Australian oil and gas firm Carnarvon Energy expects to spud its Buffalo-10 well in the Timor Sea in late December and not in mid-December as previously expected.The company said Monday that the Valaris JU-107 jack-up drilling rig was 'still on its current operations…
TotalEnergies has spudded the Venus-1X offshore exploration well in Namibia's Block 2913B (PEL 56). The well, seen as potentially transformational for the Namibian oil industry, is being drilled in 3,000 meters water depth.The news of the drilling…
Australian oil and gas company Carnarvon Energy, which earlier this month changed its name from Carnarvon Petroleum, is set to receive the Valaris JU-107 jack-up drilling rig 'within the next two weeks' and start drilling at the Buffalo-10 well-site…
Energy company Kistos has spudded the Q11-B appraisal well offshore the Netherlands using Borr Drilling's Prospector-1 jack-up drilling rig.Kistos, the operator of the block containing the well, said that the Q11-B appraisal well would take a minimum of 6 weeks to drill and test…
Australian oil and gas firm FAR has started drilling at the Bambo-1 exploration well in Block A2, offshore The Gambia.'The Stena IceMax drillship arrived on site on 12 November Gambian time and after completing preparations, has successfully spudded the well…
Australian oil and gas company expects to spud the Buffalo-10 well in the Timor Sea in early November, using the Valaris JU-107 jack-up drilling rig.'The previous field proved the existence of very high deliverability reservoir containing high…
Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor has spudded the Egyptian Vulture exploration well in the Norwegian Sea.Longboat Energy, the recently formed E&P company, and Equinor's partner in the project with a 15 percent stake, announced the spud on Tuesday…
Neptune Energy has received approval from the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway to drill in block 33/6 in the North Sea.PSA Norway said Monday that Neptune would drill 33/6-6 S and 33/6-6 A well at the Shamu prospect in the Production licence…
U.S. oil major ExxonMobil has spudded the Sapote-1 well on the Canje Block, offshore Guyana. This is the company's third well in the block drilled this year. The first two wells, Bulletwood-1 and Jabillo-1, failed to find evidence of commercial hydrocarbons…
Norwegian oil and gas company DNO has started drilling at the Gomez exploration well on the PL006C license offshore Norway.The well was spudded over the weekend using the Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig. It will be drilled to a depth of around 3…
U.K. gas company IOG announced the spudding of the Blythe development well in the U.K. North Sea.Following Elgood, Blythe is the second development well in IOG's Phase 1 project and is expected to take under three months to drill and complete…
Norwegian energy firm Equinor is expected to spud the Egyptian Vulture exploration well in the Norwegian Sea in late August, using Seadrill's West Hercules semi-submersible drilling rig.This is according to Longboat Energy, Equinor's partner in the project…
Malaysian oil and gas firm Petronas is preparing to start drilling an offshore well in Mexico.According to an exploration report by its Indonesian partner Medco Energi, Petronas is gearing up to drill the Bacalar-1EXP exploration well.Medco…
Bahamas Petroleum Company, an oil and gas company focused on the Caribbean and Atlantic margin, which earlier this year failed to unearth commercial quantities of oil from the closely watched Perseverance well offshore the Bahamas, is changing its name…
The tender process for an offshore drilling rig to be used for the drilling of Carnarvon Petroleum's and Advance Energy's Buffalo offshore well in the Timor Sea is nearing completion, and the spud date is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2021…