For March we had over 44k article views, here are the top 5!   Deepwater was king this month with news from Noble, Pacific, Dolphin, Apache, Total, Vantage and Seadrill   Thanks for reading with us and we wish you a great April!   Stay safe!   Noble Drilling and Pacific Drilling Announce Merger   Noble Corporation and Pacific Drilling Company LLC announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Noble will acquire Pacific Drilling in an all-stock transaction.  The definitive merger agreement was unanimously approved by each company's Board of Directors.     Noble Drilling and Pacific Drilling Announce Merger     Bolette Dolphin sold for $85 million to Deep Value Driller AS   This was reported via Fernley Securities as the proceeds from the private placement will be used for the acquisition of the ultra-deepwater drillship formerly known as “Bolette Dolphin” and strategically positions the company towards the expected offshore drilling market recovery.     Bolette Dolphin sold for $85 million to Deep Value Driller AS     Apache and Total stop drilling offshore Suriname due to blowout risk   As drilling progressed, the well encountered substantial pressure increases that APA and Total determined could ultimately exceed the capabilities of the wellbore design and pressure control equipment.     Apache and Total stop drilling offshore Suriname due to blowout risk     Deepwater to have record growth in coming years   Offshore project commitments are expected to not only recover going forward, but their number is also set to reach a new record in the five-year period towards 2025, cumulatively almost 600 projects, a Rystad Energy report shows.     Drilling activity is set for two consecutive years of growth     Vantage Drilling and Seadrill Partners finalize agreement on management of SDPL floaters   Vantage Drilling International (“Vantage”), announced that it has entered into a Framework Agreement and related Management and Marketing Agreements with Seadrill Partners LLC (“Seadrill Partners”) under which Vantage’s subsidiaries will provide operating, management and marketing services to Seadrill Partners and its subsidiaries in respect of four of their deepwater floaters.     Vantage Drilling and Seadrill Partners finalize agreement on management of SDPL floaters   Join our mailing list here We are #1 on Google and Bing for the "Largest Mobile Energy Network" Come join our community! Download the Rig Lynx app here

  For February we had over 31k article views, here are the top 5!   News from Petrobras, Transocean, Maersk, and Vantage    Thanks for reading with us and we wish you a great March!   Stay safe!   Petrobras launches tender for 5 offshore rigs   In the midst of the process of change in its high command, Petrobras launched a new tender that promises to move the market. The state-owned company published a public notice to contract up to five offshore drilling rigs.     Petrobras launches tender for 5 offshore rigs     Maersk announces new contract details for the Discoverer   As stated in their Fleet Status Report, Maersk Discoverer will drill two exploration wells for BG International Ltd., a subsidiary of Shell, offshore Trinidad and Tobago.     Maersk announces new contract details for the Discoverer     Higher dayrates and more work for Transocean   During Transocean’s last earnings call, CEO, Jeremy Thigpen, said that BHP exercised one of its options on the 2014-built Deepwater Invictus drillship at an increased day rate of $215,000.     Higher dayrates and more work for Transocean     Vantage Drilling International subsidiary VHI to oversee Seadrill Partners LLC floaters   Under the management and marketing agreements, the VHI Entities will provide marketing and operations management services in respect of certain of the Seadrill Entities' deepwater floaters.     Vantage Drilling International subsidiary VHI to oversee Seadrill Partners LLC floaters     Today we remember the Ocean Ranger   February 15th marks the anniversary of the 1982 ODECO Ocean Ranger drilling rig disaster in which 84 offshore workers lost their lives.     Today we remember the Ocean Ranger   Join our mailing list here We are #1 on Google and Bing for the "Largest Mobile Energy Network" Come join our community! Download the Rig Lynx app here

  For January we had over 29k article views, here are the top 5! News from SpaceX, ExxonMobil, Santos, Valaris and Constellation  Thanks for reading with us and we wish you a great February! Stay safe!   Valaris 8500 and 8501 will be converted by SpaceX   Canada gives approval for three offshore drilling projects   Santos grabs Noble Tom Prosser for a Q2 spud in   Valaris DS4 and DS8 dock in Hunterston Pier just before New Years   Brava Star awarded multi-year contract Join our mailing list here We are #1 on Google and Bing for the "Largest Mobile Energy Network" Come join our community! Download the Rig Lynx app here

