Drilling Contractor Magazine

09/01/2026

PV Drilling will mobilize the IDUN rig from Borr Drilling to drill three wells at TL-WHP under the roughly 134-day program, which is set to begin in mid-October 2026.

PetroVietnam Drilling and Well Service PetroVietnam Exploration on 28 August 2026 to lease the IDUN jackup rig for the 2026 TL-WHP drilling program at Blocks 01/97 and 02/97 offshore Vietnam. PV Drilling will mobilize the IDUN rig from Borr Drilling to drill three wells at TL-WHP under the roughly 1...

09/01/2026

Predator Oil & Gas completed civil engineering work on the MOU-6 well pad in Morocco, moving the company closer to spudding the well under its rig contract with Intrepid Drilling.

Predator Oil & Gas completed civil engineering work on the MOU-6 well pad in Morocco, moving the company closer to spudding the well under its rig contract with Intrepid Drilling. Explosives needed for the perforating guns used in well testing have also arrived at the Moroccan port of entry, which P...

09/01/2026

Valeura notified its drilling contractor to begin the charter of the Shelf Enterprise rig on 1 November 2026, which will first drill additional wells at the Nong Yao A facility before moving to support earlier development drilling at Wassana.

Valeura Energy accelerated the redevelopment of its Wassana field, on Block G10/48 in the Gulf of Thailand, moving up installation of a new central processing platform (CPP) by around two months. The company finalized the commercial arrangements needed to begin CPP installation in October 2026, afte...

09/01/2026

The PEL 93 joint venture, in which 88 Energy holds a fully earned 20% non-operated working interest, applied to enter the Second Renewal Exploration Period for its onshore license in Namibia’s Owambo Basin, commencing 3 October 2026.

The PEL 93 joint venture, in which 88 Energy holds a fully earned 20% non-operated working interest, applied to enter the Second Renewal Exploration Period for its onshore license in Namibia’s Owambo Basin, commencing 3 October 2026. The proposed two-year work program includes preparation for and ...

09/01/2026

Aker Solutions’ board of directors appointed P**l Eikeseth as the company’s new president and CEO, effective 1 September 2026, succeeding Kjetel Digre, who decided to step down after six years in the role.

09/01/2026

The IADC Advanced Rig Technology (ART) Conference & Exhibition serves as a leading forum to explore the state of the art in rig technology, downhole operations, and integrating the two seamlessly with minimal human intervention. https://drillingcontractor.org/photo-gallery-iadc-advanced-rig-technology-art-conference-exhibition-18-august-2026-houston-texas-79673

08/31/2026

ExxonMobil is continuing developmental drilling operations at the Whiptail Project’s WT_2i01 drill center within the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana.

ExxonMobil is continuing developmental drilling operations at the Whiptail Project’s WT_2i01 drill center within the Stabroek Block, offshore Guyana. The MODU Noble Tom Madden is carrying out the drilling, with operations set to run through 30 September. The WT_2i01 drill center sits about 110.51 ...

08/31/2026

Arabian Drilling signed a new five-year contract with SLB Middle East for 11 land rigs to support gas lump sum turnkey operations in Saudi Arabia, worth approximately $800 million.

Arabian Drilling signed a new five-year contract with SLB Middle East for 11 land rigs to support gas lump sum turnkey operations in Saudi Arabia, worth approximately $800 million. The 11 rigs are the incumbent units already deployed under Arabian Drilling’s previous gas LSTK project with SLB, whi...

08/31/2026

Nestoil Group deployed its wholly Nigerian-crewed drilling rig, the Pathfinder 500, to complete workover operations on two producing wells in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 42 in the Niger Delta.

08/31/2026

The ultra-deepwater drillship Çağrı Bey has reached a depth of about 3,000 m at the well, located roughly 370 km offshore Mogadishu, with no accidents or technical problems reported so far.