The Weekly Rundown: Recent Episodes
Greg Williams
The Weekly Rundown covers trending articles, rig counts and oil prices each week with host Greg Williams, Founding Partner of Rig Lynx.
Weekly Rundown – April 10, 2023
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* Eldorado scoops up another SHI newbuild drillship
* Seadrill closes the all stock acquisition of Aquadrill
* Exxon ends Brazil drilling campaign after announcing profit losses
* Equinor issued new drilling permit using the Deepsea Stavanger
* Exxon and Pioneer hold preliminary acquisition talks
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Weekly Rundown – April 3, 2023
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* Transocean inks $382 million multi rig deal with Equinor
* Odfjell lands two LOI's for the Deepsea Atlantic
* GOM lease sale generates over $263 million
* Transocean adds on $113 million with two harsh environment contracts
* QatarEnergy farms in with Exxon offshore Newfoundland
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Weekly Rundown – March 27, 2023
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* Vantage Drilling International reports on 4th quarter and full year 2022
* Brazil plans on drilling up to 33 wells over $1.5 billion in investment
* Blackford Dolphin commences drilling contract with GHL
* Peru exploration potential
* Eco Oil and Gas applies for exploration authorization in Orange Basin
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Weekly Rundown – March 20, 2023
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* Offshore oil & gas set for growth with 214 bln USD of investments in the pipeline
* Exxon touts 15 billion USD investment through 2030 if Namibe Basin offshore Angola is positive
* Eni announces a new discovery offshore Mexico
* Shelf Drilling North Sea reports on 2020
* JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration acquires Japan Drilling Co
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Weekly Rundown – March 13, 2023
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* Rig reactivations favored over newbuilds so far
* Shell announces new discovery offshore Namibia
* Vantage managed Capella awarded contract offshore East Africa
* Valaris announce contract awards and updated guidance
* West Neptune extends contract with LLOG
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Weekly Rundown – March 6, 2023
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* Eni exercises options on the Saipem 10000
* ADNOC signs a USD 252 million purchase agreement for 10 hybrid land rigs
* Saipem signs 400 million USD contract for DVD offshore Ivory Coast
* Noble remains focused on execution with 3.9 billion in backlog
* Equinor buys Suncor Energy UK
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Weekly Rundown – February 20, 2023
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- Valaris adds on more work with recent fleet status update
- AkerBP granted new drilling permit using the Scarabeo 8
- Deep Value Driller ex Bolette Dolphin bareboats to Saipem
- Transocean sees multi-year upcycle in offshore drilling industry
- BOEM announces GOM lease sale 259
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Weekly Rundown – February 20, 2023
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* Stacked Olympia to be converted for deep sea polymetallic recovery
* TotalEnergies at the helm of a new golden block
* 13 drilling contractors rush in for new Petrobras tender
* Apache terminates the Ocean Patriot
* Pengshen 6 becomes deepest vertical well in Asia
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Weekly Rundown – February 13, 2023
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* Stena awarded work for the Stena Spey
* Stena awarded 2-year extension for the IceMax in the GOM
* Petrobras issues fresh 4 rig tender
* APA announces discovery offshore Suriname
* Archer acquires Baker Hughes coil tubing and pumping business in the UK
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Weekly Rundown – February 6, 2023
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* Transocean awarded work for KG2 offshore Brazil
* Northern raises arbitration cash for drillship cancellation
* Ocyan puts the West Capricorn to work
* Guyana's third FPSO Prosperity on track for delivery
* QatarEnergy joins TotalEnergies and Eni offshore Lebanon
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Weekly Rundown – December 22
* Ocyan creates new company named Drillco
* ExxonMobil awards Saipem with $1.2 billion worth of contracts
* Seadrill Limited to acquire Aquadrill in all stock transaction
* TotalEnergies and Eni announce new discovery offshore Cyprus
* Shelf lands 3 year deal for two jackups with ONGC
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Weekly Rundown – December 13
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- Transocean lands multi-year contracts offshore Brazil
- Eni in preliminary talks to buy Neptune Energy for $5-6 bln
- ARO Drilling announce contract extensions
- Saipem exercises purchase option for the Santorini
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Constellation awarded new contract for the Brava Star offshore Brazil
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Weekly Rundown – December 6
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- Perenco signs up Valaris 247 for work in the Ravenspurn field
- CIMC jackup duo awarded 3 year contract extensions with PEMEX
- Aquadrill awarded work for the Capella
- Valaris puts the DS-12 to work offshore Egypt with BP
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Keppel O&M delivers jackup novated by Borr Driling to ADNOC Drilling
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Oil Prices
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Weekly Rundown – November 21
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- ADES charters jackup duo Cantarell III and IV from Keppel
- Suriname announce 6 new blocks up for lease
- Semco Maritime awarded 5-year deal with TotalEnergies
- 22 contracts awarded to Borr since start of 2022
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Transocean JV buys interest in 7th gen drillship West Aquila
