Drilling & production

Gardner Denver Petroleum & Industrial Pumps has announced it has officially launched its Parts on Demand programme in the Middle East.

The well will be drilled from the Songa Enabler drilling facility, at position 61°25’20.34? N and 3°49’39.73? E after completing the drilling of wildcat well 7317/9-1 for Statoil Petroleum AS in production licence 718.

The FPSO was completed safely, on time and within budget, and departed the shipyard recently for the Bananal Bay in Brazil.

The company's subsidiary, Lundin Norway AS, completed drilling of exploration well 7220/6-3 on the Børselv prospect in PL609 on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry.

The company's subsidiary Tethys Aral Gas LLP was recently notified by the competent authority in Kazakhstan of its approval of the continuation of the Akkulka Oil Field Pilot Production Project.

The agreement increases Shale Support’s access into the Ohio, West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania markets, providing storage while allowing it to be one of the lowest cost providers of frac sand to the region.

Lloyd’s Register’s well management expertise is being used by Ecopetrol Costa Afuera S.A.S. (ECAS) of Ecopetrol, for offshore exploration drilling operations in Colombia.

BAPCO has awarded NUTECH Energy an integrated unconventional completion optimisation project for Hanifa-Tuwaiq Mountain source rock.

Sparrows Group has signed a three-year contract with Total to supply crane maintenance and engineering services at four of the operator’s assets in Angola.

Tullow Oil plc has noted that the Special Chamber of the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) in Hamburg today made its decision with regard to the maritime boundary dispute between Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.

Hurricane Energy plc, the UK based oil and gas company focused on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs, is pleased to announce that it has received development and production consent for its Lancaster field development plan, the Early Production System.

BP, together with the Ministry of Oil & Gas of the Sultanate of Oman, has announced that production has begun from the giant Khazzan gas field, which is operated by BP in partnership with Oman Oil Company Exploration and Production.

Norwest Energy to lodge Discovery Notice with Minister of Mines Minister of Mines, Industry, Regulation and Safety on behalf of joint venture partners Triangle Energy (Global) Ltd, Whitebark Energy Ltd and 3C Group IC Ltd.

PentaNova Energy Corp. has announced that it has signed contracts for the civil works and drilling rig to be deployed to the company's 60 076 gross acre Maria Conchita block in the Guajira Basin of Colombia.

At its Megiddo-Jezreel #1 well in Israel, near the eastern border with Jordan, Zion has reached a depth of approximately 9200 ft (~2800 m) toward a possible total depth of up to ~15 000 ft.