RigLogix Offshore Rig News Roundup 2021

Alex Middleton, presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news for week ending December 10th 2021.

• OMV Norge and Maersk Drilling have entered a one-well firm contract for Maersk Intrepid in the Oswig prospect
• Petroserv has been awarded a contract to supply rigs 2 and 3 under Lot 2 of the operator’s late 2020 tender
• Shelf Drilling had its contract for jackup Rig 141 extended for another 60 days
• Trident Energy will return to Block G offshore Equatorial Guinea in 2022
• Semisub Shen Lan Tan Suo is now drilling the first well for Medco Energi
• Harbour Energy now expects start-up of its delayed Tolmount (UK) project in Q1 2022
• Jackup Noble Tom Prosser has completed its last well in the Timor Sea for Santos
• UDW semi Valaris DPS-5 has completed a one-well contract for Eni
• Borr Drilling jackup Groa has departed the port of Limboh and is headed to Qatar

Terry Childs, presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news for week ending December 3rd 2021.

• A consortium of ExxonMobil (60%) and Qatar Petroleum (40%) has been awarded the exploration rights to Block 5 offshore Cyprus
• Off Indonesia, only four contractors or their representatives attended the pre-bid meeting held by Pertamina Hulu Kalimantan Timur (PHKT) held on 25 November
• Shell Australia has requested that bidders for its Shell Crux development drilling campaign extend the validity of their proposals until April 2022
• Seadrill says that it has now finalized contracts for two UDW drillships to work for Petrobras in the Buzios pre-salt field offshore Brazil
• It has now been confirmed Lundin Energy has exercised an optional well for the use of UDW semi Deepsea Stavanger (10,000’) to drill a well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS)
• Transocean UDW drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 (10,000′) has left its stack location at Johore, West Malaysia and is now headed to Brunei

Kath Gammack, presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news for week ending November 26th 2021.

• Neptune Energy extends MDW semi Deepsea Yantai contract by three wells
• Evergreen contracts up for renewal; 39 COSL units working for CNOOC offshore China
• ONGC awards three-year contract to ADES jackup Admarine VIII
• MDW semi Stena Don enroute to Morocco for Chariot Oil & Gas
• Lukoil strikes oil in Block 12 offshore Mexico
• Jackup Maersk Highlander to stack when a favourable weather window allows
• UOG granted two-year extension licence extension by Jamaican government
• IOG Southwark drilling to commence 1st week of December – weather permitting

Paul Ezekiel, presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news for week ending November 19th 2021.

• ExxonMobil has awarded Stena Offshore a contract to drill one well offshore Eastern Canada
• Aban Offshore jackup Aban VIII has been selected to undertake a three-year contract for ONGC offshore India
• Borr Drilling jackup rig Mist has commenced its seven-month firm plus five-month option charter with PTTEP Thailand
• Velesto Energy jackup Naga 5 is expected to be released by Petronas Carigali (PCSB) within the first half of December
• APA Corp reports that it has completed flow testing at the Sapakara South-1 appraisal well in Block 58 offshore Suriname
• Ultra-deepwater drillship Stena IceMAX arrived on location at the Bambo-1 exploration well on 12 November and has successfully spudded the well
• Borr Drilling jackup Prospector 1 mobilized over the weekend to Block Q11B to begin the final well of its contract with Kistos
• Awilco is understood to have made the decision to scrap mid-water semi WilHunter
• Aban Offshore has confirmed the sale of four of its units to Last Voyage DMCC for scrapping
• TotalEnergies says it will likely drill additional infill wells at the Egina field in OML 130 offshore Nigeria in 2022
• Tullow Oil says it will withdraw from Suriname after disappointing exploration results
• After its November 2019 attempted sale was canceled, Seven Group Holdings has again put up for sale its 15% interest in the Shell-operated Crux gas discovery

Alex Middleton, presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news for week ending November 12th 2021.

• Chevron Indonesia issues a market survey for a deepwater floater
• Mauritius is advancing legislation to explore drilling in the area for the first time in 45 years
• Quarter North Energy awards Noble Drilling a contract for UDW drillship Noble Faye Kozack
• Wintershall will use Borr Drilling jackup Ran, for its Block 30 program off Mexico
• Valaris 122 will shut-in Shearwater in the North Sea, when presented with a suitable weather window
• ExxonMobil has found traces of oil in its Tita-1 exploration well in the Santos Basin, Brazil
• Diamond Offshore reports UDW semi Ocean Monarch will complete its contract with POSCO International in March 2022
• UDW drillship Saipem 12000 completed work for Eni in the Coral South field offshore Mozambique. Next tender is still outstanding

Terry Childs, presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news for week ending November 5th 2021.

