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drillship for US Gulf (3/15/2010) AGR & Chevron developing dual gradient drilling system (3/15/2010) COSCO contracted to construct Sevan Brasil drilling rig (3/15/2010) Xtreme Coil awarded Saudi Arabia contract for 2 rigs (3/14/2010) EnCore Oil prepping to drill UK North Sea Catcher prospect (3/12/2010) US drilling activity higher by 11 rigs (3/11/2010) Ensign contracted for 20 wells in Colorado's Wattenberg Field (3/11/2010) Petro-Canada picks KCA Deutag to drill Libya wells (3/11/2010) Europa fails to access Hykeham-1Z reservoir (3/11/2010) Chevron deploys new ultra-deepwater drillship in US Gulf (3/9/2010) Friendly sets up its own drilling subsidiary (3/9/2010) Talisman gets okay to drill with Transocean Winner (3/8/2010) Anadarko signs over Ocean Monarch to Cobalt (3/8/2010) CPTDC does $143 million rig deal with Iran (3/8/2010) Songa Mercur set for Sakhalin work under Gazflot (3/8/2010) Newbuild Transocean drillship starts 5-year stint with Reliance (3/5/2010) ExxonMobil gets okay to drill with Aker Barents (3/5/2010) International rig count up further in February (3/5/2010) COSL to drill 2nd step-out well in East China Sea (3/4/2010) Wintershall gets consent to drill in Norwegian Sea (3/3/2010) CNOOC semi Hai Yang Shi You 981 launched (3/3/2010) Gastar East Texas Bossier well being sidetracked (3/2/2010) Diamond semis & drillship win $1.4 billion in new contracts (3/2/2010) Patterson-UTI to drill for Caza on Texas gasfield (3/1/2010) Turkish Petroleum to drill Iraq's Rumalia development wells (2/28/2010) Two tender rigs completed for Seadrill fleet (2/26/2010) US drilling activity jumps with 28 more rigs working (2/26/2010) Rig shortage thwarts Uganda drilling operations (2/23/2010) Pride dedicates 1st of 4 new deepwater drillships (2/21/2010) MIS delivers newbuild jackup KS Endeavor (2/21/2010) US drilling activity virtually unchanged last week (2/18/2010) Petrolifera clears blocked tubing string in Colombia test well (2/18/2010) ProspEx completes 3rd East Kakwa horizontal well (2/17/2010) Ivanhoe taps down 15 delineation wells at Tamarack (2/17/2010) Ten companies to bid for drilling 56 wells in Iraqi field (2/16/2010) East Texas Haynesville/Bossier well hits 14/1 million cf/d (2/16/2010) Sperry Rand to drill Peng Lai production wells off China (2/16/2010) Statoil extends Odfjell, KCA Deutag & Seawell drilling contracts (2/16/2010) West Alpha approved to drill Centrica Norwegian Sea well (2/15/2010) FOGL joins Desire Petroleum in Ocean Guardian rig share (2/14/2010) Bayside gearing up for Loma Novia wells in South Texas (2/12/2010) Saxon signs to drill Rio Verde well in Colombia (2/12/2010) US drilling activity surpasses that of a year ago (2/12/2010) Saipem picks up 4 new contracts for 3 of its rigs (2/12/2010) Seadrill newbuild drillship wins 2-year contract (2/11/2010) Atwood semisubmersible sidelined for repairs (2/11/2010) GSF Galaxy II to drill Ithaca's Stella appraisal (2/11/2010) OGX signs 1-year charter for Diamond Offshore semi (2/10/2010) Primeline charters COSL jackup for East China Sea well (2/9/2010) Rigs tied down for 2 North Sea exploration wells (2/9/2010) Unit sells 8 idle drilling rigs for $23.9 million (2/9/2010) InterOil buys 2nd drilling rig for Papua New Guinea operations (2/8/2010) Number of US active rigs up 6th consecutive week (2/8/2010) Songa Venus heading to Australia's Browse Basin (2/7/2010) CGX seeking rig to drill Guyana exploration well (2/7/2010) US Corps of Engineers denies NPRA permit to ConocoPhillips (2/5/2010) International rig count up to 1,047 in January (2/4/2010) New subsea well intervention records set (2/3/2010) Crosco's semi Zagreb 1 waiting hire in Mexican Gulf (2/2/2010) Keppel AmFELS delivers jackup Tuxpan (2/2/2010) Ocean Guardian to drill 2 Falklands wells for Rockhopper (2/2/2010) Statoil extends Baker Hughes & Schlumberger drilling contracts (2/1/2010) Offshore Mischief set for Brazil