Oil rig news

The two jack-up drilling rigs sold are the Dhabi II and the Paragon B152.

The hybrid jack-up rig Maersk Intrepid will drill three wells and plug one in the Martin Linge field offshore Norway.

Hild is the sixth jack-up rig that Keppel has delivered to Borr Drilling.

Fugro will deliver integrated marine-based services onboard the Well-Safe Guardian, Well-Safe Solutions’ semi-submersible unit for executing subsea well decommissioning work.

Beach Energy and Diamond Offshore are engaging in discussions with regard to the future operations of the Ocean Onyx rig and the Victorian Otway Basin offshore drilling campaign, with a view to agreeing a new contract in due course.

BG International, a subsidiary of Shell, and Aker BP have terminated contracts for the Maersk Developer and the Maersk Reacher respectively.

The company has also said it has received notices of early termination of contracts from ExxonMobil.

The module was lifted onto a barge at the Rosenberg Worley yard in Stavanger, Norway, and will be transferred to the world's largest crane vessel, Heerema’s Sleipnir, then installed on the Neptune-operated Gjøa platform.

The company's contract with Dubai Petroleum will end in October 2020 rather than January 2022.

Southeast Asia’s rig market, which was poised for growth in 2020, is now set for decline, according to analysis by Rystad Energy.