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• Pascoe International signs first ever production sharing contract
• Borr Drilling jackup Gunnlod on last well for PTTEP Sarawak
• Shell plans to drill up to four exploration wells in Block 42 offshore Suriname
• Wintershall Dea, Nova drilling kicks off for the second time
• Harbour Energy extends contract for jackup Maersk Innovator
• Noble UDW Noble Faye Kozak arrives in Gulf of Mexico
• UDW Stena IceMAX arrives in Las Palmas before departing for Gambia

Kath Gammack, presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news for week ending October 29th 2021.

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• Unsuccessful commercial negotiations for Pertamina’s ONWJ jackup tender; new tender may be forthcoming
• Short-term lay up in Esbjerg for Maersk Resolute; future contract on the cards with possibly ONE-Dyas
• Jackup Valaris Gorilla VII’s new destination around two months away
• UDW drillship Noble Faye Kozack heading back to US Gulf of Mexico for Murphy Oil and First EnVen Energy
• UDW drillship Samsung Santorini – possible start delay for Eni’s US GOM 660-day campaign
• Equinor strikes oil at the Egyptian Vulture exploration well; further appraisal required
• Rig attrition – Valaris retires two jackups
• BW Energy converting jackup Hibiscus Alpha to a MOPU for use offshore Gabon
• BW Energy is reported to be purchasing Aquadrill’s UDW semi Leo for US$14M

Paul Ezekiel, presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news for week ending October 22nd 2021.

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• Valaris reports that it has been awarded a contract from Petrobras for cold stacked ultra-deepwater drillship Valaris DS-4
• Dana Petroleum has awarded a one firm well plus options contract to Island Drilling for the provision and operation of mid-water semi, Island Innovator
• Cairn Energy has awarded Shelf Drilling a contract to take the 300ft jackup Compact Driller for four wells offshore India
• The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that seven offshore blocks in a disputed area be handed back to Somalia
• Carnarvon Petroleum has been awarded two shallow-water blocks offshore Western Australia
• Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) has reduced its planned $1.3 billion purchase of a 37% interest in the Deepwater Tano/Cape Three Points block down to $200 million and a 30% stake in the fields
• BHP hits hydrocarbons with the first of two Calypso field gas appraisal wells in Block TTDAA 14 offshore Trinidad and Tobago
• Jackup Valaris 121 has just spud a High Pressure & High Temperature well at the Dunnottar prospect for Habour Energy
• The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has issued a drilling permit to Aker BP for drilling of wildcat well 24/12-7
• Market sources now are reporting that Japan Drilling jackup Hakuryu-12 will complete its contract for North Oil in November
• Ultra-deepwater drillship Noble Fay Kozack completed work offshore Mexico for Petronas
• TotalEnergies is reportedly looking to drill new development wells at its Kaombo South project
• Velesto Energy jackup Naga 6 will be deployed to the work at the Bokor Platform (BODP-F), offshore Sarawak
• Borr Drilling jackup Gunnlod is scheduled to complete its current drilling program with PTTEP Mduring the first half of November
• South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DMSE) has received notification from West Libra Inc, cancelling the resale contract for the Ultra-deepwater drillship West Libra

Alex Middleton, presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news for week ending October 15th, 2021, including:

• India – only three companies bid on 21 available blocks in open acreage round six
• Chevron signs production sharing contract with Staatsolie
• UDW Stena IceMAX completes Repsol contract, heads towards Gambia
• Jackup Valaris EXLII completes work for Fieldwood departs for , heads to GoM before East Cameroon
• Jackup Noble Regina Allen, completes work in block 3A for BHP Offshore Trinidad, now headng to stacked location
• Advanced Energy Services jackup Admarine 657, arrives in Dubai for 4-6 month maintenance programme and SPS
• Vår Energi makes discovery with Rødhette exploration well offshore Norway, drilled by the Saipem UDW semi Scarabeo 8
• Jackup COSL Boss, schedule to finish three-well contract with Saka Energi in late November

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Terry Childs, presents a 10-minute audio roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news for week ending October 8th, 2021, including:

• Lease Sale Coming For US Gulf
• Tower Resources shortlists two jackups for NJOM-3 appraisal well
• CP Latina receives extensions for Mexico jackups
• Ithaca awards contract to COSL Drilling
• SeaDrill UDW drillship arrives in Camps Basin Block BC-10 offshore Brazil
• UDW drillship Maersk Voyager has arrived on location in Block 48 offshore Angola
• Jackup Maersk Resolute (350′-IC) is nears the end of its contract offshore the Netherlands with Dana Petroleum
• Awilco Drilling MDW semi WilPhoenix (1,200′) is nearing completion of Ithaca Energy’s Fotla well (22/01b-12)
• Japan Drilling MDW semi Hakuryu-5 (1,500′) has completes eight firm wells with PTTEP Myanmar
• Contract pending for equipment recovery of Dynamic Drilling jackup Valiant Driller (300′-IC)
• DW commencing its next contract in Q1 2022 when it will drill at the Sasanof prospect for Western Gas

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