Foxtrot to Spend $315M to Increase
Credit: Foxtrot International Ivory Coast-based energy firm Foxtrot International will invest $315 million to increase…
Drilling
Odfjell Drilling, Equinor Firm Up Offshore
The Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig. (Photo: Marit Hommedal / Equinor ASA) Norwegian offshore drilling contractor…
E&P Spending in 2021 Could Reach $380B.
Investments from the global oil and gas exploration and production companies (E&P) in 2021 are…
Archer in 5-Year Drilling Services Deal with Aker
Ula field – Credit: Aker BP Oslo-listed oilfield services provider Archer has won a five-year…
Last U.S. Offshore Oil Lease Under Trump to Test
The Trump administration on Wednesday will offer all available areas in the Gulf of Mexico…
Norway to Offer 136 New Offshore Exploration
Norway will offer oil firms exploration blocks in nine frontier areas in its latest licensing…
Petrobras Extends Charters for Transocean
Transocean Mykonos – Credit: Ana/AdobeStock Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has secured contract extensions for two…
Noble Energy Drops Colombia Offshore Drilling
Maersk Valiant drillship – Image source: Maersk Drilling Oil company Noble Energy, now owned by…
Offshore Drilling Market to Remain
A Seadrill drillship – Credit: Seadrill Offshore oil drilling contractor Seadrill expects the market for…
Lundin’s Polmak Well in Barents Sea Comes Up Dry
Credit: Lundin Energy Lundin Energy has failed to find hydrocarbons at its Polmak exploration well…
Oil and Gas Exploration Activity in 2020
Norwegian energy intelligence group Rystad Energy has said that oil and gas exploration activity in…
Aker BP Makes Minor Oil and Gas Discovery in
Norwegian oil and company Aker BP has made a minor oil and gas discovery in…
Shell Committed to Drill High Impact North Sea
Credit: Deltic Energy Oil and gas major Shell has reiterated its commitment to the drilling…
Apache Plots Fifth Wildcat, Appraisals for
After a string of offshore oil discoveries in Suriname’s Block 58 in the past year,…
Top Court Starts Hearing on Arctic
Norway’s top court began to hear arguments on Wednesday on the legality of awarding offshore…
Shell Farms Into South Africa Offshore Block Near
Privately-owned oil firm Impact Oil & Gas has signed a farm-out agreement with Shell for…
Gazprom Reports ‘Record-high’ Gas Inflow
Drilling rig at Leningradskoye field / Credit: Gazprom Following a recently announced gas discovery at…
BP Spuds Ironbark-1 Well Offshore Australia
Ocean Apex – Image by Paul Ling/MarineTraffic.com BP has started drilling at the Ironbark-1 exploration…
Hibiscus Wraps Infill Drilling Campaign Offshore
Credit: Hibiscus Petroleum Malaysia’s Hibiscus Petroleum completed the St Joseph minor sands infill and major…
Equinor Gets OK to Use Deepsea Atlantic Rig on
The Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig. (Photo: Marit Hommedal / Equinor ASA) Norwegian energy company Equinor…
Seabed Drilling
South America contains some of the largest deepwater oil reserves in the world, with Brazil…
Offshore Driller Launches “Wide range of
The UK-based offshore drilling company Awilco Drilling on Monday said it would launch a “wide…
Wintershall Dea Starts Development Drilling at
West Mira – Credit: Wintershall Dea Oil and gas company Wintershall Dea has started drilling…
Submersible Linear Position Sensors for Offshore
Image: NewTek Sensor Solution NewTek Sensor Solutions offers new, custom designs of Submersible Linear Position…
Total Makes Another Major Discovery Offshore South
French oil major Total has struck another major gas condensate discovery offshore South Africa. The company…
Floaters Set for Another Round
Up to a quarter of the active floating drilling rig fleet – drillship and semi-submersibles…
Archer Nets Two-Year Extension with ‘Major’ North
Credit: Archer Oilfield and drilling services firm Archer said Thursday it had secured a two-year…
Europa Oil & Gas Granted License Extension
Europa Oil & Gas has received an extension of its Inezgane Offshore Permit in Morocco,…
Turkey May Work with Foreign Companies to Bring
Turkey may cooperate with foreign firms to bring online its giant gas find in the…
PNOC, CNOOC to Start Offshore Exploration Venture
Credit; Jadestone Energy The president of the exploration arm of the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC)…
Shelf Drilling’s Jack-Up Rig Contract Suspended
Illustration: Jack-up rig being towed – Credit: bomboman/AdobeStock Jack-up rig drilling contractor Shelf Drilling has…
Caspian Sunrise Buys Shallow Water Drilling
Caspian Sunrise, an oil and gas firm focused on Kazakhstan, has completed the acquisition of…
Seadrill Secures Drillship Charter Extension with
Vest Vela – Credit: Jose Perez/MarineTraffic Oil major BP has extended the charter deal…
Gulf of Mexico Drilling: Weatherford Achieves
A Weatherford lead mill is gauged before being attached to the bottomhole assembly. Oilfield services…
China, Philippines Eyeing Joint Offshore Oil
The Philippines energy secretary said on Friday the government’s decision to lift a six-year-old moratorium…
Borr Drilling Names Veteran Oilfield Services Exec
Illustration – A Borr Drilling rig – Credit: Simon Wolf/MarineTraffic.com Jack-up drilling rig contractor Borr…
The Philippines: Duterte Lifts Offshore Drilling
Rodrigo Duterte (File Photo) – Credit: Republic of Korea/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 Philippines President Rodrigo…
Petrobras Taps Oceaneering for BOP Tethering
Credit: Oceaneering Subsea services provider Oceaneering has been awarded a BOP tethering services contract…
ABS Offers Remote Surveys for "Majority of World’s Offshore Drilling Units"
Maritime and offshore classification company ABS has expanded its remote surveying capabilities in the offshore…
West Bollsta Offshore Drilling Rig Spuds Its First
Credit: Lundin Energy Swedish oil and gas company Lundin Energy has spudded the Polmak…
Energy Enticer Jack-Up Rig Starts Drilling in
Illustration – Credit: Northern Offshore Jack-up drilling contractor Northern Offshore has said that its…
Neptune Energy to Cut Well Planning Time, Costs
Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has reached an agreement with oilfield services and technology…
Gazprom Finds “Substantial Amounts of Gas” in Kara
Drilling rig at Leningradskoye field – Credit: Gazprom Russian gas giant Gazprom has found…
Lukoil Launches Phase Two at Caspian Sea Oil
Credit: Lukoil Russian oil company Lukoil has launched the second phase of the development…
‘Pioneering’ Deep Sea Mineral Exploration Mission
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has completed its five-week seabed mineral research expedition on the…
Wellesley Uses On-the-rig Simulator to Cut
Oil and gas company Wellesley Petroleum earlier this year deployed a mobile ‘On-the-Rig’ (OTR) drilling…
Deme in Clean Hydrogen Alliance
Belgium-based offshore installation contractor Deme said Tuesday it had joined the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance….
