Baker Hughes, a GE company, announced that the Baker Hughes international rig count for July 2019 was 1,162, up 24 from the 1,138 counted in June 2019, and up 165 from the 997 counted in July 2018. The worldwide rig count for July 2019 was 2,238...

Seadrill refers to the announcements made on 1 May 1 2019 in connection with the award of  drilling contracts by Qatar Petroleum to Gulf Drilling International (GDI). Seadrill and GDI have entered into a 50:50 joint venture, GulfDrill...

Equinor and partners have announced first oil from the Mariner field. The field is expected to produce more than 300 million bbl over the next 30 years. The Mariner reservoirs have up to 3 billion bbl in place, a 50% increase on what was originally assumed...

Data Gumbo has announced Antelope Water Management has adopted the company's blockchain network GumboNet. This is the industry’s first use of a blockchain platform for total water management services in US shale plays. Antelope’s deployment moves Data Gumbo into the Permian Basin...

Interventek has been awarded a contract exceeding £1 million to deliver its 6-3/8”, 15,000 psi, open water Revolution valves to Trendsetter Engineering in Houston, will be delivered by early 2020...

Tullow Oil announced the results of its Jethro-1 exploration well, drilled on the Orinduik license offshore Guyana by its wholly owned subsidiary Tullow Guyana B.V. The Jethro-1 was drilled by the Stena Forth drillship to a total depth of 4,400 m in approximately 1,350 m of water...

The Blockchain Research Institute has announced its newest "Pioneer" member, a membership category reserved for new companies that are revolutionizing their industries with innovative blockchain strategies. PermianChain joins nearly 80 other BRI member companies...

Amplus Energy Services has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to reevaluate the development of marginal fields in Angola. The aim of the contract is to develop economically viable field development solutions for a major operator in Angola...

Churchill Drilling Tools has revealed that an operator significantly improved its wellhead base jetting operations by deploying the DAV MX CircSub. The client, having completed drilling operations, had to remove cuttings debris from its wellhead base prior to wellhead installation...

Shelf Drilling announced that it has received an award for a three-year contract for each of the C.E. Thornton and F.G. McClintock jackup rigs with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for operations in the Mumbai High, offshore India. The planned start-up of operations is Q4 2019...