http://www.oedigital.com/drilling?format=feed Offshore Drilling News en-US Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:10:47 -0400 https://www.oedigital.com/news/505764-msc-107-modu-code-revised-to-improve-asbestos-safety The IMO Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) held its 107th session from May 31 to June 9, 2023, and the meeting adopted revisions of the 1979, 1989 and 2009 MODU Codes… Tue, 13 Jun 2023 04:10:47 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505764-msc-107-modu-code-revised-to-improve-asbestos-safety https://www.oedigital.com/news/505746-more-than-900-norway-offshore-drilling-workers-may-strike-from-june-29 Some 913 workers on Norwegian offshore oil and gas drilling rigs and other installations will go on a strike unless a wage deal is found by a June 29 deadline, the… Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:43:18 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505746-more-than-900-norway-offshore-drilling-workers-may-strike-from-june-29 https://www.oedigital.com/news/505745-floating-drilling-rig-utilization-surges-to-over-85-sparking-potential-for-newbuilds Active floating drilling rig utilization has rebounded from a low of 65% in 2018 to over 85% in 2023, energy intelligence group Wood Mackenzie said Monday, adding… Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:37:31 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505745-floating-drilling-rig-utilization-surges-to-over-85-sparking-potential-for-newbuilds https://www.oedigital.com/news/505738-first-well-spudded-in-danish-underground-consortium-s-north-sea-infill-campaign Drilling operations have started on the HBA-27B well offshore Denmark, with the first of two wells successfully spudded by the jack-up rig Shelf Drilling Winner (ex-Noble Sam Turner)… Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:36:58 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505738-first-well-spudded-in-danish-underground-consortium-s-north-sea-infill-campaign https://www.oedigital.com/news/505734-apache-suspends-uk-north-sea-drilling-cuts-jobs-citing-high-taxes U.S. oil producer Apache Corp on Friday said it was suspending drilling in the North Sea and reducing its British workforce because high taxes have made the operation less competitive… Mon, 12 Jun 2023 07:25:45 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505734-apache-suspends-uk-north-sea-drilling-cuts-jobs-citing-high-taxes https://www.oedigital.com/news/505704-aker-bp-breaks-offshore-drilling-record-with-longest-well-offshore-norway-makes-significant-oil-find Norwegian oil company Aker BP said Friday it had the drilling of the Øst Frigg Beta/Epsilon exploration well in the Yggdrasil area, the longest exploration well… Fri, 09 Jun 2023 07:13:03 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505704-aker-bp-breaks-offshore-drilling-record-with-longest-well-offshore-norway-makes-significant-oil-find https://www.oedigital.com/news/505690-v-r-energi-halliburton-in-drilling-services-partnership Norwegian offshore oil and gas producer Vår Energi said Friday it had entered a long-term strategic partnership with the U.S. oilfield services company Halliburton… Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:21:24 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505690-v-r-energi-halliburton-in-drilling-services-partnership https://www.oedigital.com/news/505535-equinor-s-eggen-wildcat-in-north-sea-proves-dry Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has drilled a dry well in the production license 923, in the North Sea, offshore Norway.The information was shared by the Norwegian… Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:46:06 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505535-equinor-s-eggen-wildcat-in-north-sea-proves-dry https://www.oedigital.com/news/505527-vestigo-petroleum-books-jack-up-drilling-rig-for-5-well-program Malaysian offshore drilling firm Velesto Drilling has received the Letter of Award from Vestigo Petroleum for the provision of jack-up drilling rig.The contract… Thu, 01 Jun 2023 12:39:33 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505527-vestigo-petroleum-books-jack-up-drilling-rig-for-5-well-program https://www.oedigital.com/news/505523-petrobras-eyes-global-expansion-as-brazil-hopes-fade-sources-say Brazil's Petrobras may look abroad for future growth, two sources with knowledge of the state-run firm's plans told Reuters, after environmental regulators dashed… Thu, 01 Jun 2023 10:28:49 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505523-petrobras-eyes-global-expansion-as-brazil-hopes-fade-sources-say https://www.oedigital.com/news/505499-petrobras-totalenergies-shell-others-pen-production-sharing-contracts-for-blocks-offshore-brazil Brazilian oil firm Petrobras on Wednesday signed Production Sharing Contracts for offshore blocks, awarded in the Open Acreage under Production Sharing Regime –… Wed, 31 May 2023 15:14:05 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505499-petrobras-totalenergies-shell-others-pen-production-sharing-contracts-for-blocks-offshore-brazil https://www.oedigital.com/news/505496-video-noble-innovator-rig-departs-port-of-aberdeen-for-central-north-sea-decommissioning-project Noble Corp.'s jack-up drilling rig, the Noble Innovator, which in February arrived in the Port of Aberdeen, has now left the port after a 105-day stay to complete a special periodic survey… Wed, 31 May 2023 14:35:20 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505496-video-noble-innovator-rig-departs-port-of-aberdeen-for-central-north-sea-decommissioning-project https://www.oedigital.com/news/505491-petrobras-confirms-filing-request-for-license-to-drill-in-amazon-mouth-river-denies-reports-on-expected-timeline Brazilian oil firm Petrobras denied media reports claiming that the oil company expected to obtain the environmental license to drill a well in the FZA-M-059 block… Wed, 31 May 2023 13:08:02 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505491-petrobras-confirms-filing-request-for-license-to-drill-in-amazon-mouth-river-denies-reports-on-expected-timeline https://www.oedigital.com/news/505472-conocophillips-books-semi-submersible-drilling-rig-for-norwegian-sea-project Norwegian offshore drilling company Odfjell Drilling has secured a contract with ConocoPhillips for the Deepsea Yantai semi-submersible drilling rig.The contract… Wed, 31 May 2023 07:49:11 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505472-conocophillips-books-semi-submersible-drilling-rig-for-norwegian-sea-project https://www.oedigital.com/news/505447-semi-submersible-drilling-rig-assigned-for-kj-ttkake-exploration-well-offshore-norway Oil and gas company Longboat Energy said Tuesday that a semi-submersible drilling rig had been assigned for the drilling of the Lotus (Kjøttkake) exploration well in Norway… Tue, 30 May 2023 11:57:51 Z https://www.oedigital.com/news/505447-semi-submersible-drilling-rig-assigned-for-kj-ttkake-exploration-well-offshore-norway