Oil rig news

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.

Baker Hughes and Schlumberger will be awarded the contracts for integrated drilling and well services on the Cat J rigs Askepott and Askeladden. The rigs will perform work at Oseberg and the Gullfaks.

In partnership with ESNAAD-PJS, TWMA has celebrated reaching one million incident free man hours on the ZADCO UZ750 project in Abu Dhabi.