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Oil Prices
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Weekly Rundown – November 14
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- BP, Exxon and Equinor part of $238 million in awards offshore Newfoundland
- Noble fleet utilization overall 94% with recent earnings report
- Diamond awarded four-year deal for the Ocean Courage
- Guyana announces inaugural offshore oil and gas licensing round
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Exxon announces find offshore Angola
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Oil Prices
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Weekly Rundown – November 7
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- La Muralla sold for $60 million
- Valaris 54 sold for $28 million
- Valaris publishes fleet status update
- TotalEnergies fires back at Greenpeace
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Seadrill JV awarded 12 well deal offshore Angola
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Oil Prices
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Weekly Rundown – October 31
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- Weatherford bags long term contracts with Aramco and PDO
- COSL lands long term contracts in the middle east
- Seadrill splitting up with Paratus Energy in Mexico
- Island Drilling awarded contract with Dana Petroleum
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ADNOC drills new world record well
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Oil prices
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Weekly Rundown – October 24
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- $7.3 billion in backlog with recent Transocean fleet status update
- 5 Borr jack-ups awarded new 3 year contracts in Mexico
- Seadrill completes sale of 7 jackups to ADES
- Borr Drilling sells the Gyme for $120 million
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Keppel to commence charters for four rigs assets in Saudi Arabia
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Oil prices
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Weekly Rundown – October 17
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- Petrobras locks in 7 rigs on an 8 rig tender
- Shelf Drilling awarded a 5-year contract for the recently acquired Shelf Drilling Victory
- TotalEnergies set to explore in Lebanese waters, says energy minister
- Seadrill trades on the NYSE again
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ADNOC Drilling awarded $1.53 billion contract to support expansion of ADNOCs offshore operations
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Oil prices
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Weekly Rundown – October 10
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- Noble Corp announce closing of merger with Maersk Drilling
- Dolphin confirms 1 year contract for the Blackford
- ADC awarded 3-year contract with Petronas
- PV Drilling awarded contract with Valeura Energy
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Petrobras awards Sembcorp with FPSO P-82 construction
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Oil prices
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Weekly Rundown – October 3
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- Shelf Drilling completes cash raise for 5 Noble jackups
- KCA Deutag awarded two rig deal for geothermal drilling
- Behind Arabian Drilling Company's $700 million IPO
- Shell awards TechnipFMC contract for Jackdaw project
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Maersk Viking awarded more work offshore Malaysia
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Oil prices
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Weekly Rundown – September 26
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- McDermott awarded major contract with TotalEnergies offshore Angola
- Odfjell awarded contract for the Deepsea Yantai
- KCA Deutag lands $112 million worth of awards and extensions
- TotalEnergies exercise options with Maersk Valiant offshore Suriname
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Transocean Norge awarded 4-year contract with Wintershall
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Oil prices
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Weekly Rundown – September 19
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- Offshore rig dayrates on the rise
- Stena awarded contract with CNOOC Africa
- Petronas speaks on recent Baja-1 discovery
- Shell announces new CEO
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Significant interest in investigating new exploration acreage offshore Norway
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Oil prices
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The Weekly Rundown – September 12
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- Dolphin Drilling receives award for the Blackford Dolphin offshore Nigeria
- Transocean's Deepwater Asgard awarded two contracts in the GOM
- US oilfield jobs rise again in August, close to pre-pandemic levels
- Maersk Drilling secures six-month extension for drillship with Shell
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Island Drilling awarded contract for the Innovator offshore EG
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Oil prices
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The Weekly Rundown – Sep 5
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- ADES picks up Icon Caren for $85 million
- Seadrill sells 7 jackups to ADES for $628 million
- Eni announce 2.5 billion bbl discovery offshore Ivory Coast
- ARO Drilling announce 3-year contract for jack up V-141
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Valaris puts the DPS-5 to work for Eni offshore Mexico
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Oil prices
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The Weekly Rundown – Aug 29
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- ADNOC purchases ex Oro Negro jackup for $70 million
- APA finds oil in Baja-1 offshore Suriname
