The Jack-up Rig is fundamentally a mobile platform that is utilized as exploratory drilling platform & offshore platform which contains of a light hull with movable legs along with holding the ...

Continuing with the efforts to clean up Hurricane Rita ... effort with the rig owner to assemble a Bisso-designed barge having the capability to physically pull the leg and can sections from ...

Seoul is likely also concerned the jack-up rig—so named for the three legs that can be lower to the seafloor—could mark a semipermanent presence and gradual effort to shift the status quo in ...

The rack and pinion jacking system lowers the legs at the rate of 12 ft. per minute. Full motor torque is applied to each leg as it reaches the sea floor, firmly grounding the spud-can feet.

One side is reportedly equipped with a helipad. A government intelligence source noted that the facility appears to use retractable steel legs similar to those found on jack-up rigs, allowing the ...

Valaris Limited VAL and Jadestone Energy are developing the Montara field offshore Australia, for which the Valaris 247 jack-up rig has arrived at the location. The jack-up rig is scheduled to ...

Borr Drilling (NYSE:BORR) +9.3% pre-market Tuesday after announcing new contract commitments for three of its premium jack-up rigs, with other rigs in its fleet also preparing for drilling jobs.

Middle East drilling player ADES has signed a long-term renewal deal with Saudi Aramco for one of its offshore jack-up rigs, the contract for which was suspended last year by the state giant.

Petrobras received the PA-38 jack-up rig for Guaricema field shallow water well decommissioning about 9 km from the coast of Brazil. Petrobras is investing in disposal of 26 offshore production ...

Shallow-water drilling contractor Borr Drilling has received good news in Mexico where three of its jack-up rigs had been suspended, while also reporting new contracts for three other jack-ups in ...

Borr Drilling has secured new contract commitments for three of its premium jack-up rigs, marking significant fleet updates. In South East Asia, the Thor rig received a binding letter of award ...