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SEOUL, June 3 (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Monday the possibility of a vast amount of oil and gas reserve in the

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden authorized a giant ConocoPhillips oil project in northwest Alaska that environmentalists argue

By Siyabonga Sishi PORT EDWARD, South Africa, Dec 5 (Reuters) – South Africans took to their beaches on Sunday to protest against plans by Royal Dutch

By Max de Haldevang (Bloomberg) –Talos Energy Inc., the U.S. offshore explorer behind Mexico’s largest oil discovery in years, is taking the first

By Justin Sink, Josh Wingrove and Jennifer A. Dlouhy (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced steps to

The last time that U.S. oil drillers got caught up in a price war orchestrated by Saudi Arabia, it ended badly for the

By John Ruwitch and Nguyen Phuong Linh SHANGHAI/HANOI, July 16 (Reuters) – A Chinese oil rig has finished drilling near the disputed Paracel islands in

Transocean Arctic, a harsh environment semi-submersible on contract to VNG Norge AS via Rig Management Norway has discovered more oil while drilling on the

On June 9 2014, technicians on board the semi-submersible drilling rig Deepwater Nautilus were troubleshooting an alarm that was preventing the top drive from

Rowan Companies’ fourth and final newbuild drillship, the Rowan Relentless, is now covered by a long term charter contract amid a very competitive

From a drilling safety standpoint, jack-up rigs are inherently more dangerous than floating rigs for two main reasons. First, if the well blows out and catches

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

— By Gregory Lewis and Anthony Sibilia, Barron’s Online Is the midwater-rig market poised for a pickup? We think so! Increasing demand for midwater

LONDON–U.K.-listed oil explorer Tullow Oil PLC (TLW.LN) said Monday it has decided to abandon a high-pressure oil well it was drilling off the coast of

In the days when physical manual work was an every day occurrence – by George Cheyne,  Senior Toolpusher, Stena Carron It was a crisp December morning

The Scarabeo 9, on contract for Repsol, is currently sitting at, or very close to, “TD” or total depth on the first deepwater well ever drilled off

– By ExxonMobil Connection The ExxonMobil Drilling team this month commenced operations on the Jansz-lo driling program for the Gorgon LNG Project off

By Doug Helton, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) For the past year, we at NOAA and the U.S. Coast Guard have been studying the possible

Valiant Petroleum announced today that it had entered into a contract to secure a firm rig slot on the Stena Carron drillship to drill the Handcross prospect

Petrobras announces that on Tuesday (13/03) around 14:30, the drilling rig SS-39 (Alaskan Star), a semi-submersible drilling rig owned by Queiroz Galvao