Upstream drilling news

International Frontier Resources Corporation (IFR) joint venture Tonalli Energia, in partnership with Mexican petrochemical leader Grupo IDESA, announced that service equipment is being mobilised for stimulation and production testing after successfully receiving a perforation permit for the TEC-10 well.

Tap Oil Limited (Tap Oil or the Company) provides the following update on drilling activities at the Manora Oil Field in the G1/48 concession, located in the Gulf of Thailand (Tap Oil 30% interest). Mubadala Petroleum (Thailand) Ltd is the operator of the G1/48 concession.

With the industry’s newest approach to validating a completion design, Reveal Energy Services’ fracture maps quantify fracture half-length, height, asymmetry, and azimuth.

Marketed utilisation rates would also rebound to 89% by 2020, surpassing rates seen during the heydays before the downturn.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted A/S Norske Shell a drilling permit for well 6304/3-1, cf. Section 15 of the Resource Management Regulations.

This partnership aims to significantly improve operational efficiencies and reduce well costs over the life of the project through a holistic and collaborative development approach.

SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced that a gas discovery has been made at its SD-4X well in the South Disouq Concession, Egypt (SDX 55% working interest and operator).

Providence Resources P.l.c., the Irish based Oil & Gas Exploration Company, has provided an update on Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 6/14 that contains the Newgrange Prospect.

Sound Energy, the Moroccan focused upstream gas company, has confirmed that it has now finalised the specific location of its approaching TE-9 exploration well which will target the A1 prospect in the Company's Tendrara-Lakbir permit, Eastern Morocco.

Equinor is awarding new service contracts to Baker Hughes Norge, Halliburton AS and Schlumberger Norge AS for integrated drilling and well services on most of the Equinor-operated fields on the Norwegian continental shelf.