Norway's Statoil has agreed to acquire a 70% stake in two blocks in the UK North Sea from Jersey Oil & Gas and CIECO Exploration for US$2 million, and is planning to drill and exploration well on one of the blocks in 2017. The two blocks…
Woodside Petroleum is preparing for its Myanmar drilling campaign as soon as next year, after identifying 2.4 Tcf of gas in the area earlier this year. Coleman. Image from Woodside. “Our…
Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) has come up dry in Skipper’s secondary objective, and the company will plug and abandon the well. IOG completed its first operated appraisal well on its 100% owned and operated Skipper oil discovery which…
UK-based driller Awilco Drilling has swung back to a profit in Q2, but is set to cold-stack its WilHunter semisubmersible due to lack of work opportunities for it in the short-term. The WilHunter will join a fleet of seven cold-stacked…
UK based explorer Independent Oil and Gas (IOG) is targeting two prospects thought to contain 46 MMbbl after successfully appraising the Skipper oil discovery in the North Sea. While drilling the Skipper appraisal well hit delays, due to the need to re-spud the well…
Quadrant Energy has encountered a 10m section of elevated gas readings its Roc-2 well, in addition to moderate fluorescence that indicates exploration potential in the area offshore Western Australia. Map of Roc-2…
Independent explorer Cairn Energy is looking to restart drilling offshore Senegal 'shortly' with some 500 MMbbl extra resources in its sights, the firm said this morning. The latest drilling program off Senegal, will include appraisal of the 'world-class' SNE discovery…
Statoil has started drilling on the Njord North Flank-2 (NF-2) exploration well 6407/7-9 S in the Norwegian Sea, according to partner Faroe Petroleum. The NF-2 prospect is in production license 107C, immediately north of the Njord field…
Sperry Drilling, a Halliburton (HAL) business, released the 9.5in Azimuthal Lithodensity (ALD) service, providing real-time density measurements and images in boreholes up to 17.5in. ALD is designed to provide downhole density measurements…
Det norske has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA) to use the Maersk Interceptor jackup to drill production wells at Ivar Aasen. Ivar Aasen is an oil and gas field in the North Sea, around 175km west-southwest of Karmøy in Rogaland county…
Quadrant Energy’s Driftwood-1 commitment well intersected water wet objectives offshore Western Australia. Image of the Tom Prosser, from Noble. Driftwood-1, is in the WA-320-P permit…
Russia's Rosneft has made a gas condensate discovery named Wild Orchid offshore Vietnam. The well was drilled using the Hakuryu-5 semisubmersible drilling rig during Q2 this year, operated by RN-Vietnam, in Block 06.1. Volume of reserves…
Australia's BHP Billiton has made a gas discovery on the deepwater LeClerc play-opening well offshore Trinidad and Tobago. BHP had been drilling for oil. The LeClerc 1 ST01 well was drilled in Block 5, in 2500-8500ft water depth, 135mi…
Wintershall Norge has started drilling wildcat exploration well 35/11-20 B using the Borgland Dolphin drilling rig in production license 248 F in the Norwegian North Sea. It is the latest well on the license, following well 35/11-20 A…
Premier Oil's Bagpuss heavy oil exploration well on the Halibut Horst in the Outer Moray Firth, in the North Sea, has made a discovery, potentially opening a new play in the area. The 13/25-1 well, drilling using the Ocean Valiant semisubmersible drilling rig…
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