The RigLogix Podcast

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending November 17th 2023. UDW drillship Ocean BlackRhino confirmed for Guinea Bissau drill Saudi Aramco exercised an option on COSL jackup COSLGift ADNOC Offshore exercised option on Foresight Drilling jackup Ayrabhatt-1 BW Energy extends Borr Drilling jackup Norve Seven more wells on Equinor’s Bre...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending November 10th 2023.  BP exercised two more options on UDW semi Ocean GreatWhite  Diamond Offshore secured TAQA 35-well P&A contract  Another P&A well for MDW semi Well-Safe Defender  Mubadala exercised Capella option  Vantage Drilling secured a Letter of Award for jackup Topaz Driller...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending November 3rd 2023. ADNOC Drilling getting jackup Aras Driller in 2024 Noble announced one new contract (Noble Resilient); extensions on two drillships (Noble Globetrotter I & II) plus a jackup (Noble Reacher); and a slight schedule change on another drillship (Noble Gerry de Souza) A tota...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending October 27th 2023. Ocean Oilfield jackup confirmed for Pakistan Petroleum, offshore UAE Valaris secures newbuild jackup financing PSA grants three drilling consents NPD approved one drilling permit Two operators apply to Norwegian Environment Agency to drill in January 2024 MDW semi Well-Safe...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending October 20th 2023. Oil India LoA for MDW semi Borgland Dolphin UDW drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1 extended by Reliance Industries offshore India Dana Petroleum discovers hydrocarbons in UK North Sea No success for Woodside Energy offshore Western Australia at Gemtree-1 well BW Energy hits...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending October 13th 2023. 90 days more for White Fleet jackup Kosmos Energy logs oil discovery at Tiberius Schedule update for UDW semi Valaris DPS-5 DW semi Ocean Apex heading to Broome for Inpex Australia Equinor gets Svalin drilling consent Perenco starts production in Gabon Hylia South West fiel...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending September 29th 2023. Shell Qatar jackup contract confirmed  Rosebank oilfield development approved by Regulator and receives positive FID Utgard production drilling consent for Equinor Equinor given permission to move Cat J jackup Askepott Jackup Valaris 107 getting ready to drill for Beach E...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending September 22nd 2023. Energy Drilling awarded PTTEP contract CPOC phase 6 development drilling campaign goes to Energy Drilling Contract extensions for North Drilling jackups Sahar-I and Sahar-II offshore Iran Noble Regina Allen confirmed for TotalEnergies offshore Argentina TotalEnergies exte...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending September 15th 2023. IOOC extends Well Target jackups offshore Iran KCA Deutag bags $60 million Angolan extension Valaris DS-15 booked out to BP, Brazil BP Tanguuh exercises five priced well options on jackup Valaris 106 Long-term deal for jackup Energy Emerger New three-year contract with CN...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending September 8th 2023. Trident Energy exercises another option on MDW semi Island Innovator Schedule delay means COSL-managed jackup SinoOcean Harvest will work slightly longer than UDW semi Ocean GreatWhite completes BP’s third well Saipem UDW semi Scarabeo 9 completes Azule Energy’s Lumpembe-1...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending September 1st 2023. Equinor hires pair of COSL MDW semi’s for three firm years DW semi COSLProspector snapped up by Var Energi for two firm years LOA for pair of Borr Drilling jackups Transocean drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1 India Award Petrobras finalises floater awards LLOG Exploration...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending August 25th 2023. PSA Norway gives consent to Equinor to drill two North Sea exploration wells Diamond Offshore DW semi Ocean Apex now drilling offshore Australia for Woodside Energy Reactivated Borr Drilling jackup gearing up to commence work Neptune Energy commenced drilling operations at t...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending August 18th 2023. Equinor awards Bay du Nord drilling contract to SFL Corporation New two-year deal for Egyptian Drilling jackup Zoser in Gulf of Suez, Egypt Three-year extension for Arabian Drilling jackup Arabdrill 60 TotalEnergies declared an option to extend UDW drillship Quenguela contra...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending August 4th 2023. Valaris confirms reactivation of drillship for West African campaign Eni extends contract on jackup Valaris 72; through to end of 2024 2 binding LOA’s for Borr Drilling; jackup Thor in Southeast Asia & jack Gerd in the Middle East Shelf Drilling secures new contract for i...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending July 28th 2023. Eni firms up more time on UDW drillship Saipem 10000 Energy Drilling completes tender-assist purchase and adds a new contract ExxonMobil confirms use of Valaris 107 for P&A activities UDW semi Noble Deliverer starts one-year option with Inpex, Australia Drilling operations...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending July 21st 2023. UDW semi Deepsea Atlantic’s contracts with Equinor now firmed up Long-term contract award for Transocean offshore Mexico for a 7th gen UDW drillship  Equinor confirms Argentina well to be drilled by UDW drillship Valaris DS-17 TotalEnergies exercises first of three one-well op...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending July 7th 2023. Petronas Carigali exercised and added further options to MDW semi Hakuryu-5 contract Valaris secured work for a semi and two jackups  Trident Energy exercised two options on MDW semi Island Innovator contract Additional work for MDW semi Transocean Encourage New two-well contra...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending June 23rd 2023. Dolphin Drilling buying two Transocean UK North Sea units Dolphin Drilling secures LOI for a three-year extension on Paul B Loyd Jr Multi-year contract awards for ADNOC Drilling KCA Deutag scoops North Sea Platform deals worth $70 million Borr Drilling jackup Mist contract ext...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending June 16th 2023. Tender assist rig Sapura Berani contracted by Vestigo Petroleum Jackup Enterprise 351 to drill one-well for Peregrine Oil & Gas Pemex contracts MDW newbuild semi North Dragon Drilling operations commenced on HBA-27B well (Halfdan field) GSP jackup Uranus spudded 6th well f...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending June 2nd 2023. TotalEnergies exercises option on Shelf Drilling jackup Baltic Semi-tender assist Sapura Pelaut secures four to five month program with Petronas Carigali Neptune Energy granted permission to drill well 36/5-7 S in PL636 using MDW semi Deepsea Yantai IOG Blythe H2 well on track...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending June 2nd 2023. Jackup Hakuryu-11 committed to Q3 2024 Not one but two contracts for MDW semi Deepsea Yantai Operator OKEA confirmed for recent MDW semi Transocean Endurance contract Velesto Drilling confirms new deal for jackup Naga 2 NPD approves drilling permit to drill well 30/11-15 in PL0...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending May 26th 2023. Borr Drilling secures new Americas contract for jackup Ran Carigali-PTT Operating Co declares four-well option on Borr jackup Thor BW Energy declares option well on Borr jackup Norve LLOG adds three months to Seadrill UDW drillship West Neptune contract Three jackup extensions...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending May 19th 2023. Two-year unconditional letter of award for Vantage Drilling jackup Soehanah Vantage Drilling jackup Topaz Driller receives new conditional letter of award for West Africa work Change of location for DrillCo UDW drillship ODN II Equinor applies to drill an exploration well in PL...

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending May 12th 2023. Velesto secures work for three of its jackups (Naga 3, Naga 4 and Naga 6) Shell extends DW semi Ocean Endeavor for two more wells BP declared the first of eight options on UDW semi Ocean GreatWhite MDW semi Ocean Patriot picks up a two-well contract with Repsol UDW drillship Oc...