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Analysis Shows Oil and Gas Execs Using More Environmental Buzzwords
The world's biggest oil and gas companies are more likely to talk to Wall Street about emissions than how their businesses might grow.
8:00 PM EST | July 19, 2021
Maersk Drilling Secures $10.5MM Contract Extension
Maersk Drilling has won an extended well intervention scope for the Maersk Intrepid. PHOTO SOURCE: Maersk Drilling
8:00 PM EST | July 12, 2021
Onshore-Powered Offshore Field Starts Production
From left: the Maersk Intrepid jack-up rig, the Martin Linge platform, and the Floatel Endurance. PHOTO SOURCE: Jan Arne Wold & Øyving Gravås/Equinor
8:00 PM EST | July 01, 2021
Schlumberger and Subsea 7 Share Bacalhau Contract
Equinor has awarded a Schlumberger-Subsea 7 partnership a contract for its Bacalhau project. IMAGE SOURCE: Schlumberger
8:00 PM EST | June 15, 2021
Wood Renews Offshore Canada Platform Partnership
The Hibernia platform offshore Newfoundland and Labrador achieved first oil in 1997. PHOTO SOURCE: Wood
8:00 PM EST | June 10, 2021
NOCs to Fill Void as Majors Retreat from Oil and Gas
National oil companies are largely shielded from shareholder pressures.
8:00 PM EST | June 08, 2021
Equinor Extends Offshore Rig Contract
Equinor added two wells to the existing contract.
8:00 PM EST | June 06, 2021
Maersk Drilling Gets Expanded Equinor Work Scope
Maersk Intrepid is operating in the Martin Linge field offshore Norway. PHOTO SOURCE: Maersk Drilling
8:00 PM EST | May 27, 2021
Odfjell Drilling to Mobilize Rig for Equinor
The contract for Deepsea Stavanger includes three firm wells. PHOTO SOURCE: Odfjell Drilling
8:00 PM EST | May 26, 2021
Shell Court Decision Emboldens Climate Lawyers
Analyst says the case probably will not affect USA courts, though.
8:00 PM EST | May 26, 2021
Odfjell to Drill Another Well for Equinor
Equinor has exercised an additional well under its Deepsea Atlantic contract.
8:00 PM EST | May 10, 2021
Equinor Advances Unmanned North Sea Platform Project
Equinor will use ABB know-how to develop next-generation autonomous oil and gas platforms.
8:00 PM EST | April 28, 2021
$380MM Brazil Drilling Contract Goes to Seadrill
The contract for West Saturn hinges on the Bacalhau partners' final investment decision. PHOTO SOURCE: Seadrill
8:00 PM EST | April 26, 2021
Equinor and Partners Choose Concept for Offshore Brazil Field
Equinor, Repsol Sinopec Brasil, and Petrobras have approved a development concept for the BM-C-33 gas/condensate field.
8:00 PM EST | March 21, 2021
Odfjell Rig Wins More Work from Equinor
Equinor has hired Odfjell Drilling's Deepsea Atlantic semisub for another well.
8:00 PM EST | March 17, 2021
Well Plugging Starts in Pioneering North Sea Field
Plugging operations began last month in conjunction with the planned shutdown of the Veslefrikk field. PHOTO SOURCE: Øyvind Hagen/Equinor
7:00 PM EST | February 22, 2021
Transocean Wins Drilling Contracts
Transocean has garnered several new drilling contracts and contract extensions during the past quarter.
7:00 PM EST | February 16, 2021
BP and Total Pay Hefty Premium for Offshore Wind Rights
The winning companies in a UK seabed rights auction will pay about $1.2 billion per year in total for up to a decade to develop the wind farms.
7:00 PM EST | February 07, 2021
Equinor Awards Wireline Services Contracts for 15 Fields
This photo shows a view from the Gullfaks A platform. Photo by Lone Stormoen. PHOTO SOURCE: Equinor
7:00 PM EST | January 19, 2021
Shell to Join Offshore Argentina Block
Equinor and YPF have agreed to jointly farm-down a nearly one-third non-operated stake in the CAN 100 block offshore Argentina to Shell
7:00 PM EST | January 13, 2021
Hybrid Drilling Rig Starts Up Offshore Norway
The retrofitted Maersk Intrepid has shown "very promising emission levels" since starting operations last month. PHOTO SOURCE: Maersk Drilling
7:00 PM EST | December 17, 2020
$550MM Deal Boosts Russia Profile for Equinor
Equinor has increased its onshore presence in Russia via an approximately US$550 million deal with Rosneft.
7:00 PM EST | December 14, 2020
Schlumberger Unit and ABB Finish Pioneering Test
ABB and OneSubsea team members monitor progress on the VSD and compressor submerged string test. PHOTO SOURCE: ABB
7:00 PM EST | December 01, 2020
MODEC Selects Asset Management Firm for Brazil FPSO Project
ARMS Reliability will assist with developing the Bacalhau FPSO Asset Maintenance Management Philosophy. PHOTO SOURCE: ARMS Reliability
7:00 PM EST | November 25, 2020
Odfjell Drilling Signs Equinor Contracts for At Least 27 Wells
Odfjell Drilling has signed final rig contracts for a pair of previously announced Equinor drilling campaigns.
