Offshore decommissioning firm Well-Safe Solutions and oil firm Apache Corporation have signed a multi-year framework agreement to plug and abandon wells in the North Sea.The deal provides Apache with access to Well-Safe Solutions' decommissioning rigs, the Well-Safe Defender and Well-Safe Guardian, to plug and abandon its wells.Chris Hay, Director of Strategy and Business Development at Well-Safe Solutions…
Oil and gas companies are set to spend $58 billion on well intervention – a way to extract additional resources from an existing well instead of drilling a new one – in 2023, the Norwegian energy intelligence group Rystad Energy said.Rystad…
Malaysian offshore drilling rig contractor Velesto Drilling has received three notices of assignments related to a drilling contract award with Petronas first announced in March.The contract is for providing three jack-up drilling rigs, the Naga 3…
Oslo-listed offshore drilling company Odfjell Drilling has won more work with Equinor for two of its semi-submersible drilling rigs the Deepsea Aberdeen and Deepsea Stavanger.Equinor has added additional firm scope for the Deepsea Aberdeen as…
Norwegian oil giant Equinor has, on behalf of several licenses in Norway, awarded contracts for the use of Transocean's offshore drilling rigs Transocean Encourage and Transocean Enabler.Transocean Encourage semi-submersible drilling rig will mainly be used in the Norwegian Sea…
In a tumultuous year of change in the world, high impact drilling in 2022 remained at a similar level to 2021, with 81 high impact wells completing (Figure 1). Performance improved with discovered resource increasing from 7.4bnboe in 2021 to a preliminary estimate of 9…
Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) has reached a Final Investment Decision (“FID”) on two infill wells in the Danish North Sea.The two wells will be drilled at the Tor reservoir in the Halfdan North East area, located in the central part of the Danish North Sea…
Australian oil and gas company Karoon Energy has drilled the second of two new production wells at its Patola field offshore Brazil, and the company says the reservoir quality is better than predicted.The company said that the well - PAT-2- has been successfully drilled to a total depth of 2…
Austria's OMV and German operator Wintershall Dea have jointly contracted Transocean's Transocean Norge semisubmersible drilling rig for drilling 17 wells in Norway. The two firms also said they had entered into an exclusive partnership with…
38 high-impact exploration wells were drilled in the first half of 2022, similar to the same period in 2021 when 39 wells completed, says industry analysts Westwood Global Energy Group. The 38 wells resulted in 13 potentially commercial discoveries at a 34% commercial success rate…
Petrofac, an international service provider to the energy industry, will be supporting deep geothermal specialist CeraPhi Energy in what has been described as a first-of-a-kind geothermal study looking at the repurposing of oil and gas wells using CeraPhi’s technology…
Brazilian oil company Petrobras has brought online the first two wells of the increased oil recovery (IOR) project at Roncador project offshore Brazil, almost five months ahead of schedule and at half of the planned cost, Equinor, Petrobras' partner in the project…
The Biden administration on Monday said it would make $1.15 billion available to states to clean up abandoned oil and gas wells as part of a broad effort to reduce U.S. climate warming emissions and improve health and safety in nearby communities…
Six oil and gas companies operating in the Dutch sector of the North Sea have signed a deal with subsea services firm Oceaneering for the decommissioning of Mud Line Suspension (MLS) wells in the Dutch North Sea.These wells were once drilled for exploration purposes…
Australian oil and gas company Beach Energy has informed that gas production has started from the first two wells of its offshore Otway Basin campaign - Geographe 4 and 5.The wells have been connected to the Otway Gas Plant and are now delivering…