Drilling & production

The Dempsey well has produced clean dry natural gas from a vertical interval of over 2000 ft.

Aqualis Offshore’s rig inspection work scope includes in depth surveys including new-build rig acceptance surveys, acceptance trials and final integrated endurance tests.

Comet Ridge Limited has announced that Easternwell’s Rig 101 spudded the Albany 1 sandstone appraisal well at 1430 hrs on Saturday 19 May 2018.

Portugal’s Environment Agency, APA, confirms that the environmental studies and risk assessments already carried out on the Santola-1X project are exhaustive and has not identified significant negative environmental impacts.

Tap Oil Limited (Tap Oil) advises that the Manora-8 well was spud at 23:00 on 20 May 2018.

The new patent-pending system combines professional grade gun loading and assembly features with FracIQ™ Limited Entry Perforating shaped charges.

Tamarama-3 now cased and suspended for fracture stimulation and flow testing.

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

Kosmos holds rights in the Block 45 and Block 42 contract areas under production sharing contracts with the Government of Suriname’s Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V.

International Frontier Resources Corporation (IFR) joint venture Tonalli Energia (Tonalli), in partnership with Mexican petrochemical leader Grupo IDESA, has announced production test results of its workover of the previously drilled TEC-2 well.

Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the completion of drilling of the ELM-1004 exploration well at the Company's Fracción C asset, onshore Argentina and a gas discovery for the first well in its four well exploration campaign.

SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced the positive results of the well test conducted on the Ibn Yunus 1X well following the recent conventional natural gas discovery at South Disouq, Egypt (SDX 55% working interest and operator).

In partnership with the Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC), the team has successfully completed phase one of a project to install and test PulseEight as an insert safety valve.

The Osorb Media System (OMS) reduced the concentration of free, dispersed, and water-soluble hydrocarbons, as well as many non-polar oilfield chemicals, in produced water from an operating plant to below 5 ppm.

Guidelines to help oil and gas companies to collaborate have been hailed a success after two major UK projects revealed the benefits of joint working included a 10% reduction in costs.