Jack Up Rig News


Saudi Aramco to Keep Shelf Drilling’s Jack-Up Busy for Five More Years

Jun 30, 2025

Offshore drilling firm Shelf Drilling has secured a five-year extension with Saudi oil and gas giant Aramco for its High Island V jack-up drilling rig.The extension is in direct continuation of the rig’s current contract with Aramco, extending the commitment until July 2030…

Salunda Installs Latch Hawk Monitoring System on Semi-Sub Rig

Jun 26, 2025

Salunda, a provider of digitized solutions for safety critical industries, has strengthened its presence in the Americas deepwater region with the deployment of its Latch Hawk monitoring system on a semi-submersible rig.Integrated with the drilling control system on the rig…

Jotun FPSO Starts Production at Balder Field in North Sea

Jun 23, 2025

Vår Energi and Kistos Energy Norway have started production through Jotun floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit at the Balder field in the North Sea.The production from Jotun FPSO marks the extension the life of the first production license…

Equinor Gets Permit to Drill North Sea Wildcat Well

Jun 23, 2025

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate has granted Equinor a drilling permit for wildcat well in the North Sea.The drilling permit is for a wellbore 15/8-3 S in production licence 1137, operated by Equinor with 50% working interest, with partner Orlen Upstream Norway holding the remaining 50%…

Acteon’s Rocksteady Tension Tool Selected by InnovateUK

Jun 17, 2025

Acteon’s Rocksteady Tension Tool (RSTT) has been selected by InnovateUK iX, a UK program designed to fast-track knowledge transfer and accelerate innovation.  The RSTT is a reusable in-line winch and connection system designed to enable mid…

Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Aberdeen Rig Back in Action After SPS Period

Jun 17, 2025

Offshore drilling contractor Odfjell Drilling has completed the Deepsea Aberdeen’s special periodic survey (SPS), with the semi-submersible rig returning to operations after three weeks of scheduled off-hire.As a result, all of the company’s own fleet rigs SPS projects are now completed…

Chuditch Gas Field Drilling Ops Get Delayed to Next Year

Jun 16, 2025

Sunda Energy, the AIM-quoted exploration and appraisal company focused on gas assets in Southeast Asia, has pushed back the drilling of appraisal well Chuditch-2, offshore Timor-Leste, for the first half of 2026.Chuditch-2 appraisal well on…

TotalEnergies Grows US Oil and Gas Portfolio with Chevron Deal

Jun 16, 2025

TotalEnergies has entered 40 Chevron-operated exploration blocks, growing its portfolio of U.S. offshore oil and gas assets.TotalEnergies has acquired a 25% working interest in a portfolio of exploration leases offshore U.S. from Chevron, which acts as the operator…

Tower Resources Lines Up ADES Jack-Up Rig for Cameroon Drilling Op

Jun 10, 2025

Tower Resources, the AIM-listed oil and gas company focused on Africa, has issued a Letter of Award (LoA) to Advanced Energy Systems (ADES), an affiliate of Saudi firm ADES Holding, for the provision of a jack-up rig for drilling job in Central Africa…

Noble, Green Yard Sign Maintenance Contract for GreatWhite Rig (Video)

Jun 08, 2025

Noble and Green Yard have entered into a contract for a scheduled yard stay for the ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig Ocean GreatWhite, owned by Noble Corporation.The rig will enter the yard for maintenance, demobilization and upgrades after it has completed its job west of Shetland…

Rex’s Akrake Set for July Drilling Ops off West Africa

Jun 06, 2025

Akrake Petroleum, Rex International's indirect subsidiary, has completed the development plan for the Seme field offshore Benin, with the drilling operations scheduled to begin in early July 2025 using Borr Drilling’s jack-up rig.Akrake holds…

Transocean Scoops $100M for Two-Well Drilling Job for Equinor

Jun 05, 2025

Transocean has secured $100 million from two-well option exercised by Equinor for one of its harsh environment semi-submersible drilling rigs.Equinor has decided to extend Transocean Spitsbergen semi-submersible rig’s stay in Norway, with the latest option exercised by the company…

ADES Secures Jack-Up Drilling Rig Contract in West Africa

Jun 03, 2025

Saudi oil and gas drilling contractor ADES Holding has secured a contract with Addax Petroleum, part of Sinopec Group, for its Admarine 510 jack-up drilling rig, which will be put to work offshore Cameroon in West Africa.The contract is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2025…

BP Lines Up Noble Rig for North Sea CCS Drilling Job

May 30, 2025

BP has hired Noble Corporation’s Noble Innovator jack-up rig for a drilling job related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the North Sea.Under the contract, Noble Innovator will drill six firm wells for the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) project in the North Sea…

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