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Vietnamese player’s ā€˜super rig’ ready for drilling

Vietnam’s Petrovietnam Drilling & Well Service Corporation (PV Drilling) has held the naming ceremony for a multi-purpose jack-up rig it purchased from U.S.-headquartered offshore...

Middle East conflict halts more offshore drilling ops as another rig owner confirms temporary suspensions

Arabian Drilling, said to be Saudi Arabia’s largest onshore and offshore drilling company by fleet size, has revealed temporary suspensions for some offshore rigs...

Middle East crisis brings ā€˜temporary suspensions’ to some ADES rigs

ADES International, a subsidiary of ADES Holding Company, which is part of Saudi Arabia-headquartered ADES Group, has confirmed suspensions of operations for multiple rigs...

Valaris drillship spins the drill bit at Equinor’s $9 billion Brazilian gas project

Norway’s state-owned oil and gas giant Equinor has kicked off drilling activities at its natural gas project off the coast of Brazil with a...

Southeast Asian infill drilling campaign ups oil production ante

Canada-based Valeura Energy, an oil and gas company,Ā has achieved an oil production boost thanks to its infill drilling program at an oil field off...

Seadrill’s JV with Sonangol lines up more work for 2015-built drillship in Angola

Sonadrill, a 50:50 joint venture between an affiliate of Sonangol E.P. and Bermuda-headquartered offshore drilling contractor Seadrill, has picked up a multi-well job in...

New job on ExxonMobil’s seventh oil project takes ABL to Guyana

ABL, part of Oslo-listed global consultancy group ABL Group, has landed an assignment at an offshore oil project in Guyana’s Stabroek block, which is...

Acteon brings Upstream Engineering into its fold, upping offshore engineering ante

The UK-headquartered Acteon, a provider of data-driven, engineering-led solutions across the lifecycle of offshore energy infrastructure, has bolstered its offshore engineering capabilities with the...

Kongsberg Maritime to design and equip Transpetro’s new methanol-ready tankers

Norway-headquartered Kongsberg Maritime has secured a contract to design and equip four methanol/ethanol-ready handy-size product tankers that will be operated by Brazil’s oil &...

Geotechnical surveys underway to handle TotalEnergies’ 2 GW offshore wind in Germany

TotalEnergies has contracted Fugro to perform geotechnical surveys for the NordSee Energies 1 (NSE1) offshore wind farm at the N-12.1 site in Germany, where...

From Poland to Netherlands: Hull of N-Sea’s new cable layer launched

    Dutch shipbuilder and designer Neptune Marine has launched the hull of the dual-fuel cable installation and repair vessel destined for compatriot N-Sea Group.The hull...

Seadrill’s 2014-built drillship staying one more year in Brazil

Seadrill, an offshore drilling contractor, has secured more time with Equinor Brasil Energia, a subsidiary of Norway’s state-owned energy giant Equinor, for a drillship...

Vietnamese JV set up to pursue shipping industry’s digital transformation with AI

Singapore-based shipping company Ocean Network Express (ONE) and Japan’s MTI Ltd. have established a joint venture (JV) company in Vietnam with the aim of...

Dark Mode Exodus: Sanctioned Venezuelan Tankers Slip Past U.S. Oil Blockade

Jan 5 (Reuters) – About a dozen tankers loaded with Venezuelan crude oil and fuel have left the country’s waters in dark mode since the start...

PV Drilling’s Jack-Up Rig Returns to Asia Ahead of April Drilling Ops

Vietnam’s PV Drilling has informed that its jack-up rig PV DRILLING IX arrived to Vietnam, after completing a two-month transport voyage from Europe, marking...

Helix to go on P&A duty in UK North Sea in 2026

U.S.-headquartered offshore energy services provider Helix Energy Solutions has secured a multi-year contract for riserless plug and abandonment (P&A) operations on up to 34...

DP World rebrands Unifeeder, P&O Maritime Logistics, and P&O Ferrymasters

Ports group brings legacy brands under DP World identity, with no change to operations.DP World announced it will rebrand its Unifeeder, P&O Maritime Logistics,...

Seatrium and Maersk Offshore Wind settle newbuild dispute

  The Singapore yard group to provide $250 million in credit to Maersk unit to complete purchase wind turbine installation vessel Seatrium and Maersk Offshore Wind...

Vessel penalised for using Starlink in Chinese waters

  The authorities in Ningbo are reported to be cracking down on the illegal use of LEO satellite communications in Chinese waters.Ningbo Maritime Administration is...

DeepOcean secures Equinor IMR contract extension through 2027

DeepOceanĀ has secured an extension to its long-term frame agreement withĀ EquinorĀ for subsea inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) services, ensuring continuity of operations across Norwegian Continental...

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