Drilling & production

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions used SPE Offshore Europe Conference & Exhibition in Aberdeen as a platform to launch its latest Isolast perfluoroelastomer (FFKM) material development.

The Board of Directors of Armour Energy Limited has announced that Armour has been granted the exploration licence for the Kanywataba Block in the Albertine Graben in Uganda.

The company has advised that the Dempsey 1-15 well in the Sacramento Basin in California has completed the drilling phase, and a 5 ½ in. liner has been run and cemented to protect all potential reservoirs beneath the existing 9 5/8 in. casing.

Halliburton has announced the GeoTech HE™, a robust drill bit that incorporates new features and materials to deliver enhanced performance and increased reliability in today’s high energy drilling systems.

Xanadu-1 was drilled as a conventional oil exploration well, designed to test for the presence of hydrocarbons in the Xanadu prospect, located offshore in shallow waters, 40 km south of Dongara, Western Australia.

Hyperdynamics Corporation has provided additional results from its analysis of well logs from the Fatala-1 exploration well recently drilled offshore the Republic of Guinea in Northwest Africa.

Wellesley Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 881, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 33/9-22 S. The well is dry.

The AutoTong system is the world’s first technology to automate pipe makeup and to provide autonomous connection evaluation.

The Armada Kraken FPSO arrived at the location in the UK North Sea on 13 February 2017 and completed its hook-up on 15 February 2017.

Qinterra Group’s North Sea well intervention specialist Altus Intervention and its international technology arm, Qinterra Technologies have united to form one global force in well services.

Range is pleased to advise that the QUN 161 development well in Trinidad successfully spudded on 9 September 2017.

Norway's PSA has given Statoil consent to use the Songa Equinox mobile drilling facility to drill well 31/2-S-24 AY1H on the Troll field.

The Icewine#2 well was shut-in on 10 July to allow for imbibition and pressure build up to occur within the HRZ shale. Flow testing re-commenced on 31 August at 10:26 (AK time), and is ongoing.

Shell will benefit from technical solutions, contract management expertise and cost efficient initiatives Petrobras applies to Brazil’s pre and post-salt projects. Shell will share with Petrobras its deepwater experience, especially on cost efficiency efforts and use of technology.

Angus Energy plc. has announced that the BDF drilling rig 28 has arrived on location at the Lidsey Oil Field and is in the process of rigging up prior to rig acceptance. Ancillary equipment and casing is already on site and equipment inspections continue.