Drilling
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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.
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January 06, 2025
The American Petroleum Institute (API) has released a statement from President and CEO Mike Sommers on reports the Biden administration will move to ban new oil and natural gas activity across millions of acres of federal waters.
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January 06, 2025
The National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) has issued a response to President Biden's planned unilateral ban of new offshore oil and gas activities across vast swaths of America's offshore areas under Section 12(a).
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January 06, 2025
The U.S. Chamber’s Global Energy Institute issued a statement regarding the Biden Administration’s plans to restrict offshore oil and natural gas drilling, calling on Congress and the incoming administration to reverse the policy.
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January 05, 2025
The Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) have responded to the announcement of the Biden Administration's plan to remove millions of acres of U.S. oceans from potential oil and gas drilling.
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January 04, 2025
Drilling Tools International (DTI) announced their completed successful acquisition of Titan, a UK-based downhole tool rental company. The acquisition strengthens DTI's presence in the North Sea, European and African markets.
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January 02, 2025
(Bloomberg) – President Joe Biden is preparing to issue a decree permanently banning new offshore oil and gas development in some U.S. coastal waters, locking in difficult-to-revoke protections for sensitive marine areas during his final weeks in the White House.
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January 02, 2025
Vantage Drilling announced the creation of TEVA Ship Charter LLC (TEVA), a new JV entity with TotalEnergies. Under terms of the agreement, Vantage will operate the Tungsten Explorer for a ten-year term with the option to extend.
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January 01, 2025
ADES Holding Company has received a Letter of Award (LOA) from PTTEP Energy Development Company Limited (PTTEP) for an offshore jackup drilling contract in the Gulf of Thailand with an estimated backlog of SAR 1.035 billion.
Article
December 2024
Having been a leader in offering turnkey, vessel-based, riserless light well intervention services, C-Innovation has devised a novel hydraulic intervention methodology to access wells that are normally inaccessible by intervention vessels. In this interview, two of the firm’s engineers describe the new methodology.
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December 26, 2024
Seadrill today announced that it has completed the sale of the jack-up rig West Prospero for cash proceeds of $45 million.
