Songa Offshore has signed a firm drilling contract with Total E&P Australia for use of the Songa Venus rig on Australia’s North West Shelf.

The FPSO Ningaloo Vision left Singapore on Dec. 18, and is now en route to the Van Gogh field, offshore Australia.

Shell Development (Australia) has signed an LoI with Songa Offshore to use Songa Venus for its 2010 exploration drilling campaign offshore Australia.

Insurers have condemned the jackup West Atlas following a fire on PTTEP Australasia's Montara wellhead platform in November.

DOF Subsea has won contracts totaling $22 million for its Asia Pacific-based DP-2, multi-role support vessel Geobay.

Seadrill’s jackup West Atlas and PTTEPA's Montara well head platform in the Timor Sea are on fire.

Hess Equatorial Guinea has awarded Atwood Oceanics Pacific a contract for a six-well drilling program offshore Equatorial Guinea using the jackup Atwood Beacon.

Oilex has awarded Songa Offshore Drilling a contract for the semisubmersible drilling rig Songa Mercur.

The tender documents for a semisubmersible rig to drill the Sambuca prospect were formally opened in the presence of ETAP (Enterprise Tunisienne D'Activites Petrolieres), according to AuDAX Resources.

Keppel FELS has delivered the Maersk Discoverer, the second of three DSS 21 deepwater rigs, to Maersk Drilling.

Mermaid Marine Australia (MMA) has taken delivery of the DP II 8000 BHP AHTS Mermaid Vision.