- Sapura scraps 3 drilling rigs
- Shell to mobilize the Maersk Voyager for one well offshore Mexico
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Northern Ocean awarded a contract for the Deepsea Bollsta
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Oil prices
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The Weekly Rundown – Aug 22
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- ADNOC deploying 13 self propelled jackup barges
- Maersk publishes fleet status update
- Aquadrill announce new contract for the Auriga
- Aker BP announces discovery offshore Norway
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ONGC and ExxonMobil partner up
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Oil prices
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The Weekly Rundown – Aug 15
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- Noble awarded $420k per day contract from LLOG in GOM
- Borr awarded work for the Prospector 5
- ADNOC awarded 8 rig contract, over 15 year duration
- Diamond bags multiple floater contracts
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Borr Drilling heads to NYSE
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Oil prices
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The Weekly Rundown – Aug 8
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- Transocean awarded two new contracts, over 7 years of backlog valued at $1.2 billion
- Aban Drilling awarded LOA for 3 years of work with ONGC
- Shell awards Bilfinger multi-million-dollar maintenance contract offshore GOM
- High impact exploration wells on the rebound
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Petrofac awarded $200 million EPC contract in Algeria
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Oil prices
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The Weekly Rundown – Aug 1
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- DS-4 kicks off operations in Brazil
- Valaris issues fleet status update, multiple new contracts
- Shelf awarded 3 year contract from ONGC
- ADNOC Drilling confirms USD 2 billion contract award to enable delivery of Ghasha Mega-Project
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ExxonMobil makes two more discoveries offshore Guyana
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Oil prices
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The Weekly Rundown – July 25
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- Shell places U.S. Gulf of Mexico assets up for sale
- Pemex awards jackup contract to Perforadora Central
- Deepsea Stavanger busy until Q3 2023 with exercised options
- Well-Safe lands work for the Defender
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EnerMech secures over USD 128 million in new contract wins
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Oil prices
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The Weekly Rundown – July 18
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For July 18
- Petroserv sells SSV Catarina but remains manager
- Offshore Namibia is quickly becoming an exploration hotspot
- Valaris's DS 9 gets ready to kick off with Exxon in Angola
- Borr Drilling lands LOA for the Mist
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Shelf Drilling announces closing of transaction on Deep Driller 7
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Oil prices
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For May 3
- Shelf secures 3 year extension for High Island V
- Seadrill grabs up more contracts in the GOM
- Seadrill awarded multiple contracts in the Middle East
- Transocean issues fleet status update, holds $6.1 billion backlog
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Valaris sells 2 jackups to ADES
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Oil prices
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For April 25
- ADES enters into agreement with ABAN to buy four jackups
- Keppel terminates jackup contracts
- Maersk sells jackup to ADES
- INPEX exercises one year option on Maersk Deliverer
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JP Morgan energy outlook calls for $1.3 trillion investment needed by 2030
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Oil prices
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For April 18
- Saipem awarded new offshore drilling contracts
- Valaris announces new contracts and extensions
- Petrobras set to kick off Columbia drilling campaign
- Maersk Drilling awarded long term P&A contract
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Canada approves Equinor's $12 billion Newfoundland offshore oil project
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Oil prices
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For April 11
- Exxon plans to invest $10 billion in fourth project offshore Guyana
- Borr lands new contracts and extensions
- Maersk bags long term work for the Voyager
- Greece plans gas exploration in Ionian Sea
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KCA Deutag awarded drilling contract using grid power
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Oil prices
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For April 4
- Exxon comes up dry on Cutthroat
- Transocean buys into Ocean Minerals
- Constellation gets green flag from creditors
- CNOOC plans for North Sea exit and $5.5 bln Shanghai listing
- Ocyan awarded decommissioning contract with Petrobras
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For March 28
-Shell tenders for deepwater drillship offshore Brazil
-Murphy estimates up to 1 billion barrels in Brazil oil prospect
-Greatship jackup pair land long term contract with ONGC
-Saipem will launch a 2 billion euro cash call
-Seadrill changes out President before bankruptcy exit
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For March 21
-Noble and Maersk announce executive management team
-DS 16 breaks free from moorings and collides with tanker in GOM
-Stena Drilling announces name of newbuild
-Cobalt Explorer departs South Korea
-Australia puts sanctions on Russian oil execs
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