Drilling & production

Deep Casing Tools has gained new investment from EV Private Equity, and appointed a new management team.

Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to drill appraisal well 6608/10-18 in production licence 128 D in the Norwegian Sea.

Shell is the operator for production licence 373 S in the North Sea.

KOGL is a wholly owned subsidiary of UKOG.

Statoil Azerbaijan (part of the Equinor group) and Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR have signed a RSA related to the appraisal and development of the Karabagh oilfield and a PSA for the Ashrafi, Dan Ulduzu, Aypara area.

The top ten planned and announced presalt areas in Brazil will spend over US$220 billion throughout their lifetime in capital and operating expenditure.

The primary objective for the Phoenix South-3 well, off the north coast of Western Australia, is to evaluate the gas and condensate potential of the Caley Member within a large, faulted anti-clinal closure that was partially penetrated with the Phoenix South-2 well.

The 147 m Johan Sverdrup drilling platform has been a highly visible landmark in the Haugesund townscape for the last nine months. Today, 31 May, it’s good-bye.

Ocean Rig UDW Inc., an international contractor of offshore deepwater drilling services, has announced that it has signed a Master Service Agreement with ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS (the MSA) for a term of three years plus two optional years.

88 Energy Limited has announced the following update for its projects located on the North Slope of Alaska.

Equinor has been granted consent for continued use of the Oseberg Øst facility until 31 March 2031.

Comet Ridge Limited has provided an update on the ongoing drilling operations at the Albany 1 well in the north eastern Galilee Basin.

The intervals were discovered in the 801 side-track.

The Manora-8 exploration well is located in the G1/48 concession within the Manora Production Area approximately 2.2 km southwest of the Manora platform.

Cub Energy Inc. a Ukraine-focused upstream oil and gas company, announces that KUB-Gas LLC, Cub’s 35% owned subsidiary which owns and operates the eastern Ukraine licences, has commenced drilling of the North Yatskivska #3 (NY-3) well on the West Olgovskoye (WO) licence.