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.
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.