Upstream drilling news

The primary objective of the CM-1 workover is to restore oil and associated gas production from the Mt. Messenger sands and to remove flow restriction from sand production identified during prior operations.

Shelf Drilling, Ltd has announced that it has received a three-year contract award for the J.T. Angel jack-up rig with Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) for operations in the Mumbai High, offshore India.

The newly installed equipment and facilities are working well and continue to be fine-tuned to optimise production.

Versalis, Eni’s chemical company, has announced that, as of 1 July 2025, it has transferred its Oilfield Chemicals business unit into the newly established company Versalis Oilfield Solutions S.r.l.

This is ADNOC Drilling's fifth major and accretive contract in just over 2 months totalling up to US$4.8 billion.

With Neotork, operators and directional drilling companies can achieve significant cost savings and improve operations, especially in increasingly challenging environments.

Under the contract, Velesto will assign NAGA 5, one of its premium jack-up rigs, to drill a firm 15 wells with operations scheduled to commence in June 2025.

Equinor has struck oil in exploration well 7720/7-DD-1H, Drivis Tubåen, on the Johan Castberg field in the Barents Sea.

Garry Stephen, Vice President, UK and Asia, Oil States, examines the new bar being set in safety and efficiency standards for drilling complex wells.

Supported by industry funding, Laconia Phase III, covering approximately 150 OCS blocks in the Keathley Canyon protraction areas, will be acquired by TGS and imaged by Viridien to target prospective but difficult-to-image subsalt reservoirs.