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SOCO well spud offshore Congo

Aug 07, 2014

SOCO International announced the Lidongo X Marine-101 (LXM-101) exploration well spud in the Marine XI Block, located in the Congo Basin, offshore the Republic of Congo. The LXM-101 well is located 23km north west of Pointe Noire in a…

Maersk adds second XLE jackup

Aug 07, 2014

Maersk Drilling has taken delivery of its second ultra harsh environment jackup, XLE-2, from the Keppel FELS shipyard in Singapore. The rig will start its mobilization to the Norwegian North Sea in approximately two weeks, where it will…

Marathon spuds Key Largo

Aug 06, 2014

Marathon Oil is due to spud an exploration well on the Key Largo prospect, on Walker Ridge Block 578, Gulf of Mexico, in Q3. It will be the first well drilled with a new-build deepwater drillship. Marathon Oil is operator and holds a 60% working interest in the prospect…

Genel spuds SM-1 well off Morocco

Aug 01, 2014

Genel Energy plc spud the SM-1 well in the Sidi Moussa block offshore Morocco, partner San Leon announced on 31 July 2014. The Noble Paul Romano semisubmersible rig began drilling operations on 30 July, and is expected to take 60-90 days…

BPZ Energy spuds Corvina well off Peru

Jul 31, 2014

BPZ Energy spud the CX15-7D development well in the Corvina field in Block Z-1, offshore Peru, on 29 July 2014, the company announced today. BPZ Energy plans to drill to 8500ft depth and expects operations to complete in October. BPZ…

Elliston-2 spudded in Cooper basin

Jul 23, 2014

Cooper Energy Ltd. announced that the Elliston-2 oil development located in PPL 249 on the western flank of Cooper basin in South Australia, spudded and of 22 July, the rig was drilling a 12 ¼ in. hole at 162m. Elliston-2, a vertical well located 250m south-southwest of Elliston-1…

TAO-1 spud nears

Jun 03, 2014

Australia-based Tangiers Petroleum says the Ralph Coffman jackup rig is on location offshore Morocco and close to spudding the Tao-1 well in the Tarfaya Offshore Block. The rig was loaded onto the heavy lift vessel MV Transshelf on the 25 May 2014…

Apache to begin drilling Phoenix South-1 off WA

May 20, 2014

The Atwood Eagle semisubmersible drilling rig has been mobilized to the Phoenix South-1 well location within the WA-435-P exploration permit, off Western Australia. Perth-based partner Carnarvon Petroleum Ltd. said that operator Apache Energy Ltd…

June spud for Morocco well

May 01, 2014

A farm-out agreement between Tangiers Petroleum and Galp Energia has been approved, paving the way for the partnership to spud the TAO-1 offshore Morocco in June.  Under the agreement, Galp is due to reimburse Tangiers' US$7.5million for back costs…

Anadarko spuds offshore NZ

Feb 12, 2014

Anadarko Petroleum Company has started drilling theCaravel-1exploration wellin the Canterbury basin offshoreNew Zealand. Drilling is expected to take about 40 days, using the drillship Noble Bob Douglas. The expected total depth is 2800m subsea…

North Sea needs exploration boost

Jan 23, 2014

Despite record levels of UKCS investment during 2013, the year proved to be disappointing both in terms of exploration and appraisal drilling activity and to a lesser extent the acquisition and divestments market. UKCS Drilling Levels 32…

Trinity spuds offshore Trinidad

Jan 16, 2014

Trinity Exploration & Production spudded the El Dorado exploration prospect, located offshore the west coast of Trinidad in the PGB license in 6ft of water. The well is 2km from Trinity-operated production infrastructure. Trinity is operating…

Apache defers spud date

Jan 09, 2014

The spudding of the Phoenix South-1 well has been pushed back by Apache until 2Q 2014, because of the company’s operational timetable including other projects Apache has in Western Australia.JV partner, Carnarvon Petroleum said that moving…

UK's Trinity spuds El Dorado well off Trinidad

Dec 06, 2013

Trinity Exploration & Production spud the El Dorado exploration prospect today. The well is located off the west coast of Trinidad in the PGB license in 60 ft of water, about 2km from Trinity-operated production infrastructure. Trinity…

Baker Hughes: offshore rig count

Nov 22, 2013

Baker Hughes drilling rig count for 22 Nov 2013 shows 57 rigs drilling off the US, including two rigs each off California and Florida, three off Texas, and 50 off Louisiana. This is three fewer than last week, but four more rigs drilling offshore than a year ago…

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