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completions on Taribani Field (5/1/2008) BP contracts 2nd Pride ultra-deepwater drillship (4/30/2008) Samsung to build another Stena DrillMax drillship (4/30/2008) Matra contracts 2 Hungary wells to be drilled by Rotary Drilling (4/28/2008) Fox charters semisubmersible Byford Dolphin (4/27/2008) Hughes Christensen creates added slot on Congo platform (4/27/2008) Newbuild jackup SeaWolf Onome launched today (4/25/2008) Scarabeo 5 okayed to drill Norway's Kristin Field (4/24/2008) Schlumberger shifting 6 rigs to Mexico for Burgos drilling (4/24/2008) Ensco to build a 5th ultra-deepwater semisubmersible rig (4/24/2008) Rockhopper prepping to drill North Falkland Basin (4/21/2008) Workfox adds new jackup to North Sea fleet (4/18/2008) Pemex receiving bids to drill hundreds of Chicontepec wells (4/18/2008) New lower cost, less water stim methods developed (4/17/2008) Centrica lines up Transocean Galaxy II for North Sea work (4/17/2008) Three Rowan jackups gearing up for major assignments (4/16/2008) Victory sees dropped casing setback in Texas well (4/16/2008) Seadrill scores extensions for West Aquarius & West Polaris (4/16/2008) Aker H-6e hull sails from Dubai to Stord (4/15/2008) KS Medstar 1 set for Petrobel Mediterranean drilling (4/15/2008) Aban wins 2-well ExxonMobil contract for jackup (4/14/2008) Blake contracted to drill Cook Inlet off Alaska (4/14/2008) Seadrill secures $4.1 billion in contracts for Petrobras (4/13/2008) Schlumberger scores $85 million Pemex drilling deal (4/10/2008) Hunt Rig 2 fixed for Central Australia exploratory drilling (4/9/2008) Sterling contracts Ensco 70 jackup for UK North Sea work (4/8/2008) Songa Venus contracted to drill Zeus exploration well (4/8/2008) Innamincka sidetracking Flax-7 well (4/7/2008) Seadrill's contract for West Ariel cancelled (4/7/2008) Reliance charters drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 (4/4/2008) Origin fishing for stuck drillpipe in New Zealand Kupe well (4/2/2008) Seadrill takes delivery of 2 new semisubmersibles (4/1/2008) Pride finalizes 5-year contract for drillship Pride Angola (4/1/2008) PSA consents to StatoilHydro use of Polar Pioneer & West Alpha (4/1/2008) Aker Drilling wins 5-year Norwegian Sea drilling contract (3/31/2008) Vantage buying newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship (3/31/2008) Noble scores $4 billion in drilling deals from Petrobras (3/30/2008) Rig to drill test well off Namibia delayed in Angola (3/28/2008) High Arctic sending workover rig to Papua New Guinea (3/28/2008) Petrojack takes delivery of newbuild jackup rig (3/27/2008) KS Energy's MedStar 1 wins 3-year charter (3/27/2008) Transocean's Deepwater Nautilus contract extended (3/25/2008) Exterra prepping to frac Barnett Shale well in North Texas (3/24/2008) PetroWorth's New Brunswick well perfed and tested (3/21/2008) Halliburton stimulating Spears gaswell in West Texas (3/20/2008) Aban VIII wins 18-well assignment offshore Iran (3/19/2008) Tethys buys Chinese rig for Kazakh & Tajik drilling (3/19/2008) USA Superior Energy buying cased hole horizontal rig (3/19/2008) Awilco takes delivery of 5th ultra premium jackup (3/17/2008) Baker Oil Tools installs RAM system on North Slope (3/17/2008) Research study shows 50% growth in offshore drilling by 2011 (3/16/2008) StatoilHydro gets okay to drill with Transocean semi (3/14/2008) Lundin & Marathon secure Transocean Winner for Norway drilling (3/14/2008) Tethys obtains rig-sharing agreement from Oilex (3/14/2008) Sidetrack underway on New Mexico State GC-2 (3/13/2008) Seadrill's newbuild jackup West Ariel wins contract (3/11/2008) Husky expands offshore Eastern Canada ops with shared rig (3/11/2008) West Alpha cleared to drill Norwegian Sea well (3/11/2008) Jura Energy signs long term drilling contract in Pakistan (3/10/2008) StatoilHydro awards drilling deals to KCA Deutag, Seawell & Odfjell (3/9/2008) Horizontal wells proven right for Alberta's Basal Quartz (3/7/2008) Northern's Energy Exerter contracted (3/7/2008) Ensco ultra-deep semi contracted at $510,000/day (3/7/2008) StatoilHydro to share rig with Husky & Petro-Canada (3/7/2008) BG Norge given okay to drill with Bredford Dolphin (3/6/2008) Petrostar continuing downhole tool test at Maidstone (3/6/2008) Triangle sees shows in 2 Nova Scotia shall gas wells (3/4/2008) Mosaic mobilizes Century rig for 2008 drilling campaign (3/4/2008) Pan Orient & Carnarvon prepping for 27 wells in Thailand (3/3/2008) Forster Drilling's Rig 15 to work for Limestone Exploration (3/3/2008) Victory Energy takes delivery of new rig (2/28/2008) Aban's Deep Driller 5 off to Myanmar (2/28/2008) Energi Tata Persada providing rig for Puntland drilling project (2/27/2008) Pride wins Brazil contract extensions for 2 semisubmersibles (2/26/2008) Songa Venus staying in Australia for ADA drilling (2/26/2008) Foster Rig 12 deployed in New Mexico (2/26/2008) Neptune Marine buys Atlantic Venture semisubmersible (2/25/2008) Another gaswell drilling in Adams-Baggett Canyon (2/25/2008) Kodiak prepping for New Mexico drilling program (2/21/2008) Perro Negro 3 drydocked for maintenance & repair (2/21/2008) Saudi Aramco contracts Rowan jackup for Gulf projects (2/20/2008) Transocean drillship wins 3-year contract extension (2/19/2008) Drillship Deep Venture to spud Namibia well next month (2/19/2008) Regal contracts rigs to drill 2 Ukraine fields (2/18/2008) Hercules buying 3 Transocean rigs for $320 million (2/16/2008) Kan Tan IV in tow to new Trinidad drillsite (2/15/2008) Superior launches new liftboat Superior Liberty (2/15/2008) Empire sending Hunt rig to Tasmania for 8-well program (2/15/2008) Providence lines up semisubmersible for Celtic Sea drilling (2/15/2008) Emerald to drill 3 test wells, 2 development wells in Colombia (2/14/2008) Transocean Explorer set for 2 years drilling off Sulawesi (2/12/2008) Dejour completing Drake wells in Canada's Peace River Arch (2/12/2008) Zagreb 1 semi set for upgrading before Pemex stint (2/12/2008) Rowan bags McMoRan Blackbeard drilling project (2/11/2008) Sonda ETX2 rig set for Brazil drilling program (2/11/2008) Norway's PSA audits Seadrill's new semi West Phoenix (2/9/2008) Ensco targeting increased rig operations in Mexico (2/8/2008) Ocean Rig's semi Eirik Raude set for Ghana drilling (2/8/2008) Maersk Inspirer & Navion Saga set for Volve Field (2/7/2008) IOEC building 3 land rigs for Iran National Drilling Company (2/7/2008) ExxonMobil sets new extended reach record at Sakhalin 1 (2/6/2008) Global contracts Saxon rig for 2 wells in Colombia (2/5/2008) Norway's PSA rejects Rowan Gorilla VI for Norway work (2/4/2008) BowLeven contracts Trident IV to redrill Cameroon well (2/3/2008) Bow drilling Orallo North CBM appraisal (1/31/2008) Helmerich & Payne building 11 new FlexRigs (1/30/2008) Maersk Contractors takes delivery of new jackup (1/30/2008) CanArgo completes Manavi acid frac-stim program (1/29/2008) Gulf Drilling's newbuild jackup completed at Keppel FELS (1/29/2008) Cased hole horizontal drilling tech unveiled (1/29/2008) Pride's newbuild ultra-deep drillship contracted for 5 years (1/28/2008) UIG contracted to drill deep wells for Kuwait Oil (1/28/2008) ONGC charters Aban Ice drillship for 3-years (1/28/2008) West Navigator suffers damages during Ormen Lange disconnect (1/27/2008) ONGC charters 2 Hercules rigs (1/23/2008) Pride wins Petrobras multi-year ultra-deepwater drillship deal (1/23/2008) Awilco's WilForce jackup headed for Libyan waters (1/22/2008) Junex performs Quebec's first frac to evaluate shale gas (1/21/2008) Imperial to drill 65 producers & test wells in Tomsk (1/18/2008) Polar Pioneer cleared to drill Norway Barents