMax drillship]…

Stena Drilling Bags Further Drillship Work with Energean in East Med

Jun 22, 2022

Mediterranean Sea-focused oil and gas company has exercised its options to drill two further wells offshore Israel using Stena Drilling's drillship Stena IceMAX.The drillship, which was used to make the Athena gas discovery last month, has just…

Royston Overhauls Diesel Generators on Stena Spey Offshore Drilling Rig

Jun 06, 2022

Marine engineering and propulsion company Royston said Monday it had completed the overhaul of diesel generators on board Stena Drilling's semi-submersible offshore drilling rig ‘Stena Spey’.The work saw cylinder heads, pistons, and conrods overhauled as part of a 12…

Energean Power FPSO to Reach Israel in Early June. First Gas in Q3

May 26, 2022

Oil and gas company Energean said Thursday that the first gas from its Karish gas development in the Mediterranean Sea, offshore Israel, was expected to start flowing in the third quarter of 2022.The company said that the Energean Power FPSO…

Energean Makes Commercial Gas Discovery Offshore Israel

May 09, 2022

Oil and gas company Energean has made a commercial gas discovery offshore Israel using Stena Drilling's Stena IceMAX drillship.The company said Monday that the discovery was made at the Athena exploration well, Block 12, in the A, B and C sands…

Stena Drilling Gearing Up to Add 7th Gen. Drillship to Its Fleet

Mar 18, 2022

Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling said in a social media post it was preparing to introduce the newest addition to its drilling fleet, the Stena Evolution drillship.'The Stena Evolution will be a technologically advanced 7th Generation ultra-deepwater drillship…

TotalEnergies Books Stena Drilling's Semi-sub for UKCS Work

Feb 11, 2022

French oil major TotalEnergies has chartered Stena Drilling's Stena Spey semi-submersible drilling rig for drilling operations on the UK Continental Shelf.Stena Drilling said that the mobile offshore drilling unit would start the contract between March 16…

Petrofac Hires Stena Don Offshore Drilling Rig for Tailwind's UKCS Well

Feb 01, 2022

Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling has signed a contract with Petrofac for the hire of its Stena Don semi-submersible drilling rig.The Stena Don has been hired for a one-firm well campaign on Tailwind Energy's Gannet E field in the UK Continental Shelf…

Glaucus-2: ExxonMobil Starts Drilling at Block 10, Offshore Cyprus

Dec 24, 2021

U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has started drilling the Glaucus-2 well in Block 10, offshore Cyprus, to better understand the size of the giant Glaucus-1 gas discovery made in the block back in 2019.The news was shared this week by the Cypriot Ministry of Energy…

FAR's Bambo Drilling Fails to Deliver (The Gambia)

Dec 23, 2021

Australian oil and gas company FAR Limited said Thursday its Bambo-1ST1 well offshore The Gambia had not encountered live oil columns and would be plugged and abandoned. Despite the disappointment, FAR said that the well data showed that several target intervals in the well had oil shows…

Stena Drilling Confirms Samsung Drillship Deal

Dec 08, 2021

Just a few days after South Korea's shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries said it had found a potential buyer for a drillship originally ordered in 2014, without revealing the buyer's name, drilling firm Stena Drilling confirmed the deal on Tuesday…

FAR's Gambia Well Finds Oil Traces. Side-track Required after 'Significant Fluid Losses'

Dec 06, 2021

FAR, an Australian oil and gas company that began drilling at the Bambo-1 exploratory well in Block A2 off the coast of The Gambia last month, said Monday the well had encountered oil traces but would have to be plugged and side-tracked after…

ExxonMobil Books Stena Forth Drillship for Canada Offshore Well

Nov 18, 2021

U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has awarded a drilling contract to drilling contractor Stena Drilling for the Stena Forth drillship.ExxonMobil will use the drilling rig for operations offshore Eastern Canada, in the second half of 2022. The contract is for one firm well…

FAR Spuds Bambo-1 Well Offshore The Gambia

Nov 15, 2021

Australian oil and gas firm FAR has started drilling at the Bambo-1 exploration well in Block A2, offshore The Gambia.'The Stena IceMax drillship arrived on site on 12 November Gambian time and after completing preparations, has successfully spudded the well…

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