The mighty harsh-environment deepwater drilling unit Ocean GreatWhite has arrived in a Norwegian shipyard for upgrades as it ...

The exodus of deepwater drilling rigs from Norway in the recent past is continuiing to cause a supply shortfall that will likely result in Norway being short of rigs, according to the world's ...

OSLO, June 28 (Reuters) - Owners of floating offshore oil drilling rigs on Wednesday began a final ... thus causing future delays. Norway is western Europe's largest oil producing nation and ...

An unusually high number of rigs are competing for a Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA drilling contract in the North Sea, an illustration of how companies are desperate for business as producers slash ...

OSLO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has told Transocean, Maersk Drilling and Odfjell Drilling to beef up emergency evacuation equipment and procedures on offshore ...

The protestors decided to board the Transocean Spitsbergen rig — in arctic waters roughly 190 miles off of Norway — after Norway’s government reversed a decision to block oil drilling in the ...

March 21 (UPI) --A safety regulator in Norway said Wednesday there were a number of emergency issues uncovered during an audit of a Transocean rig. The Petroleum Safety Authority issued an order ...

StatoilHydro to Dominate Norwegian Rig Fleet As of late March 2007, Statoil in the leading operator offshore Norway with a fleet of 9 mobile offshore rigs, two jackups and seven semisubmersibles ...

Four rigs working for StatoilHydro ASA, the Nordic region's largest oil company, off Norway will be taken out of service from tomorrow unless a strike is averted. Talks broke down on May 29 after ...