Drilling & production

T-45, the first well of current three well drilling programme at the Taribani Complex of Block 12 in Georgia, has now been drilled to a target depth of 2700 m, in the Eldari Formation.

Mosman identified the development potential would be to drill horizontal wells which it expected would increase both Reserves and production.

Effective immediately, the contract is for five years with a two-year extension option and will be executed from Wood’s offices in Perth, Australia.

PAO NOVATEK (NOVATEK) won the open auction to acquire a 100% stake in Maretiom Investments Limited and 100% of Velarion Investments Limited from ALROSA.

Northern Offshore announces it has sold its semi-submersible Energy Driller to an unnamed party for conversion to alternative use. 

The international energy consultancy provider has more than doubled its workforce in Aberdeen, UK and Houston, Texas thanks to contract wins and software developments in the past year.

A new report published by the Energy Institute (EI) at International Petroleum (IP) Week sheds light on the attitudes of global oil and gas professionals towards reducing the climate change impacts of natural gas.

EnQuest has provided an unaudited update on the Group's performance in 2017, together with an outlook for 2018 ahead of its 2017 Full Year Results, which will be announced on 20 March 2018.

The pipeline technology specialist, formed in Aberdeen in 1998, has secured a contract worth close to US$20 million (£14.2 million) with a Middle East national operating company.

Oil Search announces that its acquisition of a 25.5% interest in the Pikka Unit and adjacent exploration acreage and a 37.5% interest in the Horseshoe Block in the Alaska North Slope from privately-owned companies Armstrong Energy LLC and GMT Exploration Company LLC, announced on 1 November 2017, was completed on 14 February 2018, following the approval of the transaction by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US.

New drilling assessment for Atlas clients within OPITO Skills Screening tool.

To execute the campaign, HydraWell will utilise its HydraHemeraTM Perf, Wash and Cement (PWC®) jetting system, which can install a rock-to-rock barrier in two days.

Recent developments bring new capabilities within each individual solution while offering increasingly integrated workflows from geology and geophysics to reservoir engineering.

Project Icewine Operations Update 3D seismic acquisition has commenced across the Western Margin of the Project Icewine acreage, located on the North Slope of Alaska. The 3D seismic will firm up drilling candidates identified on conventional prospectivity from interpretation of ~2350 line km of modern (88E, 2016) and reprocessed 2D seismic data.

Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. announces that during the current open hole wireline logging and subsequent reaming (cleaning the well bore) operations, Zion encountered free-flowing hydrocarbons while circulating drilling mud.