Noble Corporation plc Provides Fleet Contract Status Update
Jun 18, 2016
Noble Corporation plc has announced that its report of drilling rig status and contract information has been updated...

Saipem Awarded New Drilling Contracts
Jun 10, 2016
Saipem has been awarded new drilling contracts and extensions to existing contracts in Portugal, Norway, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan and Latin America...

Divestment of Ben Rinnes Jack-Up Drilling Unit
Jun 10, 2016
Global drilling and engineering contractor, KCA Deutag, has announced that it has sold its jack-up drilling unit, the Ben Rinnes, to an integrated energy and services company...

Sparrows Group Seals Inspection Contract with Stena Drilling
May 12, 2016
Sparrows Group has been awarded a 20-month inspection services contract to cover Stena Drilling’s global fleet of drilling vessels.

Noble Announces Agreement with Freeport-McMoRan
May 11, 2016
Noble Corporation plc has announced an agreement with its client, Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas LLC (FMOG)...in connection with the drilling contracts for the drillships...

Transocean Ltd. Provides Fleet Status Report
Apr 22, 2016
Transocean Ltd. has issued its April 2016 Fleet Status Report that provides the current status of and contract information for the company’s entire fleet of offshore drilling rigs.

Ultra-Deepwater Drillship Delay
Apr 20, 2016
Transocean Ltd. has announced an agreement with Sembcorp Marine’s subsidiary, Jurong Shipyard Ptd Ltd, to defer the delivery and related final payments of two dynamically positioned ultra-deepwater drillships.

First Contract For Development of New Moss V Support Vessel
Mar 30, 2016
William Jacob Management Inc. (WJM) has secured its initial contract to complete the detailed engineering and design of its first Mobile Offshore Support Services Vessel...

Contract Extension for West Tellus
Mar 23, 2016
Seadrill Limited reports the award of an 18-month contract extension for the drillship West Tellus by Petroleo Brasileiro SA...

Semisub Paragon MSS1 to Visit Semco Maritime
Mar 10, 2016
Semco Maritime has won a contract with Paragon Offshore for intermediate classification and service works on the SemiSub Drilling Rig Paragon MSS1...

High-Specification Jackup Delivery Delay
Mar 8, 2016
Transocean Ltd. – international provider of offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells – has announced that a mutual agreement with Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd's shipyard...

Statoil Terminates Rig Contract
Mar 7, 2016
Statoil reports that, on behalf of the Troll licence, it has decided to use its contractual right to terminate the contract with COSL Offshore Management AS for the chartering of the mobile rig COSLInnovator.

Johan Sverdrup Production Drilling Commences
Mar 1, 2016
Statoil reports that at 00:00 on Tuesday 1 March the Deepsea Atlantic drilling rig started the first of a total of 35 wells to be drilled in the first phase of the Johan Sverdrup field development.

Sound Energy secures rig for upcoming Badile exploration well
Feb 29, 2016
Sound Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the rig for the forthcoming Badile exploration well. The Company has signed an MOU wit

Transocean receives early termination notice on GSF Development Driller I
Feb 24, 2016
Transocean Ltd. has received a notice of early termination from Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Limited for the ultra-deepwater

Vantage signed agreement for Tungsten Explorer
Feb 22, 2016
Vantage Drilling International has signed an agreement for a two-year extension of the Tungsten Explorer contract. The contract is now anticipated to keep

Statoil cancels contract with sub-leased rig
Feb 18, 2016
Statoil has decided to cancel the contract with Maersk Gallant.The Maersk rig has been on contract with Statoil for two years, since 21 August 2014, and since 9 October it has been

Premier Oil terminates drilling contract with Ocean Rig UDW
Feb 15, 2016
Premier and Noble Energy entered into a contract with Ocean Rig UDW on 3 June 2014, for the provision of the Eirik Raude drilling unit for an exploration drilling campaign in the Falkland Islands.

Transocean Ltd. issues fleet status report
Feb 12, 2016
Transocean Ltd. has issued a comprehensive Fleet Status Report which provides the current status of and contract information for the company's entire fleet of offshore drilling rigs.

Transocean terminates rig contract with Murphy
Feb 10, 2016
Transocean Ltd. says that Murphy Exploration & Production Company - USA, a subsidiary of Murphy Oil Corporation, has elected to terminate the contract for the ultra-deepwater drillship

Keppel FELS delivers first rig of the year safely and on time
Jan 27, 2016
Keppel FELS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) has delivered Halul, a KFELS B Class jackup rig, to Gulf Drilling International Ltd. (q.s.c) (GDI) of Qatar.

Sembcorp Marine delivers accommodation semi-submersible vessel Safe Zephyrus to Prosafe
Jan 20, 2016
Sembcorp Marine (SCM) has delivered the accommodation semi-submersible vessel Safe Zephyrus to its customer Prosafe in January 2016.

Seadrill and DSME agree to defer delivery of drillships
Jan 18, 2016
Seadrill Limited has reached an agreement with DSME shipyard to defer the delivery of two ultra-deepwater drillships, the West Aquila and West Libra, until the second quarter of 2018

Ezion secures agreement to jointly market two service rigs being built by a Chinese SOE
Jan 14, 2016
Ezion Holdings Limited has secured an agreement to jointly market two Service Rigs being built by a Chinese State Owned Enterprise to support the offshore windfarm,