Drilling & production

Specialist oil and gas consultancy, Oil Plus, has secured contracts worth more than US$4 million (£3.14 million) in the last three months.

Empyrean Energy plc, the oil and gas development company with interests in China, Indonesia and the United States, has announced an independent resource audit of the Mako gas field by Gaffney Cline & Associates.

The surface controlled DSIV will be the first steam injection valve available on the market to meet UK safety regulations.

Bureau Veritas, a world leader in laboratory testing, inspection and certification services, has been awarded a four-year contract with Neptune Energy to provide second and third-party inspection services for the new Fenja oil and gas field development, offshore Norway.

The Gullfaks partners have decided to drill seven new wells and thereby improve oil recovery by 17 million bbls with good profitability.

The Board of Triangle Energy Limited has provided the following update on its Cliff Head oilfield operations, located in the Perth Basin approximately 270 km north of Perth in Western Australia.

BP signed a cooperation contract with Tenaris to provide high quality OCTG products and accessories with Rig Direct service, to support drilling activities in Indonesia’s Tangguh region.

The work programme at Norio, which consists of eight workovers and one sidetrack, is targeting a 25-fold increase in production to 250 bpd by H1 2019. Norio has gross oil reserves of 1.631 million bbls.

In November last year, UK-based Corallian Energy revealed its plan to commence a two-well work programme, starting with the drilling of the Wick well, followed by drilling of Colter scheduled for Q1 2019.

Prospex holds a 17% interest in Selva, which sits within the 331 km² Podere Gallina Exploration Permit (the ‘Podere Gallina’) in the Po Valley region of Italy.

The SRM-3 well at South Ramadan (SDX 12.75% working interest and non-operator), reached a target depth of 15 635 ft.

The company has announced that the Company and Rockies Standard Oil Company, its joint venture partner has successfully participated in the December 2018 Bureau of Land Management Utah lease sale.

The companies have entered into an Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) for Block 47 with the Government of the Sultanate of Oman.

Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) plc has provided its investors with the following update on its portfolio of multistage licences offshore Ireland and onshore UK.

Centurion Law Group considers whether the Nigerian experience with marginal oilfield development had measurable success can be applied elsewhere.