Oil rig news

New guidance provides methodology for safer jackup foundation design and installation.

First oil began to flow at 20:00 hrs on Sunday 26 March, travelling 25 km via pipeline to the Repsol Sinopec-operated Clyde platform.

Aker Solutions will provide design engineering for the upgrading of the semi-submersible Njord A platform in Norway.

In the first two months of 2017 OPEC members have demonstrated an unprecedented level of compliance with the production cuts agreed in late 2016.

Based on the proven and seasoned NG-2500X and NG-1800X designs, the NG-5500X-LD is a solution for light drilling and well intervention in a large number of mature fields in the Southern North Sea, Middle East and South East Asia.

Russian oil output averaged 11.11 million bpd in February 2017, representing no further output reductions relative to the January 2017 level.

4Subsea has delivered integrity monitor systems for six flexible risers on Statoil’s semi-submersible platform Snorre B in the North Sea. The company was awarded the contract shortly after having delivered the fifth system in a row for Statoil’s Snorre A platform. (Photo: Statoil/Rune Solheim)

Owners call for a more progressive approach to engineering information management as a new report lays bare the current state and impact of handover.

BNK Petroleum Inc. has announced that it has successfully finished drilling the first well of its 2017 drilling programme, the Chandler 8-6H well, in the Company's Tishomingo Field, Oklahoma.

Faroe Petroleum has announced that it has been awarded four new prospective exploration licences, including two operatorships, under the 2016 Norwegian APA (Awards in Pre-defined Areas) Licence Round on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.