National Oil Corporation (NOC) and Eni announce that Mellitah Oil & Gas, Eni and NOC joint venture company (50/50), has started production from the first well of the offshore Bahr Essalam Phase 2 project.
SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has spud its SD-3X appraisal well at South Disouq, Egypt (SDX 55% working interest and operator).
First local Jack Up rig to be used for natural gas drilling campaign.
BP has announced that it has entered into agreements with ConocoPhillips that will significantly increase its holding in the Clair field, a core asset of BP’s North Sea business in the UK, while also selling its non-operating interest in the Kuparuk and satellite oilfields in Alaska.
Otto Energy Limited provides the following update on field production and specifically well performance of the SM 71 F2 well at its South Marsh Island 71 project in the Gulf of Mexico.
CNOOC Limited has announced that its parent company, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), has signed a production sharing contract (PSC) with Roc Oil (Bohai) Company (Roc Oil) and Smart Oil Investment Ltd. (Smart Oil) for Weizhou 10-3W oilfield and Block 22/04 (contract area) in the South China Sea.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 6307/1-1 S, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.
The well T-39, the third well of the three-well drilling campaign at the Company's Taribani complex, situated within the Block 12 license in Georgia, has been sidetracked from the existing wellbore and drilled to a vertical depth of 2800 m into the Eldari A formation.
Following FEED and subject to requisite government approvals, project sanction and an authorisation to proceed with the next phase, SBM Offshore will construct, install and then lease and operate the FPSO for a period of up to 2 years.
BP and its partners in the Shah Deniz consortium have announced the start-up of the landmark Shah Deniz 2 gas development in Azerbaijan, including its first commercial gas delivery to Turkey.
The framework covers four main scopes of work; marine riser and wellhead systems analysis, analysis for wellhead fatigue monitoring, completion landing string analysis, and open water work-over riser analysis.
The bid round, scheduled to close on September 28, offers four blocks in Brazil’s pre-salt area, but three of these were already offered in previous rounds and received no bids.
Trinidad Drilling Ltd. (Trinidad or the Company) has announced an award in Kuwait for two Trinidad Drilling International (TDI) joint venture rigs on a five-year contract.
The Fogelberg discovery has now been successfully appraised confirming sufficient well productivity and reservoir connectivity capable of delivering commercial rates from the planned horizontal gas producers.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Equinor Energy AS a drilling permit for wells 6608/10-18, 6608/10-18 A and 6608/10-18 B, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.