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Primeline lines up East China Sea drilling

Aug 19, 2015

Primeline Energy has entered into a turnkey drilling contract with China Oilfield Service Ltd. (COSL) for its 2015 exploration program of two wells in Block 33/07 in the East China Sea. Under the terms of the drilling contract, COSL has…

Senegal green-lights Cairn campaign

Aug 18, 2015

Senegal’s government has approved UK explorer Cairn Energy’s latest plans to carry out a 3D seismic survey and a multi-well exploration program off its shores, starting this year.  The minimum three-well campaign is targeting more than…

Shell approved to drill deeper in Arctic

Aug 17, 2015

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has given Shell final approval to drill into deeper into hydrocarbon-bearing zones at its Burger J prospect in the Chukchi Sea, off Alaska, in the US Arctic. “After extensive review and under a robust array of safety requirements…

Hawkeye-1 disappoints

Aug 17, 2015

Otto Energy’s Hawkeye-1 exploration well, offshore Palawan basin in the Philippines, has been drilled to the planned total depth of 2920m. The top reservoir was intersected at 2710m. Hydrocarbons were logged between 2710m and 2737m in reservoir…

Ultra-deepwater drillship up for sale

Aug 14, 2015

Norway's Odfjell Drilling and Metro Exploration have put the Deepsea Metro II ultra deepwater drillship up for sale. The two firms, which own the drillship through their shares in Deep Sea Metro, which owns Deepsea Metro II owner Chloe Marine Corp…

Maersk Drilling increases profits

Aug 14, 2015

Maersk Drilling has posted an increase in profits in 2Q to US$218 million ($117m in 2014) despite three rigs being idle in the period. Maersk said the result was thanks to strong operational performance, fleet growth, general cost savings and its 2014 Venezuelan business divestment…

Petronas Irish probe tanks

Aug 14, 2015

Petronas subsidiary PSE Seven Heads' Midleton well offshore Ireland has failed to discover commercial quantities of gas, according to partner Landsdowne Oil & Gas.  PSE Seven Heads, a subsidiary of Petronas' PSE Kinsale Energy reached target depth in the well…

Lundin gets consent for Barents drilling

Aug 13, 2015

The Norway Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has granted Lundin Norway consent to drill exploration well 7220/6-2 in the Barents Sea in a prospect called Neiden. Lundin is the operator for production license 609 in block 7220/6 in the Barents Sea…

Johan Sverdrup pre-drilling template installed

Aug 13, 2015

Norwegian oil firm Statoil has marked a milestone on its giant Johan Sverdrup development offshore Norway - the installation of the project's 280-tonne pre-drilling template. Heerema Marine Contractors’ crane vessel Thialf completed the installation of the 32m-long…

Statoil gets wildcat nod

Aug 12, 2015

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) granted Statoil a drilling permit for well 16/7-11 in the North Sea. Located in Block 16/7, the well will be drilled from the Songa Trym drilling facility, to the east of the Sleipner Øst field in the central sector of the North Sea…

Levitt-1 well disappoints

Aug 12, 2015

Quadrant Energy Australia’s Levitt-1 exploration offshore Western Australia will be plugged and abandoned after no hydrocarbon shows were found. Map of Levitt-1. From Karoon. Levitt-1…

Inpex's Spari-1 Suriname well disappoints

Aug 12, 2015

Inpex's Spari-1 well in Block 31 offshore Suriname is being plugged and abandoned after no significant hydrocarbon shows were found, according to partner Tullow Oil.  The well, drilled to 3830m total depth in 52m water depth, found presence of the targeted Campanian turbidite sands…

Jubilee back to full production

Aug 12, 2015

Production has restarted on the Kwane Nkrumah FPSO (pictured) on Tullow Oil's giant Jubilee field offshore Ghana ahead of expectations.  The FPSO had suffered issues with its gas compressor late last month, resulting in a gas export outage from 3 July…

E.ON's Salander probe dry

Aug 12, 2015

E.ON E&P Norge's exploration well 6507/3-11 S on the Salander prospect east of the Skarv field in the Norwegian Sea was dry, says the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The primary and secondary exploration targets for the well in PL650…

Lundin eyes Luno II tieback

Aug 12, 2015

Lundin Petroleum is considering a joint tie-back development of its Luno II and new Luno II North discoveries after exploration results showed they are in seperate systems. The latest exploration well 16/4-9 S on the Luno II North prospect found 12-26 MMboe gross contingent resource…

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