  For December we had over 21k article views, here we will cover the top 5! News from NOV, Pacific, ExxonMobil, MHWirth and Seadrill We know that it's not that easy at the moment but we wish all of you well wherever you are, thanks for reading with us and we wish you a great start to January! Stay safe!   National Oilwell Varco to change its name   Pacific Drilling receives overwhelming acceptance for plan of reorganization   ExxonMobil and Seadrill ready the Saturn for operations in Campos and Santos Basin   MHWirth receives suspension notice from KFELS   Seadrill Partners files for bankruptcy   Join our mailing list here We are #1 on Google and Bing for the "Largest Mobile Energy Network" Come join our community! Download the Rig Lynx app here

  For November we had over 25k article views, here we will cover the top 5! News from Valaris, Pacific, Noble, Borr and Seadrill We know that it's not that easy at the moment but we wish all of you well wherever you are, thanks for reading with us and we wish you a great start to December! Stay safe!   Valaris's DS 12 and BP ready to start on second phase of Block 18 in Angola Pacific updates on prearranged reorganization Noble preparing to emerge from bankruptcy Borr sells jackup Balder (ex GSF Constellation 2) Seadrill issues trading update, contract awards, cancellations, suspensions and scrapping We are #1 on Google and Bing for the "Largest Mobile Energy Network" Come join our community! Download the Rig Lynx app here  

  For October we had over 38k article views, here we will cover the top 5! News from Transocean, Seadrill, Valaris, Turkey and Angola Nationalization We know that it's not that easy at the moment but we wish all of you well wherever you are, thanks for reading with us and we wish you a great start to November! Stay safe!   Is Transocean looking at Chapter 11?   Equinor cancels rig tender for Santos Basin   Kanuni (Ex-Sertao) drillship set for joining the Fatih in the Sakarya field   Angola publishes local content law promoting complete Angolanization of the oil and gas sector   Valaris announces quarter 3 results and operational update   We are #1 on Google and Bing for the "Largest Mobile Energy Network" Come join our community! Download the Rig Lynx app here

  For September we had over 15k article views, here we will cover the top 5! News from Seadrill, Posh, Maersk and Sete  We know that it is not easy at the moment but we wish all of you well wherever you are, thanks for reading with us and we wish you a great start to October! Stay safe!   Seadrill Brazil subsidiary served with search and seizure warrant   POSH grabs long term floatel work with Petrobras   Seadrill shells out $31m for Mermaid Maritime and takes full control of Asia Offshore Drilling   Second half of 2020 looks brighter for Angola   Sete Brasil's creditors will make a decision this week   We are #1 on Google and Bing for the "Largest Mobile Energy Network" Come join our community! Download the Rig Lynx app here  

  For August we had over 16k article views, here we will cover the top 5! News from Transocean, Diamonds, Pacific, Borr and Petrobras… We know that it is not easy at the moment but we wish all of you well wherever you are, thanks for reading with us and we wish you a great start to September! Stay safe!   Transocean buys into Enhanced Drilling   Diamond puts the Onyx to work for Beach, 6 firm wells   Pacific Drilling lands 10 well gig for the Sharav in the GOM   New contracts and extensions for Borr Drilling   Petrobras looking to contract two high spec rigs for 2,400 meter tender   Come join our community! Download the Rig Lynx app here  

  For July we had over 21k article views, here we will cover the top 5! News from Valaris, Transocean, BJ Services and some cool history… We know that it is not easy at the moment but we wish all of you well wherever you are, thanks for reading with us and we wish you a great start to August! Stay safe!   Relentless prepares for upcoming contract with Chevron GOM   Offshore drillers facing another shakeup   Transocean lands 17 month contract with LLOG with estimated value of $250 million   BJ Services files for Chapter 11   History of the Weight Indicator   Come join our community! Download the Rig Lynx app here  

  For June we had over 14k article views, here we will cover the top 5! News from Valaris, Maersk and a crazy prediction from JPMorgan… We know that it is not easy at the moment but we wish all of you well wherever you are, thanks for reading with us and we wish you a great start to July! Stay safe!   $190 oil, JPMorgan thinks it's possible   Silver Eagle has contracted PetroVietnam Shipyard for newbuild SEDU's   International Rig Count Down 321 Units Since May 2019   Record for Maersk Invincible: 2278m drilled in one day   Valaris elects not to make a $13.3 million interest payment   Come join our community! Download the Rig Lynx app here  

