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BP Confirms 'World Class' Gas off Mauritania and Senegal

Dec 16, 2019

BP announced on Monday that its three-well drilling program offshore Mauritania and Senegal encountered gas in 'high quality', confirming the supermajor's confidence in the 'world-class scale' of the hydrocarbon resources in the West African region…

U.S. Drillers Add Rigs for first Week in Eight

Dec 13, 2019

U.S. energy firms added rigs for the first time in eight weeks even as producers follow through on plans to reduce spending on new drilling.Companies added 4 oil rigs in the week to Dec. 13, bringing the total count to 667, energy services firm…

DNO Makes Small Find Offshore Norway

Dec 13, 2019

Oil firm DNO has made a minor oil and gas discovery in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) said on Friday.The discovery, made in 341 meters of water, about 4 kilometers west of the Heidrun field…

Yothaka East-2 Sidetrack Disappoints

Dec 13, 2019

Tap Oil on Friday shared an update on the Yothaka East-2 appraisal well drilled in the G1/48 concession Manora Production License, operated by Mubadala Petroleum, in the Northern Gulf of Thailand.Operations on the sidetrack of the Yothaka East…

Keppel Delivers Jackup Rig to Grupo R

Dec 13, 2019

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) through its wholly-owned subsidiary Keppel FELS Limited (Keppel FELS) has delivered the KFELS B Class jackup rig, Cantarell III, to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Grupo R.As part of the deal, Grupo R has…

PTTEP Charters Energy Drilling for Arthit Gig

Dec 12, 2019

Singapore based Energy Drilling  has been awarded a contract by the Thailand's oil and gas company  PTT Exploration & Production International (PTTEP) to provide drilling services on the Arthit field in Gulf of Thailand.The builder and manager…

OMV Contracts Island Drilling for Norway Ops

Dec 12, 2019

Norwegian offshore driller Island Drilling has been awarded a contract with the provides marine exploration services firm OMV (Norge) in Norway.The contract is for one well in License 644, close to Aasgaard Field in the North Sea, said a statement from Island Drilling…

Transocean Wins Contract in Trinidad and Tobago

Dec 12, 2019

Offshore driller Transocean announced Thursday that the semisubmersible Development Driller III has been awarded a one year contract off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago.The contract is expected to commence in the second quarter 2020 and will…

Liberia Lines Up 2020 Offshore Licence Round

Dec 11, 2019

The Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority (LPRA), has announced the launch of the next licensing round, expected to commence in April 2020.In a meeting held between NOCAL, LPRA and TGS, the next steps were unanimously agreed, to allow the government…

Springfield Reports Big Find Offshore Ghana

Dec 11, 2019

Ghana's Springfield E&P said on Wednesday that it had discovered 1.5 billion barrels of oil and 0.7 trillion cubic feet of gas in its Afina-1 well in the West Cape Three Points (WCTP) Block 2, offshore GhanaThe undiscovered potential of the…

Halliburton, Petrofac Sign On Maersk Drilling's Seapulse Pact

Dec 11, 2019

Maersk Drilling said it has signed agreements with services firms Halliburton and Petrofac to collaborate on the exploration program to be delivered under the Danish-based offshore drilling contractor’s master alliance agreement with Bermuda-based explorer Seapulse…

Shelf Drilling Eyes Nigerian Prospects

Dec 11, 2019

Shallow water drilling services provider Shelf Drilling has announced a one-year extension on its 1982-built BMC 300-1C Trident XIV jack-up rig in continuation of its current assignment offshore Nigeria.The rig was contracted to ExxonMobil for…

Standard Drilling Sells PSV

Dec 10, 2019

Cyprus-based company active in the oil and gas industry S.D Standard Drilling signed Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to sell one  large Norwegian built Platform Supply Vessel (PSV), Standard Supporter for USD 15 million.The transaction was completed yesterday (10 December 2019)…

First Dussafu DTM-4H Production Well Completed

Dec 10, 2019

Panoro Energy announced the successful completion of the DTM-4H well, the first of the phase 2 Tortue development wells, offshore Gabon.The well was drilled with the Borr Norve jackup drilling rig in 116 meters water depth as a horizontal production well in the Gamba reservoir…

New Well Stimulation Method Debuts Offshore

Dec 10, 2019

The first successful “Single-Trip Multi-Frac” campaign has been executed on the Valhall field, marking the first time this specific well stimulation method has been performed offshore.“The traditional method takes two-three days to fracture a single zone of the reservoir…

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