Drilling
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May 19, 2025
Turkey has discovered 75 billion cubic meters of natural gas worth $30 billion dollars in the Black Sea, according to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan said the discovery was made after 49 days of drilling at the Goktepe 3 field.
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May 15, 2025
Perenco has announced a successful drilling operation for its Onyx well, encountering significant columns of natural gas in two separate geological compartments. The Onyx field is an undeveloped gas discovery located within the TSP license, offshore Trinidad.
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May 05, 2025
Valaris Limited has been awarded a five-well contract offshore West Africa for drillship VALARIS DS-15. The contract is expected to commence in the third quarter 2026. The total contract value, based on an estimated duration of 250 days, is approximately $135 million, including upfront payments for rig upgrades and mobilization.
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April 2025
Technology is creating opportunities to optimize operations and improve maintenance, to extend the operational window of aging drillships. The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) knows a thing or two about drillships, having a dominant position in the market of providing classification services to two-thirds of the global fleet.
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April 29, 2025
CNOOC has led Beijing’s efforts to boost oil and gas output and bolster energy security, and its focus on extraction helped deliver near-record annual profits last year. But that dependence on upstream prices was a burden in Q1 2025.
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April 2025
Managing custom HPUs efficiently is key to reducing downtime and ensuring safety in offshore drilling. Learn how comprehensive support can keep your operations competitive and reliable.
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April 14, 2025
Brazil’s oil regulator is set to grant exploration rights in a promising offshore region where state-controlled oil producer Petrobras has faced a years-long dispute with environmental authorities to start drilling. According to the ANP, 31 companies are registered and able to bid, including Petrobras, ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, Equinor and bp.
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April 04, 2025
Brazil’s state-controlled oil producer Petroleo Brasileiro SA said it has finished building a wildlife rescue center, fulfilling a final requirement by Ibama as it seeks approval to drill an exploratory well in a promising region offshore the country’s Northern state.
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March 21, 2025
In a webinar hosted by the African Energy Chamber, Namibia's Ministry of Mines and Energy and Wood Mackenzie on March 20, Namibia announced new offshore licensing opportunities and plans to drill seven wells in 2025.
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February 25, 2025
Brazilian regulators are cracking down on some offshore drilling by oil giants like Petrobras and Equinor ASA, complicating exploration and production projects at a key moment in the nation’s effort to boost crude output.
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February 14, 2025
Vantage Drilling announced it has entered into a marketing agreement with Eldorado Drilling AS to market the seventh-generation Dorado Drillship for drilling opportunities in various locations in Africa, the Mediterranean, Asia and Australasia.
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February 13, 2025
Petrobras has requested authorization from Brazil’s environment protection agency to prepare a drilling rig for work at a disputed offshore exploration project, a sign that the state-controlled producer is optimistic about overcoming licensing hurdles.
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January 30, 2025
Halliburton has been awarded a contract with Petrobras for integrated drilling services across several offshore fields in Brazil. The contract scope includes drilling services for development and exploration wells over a three-year period.
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January 29, 2025
Reelwell AS has secured a multi-year contract with Vår Energi ASA to deploy its DualLink powered digital drill pipe technology. The milestone agreement will see the DualLink deployed offshore on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) for the first time.
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January 23, 2025
Salunda has integrated its Red Zone monitoring solutions on four drilling rigs in Guyana with Intellilift’s proven digital technologies to deliver automated location and control of critical equipment and personnel.
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January 21, 2025
(Bloomberg) – U.S. President Donald Trump revoked offshore oil and gas leasing bans that effectively blocked drilling in most U.S. coastal waters as he made sweeping moves his first hours in office to unleash American energy development.
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January 15, 2025
Talos Energy Inc. (Talos) has announced that the Katmai West #2 well located in the Ewing Bank area of the U.S Gulf of Mexico successfully encountered commercial quantities of oil and natural gas.
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January 12, 2025
LLOG Exploration Company, a privately-owned exploration and production company focused on the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, has announced the achievement of several significant milestones in the construction of the Salamanca Floating Production Unit (FPU).
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January 09, 2025
Elected officials and trade groups representing businesses across the supply chain are sounding the alarm over the Biden administration’s 11th hour decision to ban new oil and natural gas activity across millions of acres of federal waters.
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January 08, 2025
SLB has been awarded a series of major drilling contracts by Shell to support capital-efficient energy development across its deep- and ultra-deepwater assets in the UK North Sea, Trinidad and Tobago, the Gulf of Mexico and others.
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January 08, 2025
Murphy Oil announced that its subsidiary has drilled an oil discovery at the Hai Su Vang-1X exploration well in Block 15-2/17 in the Cuu Long Basin, located 40 miles offshore Vietnam.
