“Offshore drilling is coming back, big time,” Bjornar Iversen, chief executive of Dolphin Drilling, excitedly told a room of senior company figures, and myself, during a visit to the Borgland Dolphin rig in Norway last month.
SD Standard ETC is to acquire 25% of Aberdeenshire-headquartered Dolphin Drilling as part of a $10 million deal.
As of 28 February, Westwood Global Energy reports that there are four exploration wells active on the NCS. Two exploration well programmes completed in January, both as a dry holes. The Ginny and Hermine well has also been announced as dry and completed in February.
Westwood Global Energy reports that there were three exploration wells active as of 24 January. One exploration well has spudded and completed in 2022.
Westwood Global Energy reports that there was one exploration well active as of 16 December. A total of six appraisal wells and 28 exploration wells have completed to date in 2021, from which ten commercial discoveries have been made giving a 36% commercial success rate to date.
Dolphin Drilling has won work for the upcoming appraisal campaign for i3 Energy’s Serenity discovery in the North Sea, which includes a revenue-sharing agreement.
North Sea oil firm i3 Energy said today that it had made an oil discovery at the Serenity field in the outer Moray Firth.
Drilling has started at i3 Energy’s Serenity field in the outer Moray Firth.
The Borgland Dolphin rig is preparing to mobilise to drill an exploration well on i3 Energy's Serenity field.
Dolphin Drilling has hailed its “rebirth” after going debt-free and picking Aberdeen as its international headquarters.
North Sea oil firm i3 Energy said today that the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig has started drilling a well on the Liberator field in the outer Moray Firth.
i3 Energy has announced the Borgland Dolphin rig is about to begin its journey to the Liberator field in the North Sea.
North Sea explorer i3 Energy has hired a rig for a 94-day drilling campaign this summer.
Wintershall and its drilling contractor Dolphin Drilling have been given a deadline of August 2 to tell Norwegian authorities how it will make improvements and correct non-conformities in its emergency preparedness on the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig.
E.ON has completed a wildcat well near the Skarv field and confirmed it is a dry hole.