Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending September 15th 2023.

• IOOC extends Well Target jackups offshore Iran
• KCA Deutag bags $60 million Angolan extension
• Valaris DS-15 booked out to BP, Brazil
• BP Tanguuh exercises five priced well options on jackup Valaris 106
• Long-term deal for jackup Energy Emerger
• New three-year contract with CNOOC to keep MDW semi Kan Tan III
• Dolphin Drilling named for Oil India contract
• Transocean confirms contract for UDW newbuild drillship Deepwater Acquila and acquisition details
• Borr Drilling jackup Norve moved to Ruche field
• Jackup Valaris 122 commenced drilling at Shell’s Jackdaw field
• Contract for MDW semi Stena Spey with Ithaca Energy coming to an end soon
• TotalEnergies’ Venus-1X appraisal well results look “promising”

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending September 8th 2023.

• Trident Energy exercises another option on MDW semi Island Innovator
• Schedule delay means COSL-managed jackup SinoOcean Harvest will work slightly longer than
• UDW semi Ocean GreatWhite completes BP’s third well
• Saipem UDW semi Scarabeo 9 completes Azule Energy’s Lumpembe-1 exploration well
• Japan Drilling MDW semi Hakuryu-5 will complete Pangkin-1 exploration well soon
• Aker BP obtains consent from PSA to drill Surtsey prospect (well 30/12-3 S)
• Borr Drilling jackup Hild undergoing customs clearance off Mexico
• Cooper Energy’s well abandonment campaign offshore Australia to commence Q4 2023
• Eni and partners intend to make new investments in Egypt worth $7.7 billion over the next four years

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending September 1st 2023.

• Equinor hires pair of COSL MDW semi’s for three firm years
• DW semi COSLProspector snapped up by Var Energi for two firm years
• LOA for pair of Borr Drilling jackups
• Transocean drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1 India Award
• Petrobras finalises floater awards
• LLOG Exploration snaps up UDW drillship Noble Valiant
• Petrofac exercises optional well on MDW semi COSLInnovator 
• No discovery for Shell at Cullinan-1X exploration well offshore Namibia

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending August 25th 2023.

• PSA Norway gives consent to Equinor to drill two North Sea exploration wells
• Diamond Offshore DW semi Ocean Apex now drilling offshore Australia for Woodside Energy
• Reactivated Borr Drilling jackup gearing up to commence work
• Neptune Energy commenced drilling operations at the Yakoot exploration well
• Jackup Well-Safe Protector completes P&A campaign for Ithaca Energy at the Anglia field, UK SNS
• Shell to drill Mina West exploration well soon
• Second well at Neptune Energy’s Seagull field completed
• NPD approves drilling permit for Neptune Energy’s Ofelia well in PL929 
• Cheiron Energy discovers oil the in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending August 18th 2023.

• Equinor awards Bay du Nord drilling contract to SFL Corporation
• New two-year deal for Egyptian Drilling jackup Zoser in Gulf of Suez, Egypt
• Three-year extension for Arabian Drilling jackup Arabdrill 60
• TotalEnergies declared an option to extend UDW drillship Quenguela contract
• UDW drillship West Gemini contract extended by TotalEnergies
• QatarGas declared five one-well options on Seadrill jackup West Tucana
• Repsol awarded a 32-well P&A workscope to Archer
• Borr Drilling jackup Prospector 1 extended by Neptune Energy
• BW Energy declared the second one-well option on Borr Drilling jackup Norve
• Revised well schedule will see Seadrill UDW semi Sevan Louisiana finishing up early
• UDW drillship Polaris to become available mid-November
• Discoveries made offshore Norway, Brazil and India

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending August 4th 2023.

• Valaris confirms reactivation of drillship for West African campaign
• Eni extends contract on jackup Valaris 72; through to end of 2024
• 2 binding LOA’s for Borr Drilling; jackup Thor in Southeast Asia & jack Gerd in the Middle East
• Shelf Drilling secures new contract for idle jackup Shelf Drilling Fortress in UK CNS
• Transocean secures a short workscope for UDW drillship Deepwater Invictus in GOM
• Jackup Noble Intrepid secures 10-month contract for accommodation services
• Aker BP sublets jackup Noble Integrator for a one-well option to Harbour Energy offshore Norway
• Inpex extends UDW semi Noble Deliverer for nine months off Australia
• MDW semi Transocean Endurance completes two well contract with OKEA
• Ocean Oilfield jackup Aras Driller kicks off UAE contract with Atlantis Holding Norway
• TotalEnergies’ Krabdagu-3 appraisal well in Block 58 offshore Suriname is a success

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending July 28th 2023.

• Eni firms up more time on UDW drillship Saipem 10000
• Energy Drilling completes tender-assist purchase and adds a new contract
• ExxonMobil confirms use of Valaris 107 for P&A activities
• UDW semi Noble Deliverer starts one-year option with Inpex, Australia
• Drilling operations halted at Aker BP’s Rondeslottet prospect
• Jackup Noble Tom Prosser enroute to Sarawak from Labuan to work for PTTEP
• MDW semi Well-Safe Guardian remains in the Firth of Forth for a little longer
• UDW drillship Stena Carron undertaking five-yearly SPS in Trinidad & Tobago
• Couple of discoveries; Hess, US Gulf of Mexico and Ithaca Energy, UK

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending July 21st 2023.

• UDW semi Deepsea Atlantic’s contracts with Equinor now firmed up
• Long-term contract award for Transocean offshore Mexico for a 7th gen UDW drillship 
• Equinor confirms Argentina well to be drilled by UDW drillship Valaris DS-17
• TotalEnergies exercises first of three one-well options on UDW semi Transocean Barents
• PHE OSES farming-in COSL-managed jackup SinoOcean Peace for four wells
• CNOOC begins new seven-well exploration drilling campaign offshore China
• GSP jackup Uranus completes sixth well for Trillion Energy
• Production has commenced from the third well at the Hibiscus/Ruche production drilling campaign 
• Exploration drilling offshore Norway – permission being sought by Wintershall Dea and Var Energi
• UDW drillship Deep Value Driller undergoing sea trials

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending July 7th 2023.

• Petronas Carigali exercised and added further options to MDW semi Hakuryu-5 contract
• Valaris secured work for a semi and two jackups 
• Trident Energy exercised two options on MDW semi Island Innovator contract
• Additional work for MDW semi Transocean Encourage
• New two-well contract for UDW semi Noble Discoverer
• Jackup Valaris 121 mobilises to UK Southern North Sea for Petrofac/Dana Petroleum
• Borr jackup PROSPECTOR 1 on the final well for Neptune Energy
• MDW semi Transocean Endurance mobilised to Draugen area for OKEA
• ExxonMobil obtains approval to drill 35 new exploration wells in Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana