Drilling & production - 19 August 2016

The new rig, Maersk Highlander was named yesterday at a ceremony at Invergordon, Scotland.

Since 1 August 2016, the ELA Container Offshore GmbH has moved into its new office building in Haren, Germany.

Statoil and its partners have submitted the Plan for Development and Operation of the Byrding oil and gas discovery in the North Sea to government authorities.

Successive governments since the beginning of the century have failed to deliver secure and competitively priced energy, according to a new survey.

The well was successfully drilled to a total vertical depth of 5578 ft achieved its primary objective of retrieving good quality reservoir condition oil samples.

Thomas W. Stoelk has been named as the company’s Interim Chief Executive Officer.

Continental has announced that it has signed a sale agreement with to sell non-strategic properties in North Dakota and Montana for US$222 million.