7:00 PM EST | November 23, 2020
Seadrill Wins GOM Contracts
Seadrill Ltd has added approximately $52 million of backlog following the end of the third quarter of 2020.
7:00 PM EST | November 22, 2020
Shell Takes Top Bid Spot for Offshore Lease Sale
The auction generated $120,868,274 in high bids for 93 tracts covering approximately 79 million acres in federal GOM waters.
7:00 PM EST | November 18, 2020
Norway Court Decision Could Nix 10 Arctic Licenses
Climate activists are trying to drag western Europe's biggest oil producer out of the Arctic.
7:00 PM EST | November 12, 2020
$455MM in Brazil Contracts Go to Oilfield Services Trio
First oil from Bacalhau is projected for 2024. PHOTO SOURCE: Equinor
7:00 PM EST | November 09, 2020
Equinor and BP Strike Oil Offshore Canada
Equinor and BP Canada have made two oil discoveries offshore Newfoundland, Canada.
8:00 PM EST | October 29, 2020
Equinor LNG Plant Could Be Down for a Year
The Hammerfest LNG plant, above, could be offline until next fall. PHOTO SOURCE: Helge Hansen/Equinor ASA
8:00 PM EST | October 27, 2020
Libya May Double Oil Output Next Week
Libya took a major step toward reviving its battered oil industry by reopening its biggest field.
8:00 PM EST | October 11, 2020
Norway Strike Closure Averts Johan Sverdrup Shutdown
A strike that shut down about 8% of Norway's oil and gas output will end after successful mediation talks.
8:00 PM EST | October 08, 2020
Odfjell Drilling Wins Contract for 15 Wells
Equinor has contracted an Odfjell Drilling semisub for the Breidablikk project in the North Sea. PHOTO SOURCE: Equinor
8:00 PM EST | October 05, 2020
Equinor Shuts Down LNG Facility
The move follows a fire in a turbine at the Northern Norway complex. PHOTO SOURCE: Equinor
8:00 PM EST | September 27, 2020
Inconceivable Practice Takes Hold in 2020
Check out this recap of popular downstream-related articles on Rigzone from the past week.
8:00 PM EST | September 26, 2020
Wood Snags $42MM Onshore Norway Contract
Wood executed the front-end engineering design phase last year. PHOTO SOURCE: Øyvind Sætre/Gassco
8:00 PM EST | September 17, 2020
Maersk Rig Drilling New Martin Linge Wells
Equinor has identified well barrier deficiencies in four Martin Linge gas wells. PHOTO SOURCE: Equinor
8:00 PM EST | September 08, 2020
Aibel Wins Hammerfest LNG Contract
The Hammerfest LNG terminal, above, on Melkoya Island near Hammerfest, Norway liquefies gas from the Snohvit field in the Barents Sea. PHOTO SOURCE: Aibel
8:00 PM EST | September 02, 2020
Norway Plans Deep Cuts to Oil Loadings
It looks like Norway will do its bit next month toward helping OPEC+ avert a global glut of crude.
8:00 PM EST | August 09, 2020
Rising Debt Pressures Supermajor Dividends
Once a money-making machine, Big Oil is now relying on ever-increasing amounts of debt, raising the pressure on highly prized dividends.
8:00 PM EST | July 21, 2020
Equinor Contracts Odfjell Rig for Up to 17 Wells
Odfjell's Deepsea Atlantic semi-sub, above, will return to Johan Sverdrup. Photo by Marit Hommedal. PHOTO SOURCE: Equinor ASA
8:00 PM EST | July 07, 2020
Aker, Equinor Ink North Sea Contract
Aker will deliver a subsea system for the Breidablikk project.
8:00 PM EST | June 24, 2020
Equinor, Aker BP Set Terms for Norwegian Shelf Development
Equinor and Aker BP have agreed on commercial terms for a coordinated development of the Krafla, Fulla and North of Alvheim licenses.
8:00 PM EST | June 14, 2020
Andersen Joins Equinor Board
Equinor's Corporate Assembly has elected Tove Andersen as a new member of the company's board of directors.
8:00 PM EST | June 10, 2020
Offshore Norway Fields to Get Power from Shore
This photo shows the Sleipner platform in the Norwegian North Sea. Photo by Øyvind Gravås and Bo B. Randulff. PHOTO SOURCE: Equinor
8:00 PM EST | June 09, 2020
Oil and Gas Blockchain Group Claims Milestone
The Offshore Operators Committee Oil and Gas Blockchain Consortium reportedly has achieved an industrywide first.
8:00 PM EST | June 07, 2020
Equinor Completes Lundin Divestiture
This photo shows a view of the Johan Sverdrup field offshore Norway. Photo by Ole Jørgen Bratland. PHOTO SOURCE: Equinor
8:00 PM EST | May 06, 2020
$100MM Equinor Contract Goes to Maersk Drilling
This photo shows the Maersk Intrepid hybrid jack-up rig. PHOTO SOURCE: Maersk
8:00 PM EST | April 30, 2020
Equinor Revises Charter for Floatel Endurance
The contract for the accommodation rig at the Martin Linge field has been pushed to January 2021.
8:00 PM EST | April 29, 2020