Upstream drilling news

The joint venture, GulfDrill, has secured bareboat charters for five jackups in Qatar with Qatar Petroleum, commencing throughout 2020.

The Oil & Gas Innovation Centre is supporting a series of projects that will help the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Applied Dynamics Research team develop new offshore drilling operations.

Initial engineering work will begin in Perth, Australia, later this year, and then will transfer to Dakar, Senegal in 2020.

The Dvalin gas field is being developed as a subsea field tied back to Heidrun, which lies some 15 km to the northwest.

Peterson will provide Repsol with integrated supply base operations management, logistics and pipe yard operations.

The DAV MX™ CircSub was deployed in order to avoid the cost of a dedicated jetting assembly run.

The joint venture, InVision Offshore, Inc., will be based in Houston, Texas, US.

The drilling programme for well 25/7-7 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 782 S.

The contract is for the West Polaris drillship in Southern Asia.

The contract, valued at US$20 million, will see Expro provide its Intervention Riser System with associated surface support equipment, to be deployed from Pacific Drilling’s drillship, Pacific Santa Ana, for PETRONAS's Chinguetti Field Phase II plug and abandonment (P&A) contract, offshore Mauritania.