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Velesto puts jackup NAGA 3 to work for PETRONAS Carigali
Velesto secured a contract from PETRONAS Carigali to deploy the jackup NAGA 3 for one firm well and one optional well. Operations began in November. The award went to Velesto Drilling, a wholly owned subsidiary of Velesto Energy. NAGA 3 is an independent-leg cantilever jackup…
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Valaris lines up four rig extensions, reverses VALARIS 111 recycling sale
Valaris and its ARO Drilling joint venture secured contract extensions with BP, Saudi Aramco, Ithaca Energy and INEOS, and Valaris reversed the recycling sale of jackup VALARIS 111, according to its 2 November fleet status report. BP awarded a three-year service contract…
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Saipem 12000 drillship begins Coral North campaign for Eni
Eni and its Area 4 partners started the drilling and completion campaign for the Coral North floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project offshore Mozambique, the operator announced 2 November 2026. The project, in the northern part of the Coral reservoir in Area 4 of the…
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Well-Safe Defender completes three-well P&A campaign off UK
Well-Safe Solutions completed a three-well plug and abandonment (P&A) campaign with its Well-Safe Defender semisubmersible, decommissioning one subsea well West of Shetland and two in the northern North Sea. After finishing its five-yearly special periodic survey, the rig…
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Halliburton buys Keystone to link well planning with rig execution
Halliburton acquired Keystone AS, a Norway-based software company that develops digital tools for well planning and execution, the company announced 2 November 2026. Keystone’s applications cover well planning and engineering, rig operations, logistics, equipment management and…
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Tenaris launches TenarisHydril White connection for complex wells
Tenaris launched the TenarisHydril White premium threaded and coupled connection, designed for deepwater, high-pressure, high-temperature (HPHT), horizontal and extended-reach wells. The connection is available in a wide range of sizes. The slim-coupling design is meant to ease…
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Superior Energy Services taps Jason Geach to lead Wellbore Technologies
Superior Energy Services appointed Jason Geach to lead its Wellbore Technologies business as President. Mr Geach has more than 20 years of global oilfield services experience across rental services, drilling operations, corporate development and investor relations. He joined…
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Odfjell Drilling to manage Beacon Pacific for Serica’s UK program
Serica Energy signed a drilling contract for the sixth-generation semisubmersible Beacon Pacific to carry out a multi-well campaign on the UK Continental Shelf. The firm scope covers six wells, with options for further activity. The rig is rated for operations to 620 m water…
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RigCo extends AD110 jackup charter to Arabian Drilling through 2030
Rigco Holding (RigCo), an indirect Keppel subsidiary, secured a bareboat charter extension for the AD110 jackup with Arabian Drilling Company (ADC). The extension runs about five years, from 2026 to 2030, in direct continuation of the rig’s prior contract. The AD110 is working…
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Three drilling rigs work Junín 10 as NABEP adds rigs in Venezuela
North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP) is growing its Venezuela rig fleet to 41 of the 60 rigs it announced in October, with the count due to reach that level this month. Production reached 223,509 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boed) on 19 October, up from about…
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Appalachian STEPS Network builds regional partnerships to expand safety education
In this video interview with DC taken from the IADC Appalachian Basin Technical Forum in Canonsburg, Penn., on 22 October, Donnie Lindsey, President of the Appalachian STEPS Network, discussed the organization’s safety mission. Its main goal, he said, is to connect operators and…
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Shell adds two Silvertip wells to Perdido production in US Gulf
Shell Offshore started production from Phase 3 of the Silvertip project, bringing two wells onstream at the Shell-operated Perdido spar in the US Gulf. The wells, in the Silvertip Frio reservoir, are tied into existing subsea infrastructure and are expected to produce up to…
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Eni/PETRONAS venture Searah starts gas from Maha
Searah, the 50-50 joint venture of Eni and PETRONAS, started gas production from the Maha field in the Kutei Basin offshore Indonesia, 21 months after the final investment decision. The field lies in the West Ganal block in about 1,000 m of water. Its two subsea production wells…
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Invictus readies Musuma-1 for rig-up after Rig 202 relocation
Invictus Energy completed the move of Exalo Rig 202 to the Musuma-1 exploration wellsite in the Cabora Bassa Project in Zimbabwe, where it holds an 80% operated interest. The rig was relocated from the Mukuyu-2 wellsite after wellpad construction, civil works and access road…
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Petrobras completes Morpho drilling with third oil find in block FZA-M-59
Petrobras identified another oil-bearing interval in the Morpho well (1-BRSA-1405-APS), its third discovery in block FZA-M-59 off Amapá, in 2,886 m of water. Continued evaluation of other intervals of interest, following the discoveries announced on 14 August and 2 October, led…
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Nabors adds SANAD newbuild in Saudi Arabia, lines up Venezuela rig
Nabors signed a multiyear contract to deploy one rig in Venezuela in early 2027, marking its return to drilling operations in the country. The company’s SANAD land drilling joint venture deployed its 17th newbuild rig in Saudi Arabia during Q3. One more newbuild is scheduled for…
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Indonesia Energy begins drilling deeper WK-5 well at Kruh Block in Sumatra
Indonesia Energy (IEC) commenced drilling operations on 21 October 2026 at its WK-5 well at the Kruh Block in Sumatra, Indonesia. The well follows K-29, which was drilled to about 3,400 ft and has recently started oil production. WK-5 is planned to reach a total depth of about…
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Marriott Drilling Group to drill Corbetti exploration wells in Ethiopia early next year
UK-based Marriott Drilling Group signed a contract to drill up to four exploration wells for the Corbetti geothermal power project in Ethiopia. The wells will be drilled in the Corbetti Caldera near Shashemene in Oromia. The contract follows Taranis Operations acquiring a…
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Touchstone puts PS-623 onstream, moves rig to second WD-4 location
Touchstone Exploration brought the first well of its two-well WD-4 block development campaign in Trinidad onstream. PS-623 was spud on 19 September 2026 and reached a total depth of 6,500 ft on 4 October. The company’s interpretation of wireline logs indicates about 450 ft of…
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BP finds hydrocarbons in Tupinambá exploration well offshore Brazil
BP identified the presence of hydrocarbons in exploration well 1-BP-14-SPS in the deepwater Tupinambá block in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil, and informed the Brazilian National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) of the result. The well is located 275 km…