Rigs

Rowan completes sale of two jack-up rigs to ARO Drilling

Rowan Companies said that it has completed the sale of two LeTourneau TARZAN Class jack-up rigs - the Scooter Yeargain and the Hank Boswell to ARO Drilling.

Ritchie Bros. offloads Loadcraft 2000HP SCR drilling rig to Scandrill

Kruse Energy Auctioneers, a Ritchie Bros. solution, which focuses on energy equipment-related auctions, recently sold a Loadcraft 2000HP SCR drilling rig for $5.5m.

Eni signs up Maersk Drilling’s Mærsk Deliverer rig for Timor Sea drilling

Danish drilling rig operator Maersk Drilling has bagged a contract from Eni and its partners to deliver its semi-submersible rig Mærsk Deliverer for exploration drilling offshore Timor-Leste.

Sirius secures Adriatic I jack-up rig from Shelf Drilling for Ororo Field

Sirius Petroleum by mutual agreement with COSL, has decided to revoke its agreement with COSL for the supply of a jack-up rig for a drilling program on the Ororo field, OML 95, located offshore Nigeria.

Transocean’s rig to drill six wells for Equinor in NCS

Transocean’s newbuild, harsh environment semisubmersible Transocean Norge has been given a six-well contract for an estimated 300 days from Equinor in the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

Noble buys newbuild jackup rig from PaxOcean

British offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has acquired a new Gusto MSC CJ46 design jackup rig from Singaporean ship-building company PaxOcean Group for $93.75m.

Maersk Drilling signs rig contract for Norwegian offshore Ula field

Maersk Drilling and Aker BP have signed a contract to deploy the Maersk Integrator jack-up rig at the Ula oil field located in the Norwegian shelf.

Maersk Drilling signs multi-service jack-up contract with Aker BP

Maersk Drilling and Aker BP have agreed to a new contract to reactivate and deploy Maersk Reacher jackup rig in the Norwegian part of the North Sea.

Total to deploy Stena Don to drill well on Laggan field

Stena Drilling has bagged a contract from Total E&P UK for the Stena Don in 2019 to drill one well on the Laggan field, west of the Shetland Islands in water depths of up to 650m.