Denmark’s offshore drilling contractor Maersk Drilling made a profit of USD 146m in the first quarter of 2013, an increase from USD 123m earned in the same period of 2012. The increase in profit was mainly due to general higher operational uptime in Q1 2013. All of Maersk Drilling’s 16 jack-ups and floaters, the 10 drilling barges [...]
A year after taking delivery of its last Bourbon Liberty 200 vessel and 1st Bourbon Liberty 300 vessel, BOURBON has extended its range of services with the Bourbon Liberty 151, the very first vessel in a series of 15 next generation PSVs. BOURBON has been investing in an extensive range of next generation built-in-series vessels [...]
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ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS (ConocoPhillips) has received consent to use the Mærsk Gallant jack-up rig for production drilling on Eldfisk 2/7-S in the Norwegian North Sea. The consent relates to pre-drilling and completion of five production wells and one injection well. The drilling will start in the 2nd quarter of 2013 at the earliest. Mærsk Gallant [...]
DONG E&P Norway AS, a subsidiary of Denmark’s DONG Energy, has received a drilling permit for well 3/7-9 S in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. The company will use the Mærsk Giant jack-up rig for the operation. The drilling programme for well 3/7-9 S pertains to the drilling of a wildcat well in [...]
Maersk Oil UK announced today that the company had received FDP (Field Development Plan) approval from the Department of Energy and Climate Change for the Balloch oil field, 140 miles north east of Aberdeen in the Central North Sea. Balloch, which Maersk Oil holds a 100% interest in, was discovered in 2010 and is situated [...]
Rowan Drilling has secured a new contract for its jack-up rig Rowan California in the Middle East. The drilling contractor revealed in its fleet status update for February that the rig will be hired by Maersk Oil. The Denmark-based oil company will use the rig for drilling operations offshore Qatar. The contract is scheduled to [...]
In the wake of the Macondo accident in 2010, Maersk Drilling and Maersk Training established a task force to determine how to build further on the solid foundation of IWCF and take training of the offshore crews to the next level. A very visible outcome of this work is the highly advanced drilling simulator complex [...]
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Denmark’s Maersk Group today posted an interesting story about snakes visiting its Maersk Deliverer semi-submersible drilling rig. The company did not specify how and when exactly the snakes appeared on its drilling unit in Angola. Maersk said: “They’re big, they’re brown, they’re long, they’re…snakes on a rig. They may not be on a plane, and [...]
Noble Corporation, a Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry, has secured contracts for two of its newbuild rigs. The first contract is for the Noble Houston Colbert jack-up rig, currently under construction in Singapore’s Jurong Shipyard. Upon delivery, the rig will be hired by ConocoPhillips and will be deployed in Alaska. [...]
BP announced today it has reached an agreement with Maersk Drilling to develop conceptual engineering designs for a new breed of advanced technology offshore drilling rigs that will unlock the next frontier of deepwater oil and gas resources. The agreement is part of BP’s Project 20KTM, a multi-year initiative to develop next-generation systems and tools [...]
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