Drilling & production

Production had been suspended at the Cliff Head Alpha Platform offshore Western Australia due to an electrical fault.

Well 35/10-5 will be drilled from the West Hercules drilling facility.

US natural gas production grew by 9.8 billion ft3/d in 2019, a 10% increase from 2018, according to the US Energy Information Administration.

Alexandra Thomas has joined the company as UK Managing Director, based in Aberdeen.

The company anticipates West Barracouta gas flowing to the Australian domestic gas market by early 2021.

Logan will provide turn-around upgrade and repairs to a fleet of wireline tensioners onboard five active drilling and completion vessels.

Keddington is located on the southern margin of the Humber Basin in the UK, and is currently producing approximately 28 bpd of oil.

The contract extension is for the Trident 16 jack-up rig, which is operating in the Gulf of Suez offshore Egypt.

It is anticipated that production from the Bruce, Keith and Rhum fields, located in the UK North Sea, will be fully restored over the coming days.

Pharos Energy has confirmed that it is participating in the process for the purchase of Shell's upstream portfolio in the Western Desert in Egypt as part of a consortium.

Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Equinor consent to use the Deepsea Atlantic mobile drilling facility for drilling and completion on the Tordis and Vigdis fields.

Darren W. Woods, the company's chairman and CEO, made the announcement at the company’s annual investor day at the New York Stock Exchange.

The company recorded an increased profit after tax of US$164 million, compared to US$133 million in 2018.

Empire Energy Group Ltd. has received Northern Territory Government approvals for the drilling of Carpentaria-1.

Drilling of confirmation well 31/5-7 Eos south of the Troll field in the North Sea took place to determine the suitability of the reservoir in the Johansen formation for CO2 storage.