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Stena IceMAX heads for Druid, Drombeg spud, offshore Ireland

Jun 28, 2017

Providence Resources and its partners have signed a contract for the Stena IceMAX deepwater drillship for drilling on the Druid and Drombeg prospects in the southern Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland.  Druid and Drombeg are in Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 2/14…

BHP spuds Wildling-2 in GoM

Apr 26, 2017

BHP Billiton spudded the Wildling-2 ultra deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this month, and plans to spud the nearby Scimitar wildcat in September. Image from BHP. The…

Hyperdynamics swaps drillship for Fatala-1

Jan 06, 2017

Hyperdynamics is changing things up at its Fatala-1 well, offshore the Republic of Guinea, just days after finalizing a drillship for the prospect. The Pacific Scirocco, from Pacific Drilling.  Hyperdynamics…

Eni spuds offshore Libya well

Jan 06, 2017

Eni has spudded an exploration well in Contract Area D offshore Libya, according to the country's national oil firm. The well, B1-16/3, will be drilled in 518ft (156m) water depth and it is about 140km northwest of Tripoli and 5km north of the Bahr Essalam gas field…

Renco to spud Indonesian well

Dec 02, 2016

Renco Elang Energy is set to spud the Amanah Timur-1 exploration well in the South Block A PSC, in the North Sumatra basin of Indonesia. Assuming satisfactory rig inspection by government officials, the well is currently scheduled to spud on 5 December…

Premier close to drilling on Bagpuss heavy oil prospect

Jul 12, 2016

UK independent Premier Oil is planning to spud the Bagpuss heavy oil prospect in the Moray Firth in the North Sea this month, later than initially expected.  Premier oil will use the Ocean Valiant semisubmersible drilling rig, which is…

Byron spuds first SM 71 well

Apr 04, 2016

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…

Premier Oil to spud Bagpuss

Mar 22, 2016

Premier Oil anticipates to spud the Bagpuss well on 7 July, located in the UKCS Block 13/24c on the Halibut Horst, in the UK North Sea, according to partner North Sea Energy. An option has been exercised for the Ocean Valiant semisubmersible rig to drill the well…

ExxonMobil to spud Liza as earnings fall 50%

Feb 02, 2016

ExxonMobil is moving quickly to spud a well at its Liza discovery, offshore Guyana, in addition to several major projects that are set for start-up in the next two years. Image from Exxon. Exxon…

Not all gloom, says Hannon Westwood

Jan 08, 2016

A year on since the oil price collapse and the effects are making themselves felt across Northwest Europe, particularly in the UK and Norwegian sectors.   The count of exploration and appraisal well spuds in the UK is an all-time low…

Lundin hits at Rolvsnes

Dec 22, 2015

Lundin Petroleum has discovered oil at the Rolvsnes exploration well 16/1-25 S in PL338C, in the central North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), the company confirmed on 22 December. Lundin said the well encountered a 30m gross oil column in porous granitic basement…

Marco Polo jackup showed defects

Dec 01, 2015

Marco Polo Marine subsidiary Marco Polo Drilling (MP Drilling) revealed that 180 new cracks, not including other defects, were found on all three legs of a jackup that the company canceled with Sembcorp Marine.   Marco Polo said according to Sembcorp’s second statement…

Drilling commences on Roc-1

Nov 25, 2015

Carnarvon Petroleum has announced that operator Quadrant Energy has spud the Roc-1 well on 24 November 2015. Drilling is expected to reach 4700m total depth, and take about 35-40 days trouble free. Well logging and sidewall coring is expected to take about 5-10 days on success case…

Premier spuds latest Falklands target

Nov 23, 2015

Premier Oil has spudded its latest Falklands Islands exploration well. The 14/20-2  Isobel - 2 well in the North Falklands basin is a second attempt on the Isobel Deep area, after drilling in May hit oil shows in a suspected high pressure formation…

Quadrant to spud Roc-1

Nov 13, 2015

Quadrant Energy received the Noble Tom Prosser drilling rig that will mobilize to the Roc-1 well site in WA-437-P offshore Western Australia, and prepare for spud around 17 November 2015, according to partner Carnarvon Petroleum. The Roc-1 well…

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