Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for the week ending September 13th 2024.

• Shell begins short campaign with Constellation semisub Alpha Star
• Transocean scores new backlog for Deepwater Atlas staring in 2028
• SinoOcean Peace to drill for PT Pertamina
• Archer winds 5-year platform drilling services contract off Norway
• Scarabeo 8 extended by Aker BP
• Noble Resolve finishes up with INEOS
• Equinor to drill Cappahayden South after Sitka disappointment
• Mubadala releases drillship Capella
• African Energy granted South African extension
• ADES purchases two Vantage units operating in Southeast Asia

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for the week ending September 6th 2024.

• Cairn awards jackup contract for Cambay Drill
• $123 million ultra-deepwater drillship contract for Transocean off India
• SMS Joy bags one-year deal with Newcross Petroleum
• Stena Carron further extended off Guyana
• Noble Globetrotter I gets extra time with Shell
• Noble awarded extensions for Guyana drillship quartet
• LOA for jackup Shelf Drilling Achiever
• Shelf Drilling jackup wins 10-well contract in West Africa
• Admarine 510 moved inshore Bahrain
• Harvey H Ward starts Saudi suspension
• ADNOC dropping Foresight jackup
• Transocean selling two non-strategic assets

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for the week ending August 30th 2024.

• Naga 3 heading to Vietnam for Thang Lang JOC
• Tasha secures seven-month contract with Pertamina Hulu Mahakam
• Hibiscus Petroleum takes participating interest in PM327
• BP & EOG to partner on Trinidad’s Coconut development
• Well-Safe Protector on last UK P&A well for Eni
• Egypt launches new bid round
• LOI for Borgland Dolphin lapsed
• Hakuryu-5 prepares to drill Silungen-1 prospect, Malaysia
• TotalEnergies launches a wind pilot project in the North Sea
• New Zealand to reverse ban on offshore oil and gas exploration