Seadrill expects to take delivery this year of nine newbuild rigs, comprising two ultra-deepwater drillships, five high-spec jackups, one tender rig, and one harsh environment jackup.

Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) and its partners BP and NIKO have made a gas and condensate discovery in the KG D6 block offshore eastern India.

With growing energy demands in China and India, and huge LNG export projects under way off Australia, the Asia/Pacific region is a tale of two complementary ends of oil and gas exploration and development continuum.

Infield Systems expects 1,546 new fields to enter production worldwide in the next five years.

EMAS (SGX: 5DN) has won four contracts totaling $120 million spread among the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, and the Philippines.

Petrobras (NYSE:PBR) is moving to China the work of converting four tankers into FPSOs.

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) reports that its ultra-deepwater drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG1 has set a new world record for the deepest water depth by an offshore drilling rig of 10,385 ft (3,165 m) while working for ONGC offshore India.

Statoil (OSE:STL) has awarded three contracts for the long-distance Polarled gas pipeline in the Norwegian Sea.

Shell has awarded Technip (Paris:TEC) pipelay contracts for two projects offshore Malaysia.