Drilling & production

Wintershall Dea has begun drilling the first of six wells on the operated Nova field in the Norwegian North Sea.

EQT Corp. has entered into a definitive purchase and sale agreement with Chevron USA Inc. under which EQT will acquire Chevron's upstream and midstream assets located in the Appalachian Basin for US$735 million.

BP reported a US$86 million underlying replacement cost profit for the three months to 30 September.

ADNOC has awarded contracts worth US$324 million to optimise onshore field operations in Abu Dhabi.

Cenovus Energy has agreed to buy Husky Energy in an all-stock deal valued at CAN$3.8 billion (US$2.9 billion).

BP has started production from the Qattameya gas field in the North Damietta offshore concession.

PDC Energy successfully installed 22 248 ft of 5.5-in. x 20.00 ppf VA-EP-P110 VAtitan-TC in the Ferguson 23G-202 well located in the Wattenberg Field in the Denver-Julesburg Basin.

The Energy Enticer had a safe and successful mobilisation to Qatar Petroleum’s North Field in early September 2020.

CNX Resources have successfully installed 27 361 ft of 5.5” 23# VA-EP-P110-NY VAtitan-TC on the Maj-12 pad in the Pennsylvania Utica Shale.

Stork will provide all daily maintenance and rapid response services as well as deliver engineering, project and turnaround-related services for three onshore production areas in the Netherlands.

NTS Group has acquired Amega West Services from Carpenter Technology Corporation.

Polskie Górnictwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo (PGNiG) has signed an investment agreement with Energy Resources of Ukraine (ERU) on a joint exploration and production project in Ukraine.

KCA Deutag has been awarded contracts worth more than US$150 million in Oman.

Penspen will develop crude receiving facilities for unloading the Upper Zakhum field and Non-System crudes at Jebel Dhana from tankers.

Neptune Energy has announced it will adopt Halliburton’s DecisionSpace 365 well construction suite of cloud applications.