10/24/2014 - Karoon Gas Australia has now taken possession of the Olinda Star Semi-submersible drilling rig from Petrobras. ... |
10/20/2014 - Ocean Rig UDW Inc. announced the following: <... |
7/14/2014 - Karoon has executed final agreements with members of the QGOG Constellation S.A. group for contracting the “Olinda Star” semisubmersible drilling rig. ... |
5/15/2014 - Transocean Ltd. issued a monthly Fleet Update Summary which includes new contracts, significant changes to existing contracts, and changes in estimated planned out-of-service time of 15 or more days s... |
4/22/2014 - Norwegian rig firm Fred. Olsen Energy said that an upgrade on one of its most important rigs would be more expensive and would take longer than earlier thought, sending its shares sharply lower. ... |
7/23/2013 - Queiroz Galvao Oleo e Gas S.A. (“QGOG”) announces that began operations for Shell of its onshore rig QG-I in the Sao Francisco Basin, Minas Gerais State. The contract runs through November 2013. ... |
7/15/2013 - Seadrill Limited has entered into turnkey contracts to build four new ultra-deepwater drillships. Two drillships will be built at the DSME yard and the other two at the Samsung yard, in South Korea. T... |
11/29/2012 - Sembcorp Marine Ltd, through Jurong Offshore Pte Ltd’s wholly-owned subsidiary, has secured a drillship contract worth US$806.4 million from Sete Brasil Participacoes S.A. (Sete Brasil), for the desig... |
11/29/2012 - Petrobras informs that it cancelled the process to contract five drilling rigs, capable of drilling up to 3,000 meters of water depth, with the Ocean Rig Group. This decision is based on the reduction... |
11/7/2012 - QGOG Constellation S.A announces that the Laguna Star, a new ultra-deepwater drillship, arrived in Brazil. The unit will be operated by its subsidiary, Queiroz Galvao Oleo e Gas (“QGOG”), in water dep... |
9/5/2012 - Ocean Rig UDW Inc, a global provider of offshore deepwater drilling services, announced that it has signed definitive documentation, following the previously announced Letter of Intent, for the Ocean ... |
8/13/2012 - RDS, the engineering arm of drilling contractor KCA Deutag, announced that it has been selected by Statoil to perform the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for a fixed drilling rig which will be par... |
8/12/2012 - Petrobras signed contracts with Sete Brasil, Odebrecht and Etesco to charter and operate nine drillships. They are to be built in Brazil, with local content (Brazilian goods and services) of 55-65%. A... |
8/7/2012 - Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M), through its subsidiary Fernvale Pte. Ltd., has firmed up contracts with Sete Brasil Participaçaes S.A. (Sete Brasil), for the design and construction of five... |
5/5/2012 - Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. (KHI) announced that it has decided to participate in a joint venture project for building drill ships etc. in Brazil, and executed a shareholders agreement on May 4, 2... |
3/13/2012 - Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary Jurong Shipyard has secured a US$385.5 million contract to build a semi-submersible well intervention rig from Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc. (Helix), a market leader i... |
2/10/2012 - Petrobras will pay $76.3 billion over 15 years to lease 26 deepwater oil drilling rigs from Brazil's Sete Brasil and Cyprus's Ocean Rig , the largest contract in the company's history, an executive in... |
12/19/2011 - Cordiant Capital Inc., the leading emerging markets private debt fund manager, is investing USD15 million in a USD864 million project for the construction of a deepwater drillship for a leading Brazil... |
9/21/2011 - HRT Participacoes em Petroleo S.A. (HRT) announces that in furtherance to its business plan, HRT signed, on September 15, 2011, the contract with the Joint Venture Andrews Technologies, Inc. and Sichu... |
9/14/2011 - Panoro Energy ASA, the independent oil and gas company with assets in West Africa and Brazil, has on behalf of the partnership signed a rig contract with a subsidiary of Transocean for the GSF Arctic ... |