Offshore

Hercules Offshore (NASDAQ: HERO) reported Tuesday that it is experiencing a well control incident on its jackup drilling rig, Hercules 265, in the U.S. Gulf of

July 23 (Bloomberg) — The Angolan capital Luanda has overtaken Tokyo to become the world’s most expensive city for expatriates in a survey of 214

Deepwater driller Ocean Rig UDW Inc. (NASDAQ: ORIG) has announced the signing of a Letter of Award for its ultra deepwater newbuild drillship Ocean Rig Skyros

"We believe that the timing is right to divest of our non-core Downstream segment in order to strategically focus our energies on our Upstream core business,"

SBM Offshore has won a major order today from Shell to supply and lease a new Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) for the Stones development

BG Tunisia has extended it’s charter for Solstad Offshore’s (SOFF) anchor handling vessel (AHTS) Nor Star for an additional two years, with one

By Rujun Shen and Yantoultra Ngui SINGAPORE/KUALA LUMPUR, July 22 (Reuters) – From hauling rigs to delivering toilet paper, firms from Southeast Asia are

Seadrill’s West Tellus, a 6th generation drillship currently under construction at DSME, officially has work to do when it get’s delivered in

The world’s second largest crane vessel was contracted this week by Statoil to lift and transport the 10,600 ton topsides module into position atop the

Seadrill has announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Per Wullf will succeed Fredrik Halvorsen as Chief Executive Officer at the end

By Shoshanna Solomon (Bloomberg) — The deepest oil well drilled in Israel’s 65-year history may be the most important. Houston’s Noble Energy

Asia Offshore Drilling Limited (AOD) has taken delivery of its third new‐build jack‐up rig, ʹAOD IIIʹ, from Singapore‐based rig

Tokyo-based MODEC International has announced the execution of a contract with Hess Corporation to provide Engineering and Management Services for the Stampede

July 16 (Bloomberg) — Eike Batista’s OSX-3 offshore oil- processing vessel, collateral for his shipping unit’s bonds, departed from Singapore

Lundin Petroleum announced today that they have spudded in at the Gohta Prospect located approximately 150 km northwest of the northern tip of Norway in the

By Emma Farge GENEVA, July 16 (Reuters) – Angola’s monthly crude exports will slip in September to 1.67 million barrels per day (bpd), a

July 16 (Bloomberg) — Anadarko Petroleum Corp., a partner in the BP Plc well that blew up in 2010 and triggered the largest U.S. offshore oil spill, must

Italy and Malta’s prime ministers reached an agreement today for joint oil and gas exploration in the Mediterranean Sea between the islands of Sicily

This past weekend, Shell’s Olympus tension leg platform (TLP) left Kiewit shipyard in Ingleside, Texas,  and is now making its way to its future home in

20-year charter contracts were executed last Friday by Brazilian offshore oil and gas subsidiary Tupi BV for the charter and operation of two new build FPSOs