The long arm of the law: North Sea assets as targets for protests
Located dozens of miles out to sea, it would stand to reason that oil and gas assets are unlikely targets for protestors โ for the sake of convenience if nothing else.
Located dozens of miles out to sea, it would stand to reason that oil and gas assets are unlikely targets for protestors โ for the sake of convenience if nothing else.
Transocean (NYSE: RIG) has unveiled a pair of UK North Sea contract wins as part of a clutch of global awards worth $488m.
Transocean ordered the two drillships in February 2014, agreeing to pay $540 million for each of the vessels. Sembcorp said it would deliver the rigs in 2017 and 2018.
Drillships are driving the recovery in the deepwater market, according to a leading rig analyst, with contractors moving to procure new or stranded units as day rates continue to rise.
More than 300 drilling workers have launched 48 hours of strike action across North Sea installations in a dispute over pay.
More than 300 offshore workers have voted for strikes across 20 North Sea installations, Unite the Union has announced, causing "major problems" for production.
An offshore worker of nearly 20 years has written a new book on the โhighs and lowsโ of his career in the industry.
It could soon cost half a million dollars a day to hire an offshore rig, according to executives in the industry, in a stunning turnaround for day rates since Covid.
Drilling operations on the North Eigg exploration well have been hit by delays, Serica Energy (LON: SQZ) has confirmed.
Unite the union will ballot over 300 drilling workers and contractors over strike action, after members rejected a 5% pay deal.
Offshore drilling giant Transocean (NYSE: RIG) has announced two new contract wins totalling more than $1 billion.
Sembcorp Marine has successfully delivered the โworldโs first eighth-generation drillshipโ, the Deepwater Atlas, for Transoceanโs subsidiary Triton Atlas, the Singapore yard reported.
Equinor has awarded Transocean a contract extension for its Spitsbergen semi-submersible rig, which will see it in use off Norway until 2025.
US drilling contractor Transocean reported pre-tax losses of $470 million for 2021, compared with $541m the previous year.
Transocean has landed a $252million contract after Beacon Offshore Energy and its partners reached FID on the Shenandoah project in the Gulf of Mexico.
Transoceanโs Deepwater Nautilus semi-submersible unit looks set to keep drilling offshore Myanmar for South Koreaโs POSCO after the Swiss-based driller announced a contract extension.
Noble Corporation and a consortium including Transocean and Dolphin Drilling are competing to acquire the assets held by Seadrill, according to a news report, as it undergoes Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Transocean has hailed a โmonumental achievementโ in striking a deal with shipyard owners to defer $460m payments on two new-build drillships.
Despite the political and social turmoil in Myanmar, South Koreaโs Posco International is sending a second deep-water drilling rig to the troubled Southeast Asian state to continue development work at the Shwe gas field.
Even when the Covid-19 downturn is finally past us, operators will have to continue exploring new avenues for cost reductions to be better equipped to withstand future market declines. In a report that looked into the adoption of robotics across the petroleum industry, Rystad Energy found that existing solutions could replace hundreds of thousands of oil and gas jobs globally and reduce drilling labor costs by several billion dollars by 2030, if there is an industry push for such a transition.
Police Scotland has been offered use of an idle oil rig in order to train against a recent wave of protests in the North Sea.
Drilling contractor Noble Corporation has rolled out an Aberdeen technology firmโs new safety observation app across its fleet.
The bloodless military coup in Myanmar has triggered some upstream companies to assess whether they should activate force majeure clauses in their production-sharing contracts (PSCs) with the government.
The atmosphere in Myanmar remains volatile after the military seized power from the National League for Democracy (NLD) government and is creating logistical challenges for upstream companies, including Woodside Energy, that operate in the country.
The direction of travel appears clear; around a quarter of the current offshore floater rig fleet - ships and semi-submersibles - will be sent to the scrapyard near-term.