Upstream drilling news

Seadrill Partners LLC has secured a five well contract with the potential of several option wells with Sabah Shell Petroleum Limited for the West Capella in Malaysia.

Range, an international oil and gas company with assets in Trinidad and Indonesia, and an oilfield services business in Trinidad, provides an update on the operations at the Perlak field, Indonesia.

Spirit Energy Norge AS, operator of production licence 433, has completed the drilling of appraisal wells 6506/9-4 S and 6506/9-4 A on gas and condensate discovery 6506/9-2 S (Fogelberg).

National Oil Corporation (NOC) and Eni announce that Mellitah Oil & Gas, Eni and NOC joint venture company (50/50), has started production from the first well of the offshore Bahr Essalam Phase 2 project.

SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has spud its SD-3X appraisal well at South Disouq, Egypt (SDX 55% working interest and operator).

BP has announced that it has entered into agreements with ConocoPhillips that will significantly increase its holding in the Clair field, a core asset of BP’s North Sea business in the UK, while also selling its non-operating interest in the Kuparuk and satellite oilfields in Alaska.

CNOOC Limited has announced that its parent company, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), has signed a production sharing contract (PSC) with Roc Oil (Bohai) Company (Roc Oil) and Smart Oil Investment Ltd. (Smart Oil) for Weizhou 10-3W oilfield and Block 22/04 (contract area) in the South China Sea.

Otto Energy Limited provides the following update on field production and specifically well performance of the SM 71 F2 well at its South Marsh Island 71 project in the Gulf of Mexico.

The DAV MX™ CircSub is a dart activated downhole bypass tool from Churchill Drilling Tools.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 6307/1-1 S, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.