Drilling & production

The newly installed equipment and facilities are working well and continue to be fine-tuned to optimise production.

Versalis, Eni’s chemical company, has announced that, as of 1 July 2025, it has transferred its Oilfield Chemicals business unit into the newly established company Versalis Oilfield Solutions S.r.l.

This is ADNOC Drilling's fifth major and accretive contract in just over 2 months totalling up to US$4.8 billion.

With Neotork, operators and directional drilling companies can achieve significant cost savings and improve operations, especially in increasingly challenging environments.

Under the contract, Velesto will assign NAGA 5, one of its premium jack-up rigs, to drill a firm 15 wells with operations scheduled to commence in June 2025.

The project includes new subsea infrastructure that will increase recoverable volumes by 40 – 50 million bbl of oil equivalent.

Maria Phase 2 is a four well subsea tie-back to existing infrastructure in Harbour’s operated Maria field.

“Adura” has been chosen as the name for Equinor and Shell’s incorporated joint venture (IJV).

The installation, completed earlier this year, forms part of Salunda’s growing activity in the Americas deepwater market.

The agreement is to scale the adoption of automated and autonomous drilling solutions.

Maritime Developments (MDL) has been awarded a contract by Saipem to provide specialist equipment and operational support for two recent flex-lay campaigns offshore Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mauritania.

Supported by industry funding, Laconia Phase III, covering approximately 150 OCS blocks in the Keathley Canyon protraction areas, will be acquired by TGS and imaged by Viridien to target prospective but difficult-to-image subsalt reservoirs.

As part of the collaboration, PETRONAS Carigali Sdn. Bhd. will deploy Halliburton Landmark’s DecisionSpace® 365 Geosciences Suite and Unified Ensemble Modelling solutions with the objective to unify exploration and development workflows and accelerate time to first oil.

This is the third discovery exploration well in production licence 891.

The FPSO came on stream on 31 March, while the first cargo was loaded on 25 May, shipping around 700 000 barrels to Spain.