In recognition of the drillship’s outstanding performance in all aspects during its time in Brunei Darussalam, Shell has named Maersk Viking its 2021 Global Rig of the Year in the Floater Category. Maersk Viking is a high-spec ultra-deepwater drillship which was delivered in 2013. A Samsung 96K designed drillship with several Maersk Drilling upgrades including Managed Pressure […]

BW Energy commitment is prevalently focus on the continued press speculation regarding a potential of acquisition by the Group of the Golfinho field in Brazil, which Petrobras has in their divestment program.  BW Energy confirms having discussions with Petrobras for a potential purchase of the Golfinho Cluster offshore Brazil. This is part of the Group’s […]

Equinor has, on behalf of the Haltenbanken West Unit and Halten East licences, awarded Transocean Spitsbergen a firm drilling programme consisting of nine wells and options for another two. The value of the contract is estimated at around NOK 2.4 billion, including the options. The rig is scheduled to start the drilling campaign in the […]

Equinor and Halten East partners Vår Energi, Spirit Energy and Petoro have decided to invest about NOK 9 billion in the development of the area neighbouring to the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea. The area consists of six gas and condensate discoveries and option on another three prospects. The partnership today submits the plan […]

On 27 February 2022, Equinor decided to start the process of exiting the company’s Joint Ventures in Russia. Since then, Equinor has halted all new investments into Russia, stopped trading oil and gas products from Russia and announced an impairment of USD 1.08 billion on the balance sheet as of 31 March 2022. Equinor has […]

Neptune Energy Norge AS, operator of production licence 153, has concluded the drilling of appraisal wells 35/9-16 S and 35/9-16 A on oil and gas discovery 35/9-3 (Hamlet). The wells were drilled about 7 kilometres north of the Gjøa field in the North Sea, and 58 kilometres west of Florø. The 35/9-3 discovery was proven […]

Indonesia Energy has announced that it has discovered oil in its “Kruh 27” well. Kruh 27 is the first of two back-to-back wells being drilled by IEC during the first half of 2022 at its 63,000-acre Kruh Block. As previously announced, IEC has plans to drill two additional wells at Kruh Block during 2022 following […]

Karoon Energy Ltd has exercised options to add the drilling of up to two wells at the Neon field offshore Brazil to the work scope of the semi-submersible rig Mærsk Developer. The contract extension has a duration of 80 days, in direct continuation of the rig’s previous work scope. The contract extension has a firm contract […]

INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX) announced that it  has commenced exploratory drilling operations (hereinafter the “Project”) offshore Shimane and Yamaguchi prefectures in Japan to explore the possibility of locating oil and natural gas resources through INPEX San’in Offshore Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary tasked with conducting exploration and development operations. This is sequel to the announcement made […]

Enwell Energy, the AIM-quoted oil and gas exploration and production group, today announced the results of the SV-31 well at its Svyrydivske (SV) gas and condensate field in Ukraine. The SV-31 well is a development well, targeting production from the V-21 and V-22 horizons in the Visean formation. The well was spudded in September 2021 […]