Upstream drilling news

Equinor Energy AS, operator of production licence 120, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 34/8-19 S.

IKM have announced that Equinor has awarded IKM Subsea a services contract for ROV’s on at the Johan Sverdrup platform commencing Q3 2018.

Aquaterra Energy, a leader in global offshore engineering solutions, has been selected by Equinor to deliver early well construction operations, via its Well Start solution, for the Johan Sverdrup field. 

Well lateral lengths in the Permian have increased in average by more than 1500 ft since 2016 to approximately 7500 ft by the end of 2017, says GlobalData.

Anglo African Oil & Gas plc, an independent oil and gas developer, has announced the results of further work on the TLP-102 well (‘TLP-102’ or ‘the Well’) on the Tilapia licence in the Republic of the Congo.

Carnarvon Petroleum Limited has provided the following update on the drilling at the Dorado-1 well.

Savannah Petroleum PLC, the West African focused British independent oil and gas company, have announced that the third well in its current Niger drilling campaign, Kunama-1, was spudded on 21 June 2018. Kunama-1 is located on the R3 portion of the R3/R4 PSC Area in the Agadem Basin, south east Niger.

Aker BP has received consent for removal of the facilities on the Jette field.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Spirit Energy Norge AS a drilling permit for well 7322/7-1, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP ASA a drilling permit for wells 25/10-16 S, 25/10-16 A and 25/10-16 B, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.