Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for week ending August 18th 2023.
- Equinor awards Bay du Nord drilling contract to SFL Corporation
- New two-year deal for Egyptian Drilling jackup Zoser in Gulf of Suez, Egypt
- Three-year extension for Arabian Drilling jackup Arabdrill 60
- TotalEnergies declared an option to extend UDW drillship Quenguela contract
- UDW drillship West Gemini contract extended by TotalEnergies
- QatarGas declared five one-well options on Seadrill jackup West Tucana
- Repsol awarded a 32-well P&A workscope to Archer
- Borr Drilling jackup Prospector 1 extended by Neptune Energy
- BW Energy declared the second one-well option on Borr Drilling jackup Norve
- Revised well schedule will see Seadrill UDW semi Sevan Louisiana finishing up early
- UDW drillship Polaris to become available mid-November
- Discoveries made offshore Norway, Brazil and India
