Rig Equipment News
| Cameroon >> 12/9/2011 - Atwood Oceanics, Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries has been awarded a drilling services contract by a subsidiary of Bowleven Plc. for the Atwood Aurora. The day rate for work offshore Camero... |
| Brazil >> 11/25/2011 - Deep Sea Metro Ltd. has taken delivery of the drillship Deepsea Metro II from Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI).
President & CEO of Odfjell Drilling, Simen Lieungh states: "This is the second project f... |
| United States >> 11/23/2011 - Pacific Drilling S.A. provided an update on the status of its ultra-deepwater drillships. The Pacific Bora commenced its three year contract with a wholly owned Chevron subsidiary on August 26, 2011, ... |
| Australia >> 11/15/2011 - Buccaneer Energy Limited is pleased to advise that the Company’s 50% owned subsidiary Kenai Offshore Ventures, LLC (KOV) has overnight in London completed the acquisition of the GSF Adriatic XI offsho... |
| United Kingdom >> 11/14/2011 - Ensco plc has entered into a drilling contract for ENSCO 120, an ultra-premium harsh environment jackup rig. The initial contract is with Nexen Petroleum for their Golden Eagle Development in the Cent... |
| Denmark >> 11/14/2011 - Maersk Drilling has signed a contract with DONG Energy for the jack-up rig Maersk Resolute for work on the South Arne field in the Danish North Sea. The expected duration of the seven-well contract is... |
| Indonesia >> 11/8/2011 - Niko Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce that it has signed a contract with a subsidiary of Diamond Offshore (Diamond) – a major deepwater drilling contractor. This is the largest deepwater explorat... |
| Norway >> 11/7/2011 - Maersk Drilling has received a Letter of Award from Total E&P Norge AS for one of the two ultra harsh environment jack-up rigs presently under construction in Singapore. The rig will be used for drill... |
| Tunisia >> 10/26/2011 - ADX Energy Limited is pleased to announce that following suspension to secure Sidi Dhaher-1 well the Challenger drilling rig has been released from location without incident. All related equipment has... |
| Norway >> 10/26/2011 - BP Norge AS has exercised an amended 45-day option for the continued use of the Safe Scandinavia at the Valhall offshore facility in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The value of the exercised o... |
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Egypt >> 10/25/2011 - Maersk Drilling has signed a contract with BP for the ultra deepwater semi-submersible Maersk Discoverer for work initially offshore Egypt. The firm contract duration is four years and the contract al... |
| United Kingdom >> 10/19/2011 - Rockhopper Exploration plc confirms that a loss of power occurred on the Ocean Guardian drilling rig on 16 October 2011 whilst the rig was preparing to move to its next well location following the suc... |
| Singapore >> 10/18/2011 - ES Group (Holdings) Limited announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, ES Offshore Engineering Pte. Ltd. has won another order to construct two jack-up drilling rig blocks for a major Singapore shipy... |
| United Arab Emirates >> 10/18/2011 - Lamprell, a leading provider of specialist engineering services to the international oil and gas and renewables industry, is pleased to announce the exercise by National Drilling Company (NDC), Abu Dh... |
| Norway >> 10/7/2011 - Seadrill (SDRL) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with a major oil company for a five-year contract for operations in North America with the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible rig West Capr... |
| Singapore >> 10/7/2011 - Buccaneer Energy Limited is pleased to announce that Houston based Archer Drilling, LLC (“Archer”) has been selected as the preferred operator of the Adriatic XI. This selection comes after a competit... |
| Singapore >> 10/6/2011 - Ensco plc announced that it has ordered a new ultra-premium harsh environment jackup rig to be built under a fixed-price shipyard construction contract with Keppel FELS Limited (“KFELS”) in Singapore.... |
| United Arab Emirates >> 10/4/2011 - Supply of Semi-Submersible drilling rig “Delba III” completed: The Semi-Submersible drilling rig “Delba III” has been delivered and handed over to our client Delba Drilling International Co?perative U... |
| Singapore >> 10/3/2011 - Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has secured a contract for its high-specification KFELS B Class rig from Safin Gulf FZCO (Safin) worth US$199 million. Scheduled to be delivered to Safin in 3Q 2012, ... |
| Vietnam >> 10/1/2011 - Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) is on track to deliver Vietnam's first semisubmersible drilling tender (SSDT) to PetroVietnam Drilling & Well Services Corp (PV Drilling) ahead of schedule, within bu... |
