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Northern Ocean sells Deepsea Bollsta to Odfjell

Monday, November 17 2025

General – Sale Semi Sub

Odfjell Drilling has signed an agreement for the acquisition of the harsh environment semi-submersible drilling rig Deepsea Bollsta from Northern Ocean, for a total consideration of USD 480 million.

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Filed Under: Drilling, drilling vessel, International News, Northern Ocean, Odfjell Drilling, sale, Semi-sub Tagged With: drilling, Northern Ocean, Odfjell Drilling, Sale, semi submersible rig

Foresea secures $110 million Petrobras extensions for two drillships

Thursday, October 23 2025

Fossil Energy – Drilling

Brazilian offshore drilling contractor Foresea has secured contract extensions worth approximately $110 million with Petrobras for two of its ultra-deepwater drillships.

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Filed Under: Contract extension, Drilling, drilling vessel, Foresea, International News Tagged With: contract extensions, drilling, drillship, Foresea

Shell drilling Falcao-1 offshore São Tomé

Wednesday, October 15 2025

Fossil Energy – Drilling

Shell has started drilling the Falcao-1 deepwater exploration well on Block 10 offshore São Tomé and Príncipe with Stena Drilling 10,000-ft drillship Stena DrillMAX.

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Filed Under: Drilling, drilling vessel, International projects, Shell Tagged With: drilling, drillship, Principe, Sao Tome, Shell, Suriname

Contract award for drillship VALARIS DS-12

Tuesday, October 14 2025

Fossil Energy – Drilling

Valaris has been awarded a five-well contract with bp for drillship VALARIS DS-12 in Egypt.

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Filed Under: Drilling, drilling vessel, Egypt, International projects, Valaris Tagged With: drilling, drillship, egypt, Valaris

Talos Energy announces exploration results at Daenerys

Thursday, August 21 2025

Fossil Energy – Daenerys

Talos announced successful drilling results at the Daenerys exploration prospect located in the U.S. Gulf of America Walker Ridge blocks 106, 107, 150, and 151.

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Filed Under: Drilling, drilling vessel, Exploration, Gulf of Mexico, International projects, Talos Tagged With: Daenerys, drilling, exploration, gulf of mexico, Talos Energy

2-year-old UDW drill ship sold to TotalEnergies

Thursday, August 14 2025

Fossil Energy – Drill Ship

Vantage Drilling International (VDI) reported the completion of the sale of the ultra-deepwater (UDW) drill ship Tungsten Explorer to TEVA Ship Charter LLC, its joint venture 75% owned by TotalEnergies.

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Filed Under: Drilling, drilling vessel, International projects, sale, TotalEnergies, Vantage Tagged With: drill ship, Sale, TotalEnergies, Vantage Drilling

Acquisition Tungsten Explorer Drillship

Friday, January 3 2025

Fossil Energy – Drillship

Offshore drilling contractor Vantage Drilling and French energy major TotalEnergies have created a joint venture (JV) entity TEVA Ship Charter to acquire Vantage’s drillship Tungsten Explorer.

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Filed Under: Drilling, drilling vessel, International News, Joint Venture, TotalEnergies, Vantage Tagged With: joint venture, TotalEnergies, Tungsten Explorer, Vantage Drilling

Noble drillship wins GoM contract

Tuesday, December 31 2024

Fossil Energy – Drilling

Noble Corp. says that it has received a new contract from an undisclosed operator.

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Filed Under: Drilling, drilling vessel, drillship, Gulf of Mexico, International projects, Noble Tagged With: drilling, drillship, GoM, noble

Milestone in offshore drilling

Monday, December 23 2024

Fossil Energy – Drilling

Seadrill announced the successful installation of the Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) Integrated Riser Joint (IRJ) on the West Polaris in Brazil.

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Filed Under: Drilling, drilling system, drilling vessel, Innovation, International News, Seadrill Tagged With: innovative drilling system, seadrill, West Polaris

Transocean’s Deepwater Atlas gets bp’s Gulf of Mexico job

Wednesday, September 11 2024

Fossil Energy – Drilling

Offshore drilling contractor Transocean has secured a contract from bp for its Deepwater Atlas drillship, which will be put to work at U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

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Filed Under: BP, Drilling, drilling vessel, drillship, Gulf of Mexico, International projects, Transocean Tagged With: BP, drilling, gulf of mexico, transocean

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