Rigs News in United States
| 9/7/2023 - PATTERSON-UTI ENERGY, INC. reported that for the month of August 2023, the Company had an average of 117 drilling rigs operating in the United States. For the two months ended August 31, 2023, the Com... |
| 8/3/2023 - PATTERSON-UTI ENERGY, INC. reported that for the month of July 2023, the Company had an average of 123 drilling rigs operating in the United States. Average drilling rigs operating reporte... |
| 5/3/2023 - Late yesterday evening, Saipem transferred to KCA Deutag ("KCAD") its onshore drilling assets in Latin America corresponding to 44 rigs. The transaction is part of the agreement for the sale of the on... |
| 5/3/2023 - Trio Petroleum Corp., an oil and gas exploration and development company focused on strategic, high growth energy projects in California , announced that the Ensign Drilling Rig #540 has moved onto lo... |
| 4/20/2023 - Trio Petroleum Corp. (TPET) (“Trio”) announced that on April 19, 2023 it signed a drilling rig contract with Ensign Drilling, securing a fully equipped ADR 350 rig (#540) that can drill to a depth of ... |
| 3/7/2023 - Seadrill Limited ("Seadrill" or the “Company") (NYSE & OSE: SDRL) announces that the West Neptune has executed approximately six months of term extensions with LLOG Exploration Offshore, L.L.C (“LLOG”... |
| 2/23/2023 - Primo Field Services announces it has acquired 4 brand new, zero hour rigs to the company's portfolio, and has entered into a credit facility of up to $6 million. This funding completes Primo Field Se... |
| 1/4/2023 - Transocean Ltd. announced contract awards or extensions for five of its drilling rigs. Together, the fixtures represent approximately $488 million of firm backlog. Deepwater Invictus, an u... |
| 12/15/2022 - Aquadrill LLC ("Aquadrill”) has extended a charter hire agreement with a subsidiary of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (the “Manager”) to provide the Company’s Vela rig, an MPD outfitted 7th generatio... |
| 12/7/2022 - 88 Energy has executed a rig contract with Nordic-Calista for the use of their Rig-2 to drill the Hickory-1 exploration well on the Alaskan North Slope. Hickory-1 The Hick... |
| 12/6/2022 - ProPetro Holding Corp. has executed a contract with a leading independent Permian operator for use of ProPetro’s first electric-powered hydraulic fracturing fleet (“e-fleet”). Under the agreement, Pro... |
| 11/8/2022 - Zephyr Energy plc (AIM: ZPHR) (OTCQB: ZPHRF), the Rocky Mountain oil and gas company focused on responsible resource development from carbon-neutral operations, is pleased to announce the signing of a... |
| 10/3/2022 - Kolibri Global Energy Inc. (“KEI”) (KGEIF) is pleased to announce that it has brought in a second drilling rig to drill the Emery 17-2H well located in
the Company’s Tishomingo field in Oklahoma. ... |
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9/6/2022 - Transocean Ltd. announced that the ultra-deepwater drillship, Deepwater Asgard, received two contract awards in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for a total of approximately 14 months of work, adding $181 mill... |
| 9/1/2022 - Valaris Limited announced new contracts and contract extensions, with associated contract backlog of $149 million, awarded subsequent to issuing the Company’s most recent fleet status report on July 2... |
| 8/31/2022 - Aquadrill LLC has extended a charter hire agreement with a subsidiary of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (the “Manager”) to provide the Company’s Vela rig, an MPD outfitted 7th generation drillship, f... |
| 8/11/2022 - Aquadrill LLC ("Aquadrill” or the “Company") has extended the charter hire agreement for the Auriga rig with a subsidiary of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (the “Manager”) after reaching an agreement... |
| 6/1/2022 - Valaris Limited announced that Equinor has delivered a termination notice for the drilling contract awarded to drillship VALARIS DS-11. The termination will take effect at the end of June. Our total c... |
| 3/14/2022 - Valaris Limited has confirmed that drillship VALARIS DS-16, which is currently undergoing reactivation activities at ST Engineering Halter Marine and Offshore shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, in a... |
| 3/4/2022 - Aquadrill LLC ("Aquadrill”) has entered into a charter hire agreement with a subsidiary of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (the “Manager”) to provide the Vela, an MPD outfitted 7th generation drillshi... |
