Drilling & production

Following completion and tie-in, the first well from the Van Gogh Phase 2 Infill Development offshore Western Australia has produced at a peak rate of 23 200 bpd.

Schlumberger reported net income of US$431 million for the three months to June 30, compared with US$299 million in the first quarter.

The drilling programme, for an unnamed international oil company, is expected to commence in 2Q22 for a duration of approximately 150 days.

Suki Gill joins the company with 15-years’ experience under her belt, ranging from hands-on Measurements and Logging while Drilling Engineering, multi-platform integration projects, training and operations management.

Adjusted net income attributable to the company was US$83 million, or 10 cents per share, in the quarter ended June 30, compared with US$91 million, or 12 cents per share, in 1Q21.

Tolmount first gas will be delayed beyond the end of July and is now likely to be around year-end, due to issues identified in electrical systems on the HGS Tolmount platform.

The company recorded a net income of US$227 million for 2Q21, compared to US$170 million in 1Q21.

The work programme is scheduled to last approximately four months and to start the process of converting approximately 100 million boe (gross) of 2C resources into 2P reserves.

In 2020, US initial crude oil production per well, or well production efficiency, increased significantly in the Bakken region, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s Drilling Productivity Report.

Tidy Planet has shipped four of its A900 Rocket Composters and a bespoke Dehydra Dewatering system to an oilfield in Kazakhstan, to compost the site’s 255 tpy of food waste.

The two companies, along with ADNOC Drilling, will provide rigless services across six of ADNOC's artificial islands in the Upper Zakum and Satah Al Razboot fields.

Seadrill’s West Saturn drillship will be fitted with FUELSAVE’s combustion conditioning technology to reduce fuel consumption and harmful emissions while it operates in the Bacalhau field in Brazil.

KCA Deutag Kazakhstan LLP will focus on PSA projects in Kazakhstan, covering engineering, procurement and leasing of drilling rigs, as well as their operations and maintenance, re-construction and modification.

Woodside has contracted the VALARIS DPS-1 semisubmersible for the campaign.

The added well intervention scope has a firm duration of 31 days, which means that the Maersk Intrepid rig is now contracted until February 2022.