Mexico’s energy reform bill formally became a law on 21 December. PEMEX has controlled 100% of Mexico’s oil/gas market, allowing only compensation...

Gas production has started from the Juliet field, a subsea development on the western flank of the southern gas basin, 24 miles (39 km) east of the...

The 8th edition of the International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC), a multidisciplinary technical event endorsed by IADC...

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is soliciting proposals for oil spill response research projects and will invest up to...

Petrobras’ P-55 platform, one of the company’s strategic projects under its 2013-2017 Business and...

Keppel FELS delivered ARABDRILL 60, a KFELS B Class jackup, to Arabian Drilling Co (ADC) five days ahead of schedule in December, on budget and with a...

PPL Shipyard, a subsidiary of Sembcorp Marine, has secured a repeat order to build a third Pacific Class 400 jackup worth US$211.5 million from Perisai Inc, a subsidiary...

Maersk Drilling has received a contract extension from BP Norway for the Maersk Reacher jackup by two years from September 2014 to September 2016. BP Norway holds options...

Statoil, with PL272 partners, has made a gas discovery in the Askja West prospect and an oil discovery in the Askja East prospect in the North Sea. The exploration wells...

Ensco has taken delivery of ENSCO 121, the second of four ultra-premium harsh environment jackup rigs in its ENSCO 120 Series. The rig is contracted to work in the North Sea...