Rowan Companies, an offshore drilling contractor, has been awarded a contract for one of its jack-up rigs from BP in Trinidad. According to Rowan’s latest fleet status report, the company’s high-spec jack-up drilling rig Joe Douglas was awarded a 300-day…

Det norske, an oil exploration and development company, has been awarded ten new exploration licences offshore Norway, including six operatorship, in the APA (Awards in Pre-defined Areas) 2015. The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy on Tuesday awarded 56 exploration…

The second appraisal well to be drilled on the Cairn Energy-operated SNE oil field, 100km offshore Senegal, has been re-entered and will now be drilled to planned total depth. The SNE-3 well, located approximately 3km south of the initial SNE-1…

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation has started production from its Heidelberg field located in the Green Canyon area of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Anadarko is the operator of the field with 31.5% interest, while the other 68.5% are shared by Cobalt,…

Norwegian drilling company Odfjell Drilling has won a contract for its Deepsea Stavanger semi-submersible drilling rig. The contract is with JX Nippon Exploration and Production (U.K.) Limited (“JX Nippon”) for one exploration well located West of Shetland on the UK…

Spanish oil company Repsol has sought more time from Guyana to continue exploratory work in the Kanuku offshore block. The company’s delegation met with President David Granger on Wednesday to seek the extension. After the meeting, Repsol’s Latin America Exploration…

Neptune Marine Services has been awarded a marine maintenance diving contract by Chevron in Australia under a recently awarded Master Services Agreement. The contract, which is due to start imminently, includes the provision of diving services for the facilities maintenance…

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani informed on Monday that the development of giant South Pars gas field, lying on the territorial border between Iran and Qatar in the Persian Gulf, will be complete by March 2018. President Rouhani on Monday inaugurated…

Serimax, a Vallourec subsidiary, a company providing offshore & onshore welding solutions, and Technip, France’s engineering and construction company providing services for the energy industry, have signed an agreement in principle in order to achieve a strategic partnership in the…

China’s Sinopec has reportedly made a “high-yield” oil and gas discovery in a test well in the Beibu Gulf, offshore China. The country’s oil and gas giant, focused primarily on onshore exploration, on January 5th said it had completed testing…