Ventura bags two rig contracts with Petrobras Ventura (Petroserv) will secure two new charter contracts with Petrobras in January. The oil company decided to hire the semi-submersible Victoria and the drillship Carolina, offered in the tender for 2,400 m. Read More Odfjell takes over management of Northern Ocean semis Odfjell Drilling and NOL announced that Odfjell will provide marketing and management services for Mira and Bollsta, which are currently under Seadrill management. Read More Shelf lands extensions with Chevron for two jackups offshore Thailand Shelf Drilling, Ltd. announced that it has secured contract extensions for the Shelf Drilling Chaophraya and Shelf Drilling Krathong jack-up rigs with Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production, Ltd. Read More   Visit Relynx Media   Exxon spuds in Glaucus-2 offshore Cyprus The Ministry of Energy, Commerce, and Industry announced that ExxonMobil has spudded the Glaucus-2 exploration well in Block 10, offshore Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean. Read More TotalEnergies wins new block in Campos Basin Total, operator, and its co-venturers Qatar Petroleum and Petronas have won the C-M-541 deep offshore block in the 16th Bidding Round held by Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP). Read More     Overtime Episode 26 Oil Prices Omicron Effects, Price Rebound Biden Taking the Fed Green Blue Origin Delays Michael Strahan’s Flight WWE Racks Up College Recruits 850lb Pot Brownie Camels Disqualified from Beauty Contest Listen to the podcast   Oil Prices Jan 3, 2022 WTI $74.63 Brent $77.36 Natural Gas $3.73   Rig Count U.S. & Canada - December 31, 2021 International - December 3, 2021 International Rigs ( +17 ) 817 U.S. Rigs ( NC ) 586 Canada Rigs ( -43 ) 90   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  

    Vantage Drilling sells 3 jackups to ADES and pursues global strategic alliance Vantage Drilling International has agreed to sell to ADES Arabia all of the issued and outstanding equity of VHI’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Emerald Driller Company for a purchase price of US $170 million cash. Read More Vantage puts the Tungsten Explorer back to work in Egypt In a recent press release issued by Vantage Drilling International, they have indicated that the Tungsten Explorer, a 6th generation drillship, operated under a joint venture between ADES and Vantage (ADvantage) has returned to work in Egypt for an anticipated 150 days Read More Global oil and gas discoveries hits lowest level in 75 years Global oil and gas discoveries in 2021 are on track to hit their lowest full-year level in 75 years should the remainder of December fail to yield any significant finds. Read More   Visit Relynx Media   Valaris JU-107 headed to Buffalo-10 for spud in Carnarvon Energy has announced that the Valaris JU-107 jack-up drilling rig is currently en-route to the Buffalo-10 location. Drilling is expected to commence within a week. Read More Maersk Drilling launches Horizon56  For the past two years, Maersk Drilling has spearheaded an innovative effort to develop a first-of-a-kind product to support digitalization of offshore drilling processes. Read More     Overtime Episode 26 Oil Prices Omicron Effects, Price Rebound Biden Taking the Fed Green Blue Origin Delays Michael Strahan’s Flight WWE Racks Up College Recruits 850lb Pot Brownie Camels Disqualified from Beauty Contest Listen to the podcast   Oil Prices Dec 29, 2021 WTI $75.91 Brent $78.94 Natural Gas $4.05   Rig Count U.S. & Canada - December 23, 2021 International - December 3, 2021 International Rigs ( +17 ) 817 U.S. Rigs ( +7 ) 586 Canada Rigs ( -34 ) 133   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  

    Shell confirms Deepwater Pontus BOP incident Shell has confirmed that Transocean drillship Deepwater Pontus has been forced to stop working since losing a blowout preventer (BOP) when completing a well late last month. Read More Borr lands new work for the Norve and Thor jackups Borr Drilling has secured a contract for the “Norve” with BW Energy and secured a Letter of Award for the “Thor” from an undisclosed operator in Southeast Asia. Read More Deepwater exploration set to prevail 2022  Wood Mackenzie issued a press release that highlights many strong points about deepwater exploration going into 2022. Read More   Visit Relynx Media   VAALCO kicks off new drilling campaign with Borr Norve VAALCO Energy has commenced its 2021/2022 drilling campaign offshore Gabon with the Etame 8H-ST well. Read More Shell spuds in wildcat Graff-1 offshore Namibia NAMCOR, along with its exploration partners Shell Namibia Upstream B.V. and QatarEnergy announced that they had spudded the Graff-1 exploration well in Block 2913A, Orange Basin, offshore Namibia.  Read More     Overtime Episode 26 Oil Prices Omicron Effects, Price Rebound Biden Taking the Fed Green Blue Origin Delays Michael Strahan’s Flight WWE Racks Up College Recruits 850lb Pot Brownie Camels Disqualified from Beauty Contest Listen to the podcast   Oil Prices Dec 20, 2021 WTI $67.30 Brent $67.31 Natural Gas $3.69   Rig Count U.S. & Canada - December 17, 2021 International - December 3, 2021 International Rigs ( +17 ) 817 U.S. Rigs ( +3 ) 579 Canada Rigs ( -10 ) 167   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