Sea well (1/16/2008) Royale Energy employing 2 rigs in California campaign (1/16/2008) Premier planning 2-year Vietnam drilling program (1/16/2008) Seadrill's newbuild jackup West Triton sails away (1/15/2008) GSF Arctic III to drill Petro-Canada's Maria prospect (1/15/2008) Halliburton to provide modular rig for Shell Gannet project (1/15/2008) AGR contracts Transocean Prospect for 5 more wells (1/14/2008) Cygam revving drilling & farmouts on Tunisian operations (1/14/2008) Seadrill's West Janus jackup staying in Malaysia (1/13/2008) StatoilHydro to drill with Ocean Vanguard & Transocean Arctic (1/11/2008) Hercules 152 set to drill Texas' Pompano project (1/10/2008) Century Rig 7 contracted by Mosaic for 2008 campaign (1/10/2008) Atwood Eagle & Richmond win new assignments (1/10/2008) StatoilHydro drilling at Sleipner West (1/9/2008) Cubic drilling and completing Louisiana wells (1/8/2008) Rowan set for 6 months drilling off eastern Canada (1/8/2008) Production testing set for Inke discoveries in Hungary (12/13/2007) Corridor suffers well fraccing technical problems (12/13/2007) Dejour starts winter drilling in Alberta & British Columbia (12/12/2007) Corridor fraccing Prince Edward & New Brunswick wells (12/12/2007) TNK-BP awards long term contracts for drilling & workover rigs (12/10/2007) Exterra completes frac stim of Texas Barnett Shale well (12/9/2007) Songa Mercur to stay off Australia till January '09 (12/6/2007) Marathon charters Noble semi for US Gulf work (12/6/2007) Fire-damaged Noble drillship out of commission (update) (12/5/2007) Two Hercules jackups contracted for offshore India (12/4/2007) Polar Pioneer to drill Barents Sea exploration well (12/3/2007) China's Baoji builds rig to drill 12,000-meter wells (12/3/2007) Activa successfully fracs two new Texas wells (12/3/2007) Triangle completing slickwater frac in Nova Scotia shale project (12/3/2007) Diamond wins $2.3 billion in contract extensions for 4 semis (11/30/2007) Halliburton to perf, cement, & log Sun River wells in New Mexico (11/29/2007) Ocean Victory to drill Callon's US Gulf Entrada producers (11/28/2007) Atwood semi set for offshore Italy drilling for Eni Agip (11/28/2007) Delivery of 2 Aker H-6e drilling rigs delayed (11/27/2007) Hercules sells its fleet of land drilling rigs (11/26/2007) Awilco's newbuild semi WilPioneer contracted by BP (11/21/2007) Serica charters rig for 2 test wells offshore Indonesia (11/21/2007) Aban pays $211 million for Fred Olsen semisubmersible (11/20/2007) CanArgo frac & stim on Georgia discovery set (11/19/2007) Neptune Explorer enroute to Bengal Bay for Reliance (11/19/2007) Southern Star completes frac of Louisiana Cotton Valley well (11/19/2007) Anadarko tied down ultra-deepwater Discoverer Spirit (11/16/2007) Crosco rigs enroute to Egypt for RWE-Dea (11/15/2007) Kan Tan IV almost ready to return to Trinidad (11/13/2007) Coastal contracts Swiber rig for offshore Thailand (11/13/2007) Pertamina's Elnusa pairs for Sumatra project (11/12/2007) Scorpion takes delivery of new rig, wins contract for another (11/12/2007) Paradigm shows new integrated well planning & drilling suite (11/12/2007) Assisted geosteering technology optimizes well placement (11/12/2007) Schlumberger releases new hydraulic frac diagnostics (11/12/2007) Saipem wins 5-year Eni contract for newbuilt Scarabeo 9 (11/12/2007) Caledus developing slimmer well technology (11/9/2007) Stena DrillMAX launched at Samsung Heavy Industries (11/8/2007) Apexindo's Rig 5 contracted to drill in East Kalimantan (11/8/2007) Dolphin drillship renewed for 3 more years at $575 million (11/7/2007) Eni given go-ahead to drill with Transocean Leader (11/6/2007) Lost pipe & formation damage halts Bengara II drilling (11/5/2007) Rig received by Aminex sub for offshore Tanzania wells (11/2/2007) New Shingli Bohai rig set for 18-month