Central Petroleum Limited announces that drilling continues without incident and is currently at 2274 m MD, with another 700 m to go. Logs will be run from 2360 m MD to evaluate completion options in the Lower Stairway 2.
Serica Energy plc has announced the submission of a Field Development Plan (FDP) for the Columbus Development.
Subsea 7 has announced the award of a substantial contract by Total E&P Angola for the engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning of the subsea flowlines and umbilicals for the Zinia Phase 2 project, 150 km offshore Angola in water depths from 800 to 1000 m.
This plug and play solution is specifically designed to integrate a Frame 9 gas turbine in an air-conditioned module with dimensions considered very stringent for this technology configuration.
Aberdeen-headquartered casing and completion technology business, Deep Casing Tools, has appointed a new Region Manager for the Middle East division of the company. Based in the UAE, Neil Hathaway will lead the company’s growth strategy in the region.
The company has announced the acquisition of an additional 20% interest in the highly prospective 36.5 km2 West Rustavi licence in Georgia, increasing its working interest (‘WI’) to 25%.
The oil and gas industry has vastly accelerated the pace of approving investments for new projects over the past 18 months. New facilities worth more than US$110 billion have been approved for development since the beginning of 2017, versus only US$50 billion in 2016.
Equinor Energy AS, operator of production licence 120, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 34/8-19 S.
Aquaterra Energy, a leader in global offshore engineering solutions, has been selected by Equinor to deliver early well construction operations, via its Well Start solution, for the Johan Sverdrup field.
44% of industry leaders are actively getting ready for the shift to a lower-carbon energy mix.
Well lateral lengths in the Permian have increased in average by more than 1500 ft since 2016 to approximately 7500 ft by the end of 2017, says GlobalData.
Anglo African Oil & Gas plc, an independent oil and gas developer, has announced the results of further work on the TLP-102 well (‘TLP-102’ or ‘the Well’) on the Tilapia licence in the Republic of the Congo.
Carnarvon Petroleum Limited has provided the following update on the drilling at the Dorado-1 well.
Savannah Petroleum PLC, the West African focused British independent oil and gas company, have announced that the third well in its current Niger drilling campaign, Kunama-1, was spudded on 21 June 2018. Kunama-1 is located on the R3 portion of the R3/R4 PSC Area in the Agadem Basin, south east Niger.
The contract is valid for three years, with two additional one-year options (3+1+1).