Drilling & production

Carnarvon Petroleum Limited has provided the following update on the drilling of the Phoenix South-3.

Hemisphere Energy Corporation has provided an update on its operations and current production.

SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced that a conventional natural gas discovery has been made at its LMS-1 exploration well on the Lalla Mimouna permit in Morocco (SDX 75 %).

New clamp technology has been developed by RED Engineering to improve subsea well intervention operations.

The company has also announced the retirement of Mr Andrew Szescila from the company's Board of Directors, following more than twenty years of dedicated service to the company.

International Frontier Resources Corporation has announced that its joint venture Tonalli Energia has successfully and safely reached total depth at its first evaluation well, TEC-10, on its onshore Tecolutla block.

SDX Energy Inc. has announced that it has spud its Kelvin-1X exploration well at South Disouq, Egypt.

Comet Ridge Limited has advised that Easternwell’s Rig 101 is expected to be released from its present operations over the next several days, and begin its move to the Albany 1 location in the north-eastern Galilee Basin. 

Sub-Saharan Africa’s gas production will grow by 18% by 2021 to 9.1 billion cubic feet per day. Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation will drive Sub-Saharan Africa’s gas production with 34.2% share of all the production in 2021. Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Eni SpA follow with 10.4 and 7.8% respectively, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

The recommended practice(RP) DNVGL-RP-E104 Wellhead fatigue analysis has now been published.

The company has raised £1 million, before expenses, through the issue of new ordinary shares of 0.1 p each in the company (Ordinary Shares) at a price of 3.25p per Ordinary Share.

According to the oil and gas market researcher, three high impact wells have been drilled so far this year, with a further 13 planned.

Siccar Point Energy has started drilling a final appraisal well on the Cambo field, north-west of Shetland, with results expected this summer.

Norwell EDGE will be used by Century Group in Nigeria to train its staff in modules covering well planning, design, equipment and operations.

The company is showing its range of subsea, drilling and topside connection technologies.