Dragon Oil has updated its ongoing drilling program in the Cheleken Contract Area of the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea.

Two rigs owned by Songa Offshore are under assignment to Petronas offshore Malaysia.

Over the past two summers, a drillship and a semisubmersible rig have been in action off western Greenland for Cairn Energy.

Gazprom has discovered a new field offshore Sakhalin Island, within the Mynginskaya geological structure in the Kirinsky prospect.

The drilling rig Songa Mercur should start demobilization later this month from eastern Russia, after completing a program for Gazflot LLC offshore Sakhalin Island.

Total has discovered gas in the Caspian Sea in the Absheron block offshore Azerbaijan.

A team from Gazprom has visited the Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant in northern Russia to review progress on the Polyarnaya Zvezda and Severnoye Siyaniye semisubmersible drilling rigs.

Following installation of ancillary equipment and a facility systems readiness test, operator Gazprom will use the jackup rig Kolskaya to start drilling offshore Western Kamchatka.

Eurasia Drilling Company (EDC) and Schlumberger have completed the sale and purchase of each other’s drilling and service assets in Russia.