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

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for the week ending August 23rd 2024.

• Prospector 1 gets ONE-Dyas extension
• Shelf Drilling Mentor nabs new two-well deal
• Option exercised on Noble Gerry De Souza
• Well Services Rig 110 resume work with Heritage Petroleum
• Shelf Drilling hit with another Saudi Aramco suspension
• Santos completes drilling campaign with Valaris 107
• Stena Forth commences drilling operations off Morocco
• Inpex Australia secures new exploration permit
• Hess seeking partner for Suriname Block 59
• Byron expects to begin Enterprise 264 charter late Q3/early Q4 2024
• Stena Carron begin drilling ExxonMobil’s Haimara-4 well off Guyana
• Liberia launches Offshore Licensing Round
• UK offshore energy firms demonstrate concern and seek action

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for the week ending August 1st 2024.

• Valaris 110 gets one-year extension in Qatar
• Shell awards Trinidad jackup campaign to Valaris 249
• Azule awards one more well to Angola jackup
• TAQA exercises one-well option on Valaris 123
• Valaris Norway awarded a two-well campaign in the UK North Sea
• Valaris 248 awarded one-well in the UK North Sea
• Valaris 92 bags 26-well P&A campaign in the UK North Sea
• Petrobras awards LWIV tender
• Odfjell Technology continues drilling services for BP in the North Sea
• $531 million ultra-deepwater drillship contract for Tranoscean
• BP exercised priced options on Noble Innovator
• TotalEnergies exercised two options for Noble Regina Allen
• Petronas Carigali to use Noble Viking for single well programme
• Shelf Drilling confirms sale of Baltic jackup

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for the week ending July 26th 2024.

• Equinor secures Valaris DS-17 for muti-year commitment off Brazil
• Oil India/Dolphin Drilling held contract signing ceremony
• Noble Resolve confirmed for one well off Poland
• Archer bags 2-year platform drilling services contract
• T7 confirms P&A jackup award from Petronas Carigali
• Woodside exercises option on Transocean Endurance
• Deepwater Invictus extended into August
• Deepwater Atlas awarded new US Gulf work
• Gunnlod nabs 7-well Malaysia deal
• Norve bags further extension with BW Energy
• Borr’s Arabia I secures Petrobras jackup charter
• Gerd confirmed for Eni Congo campaign

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for the week ending July 19th 2024.

• Diamond finalises Beacon Charter for Ocean BlackRhino
• Grupo Carso signs Lakach contract with Pemex
• Valaris 123 Gearing Up to Move
• Equinor obtains consent for exploration drilling in the Norwegian Sea
• Eni receives approval for Blacktip drilling programme
• Valaris DS-9 in transit to Block 30, Angola
• Equinor cleared to drill exploration well in the North Sea
• Parkmead formally awarded UK Licence P2634
• Chevron opens sublet slot on Transocean drillship
• India prepares to launch new licensing round

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for the week ending July 12th 2024.

• ADES standard jackup extended for 10 years
• First Lavrans well in the Kristin South area comes online
• Hercules moves to Sitka prospect offshore Canada
• Scarabeo 8 moving to next well location for Aker BP
• Ocean GreatWhite completes well and moves to the next
• Valaris Norway arrives in Block 13/10, East Irish Sea
• Dutch sector B10 Platform producing first gas for Petrogas
• Hakuryu-11 on second well for Idemitsu
• Shell makes positive FID on Manatee field development
• Two new discoveries – one offshore Mexico; and one in the Norwegian North Sea