  For May we had over 22k article views, here we will cover the top 5! News from EOG, OXY, Transocean, and Seadrill… We know that it is not easy at the moment but we wish all of you well wherever you are, thanks for reading here with us and we wish you a great start to June!   EOG Resources to shut existing wells and cut budget even deeper   Transocean's 712 headed for scrap, DD II could be as well   Occidental is sued by shareholders, bondholders over Anadarko merger   Operators suspend drilling in Angola   $100 oil in 18 months?      

For January we had over 29k views, here we will cover the top 5! News from Oxy, Transocean, Maersk, Apache and Northern… We hope all of you had a great January, thanks for reading here with us and we wish you a great start to February! # 1 with 2,027 views Occidental Petroleum slashing jobs ‘significantly’ in cost-cutting move #2 with 1,124 views Transocean Ltd. announces $352.9 million in new rig contracts and exercised options #3 with 1,114 views Maersk Drilling selected by Total to drill at world record water depth in Angola-Namibia campaign #4 with 1,055 views Apache Corp to close San Antonio office, cut 272 jobs #5 with 976 views Northern Offshore lands a two year contract for the Energy Embracer Check out our other current stories! Popular News – Top 5 from this past weekNorth America Rig Count: U.S. down 4, Canada adds 3Port of Argentia making a play for more oil and gas business Join the largest oil and gas community on iOS and Android! Download the app here!

The Karnes Country rig fire leads the views this month, we are glad that no injuries were sustained in this event. Seadrill was in this rundown twice for August with some work in the Bahamas and the joint venture with GDI, rig fire in Kirbyville, Texas where 3 were injured and Australia opened up 120k kms of acreage for some additional exploration. For this month we had 25k article views, below are the top 5, they grabbed almost 6k of them. #1 with 3,072 views Rig fire forces evacuations in Karnes County, Texas #2 with 967 views Seadrill enters into an agreement to provide a drillship for an exploration well in the Bahamas #3 with 643 views Three burned in rig accident south of Kirbyville, Texas #4 with 634 views Seadrill and Gulf Drilling International in joint venture “GulfDrill” #5 with 599 views Australia just opened up 120,000 sq km for offshore oil and gas exploration Check out our other current stories! Seadrill’s West Neptune gets a 1 year extension with LLOGMaersk Drilling grabs one-well gig for PetrogasPopular News – Top 5 from this past week! Join the largest oil and gas community on iOS and Android! Download the app here!

Terrible incident on the Shell Auger sits at the top for last month, all of us here at Rig Lynx thoughts are with those families and crews. Valaris lines up a list of new work, GOM has a gulf wide lease, drilling record breaking wells in the Permian and Shelf grabs up some new work. For this month we had 29k views on articles, below are the top 5, they grabbed over 8k of them. . #1 with 3,576 views Two killed on Shell’s Auger TLP #2 with 2,740 views EnscoRowan announces 7 contract awards, 8 extensions and 1 rig sold in fleet update status #3 with 1,042 views GOM region wide lease of 77.8 million acres set for August #4 with 773 views Record breaking Permian Basin horizontal well finished #5 with 622 views Shelf Drilling grabs two three year contracts Check out our other current stories! Petrobras circulates e-mail for bidding on the Vitoria 10000International Rig Count added on 24 rigs in JulyShelf Drilling’s Resourceful gets extended Join the largest oil and gas community on iOS and Android! Download the app here!

For this month we have Anadarko’s CEO with that huge amount of money, the first mobile offshore rig in the world, Mexico heating up with jackup work, floater activity increasing into 2021 and Seadrill grabbing some work for the West Capricorn. #1 with 1393 views Anadarko CEO gets $98 million payout #2 with 673 views The first mobile offshore drilling rig: 65 years later and we are still exploring #3 with 665 views Bassoe: Mexican companies scramble to find jackup rigs #4 with 562 views “We foresee demand of 172 units by 2021” says Rystad on floater activity. #5 with 524 views Seadrill bags a contract for the West Capricorn Check out our other current stories! Wyoming Bureau of Land Management enjoys 94% bid success and $22 million on recent land offeringTwo killed on Shell’s Auger TLPPopular News – Top 5 from this past week! Join the largest oil and gas community on iOS and Android! Download the app here! Rig Lynx was launched December 2017, our oil and gas news was viewed over 373,000 times in 2018 and our social networking application generated over 268,000 clicks in 2018. Our current foothold has rivaled the largest in the industry and we are just getting started.

