Hess Corporation has announced an oil discovery at the Esox-1 exploration well located in Mississippi Canyon Block 726 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Esox-1 was drilled in 1,405 m of water and encountered approximately 58 m of high-quality oil-bearing Miocene reservoirs...

Kosmos Energy has announced that the Orca-1 exploration well has made a major gas discovery offshore Mauritania in the BirAllah area. The results continue the 100% success rate from nine wells targeting the inboard gas trend in Mauritania/Senegal...

New research findings from Deloitte suggests that if Eagle Ford and Permian Basin shale operators were to fully optimize their well designs, they could generate capital efficiency gains of 19% and 23%, respectively...

Safe Influx has successfully completed the field trial of the world’s first automated well control system on the Weatherford land rig at Bridge of Don, Aberdeen...

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...

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...