Egypt drilling project (11/2/2007) Samson stimulating Stage Coach East test well (11/2/2007) AGR taps Ensco 80 to sub for Ensco 100 (11/1/2007) Rowan orders 4 Super 116E jackups from AmFELS (10/31/2007) March's spud of northern Chile well delayed (10/31/2007) Antrim secures rig for Fyne drilling in UK North Sea (10/30/2007) Canadian Superior recovers BOP for repair (update) (10/30/2007) StatoilHydro to employ Deepsea Delta for Oseberg Delta wells (10/26/2007) PDVSA charters drillship for Mariscal Sucre project (10/25/2007) Goldnev completes oil shale core hole drilling in Saskatchewan (10/24/2007) Transocean buys stake in JV & 2 drillships (10/24/2007) DNO gets go-ahead for Bredford Dolphin to drill (10/23/2007) Santos exercises option to extend Songa Mercur contract (10/23/2007) Hydrodrilling contracted to drill 3 Italian wells for Po Valley (10/23/2007) AGR to test riserless mud recovery on Shell's Miri Field (10/23/2007) Petromena sub acquiring semi Petrolia (10/23/2007) StatoilHydro contracts Transocean semi for four years (10/19/2007) CNOOC's first deepwater rig to be delivered in 2011 (10/18/2007) Petrolia semi enroute to Mexican waters for Pemex project (10/17/2007) Holloman taps Hunt Rig 3 for 3 South Australia wells (10/17/2007) Transocean Arctic okayed for 2 Draugen wells (10/17/2007) Semi Leiv Eiriksson pauses in Las Palmas (10/16/2007) PTSC successfully launches platform rig (10/15/2007) Shell & Frontier to build new deepwater & Arctic drillship (10/15/2007) ONGC to charter Ocean Rig's deepwater rigs for five years (10/15/2007) India's Jindal Drilling wins ONGC contract for newbuild (10/11/2007) Lynden spuds 1st of 6 Utah Paradox Basin wells (10/10/2007) Patterson-UTI acquires 3 SCR electric drilling rigs (10/9/2007) PACE Mitchell to drill China's 1st Dymaxion test CBM well (10/9/2007) Rig arrives offshore New Zealand to drill Kupe gasfield project (10/4/2007) StatoilHydro gets okay to drill with Polar Pioneer & West Epsilon (10/4/2007) Maersk receives 1st contract for high efficiency jackup rig 1 (10/4/2007) Cougar contracts Mitchell to drill coal gasification project (10/3/2007) Drilling liner run through tar section in US Gulf well (10/2/2007) Lexington secures shallow gas drilling contract (10/1/2007) Dragon dual drilling on Dzheitune Field in Caspian Sea (9/27/2007) BrazAlta completes 5-well drilling program in Brazil (9/26/2007) Heartland initiates 2nd phase of Kansas CBM drilling (9/25/2007) Lundin given go-ahead to drill with Maersk Giant (9/25/2007) Hess contracts Stena's DrillMax III for 5 years (9/25/2007) Great South Land Minerals tenders drilling of 8 wells (9/25/2007) PA Resources contracts Ensco rig for Tunisia drilling (9/24/2007) Japan drilling upgrades Hakuryu 5 drilling rig (9/21/2007) Nexen contracts Ensco 8502 semisubmersible for US Gulf (9/19/2007) Foothills prepping to drill Texas & California wells (9/17/2007) Keppel FELS delivers West Atlas to Seadrill (9/17/2007) Consul drilling of Marciano-1 sidetrack in southern Italy (9/13/2007) Aban paying $211 million for Bulford Dolphin semisubmersible (9/12/2007) Atwood to upgrade its submersible rig Richmond (9/12/2007) Ocean Rig's semi Leiv Eiriksson enroute to North Sea (9/11/2007) GlobalSantaFe orders new ultra-deep drillship (9/10/2007) Seadrill signs 5-year contract for West Capella drillship (9/10/2007) Quipo rig chartered to drill Oilex's Bhandut producers (9/6/2007) Abbot receives $147 million in contracts & extensions (9/5/2007) Noble takes delivery of new high-spec jackup (9/5/2007) PPL to build Egyptian Drilling deep drilling jackup (9/5/2007) Ascent gets priority access to Perazzoli rigs (9/5/2007) New monophasic bottomhole sample carrier deployed (9/3/2007) Centrica signs rig contract for Norwegian licenses (9/3/2007) Maersk Giant spuds Storskrymten & Grytkollen well Next Page OGI Homepage I Contact Us