Mubadala Petroleum is set to commence drilling operations at the Sri Trang-1 exploration well in mid-May, offshore Thailand. The well is approximately 18km north-northeast of the Manora oil development, in the Gulf of Thailand and within the G1/48 concession…
UK-based explorer Cairn Energy has met with mixed results on its latest exploration well offshore Senegal. The BEL-1 well, drilled in 1031m water depth to 2767m total vertical depth, was targeting the Bellatrix exploration prospect and appraising the northern extent of the SNE field…
Noble Energy will plug and abandon its Silvergate prospect after failing to encounter commercial hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico, and will move to drill an appraisal well at its Katmai discovery. Noble will move to drill at Katmai…
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) has issued two calls for bids in the Eastern Newfoundland and Jeanne d’Arc Regions under the Scheduled Land Tenure Regime in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area…
Russia’s Lukoil has been granted approval from the Russian Federation Government for hydrocarbon exploration and production in two Baltic Sea fields. Lukoil will explore the D29 and D41 oil fields, which were both discovered in 2015, using the Arktichesksaya jackup drilling rig…
OMV has successfully completed drilling and testing of the Wisting Central II appraisal well in the Barents Sea, with flow rates hitting just above 5000 boe/d. The Transocean Spitsbergen, from OMV…
Zennor Petroleum’s subsidiary Zennor Pathway has spudded an appraisal well at its Finlaggan discovery in the Central North Sea. Well 21/5c-7, spudded on 5 April, is being drilled with Transocean Sedco 704 semisubmersible drilling rig…
Byron Energy spudded the South Marsh Island 71 #1 (SM 71 #1) well located in South Marsh Island Block 71 in the Gulf of Mexico, using the Hercules 205 jackup drilling rig this week. Current operations at the SM 71 #1 well are drilling ahead at 671ft measured depth…
BP Canada is putting its Nova Scotia exploration drilling activity on the back burner until 2018, as it waits out the economic slump the entire industry has been enduring. Map of BP's Scotian basin exploration drilling project…
Chad Barnes reports that contrary to current industry norms, contracting activity in the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa region is on the rise. The Eastern Mediterranean gas landscape and a focus on Egypt…
Heather Saucier examines the geology of the Mediterranean and North African region, and assesses where more discoveries could be made. The location of four assessment units in the Nile Delta Basin Province in the Eastern Mediterranean…
Elaine Maslin speaks with Oceaneering about its latest underwater technologies and its thoughts on the future of the ROV and AUV industry. The NEXXUS ROV working in the Gulf of Mexico off the Olympic Intervention IV vessel…
Italian major Eni has found what could be the biggest gas deposit in the Mediterranean and the company is eager to develop it. Jerry Lee reports. Egypt Nile Delta. The Zohr discovery, in the Shorouk block…
Recent increases in crude prices and oil stocks belie the reality that exploration and production activity continues to weaken and there is no prospect of it improving in the near future. Spending on oilfield drilling and services has fallen further…
Songa Offshore has taken delivery of the Songa Enabler, the last of its string of four new, sixth generation Car D drilling rigs from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Korea. The semisubmersible unit is now due to depart…
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