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Maersk Drilling has secured a contract for the 7th generation drillship Maersk Viking, which will be employed by the POSCO International Corporation, a Korean operator, for a three-well campaign offshore Myanmar...

International Maritime Industries (IMI) has announced it had signed a license agreement with GustoMSC, an NOV company. The agreement enables IMI to efficiently construct and deliver drilling rigs to its clients...

Keppel Offshore & Marine (Keppel O&M) has, through its wholly owned subsidiary Keppel FELS, delivered the Hermod jackup rig to Borr Drilling safely, on time and within budget...

HMi Elements, a specialist that designs and manufactures hazardous area-approved computers for the world’s leading oilfield services companies and their customers, has launched a breakthrough Zone 1 product...

Total, operator, and its co-venturers Qatar Petroleum and Petronas have won the C-M-541 deep offshore block in the 16th Bidding Round held by Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP). The acreage is located in the pre-salt Campos Basin...

The National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels of Angola has announced the terms of reference, bidding rules and qualification criteria of its 2019 bid round, starting the countdown to a 12 November 2019 deadline for operators and interested parties wishing to bid on the 10 frontier blocks located in the Namibe and Benguela Basins...

ADES has announced that it has entered, through its subsidiary, into a second deepwater drilling campaign with a an international oil company for deepwater drilling services in the Egyptian Mediterranean area...

IADC has issued V2.0 of the DDR Plus for final comment, after receiving and considering wide-ranging input from across the industry over the past eight months since V1.0 was launched earlier this year...

Shelf Drilling has announced that it has received an award for a three-year contract for the Trident II jackup rig with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for operations in the Mumbai High, offshore India. The planned start-up of operations is Q1 2020...

Equinor has been awarded exploration acreage in the Northern Carnarvon Basin offshore Western Australia. The new exploration permit, WA-542-P, has been awarded to Equinor as operator and 100% owner...