Drilling & production

The contract is for the provision of drilling operations, maintenance services and engineering support for the Oseberg and Kvitebjørn fields.

Siccar Point Energy announced that on 28 March 2018, a sale and purchase agreement was signed with Shell UK Limited under which Shell will acquire a 30% non-operated working interest in UKCS licences P1028 and P1189 and a 22.5% non-operated working interest in P1830.

Egdon Resources plc has signed a Farm-out Agreement in respect of a further 5% interest in PEDL253 with Humber Oil & Gas Limited (“Humber”, a private company) under the same terms as the farm-out previously announced on 5 and 20 March.

Rowan Companies plc has announced that the Rowan Viking, an N-Class ultra-harsh environment jack-up rig, has been awarded a five well programme by Shell UK Limited for plugging and abandonment work on the Goldeneye platform in the Central North Sea. 

OMV (Norge) AS completes the drilling of the Hades and Iris exploration well 6506/11-10 in PL 644 B.

Otto Energy Limited has provided the following update on the Company’s 50% owned South Marsh Island Block 71 oil project following the ASX announcement by the operator, Byron Energy Limited.

Sparrows Group has secured a multi-million pound contract with India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for the refurbishment of 21 cranes.

Petrofac has received a letter of award from Vedanta Limited for its Raageshwari Deep Gas Field Development Project located in Barmer, Rajasthan, India.

Saudi Aramco has awarded Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. a contract to provide engineering and project management services for the Zuluf Field Development Programme's Arab Heavy (AH) Crude Oil Increment 600 MBCD - Onshore Central Processing Facilities (CPF) project, which will provide facilities to process 600 000 bopd of Arabian heavy crude oil from the Zuluf offshore field in the Arabian Gulf.

Total announces first gas from the Timimoun field in southwestern Algeria. The production complex with a capacity of around 5 million m3 of natural gas per day at plateau (around 30 000 boepd, is jointly operated by Sonatrach (51%), Total (37.75%) and Cepsa (11.25%).

Minor oil discovery north-west of the Gjøa Field in the North Sea – 35/9-13, 35/9-14 and 35/9-14 A

Petróleos Mexicanos and Lewis Energy México signed the first Integrated Exploration and Extraction Contract (CSIEE) for the Olmos field, which is located in the state of Coahuila. The purpose is to assess and develop the Eagle Ford field in Mexico.

Cadogan Petroleum plc, an independent, oil & gas company listed on the London Stock Exchange, has announced that production from the Blazh-3 well in the Monastyretska license has increased from 45 bpd to circa 125 bpd following the successful completion of a workover to re-perforate some of the old intervals and open new ones.

The VIVID platform uses full-spectrum acoustic sensors tomeasure the broadest frequency bandwidth and amplitude of acoustic energy, locating previously indiscernible low energy leaks.

The LJ43 design has been selected as the bases for a new building programme of drilling jack-ups which are to be built at the new IMI yard in Ras Al Khair, eastern Saudi Arabia.