Here are our top 5 stories from the month of May! #1 with 14,636 views Weatherford to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy #2 with 8,377 views Schlumberger sells off the drill pipe and fishing business for $400 million #3 with 2,346 views Dolphin Drilling lets entire management team go #4 with 798 views Transocean highlights new rig technology at Houston’s 50th OTC #5 with 585 views Anadarko accepts Occidental’s sweetened bid Check out our other current stories! Popular News – Top 5 from this past week!CNRL grabs up Devon Canada exit for $2.8 billionMaersk Resilient grabs work with Hess Join the largest oil and gas community on iOS and Android! Download the app here! Rig Lynx was launched December 2017, our oil and gas news was viewed over 373,000 times in 2018 and our social networking application generated over 268,000 clicks in 2018. Our current foothold has rivaled the largest in the industry and we are just getting started. For a complimentary copy of our 2018 Reach Report please send us an email at info@riglynx.com and we will be happy to show you our progress!

First up is all the chatter about the Anadarko buyout, looks like they might be leaning into Oxy from the latest news! 2nd spot goes to Borr with the purchase of the Hakuryu-15, another asset added to their fleet! Following up Borr is Noble with some much need utilization added to the floater market with their new contract announcements. In the 4th spot is EsncoRowan taking their first newbuid, the Ensco 123, this will be the first rig with EnscoRowan’s patented CTT or continuous tripping technology, we wish them luck! In our final spot we have the bidding rounds for Newfoundland that opened up in the beginning of April and interested parties will have until 12:00 p.m. NST on November 6, 2019 to submit sealed bids for the parcels being offered. We hope all of you had a great April, thanks for reading here with us and we wish you a great start to May! #1 with 678 views Occidental makes an offer for Anadarko #2 with 636 views Borr Drilling Purchases Hull No. B378 former Hakuryu-15 #3 with 607 views Noble grabs two extensions and one new contract #4 with 605 views Freshly merged EnscoRowan takes their first new build, the Ensco 123 #5 with 591 views Newfoundland calling for bids Check out our other current stories! Diamond grabs up work for their 6th Gens BlackRhino and BlackHawk with WoodsideSaudi Taqa has purchased Schlumberger’s Middle Eastern drilling rig business for $1.2 billionAnadarko Leaning Toward $38 Billion Occidental Bid Over Chevron Join the largest oil and gas community on iOS and Android! Download the app here!

  First up is the sad reminder of the Bristow helo, our thoughts with the families here as always as we know the dangers of remote travel and its not taken lightly. Second up is the comeback of offshore work, its still not there yet but underway, here is to a good 2019 going forward. In the third spot is Diamond making a bold statement about drillship rates doubling next year, a great outlook, we hope for the same. Behind that we have Transocean closing up the Mero tender work with Petrobras for the ex-OR ships and last but not least is Awilco pulling in that 2nd HE newbuild with Keppels. We hope all of you had a great March, thanks for reading here with us and we wish you a great start to April! #1 with 19,642 views Bristow helo goes down in GOM, 1 missing and 1 killed   #2 with 630 views Offshore Drilling Makes a Comeback After Years in Shale’s Shadow   #3 with 593 views Diamond Offshore sees drillship rents almost doubling next year   #4 with 525 views Transocean inks work for ex-Ocean Rig vessels Corcovado and Mykonos     #5 with 521 views Awilco signs up with Keppels for a 2nd newbuild HE semi   Check out our other current stories! Borr Drilling Purchases Hull No. B378 former Hakuryu-15 Saipem looking to sell off drilling fleet after 24% revenue decline last year Weekly Rundown – The top 5 stories from the past week Join the largest oil and gas community on iOS and Android! Download the app here!

