Drilling & production

DNO has reported receipt of US$62.33 million as payment for April 2018 crude oil deliveries to the export market from the Tawke licence in Kurdistan.

FEL 3/04 is operated by Eni Ireland on behalf of its partners, Repsol Exploracion Irlanda, Providence Resources and Sosina Exploration.

Josep Anton Feliu, Sergio Linuesa and Miquel A. Alós, Inprocess, Spain, discuss the application of dynamic simulation to analyse potential trips of the HIPPS system at the flare header of a central processing facility during trunkline pigging operations.

Mosman Oil and Gas Limited the oil exploration, development and production company, has provided the following update in respect to the Stanley Drilling Project.

The Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Equinor Energy (Equinor) consent for disposal of the Huldra facility.

Robert Gordon University (RGU) has been working with partners in the drilling industry to create a summer intern programme which will help strengthen ties and develop the future workforce.

The European focused oil and gas exploration and production company has provided an update regarding its operations at Block 12 in Georgia.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Wellesley Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 35/11-21 S, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.

Wintershall as the operator of Nova has decided to develop the field with two subsea modules tied back to the Gjøa platform, which is operated by Neptune Energy.

Canada’s existing oil pipeline and railway capacity is enough to support oil sands current exports but with little extra room for logistic constraints.

The crux of the new range is higher capacity output of control and service air, but with lower energy consumption, service requirements and – as a result – lower operational expenses (Opex) and harmful emissions to air.

SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced that a successful production test has been conducted at its SD-4X appraisal well at South Disouq, Egypt (SDX 55% working interest and operator).

API has released its quarterly well completion report for the second quarter of 2018 showing a 265% increase in estimated exploratory gas well completions as compared to the second quarter of 2017.

Additional payments of up to US$550 million could be payable by Total in case of an improvement in the oil markets in the coming years.

Maersk Drilling has been awarded contract extensions for the high-efficiency jack-up rigs Maersk Resolute and Maersk Resolve by Petrogas E&P Netherlands B.V. and Wintershall Noordzee B.V., respectively.