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Wintershall approved for North Sea well

Jun 23, 2015

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for exploration well 10/4-1 in the North Sea. Well 10/4-1. From NPD. 10/4-1 is located in production license 734…

Statoil picks Tenaris for Mariner

Jun 23, 2015

Statoil has awarded Tenaris the contract for the supply of casing, tubing and all related services for the Mariner project. Discovered in 1981, Mariner is the largest field development on the UK Continental Shelf in more than a decade…

Edison Norge spuds Haribo

Jun 22, 2015

Edison Norge spudded its first well as operator in the Norwegian Continental Shelf on the Haribo prospect. Exploration drilling started 21 June 2015 in the production license PL616 in the southern portion of the Norwegian North Sea at 8km southwest of the Valhall Field…

Petronas inks rig for Irish drilling

Jun 22, 2015

Petronas subsidiary PSE Seven Heads has agreed a contract to drill on the Midleton prospect offshore Ireland starting in August, according to partner Lansdowne Oil & Gas. PSE Seven Heads, a subsidiary of Petronas' PSE Kinsale Energy will…

Premier targets 2016 Bagpuss spud

Jun 19, 2015

Premier Oil is hoping to spud an exploration well on the Baguss prospect in Block 13/24c in the UK North Sea in H1 2016, according to partner North Sea Energy.  The Bagpuss well targets lower cretaceous sands, jurassic sands and a granite wash formation about 1400ft subsurface…

Hercules gets saved

Jun 18, 2015

Houston-based Hercules Offshore entered into a restructuring support agreement with a group of its debt holders that will shakeup the company’s finances and position Hercules to benefit during the expected rebound in the offshore drilling industry…

Maersk Integrator to drill at Gina Krog

Jun 18, 2015

Statoil received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to use the Maersk Integrator jackup to drill and complete 14 new production wells at Gina Krog. Gina Krog is an oil and gas discovery situated around 250km west of Stavanger and 30km northwest of the Sleipner A facility…

Wintershall North Sea wildcat comes up dry

Jun 18, 2015

Wintershall Norge, operator of production license 378, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 35/12-5 S. The well was drilled about 15km southwest of the Gjøa field in the North Sea and 80km southwest of Florø…

ConocoPhillips to use Maersk Gallant at Eldfisk

Jun 18, 2015

The Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has granted ConocoPhillips consent to use the Maersk Gallant mobile drilling facility for plugging and abandoning a production well at Eldfisk 2/7 A. Eldfisk is an oil field lying due south of Ekofisk in 70-75m of water in the southern North Sea…

Mubadala sees first oil off Thailand

Jun 18, 2015

Mubadala Petroleum began oil production from the Nong Yao field in the G11/48 license in the southern Gulf of Thailand from three initial wells on 17 June. Map of G11/48 off Thailand. From Mubadala…

Erin's Oyo-7 onstream

Jun 18, 2015

Production commenced from Houston-based Erin Energy’s Oyo-7 well offshore Nigeria, with the expectations to double the company’s current production rate out of the Oyo field. The Armada Perdana…

Weatherford releases IntegraLine

Jun 17, 2015

Weatherford International has released their IntegraLine liner system with swage technology at the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) World Drilling 2015 Conference and Exhibition.  Weatherford’s IntegraLine liner…

Statoil Mariner deals surpass US$1.5 billion

Jun 17, 2015

Statoil has handed out the largest contracts for the UK North Sea’s Mariner field that are worth more than US$1.57 billion (£1 billion) to the companies established in Aberdeen. Mariner. Image from Statoil…

Lundin spuds Luno II

Jun 17, 2015

Lundin Norway commenced drilling of exploration well 16/4-9 S on the Luno II North prospect in the North Sea.  The main objective of well 16/4-9 S is to test the hydrocarbon potential and reservoir properties in the Luno II North prospect…

iQx GEO adds new functionality

Jun 16, 2015

AGR released new functionality for its bespoke well data software, iQx that will improve the analysis of spatial well data by using data collected from more than 6000 wells drilled on the Norwegian continental shelf. The new GEO module is aimed at geologists and petroleum engineers…

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