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Drilling

Saipem wins onshore drilling contracts in Kuwait, Peru and Columbia

Italian oil and gas firm Saipem has won onshore drilling contracts worth around $250m in the Middle East and South America. Kuwait Oil Company,...

Korea National Oil Corporation contracts KS Drilling subsidiary for drilling services in Kurdistan

Korea National Oil Corporation (KNOC) has awarded a contract to Atlantic Onshore Services, a subsidiary of KS Drilling, to carry out drilling services in...

Shell obtains conditional approval from US regulator to drill for oil off Alaska

The Anglo-Dutch company Royal Dutch Shell has received conditional approval from the US regulator Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to explore oil in...

BP to reduce stake in oil project off southern Australia

BP has announced plans to divest some of its stake in the company's project in the Great Australian Bight. As part of the sale...

Odfjell Drilling contracted to operate offshore Vietnam

Norway-based Odfjell Drilling has secured an order worth $40m for its Deepsea Metro I to work with Vietgazprom in Vietnam. According to the contract...

AWE starts appraisal drilling at Waitsia-1 well in Western Australia

Australia based oil and gas exploration and production company AWE has started drilling operations at the Waitsia-1 appraisal well in in the Perth Basin,...

Edison Norge gets approval to drill wildcat well in Valhall oil field, North Sea

Edison Norge has obtained a drilling permit from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate to drill wellbore 2/11-11. The drilling programme for Wellbore 2/11-11, which will be...

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