Transocean Ltd. RIG, a global leader in offshore drilling services, has announced the signing of a major contract for its Deepwater Skyros drillship in Australia. This six-well contract, awarded by an ...

US deep-water drilling contractor Diamond Offshore has delivered its semi-submersible Ocean Apex to Australia for assignments with multiple major operators. Diamond said the Ocean Apex had completed ...

Another deep-water drilling rig is leaving Norway, with Transocean today announcing a new contract in Australia for one of its semi-submersible rigs. The drilling contractor said it had received a ...

Santos WA Northwest Pty Ltd. expects a single-well exploration drilling campaign offshore western Australia targeting a gas reservoir in the Legendre formation to begin in this year’s fourth quarter.

Since the first oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was built in 14 feet of water off the coast of Louisiana in 1938, offshore oil and gas companies have drilled in ever deeper waters to prospect for black ...

EOG Resources Australia Block WA-488 Pty Ltd. will drill the Beehive-1 exploration well in permit WA-488-P in Commonwealth waters of the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf off the northern Western Australian ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Santos Ltd has won the first approval from Australia's Northern Territory to resume shale drilling, nearly three years after the territory banned fracking amid concerns about the ...