Drilling & production

Providence Resources P.l.c., the Irish based Oil & Gas Exploration Company, has provided an update on Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 6/14 that contains the Newgrange Prospect.

UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Kimmeridge Oil & Gas Limited (KOGL), has applied to West Sussex County Council (WSCC) to extend the Broadford Bridge-1/1z (BB-1/1z) planning permission for a further 18 months to 31 March 2020. BB-1/1z is located in the 300 km² PEDL234 licence, in which the Company has a 100% interest via its ownership of KOGL.

Sound Energy, the Moroccan focused upstream gas company, has confirmed that it has now finalised the specific location of its approaching TE-9 exploration well which will target the A1 prospect in the Company's Tendrara-Lakbir permit, Eastern Morocco.

The study was supported by geoscientists from CNOOC (Shenzhen branch) who shared the comprehensive viewpoints of their previous study in this area.

Equinor is awarding new service contracts to Baker Hughes Norge, Halliburton AS and Schlumberger Norge AS for integrated drilling and well services on most of the Equinor-operated fields on the Norwegian continental shelf.

Eland Oil & Gas PLC, an oil & gas production and development company operating in West Africa with an initial focus on Nigeria, has announced that its joint-venture subsidiary Elcrest Exploration and Production Nigeria Ltd (Elcrest) has successfully drilled and completed the Opuama-9 well.

The findings are reported in MEI’s latest North America Gas Outlook to 2030, which explores gas supply and demand projections to 2030.

Advanced Smart Meter Verification diagnostics to deliver real time intelligence and calibration of Coriolis and magnetic flow meters for a complete process overview and greater operational certainty.

Tap Oil Limited (Tap or the Company) provides the following update on drilling activities at the Manora Oil Field in the Northern Gulf of Thailand permit G1/48 (Tap 30% interest).

SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced that it has spud its SRM-3 appraisal well at South Ramadan, Egypt (SDX 12.75% working interest and nonoperator).

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) has, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS), delivered the state-of-the-art jackup rig, SKALD, to Borr Skald Inc, a subsidiary of Borr Drilling Limited (Borr Drilling) safely, on time and on budget.

XWI has now been run on the Chevron-operated Jansz field, a gas-filled structure 250 km off the coast of North West Australia.

Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the commencement of drilling of the third exploration well in a four well back-to-back campaign in the Company's Fracción C and Laguna de Los Capones assets, onshore Argentina in Joint Venture between Echo and its Argentine partner Compan~i´a General de Combustibles S.A. ("CGC").

Sonatrach, Total, Repsol and Alnaft (the National Agency for the Valorisation of Hydrocarbon Resources), have signed a new concession contract for a period of 25 years to extend the exploitation of the Tin Fouyé Tabankort (TFT) gas and condensate field.

Drilling at the Moftinu-1007 well in Romania achieved a total planned depth of 1463 m.