Apache announced the status of its first exploratory well in Block 58 offshore Suriname. Operations on the Maka Central-1 well commenced in late September with an expected drill time of 30 to 60 days...

Premier announced it has achieved first gas from its operated Bison, Iguana and Gajah Puteri (BIG-P) project in the Natuna Sea Block A offshore Indonesia...

KCA Deutag has announced that it has been awarded a five-year contract extension for three platforms operating in the UK North Sea...

Valaris has announced new contracts and contract extensions, with associated revenue backlog of approximately $285 million, awarded subsequent to a prior fleet status report dated 25 October 2019...

ADNOC Drilling, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), announced a major rig fleet expansion program to support ADNOC’s upstream growth plans and enable the delivery of its 2030 Smart Growth Strategy...

Petrobras reports that it has started up oil and natural gas production at platform P-68 in the Berbigão field, in the Santos Basin pre-salt. Following P-67, in the Lula field, and P-76 and P-77, in the Buzios field, P-68 is the fourth unit to start up in 2019, in line with the Petrobras Business and Management Plan...

New, deepwater production has come online from the Brazilian pre-salt Santos Basin. Shell Brasil Petróleo (Shell Brasil) and its consortium partners have announced the start of oil and natural gas production at the P-68 floating production, storage, and offloading unit (FPSO), located in BM-S-11-A Concession in Berbigão, Sururu and West Atapu...

KCA Deutag has announced that its land drilling operation has won new contracts worth approximately $460 million in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. In Oman, KCA Deutag has won a three-year contract extension, which commences in 2021...

In this video with DC, Subodh Saxena, Senior Vice President at Nabors Drilling Solutions, explained how services integration is the next efficiency frontier...

Maersk Drilling has entered a contract with BG International, a subsidiary of Shell, for work offshore Trinidad and Tobago on a two-well development project for the semisubmersible rig Mærsk Developer. The contract has an estimated duration of 171 days and is expected to commence in Q1 2020...