Oil rig news

The Mærsk Innovator is now firmly contracted to continue drilling infill wells at the Buzzard field on the UK Continental Shelf until February 2020.

The decommissioning project in the Schooner and Ketch fields will start immediately with a plan to commence offshore operations at the end of 2019.

Equinor awards a contract for services within insulation, scaffolding and surface treatment (ISO).

Data shows that marketed utilisation for some rig types in some regions are nearing 85-90%.

GustoMSC, the developer of Chela, has transferred the multifunctional arm to Maersk Drilling.

Sabah Shell Petroleum Company Ltd, a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, has signed an offshore master service agreement (MSA) with BMT.

An Ampelmann A-type system has been mobilised on the Harvey Blue Sea vessel, owned by Harvey Gulf, and will operate for 120 days.

One of the oldest platforms on the Norwegian continental shelf, Statfjord A, operated by Equinor, was originally scheduled to be shut down in 1999.

Oceaneering International Inc. has secured a new drilling and completion support contract for integrated services with Wintershall Norge AS.

A new technique to monitor the long-term integrity of suspended or decommissioned oil and gas wells in the North Sea is in development via a collaborative project involving Sentinel Subsea, Heriot-Watt University and the Oil & Gas Innovation Centre.