  For January it’s another month of contracts, which is always a good thing, we try to share as much as we can about work so people can get those much needed jobs coming on the market! Nabors CEO drops $4 mil Award for $1,500 It’s a 4 x 4 for Ensco’s 1st Fleet Status for 2019: 4 Awards and 4 Extensions “Should be signed soonâ€� states Bassoe on Petrobras two rig deal with Transocean 3 Drilling Contractors Bag Long Term Contracts Seadrill picks up 6 well deal for the West Vencedor If you like what we do then let us know by becoming a patron through Patreon, for as little or as much as you would like! Hit the button below! Check out our other current stories! Weekly Rundown HHI and DSME line up for a potential merger in South Korea Bassoe: 34 years of backlog added to the jackup market in January Join the largest oil and gas community on iOS and Android! Download the app here!

November was a turbulent month for oil prices, one of our top 5 articles highlighted what the sentiment is on that subject. A bit of history made it into the list as well, the first well drilled out of site of land. There are two pieces in this list, one at the top about fracking and what the outlook for the future will be in comparison to output from OPEC and the other is about the everlasting bottleneck, both very important subjects but each tied to together based on supply and demand. Also, a capsizing lift boat near Grande Isle saw rescuers come to the aid of 15 people on board! Lets get started with Texas pushing production to recording breaking levels! Texas is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare An infestation of dots, thousands of them, represent oil wells in the Permian basin of West Texas and a slice of New Mexico. In less than a decade, U.S. companies have drilled 114,000. Many of them would turn a profit even with crude prices as low as $30 a barrel. OPEC’s bad dream only deepens next year, when Permian producers expect to iron out distribution snags that will add three pipelines and as much as 2 million barrels of oil a day. “The Permian will continue to grow and OPEC needs to learn to live with it,’’ said Mike Loya, the top executive in the Americas for Vitol Group, the world’s largest independent oil-trading house. (More Here)# 15 Rescued from the Ram XVIII near Grand Isle The Coast Guard and good Samaritan vessels have helped rescue 15 people from a lift boat near Grand Isle. The Coast Guard was called at about 3:16 a.m. Sunday Nov 18th from a lift boat, Ram XVIII, which was taking on water about 23 nautical miles west of Southwest Pass. There were 15 souls on board. Sector watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast, launched a Coast Guard Station Grand Isle 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boat crew, and launched an MH-65 Dolphin Helicopter air crew. (More Here) It’s been 71 years since the first well was drilled out of sight of land November 14, 1947 – First Oil Well drilled Out of Sight of Land: The modern offshore petroleum industry began in the Gulf of Mexico with the first oil well successfully completed out of sight of land. Brown & Root Company built the freestanding platform 10 miles offshore for Kerr-McGee and partners Phillips Petroleum and Stanolind. (More Here) Halliburton CEO Expects Permian Bottlenecks Gone By End of ’19 Halliburton Co. expects bottlenecks in America’s busiest oil field to be relieved by the end of next year. A series of catalysts will drive drilling and fracking activity in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico throughout the next year, Jeff Miller, chief executive officer of the world’s biggest fracker, said during a Bloomberg TV interview. Explorers’ budgets will reload as the calendar flips to next year, and a host of new pipelines will open in the second half of 2019 to create more takeaway capacity. (More Here) Why Are Oil Prices Dropping Sharply? Oil prices jumped in September and early October of this year (2018), but have dropped $20 a barrel in the last few weeks. The sharp turnaround is attributed to OPEC’s inability to cut supply, but this is old-fashioned thinking. OPEC’s power is a small fraction of what it was in the 1970s. What’s happening now is wild swings in thinking about the future. Oil prices have to balance supply and demand, of course, but not necessarily today’s supply and today’s demand. Commodities traders can hold inventories in storage tanks if they think that prices will be higher in a few months, and producers can run wells at lower pumping volumes. (There are limits to flexibility in pumping volumes, though, based on the technical characteristics of each well.) (More Here) That’s it for this month, we will be back at the end of December for more of your top oil and gas posts, have a great month ahead! Header photo is licensed under Public Domain. By Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer Check out our other current stories! Seapulse to unlock 4 billion boe with the help of Maersk Drilling over the next two years A busy 2018 for Transocean as they announce closing of Ocean Rig acquisition and multiple contracts  Pacific Drilling on 3rd quarter loss but strong statements from CEO A new community just for oil and gas… Download the app free right here!