Seadrill Replaces CEO
Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill has replaced CEO Anton Dibowitz. Seadrill’s CFO Stuart Jackson will take…
Mermaid Completes Exit from Asia Offshore
AOD II – Image Credit: Seadrill Thai offshore service provider Mermaid Maritime has completed…
Wintershall Noordzee Wraps Sillimanite Drilling.
Wintershall Noordzee has completed the drilling of a well at the Sillimanite South field discovery…
Total Transfers Foz do Amazonas Block to
Credit; Total French oil major Total will transfer its rights in five blocks in…
Trump Extends Offshore Drilling Ban in North
President Donald J. Trump walks across the South Lawn of the White House Thursday, Sept….
Operation Car Wash: Seadrill Served with Search
Offshore drilling contractor Seadrill said Thursday its Brazilian subsidiary had been served with a search…
Weatherford, Safe Influx in Drilling Tech
Oilfield services giant Weatherford has entered a collaboration agreement with the automated well technology specialist…
Archer Nets $100M Drilling Services Extension with
Credit: Archer Oilfield services company Archer has won a four-year contract extension to provide…
Fire Breaks Out on Offshore Vessel Near Rig in
Merkushev Aleksandr – Credit: MarineTraffic A fire broke out earlier this week on a…
‘High Interest in Offshore Exploration
The Norwegian authorities have received applications from 33 oil companies for the offshore acreage to…
Repsol Picks Stena Drilling Rig for Mexican Ops
Spanish oil firm Repsol has awarded a drilling contract to offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling…
BP Terminates, Wintershall Hires Odfjell’s Deepsea
Oil major BP has terminated the contract for Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Aberdeen semi-submersible drilling rig…
Equinor to Drill New Wells at North Sea Field as
Norwegian oil and gas firm Equinor is planning to drill new wells at its Martin…
Mitsui Hires JDC’s Hakuryu-11 Jack-up Rig to Drill
Hakuryu-11 / Credit: JDC Japanese offshore drilling company JDC has won a drilling contract…
Giant Tuna Offshore Gas Find Could Save Turkey
Turkey could save up to a whopping $21 billion in gas import costs with the…
Talos Says Its Gulf of Mexico Acreage Unaffected
Gulf of Mexico operator Talos Energy has clarified that its business will in no way…
Shell Buys Kosmos’ Frontier Exploration Assets for
Illustration: Offshore drilling rig – Credit: Bartkowski/AdobeStock Oil and gas company Kosmos Energy said…
With U.S. LNG and Black Sea Find as Bargaining
Turkey expects gas suppliers to offer more competitive pricing and flexibility if they want to…
Excellent Productivity, High CO2 Levels
Brazil’s Petrobras has completed the Drill Stem Test (DST) in the area of the Júpiter…
ExxonMobil Hits Its 18th Oil Discovery Offshore
U.S. oil company ExxonMobil has made an oil discovery at the Redtail-1 well, offshore Guyana….
Neptune Energy Spuds Bue Offshore Well
The West Phoenix drilling rig. (Photo: Seadrill) Oil and gas firm Neptune Energy has…
Borr Drilling Gets NYSE Listing Warning as New CEO
Offshore drilling contractor Borr Drilling has received a notice from the New York Stock Exchange…
Total Gives Up on Foz do Amazonas Offshore
French oil major Total has given up operatorship over five exploration blocks located in the…
Exploration Potential in North Sea Still Exists,
North Sea area illustration by Anton Balazh/AdobeStock Oil and gas company Spirit Energy has…
Major Energy Companies Jostling for Ground in the
Major Energy Companies Jostling for Ground in the Montney, but Small Cap Calima Energy Stands…
Tullow Hires Stena Drillship for Suriname
Stena Forth – Credit: Antonio Rodriguez Offshore drilling contractor Stena Drilling said Tuesday that…
Dolphin Drilling Nets Offshore Drilling Work in
Blackford Dolphin – Credit: Dolphin Drilling Offshore drilling contractor Dolphin Drilling has won a…