Ed Miliband’s wind turbine blitz threatens to leave the North Sea strewn with rusting oil rigs because of a lack of equipment needed to dismantle the retired platforms. The Energy Secretary’s ...

The Thor rig received a binding letter of award from Vietsovpetro in Vietnam for a three-well programme, expected to commence ...

This week's offshore rig review looks at the very active licensing rounds in the UK and Norway and how they could lead to growth in North Sea drilling. The last two weeks have been rather busy in ...

Oslo-listed Shelf Drilling has suffered another contract termination with a jack-up drilling rig operating in the Danish North Sea being cancelled long before its planned contractual conclusion in ...

It also owns the Forties Pipeline System, which links North Sea rigs with the mainland. Ministers are planning to axe the Windfall Tax, but not until 2030. Earlier this month it launched a ...

Aker BP ASA has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate to drill in the North Sea. Aker BP ASA has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate to drill in the North ...

The total U.S. rig count decreased by seven week on week and the total Canada rig count decreased by 15 during the same ...

The Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD) has issued Aker BP a drilling permit for a wildcat well in the North Sea.The Permit is ...

Shell has revealed ‘significantly better’ porosity and permeability properties at its Selene gas prospect in the North Sea ...