in April (2/1/2010) Pemex picks CICSA to drill 100 wells (2/1/2010) Senergy launching well performance prediction tool (2/1/2010) Serica lines up Ensco 80 jackup for Conan well (1/29/2010) Number of US active rigs up 5th consecutive week (1/28/2010) Brazil's ANP forces Devon to keep drilling (1/28/2010) Dragon contracts newbuild M2 jackup from Yantai Raffles (1/28/2010) Integra delivers 11 heavy rigs to Gazprom sub (1/27/2010) Vietsovpetro building 2 drilling platforms for Bach Ho (1/27/2010) Aramco contracts jackup from Keppel FELS (1/27/2010) Matra working to solve Sokolovskoye drilling difficulties (1/25/2010) Newbuild semi Aker Spitsbergen off to Norwegian Sea (1/25/2010) Solimar trying to free stuck drillstring in California well (1/25/2010) Drilling resumes on Don Southwest sidetrack in UK North Sea (1/24/2010) Number of US active rigs up fourth consecutive week (1/24/2010) Borgsten Dolphin to drill in West of Shetland area (1/22/2010) Crimson contracts 2 land rigs for Texas drilling (1/21/2010) Tiancheng to drill 25 wells in PetroChina field (1/21/2010) Stena Spey drilling off Shetlands for TAQA Bratani (1/21/2010) Norway's PSA okay's Statoil & ExxonMobil exploratory drilling (1/20/2010) Atwood Southern Cross to drill off Tunisia (1/19/2010) Ensco adds new ultra-deepwater semisubmersible (1/18/2010) TerraWest taps down 3 China CBM wells (1/17/2010) US active drilling rigs rise by 28 to 1,248 (1/17/2010) BassDrill Alpha tender-assist drilling barge delivered (1/17/2010) December international rig count shows recovery (1/15/2010) Parted tie-back string suspends Empyrean's Sugarloaf Project (12/15/2009) AnTech adds wellhead outlet for high temp wells (12/15/2009) New technology tested by Statoil for unstable formations (12/14/2009) Keppel FELS to deliver Seadrill semi before yearend (12/14/2009) China's NEP sub to drill 30 new wells for PetroChina (12/12/2009) US active rigs rise by 20 to a total of 1,161 (12/11/2009) Record subsea well intervention achieved by Shell & Oceaneering (12/10/2009) Storm Ventures drilling offshore Tunisia hits a snag (12/9/2009) West Larissa to remain in Vietnam another year (12/8/2009) Scarabeo 5 okayed for Statoil production wells (12/7/2009) Ensco 8502 ultra-deepwater semi set for early '10 delivery (12/7/2009) 42 more land rigs & 17 more offshore rigs in November (12/4/2009) Four more US working rigs raises total to 1,141 (12/4/2009) Petrofac drilling sidetrack on UK's Don Southwest Field (12/4/2009) NEP orders new 4,000-meter land rig for fleet (12/4/2009) Downhole HP/HT power generator developed (12/4/2009) Seadrill's West Atlas total loss in Montara well fire (update) (12/3/2009) Aramco recognizes ALC's Rigless ESP technology (12/3/2009) Synergy sets 24-well Colorado winter drilling program (12/2/2009) Petrolifera to unblock La Pinta-1X wellbore in Colombia (11/30/2009) Atwood Richmond wins US Gulf well contract (11/27/2009) Reliance to charter out 2nd drillship for 20 wells (11/27/2009) 41% of active US land rigs are operating in Texas (11/27/2009) Three rigs receive PSA consent to drill off Norway (11/25/2009) Junex completes 1st propane shale frac in Eastern Canada (11/25/2009) Rowan Gorilla VI accepted to drill offshore Norway (11/25/2009) Transocean's Development Driller III at work in US Gulf (11/25/2009) Corridor concludes frac & clean-up of New Brunswick producer (11/25/2009) Talisman gets okay to drill with Maersk Guardian (11/24/2009) Sevan Driller sailing for Brazil on completion of sea trials (11/24/2009) Nafta Pila to drill Aurelian's Siekierki Project in Poland (11/23/2009) Keppel upgrading Noble drillships based in Brazil (11/23/2009) Noble jackup arrives off Nigeria for Akepo drilling (11/22/2009) US rig count rises for 5th consecutive week (11/19/2009) Jindal contracts Noble jackup for 5 years with ONGC (11/18/2009) Drill tower for Shell/Frontier newbuild drillship on the way (11/18/2009) BP Norge to drill on Skarv Field with Borgland Dolphin (11/17/2009) Falklands drilling campaign set to get underway (11/16/2009) PV Drilling III departs for Vietnam's Bach Ho Field (11/16/2009) Atwood's Vicksburg wins 3-month Thailand extension (11/16/2009) Transocean puts newbuild drillship to work in US Gulf (11/13/2009) US active rigs up 23 to a total of 1,101 (11/13/2009) Northern gets extension for jackup Energy Endeavour (11/11/2009) Songa Trym to drill for Statoil in Norwegian North Sea (11/11/2009) US BLM bumps up drilling fee 62% (11/11/2009) Statoil contracts 2 semis at 2006 dayrates (11/11/2009) Songa Mercur under tow to Timor Sea (11/10/2009) Atwood's Southern Cross to drill offshore Tunisia (11/9/2009) Wallis Drilling set for Pedirka Basin 5-well CSG project (11/6/2009) Crosco exercises option on Diamond Offshore jackup (11/6/2009) PPL Shipyard takes ownership of Seadrill jackup (11/6/2009) International rig count down 3 at 986 (11/5/2009) Bronco selling drilling rigs to CanElson (11/5/2009) InterOil retrieves lost drillstring in PNG Antelope-2 (11/4/2009) Major Drilling Rig P52 set for five-well Icon program (11/3/2009) Statoil gets okay to drill with Scarabeo 5 (11/3/2009) Arena adds a 4th rig in Texas development project (11/2/2009) Winter halts drilling operations in Mongolia (11/1/2009) US active rigs grew last week to 1,069 (10/29/2009) Jurong turns out another Bingo 9000 semisubmersible (10/29/2009) Baker Hughes runs 24-stage completion in Williston Basin (10/28/2009) Det Norske gets okay to drill with Songa Delta (10/27/2009) Atwood Richmond semi to drill in US Gulf (10/27/2009) Keppel FELS delivers new jackup & semi (10/27/2009) Varel launches series of slimhole roller cone drillbits (10/25/2009) Scorpion Offshore jackup set for Trinidad drilling program (10/23/2009) US active rigs grew last week by eight (10/22/2009) StatoilHydro gets go-ahead to drill with Ocean Vanguard (10/22/2009) Petro Matad preparing multi-well program in Mongolia (10/21/2009) PSA okays 3 semis for Norwegian North Sea drilling (10/20/2009) Enterra prepping for Alberta Cardium multi-year drilling (10/19/2009) Newbuild drillship Petrobras 10000 goes to work off Angola (10/19/2009) Two semis approved to drill in Norwegian North Sea (10/19/2009) FieldPoint recompletes New Mexico Crazy Horse well (10/18/2009) Keppel delivers 1st of 4 Rowan super jackups (10/18/2009) US active rigs last week dropped by one (10/17/2009) Ophir charters drillship to drill Tanzania's Mafia Basin (10/16/2009) OGX adds 5th semi to Brazilian drilling fleet (10/16/2009) Scorpion demobilizing jackup under contract to Gazprom (10/16/2009) Deepwater semi Ensco 8501 operating in US Gulf (10/16/2009) Stetson draws a duster in North Dakota Bakken well (10/15/2009) Corridor prepping to frac New Brunswick well (10/15/2009) Improved drilling tech yielding good results for StatoilHydro (10/14/2009) Saudi Aramco using in-situ laser to perf wells (10/13/2009) Hungary's Foldeak-1 to be fractured again (10/12/2009) Aramco to contract South Ghawar drilling services (10/12/2009) Suncor drilling with Songa Delta wins PSA approval (10/9/2009) Acoustic telemetry MWD applied in Equitable gaswells (10/9/2009) Transocean stacks 22 jackups & 2 semis (10/8/2009) HT/HP logging & HSFT tool evaluates Shell well in Libya (10/7/2009) Reliance to halt exploration if drilling moratorium not granted (10/7/2009) New Hughes Christensen PDC bits engineered for stability (10/7/2009) International rig count up 39 from August (10/6/2009) Seadrill scores 2-well assignment off Sudan (10/6/2009) Drydocks World delivers Perro Negro 6 jackup (10/5/2009) Rowan resuming 4th jackup rig construction (10/5/2009) Last week's US working rigs up to 1,024 (10/5/2009) Greymouth adds Tiger rig to New Zealand fleet (10/4/2009) Drillship Neptune Explorer upgrade completed (10/4/2009) Desire lines up Ocean Guardian for Falkland Drilling (10/1/2009) Atwood Beacon set to drill for Hess off Equatorial Guinea Next Page OGI Homepage I Contact Us