Upstream drilling news

Subsea 7 announced the award of a sizeable engineering, procurement, installation and commissioning contract by Burullus Gas Company for the West Delta Deep Marine Phase 9b development project, offshore Egypt. 

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd (Keppel O&M) has, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS), delivered the state-of-the-art jackup rig, SKALD, to Borr Skald Inc, a subsidiary of Borr Drilling Limited (Borr Drilling) safely, on time and on budget.

XWI has now been run on the Chevron-operated Jansz field, a gas-filled structure 250 km off the coast of North West Australia.

Subsea 7 announced the award of a contract by Shell for the Penguins Redevelopment Project, located approximately 150 miles north-east of the Shetland Islands. 

Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the commencement of drilling of the third exploration well in a four well back-to-back campaign in the Company's Fracción C and Laguna de Los Capones assets, onshore Argentina in Joint Venture between Echo and its Argentine partner Compan~i´a General de Combustibles S.A. ("CGC").

Sonatrach, Total, Repsol and Alnaft (the National Agency for the Valorisation of Hydrocarbon Resources), have signed a new concession contract for a period of 25 years to extend the exploitation of the Tin Fouyé Tabankort (TFT) gas and condensate field.

Drilling at the Moftinu-1007 well in Romania achieved a total planned depth of 1463 m.

Ascent Resources plc, the AIM quoted European oil and gas exploration and production company, updates shareholders on operations at the Petišovci concession in Slovenia.

Tethys Oil's share of the production, before government take, from Blocks 3&4 onshore the Sultanate of Oman amounted in April 2018 to 349 441 bbls of oil, corresponding to 11 648 bopd.

The technology enables the mapping of reservoir and fluid boundaries over 200 ft (61 m) away from the wellbore.