Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for the week ending April 24th 2026.

• LLOG firms up time on West Vela, West Neptune
• Valeura takes Shelf Drilling Enterprise for three years
• Well-Safe Solutions awarded major decommissioning project in the UK Forties field
• Saipem 12000 arrives in Walvis Bay
• Incident on Deepsea Atlantic halts operations at Rosebank field
• Norve moves to Ebouri for new Gabon well
• Electrification plans for Captain field abandoned amid fiscal and technical challenges
• Admarine 501 starts Cameroon move
• Transocean Enabler heading inshore for planned out of service period
• Serica Energy submits environmental statement for Kyla field development in UK CNS

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for the week ending April 17th 2026.

• Chevron extends term with Shelf Drilling Scepter
• Transocean extends backlog for Deepwater Corcovado
• Borgland Dolphin in new $230 million letter of intent
• Stena Drilling confirms contract for Greece’s first deepwater well
• Deepwater Asgard to swap US Gulf for Mediterranean ahead of new job
• Odfjell Technology secures long-term integrated services deal in the North Sea
• Borr updates on Middle East operations
• PV Drilling IX en route to PVEP location
• Deepsea Yantai concludes P&A scope and mobilises to Wellesley’s well location
• BP acquires 60% interest in three Namibian blocks

Kath Gammack presents the roundup of some of the week’s key offshore rig news and rig data for the week ending April 10th 2026.

• Seadrill secures $480 million contract extension for West Polaris
• Valaris DS-4 awarded 1,064-day extension with Petrobras
• Dolphin Drilling signs LOI with Undisclosed Operator for semisub Paul B Loyd Jr
• Foresea secures two more years with Petrobras for Norbe VI
• PV Drilling IX prepares for first job
• Deep Value Driller to drill an additional well for Eni
• Shelf Drilling Enterprise awarded Hibiscus P&A programme
• Ventura secures contract extension for drillship Carolina
• Energy Emerger Oman drill delayed
• Oxy finds oil in Bandit prospect in US Gulf