Oil rig news
Logan Industries expands land rig equipment services into West Texas
The new service will cover Midland, Odessa and the surrounding 100-mile radius, enabling Logan to offer quicker onsite and on-call services to these remote regions.
TAQA acquires Schlumberger’s Middle East onshore drilling rigs business
The transaction is expected to close in 2H19, subject to regulatory approvals.
IHS Markit: industry still awash in rigs and bullishness needs tempering
With just 48% of floating rigs under contract presently and more scrapping needed to increase floater utilisation above 70 percent, it’s too soon to be bullish on outlook.
West Hercules to drill more exploration wells
The contract is based on a master framework agreement established between Seadrill and Equinor.
Entro announces immediate availability of new X-Swing and CompacJac walking feet
Engineering and manufacturing specialists, Entro Industries, today announced the immediate availability two new additions to its King-Pin walking foot family.
Westwood Insight: don’t look now, but the Gulf of Mexico jackup market is doing pretty well
Terry Childs, Head of Riglogix, provides an overview of the Gulf of Mexico jackup market.
Henderson to perform major drilling rig refurbishment
It will be the first major rig refurbishment completed at HENDERSON’s new service centre and rig yard at 6750 Bender Road in Houston, Texas.
Stena Drilling uses revolutionary training approach to get rigs back to work
Stena Drilling has teamed up with advanced simulator developer and manufacturer, Drilling Systems to combine competency assessment and coaching in-the-field with the On-The-Rig (OTR) simulator.
Transocean provides quarterly fleet status report
Since the previous report, the company has added approximately US$405 million in contract backlog.
Maersk Drilling secures two contract extensions in the North Sea
Maersk Drilling has been awarded contract extensions for the high-efficiency jack-up rigs Maersk Resolute and Maersk Resolve by Petrogas E&P Netherlands B.V. and Wintershall Noordzee B.V., respectively.