Island Drilling Company AS is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a significant contract with Equinor for Permanent Plug & Abandonment (PP&A) work on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. The contract will commence in the first quarter of 2026.
Island Drilling Company is pleased to announce that Island Innovator has successfully wrapped up two P&A programs for Repsol on the Casablanca field offshore Tarragona in the Mediterranean. These programs kicked off in mid-November 2025 and concluded at the end of January, ahead of schedule and cost.
As the year comes to a close, we want to express our heartfelt gratitude to all our employees and partners for your dedication, trust, and collaboration. Together, we’ve achieved great things in 2024.
Island Innovator is the first of its kind, and is designed for North Sea operations. The unit is a fully equipped semi-submersible drilling unit based on proven design.
Island Innovator is currently working on behalf of Trident Energy in Equatorial Guinea, West Africa.
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The program is planned to take approximately 8 months. This work involves both development drilling, exploration drilling and workover. In direct continuation the rig will continue to a plug and abandonment program on behalf of Tullow Oil in their Banda and Tiof field in Mauretania. Island Innovator is available from Q4 in 2024.