Suriname’s national oil company Staatsolie has completed its nearshore drilling project in the country, but failed to make a commercial oil discovery.
Oil and gas company Neptune Energy has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for exploration drilling of two wells in the North Sea using the Deepsea Yantai drilling rig.
No significant hydrocarbon shows were encountered in the primary objective of Mubadala Petroleum’s second exploration well at the G1/48 Manora oil field located in the Northern Gulf of Thailand.
Contracts secured in Malaysia, Mozambique, and Brazil
Noble has completed the previously disclosed transaction with Shell relating to the two joint ventures in which Noble and Shell each held a fifty percent interest.
Odfjell Drilling and Semco Maritime have signed a contract for preparation and modification of Deepsea Stavanger rig prior to its start of a nine-month drilling campaign for Total in the harsh waters outside South Africa.
Vaalco Energy has completed drilling a development well at the Etame field offshore Gabon. Vaalco has placed the well on production at higher than anticipated rate and started drilling another development well on the field.
Spirit Energy has proved a natural gas discovery in the targeted Carboniferous sandstones of its Andromeda North well located in the UK North Sea, but the discovery is at the “lower end of expectations.”
Northern Drilling is seeing an improvement in demand visibility for the harsh environment drilling rigs, which is supportive of continued recovery and further rate increase in the market.
Offshore drilling contractor Northern Drilling and South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) are in dispute over a canceled drillship order.
Oil major ConocoPhillips has received consent from the offshore safety body, the Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA), for production drilling on the Tor field using the West Linus drilling rig.
Equinor, Shell, and Total have begun drilling the 31/5-7 Eos wildcat well to investigate whether the reservoir in the deep Johansen Formation was suitable for storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) as part of the Northern Lights project.
i3 Energy has concluded its 2019 drilling program in the UK North Sea with all three wells drilled within budget. i3 will now prepare for a multi-well appraisal planned for the summer of 2020.
No significant hydrocarbon shows were encountered at Mubadala Petroleum’s first of three exploration wells at the G1/48 Manora oil field located in the Northern Gulf of Thailand.
