Upstream drilling news

SIMMONS EDECO, a leading supplier of wellhead and valve maintenance, asset integrity solutions and onshore drilling services to the global oil and gas industry, announced that it has been awarded a multi-million pound contract by a major North Sea oil and gas operator.

Portugal’s Environment Agency, APA, confirms that the environmental studies and risk assessments already carried out on the Santola-1X project are exhaustive and has not identified significant negative environmental impacts.

Tap Oil Limited (Tap Oil) advises that the Manora-8 well was spud at 23:00 on 20 May 2018.

Tamarama-3 now cased and suspended for fracture stimulation and flow testing.

88 Energy Limited has provided the following update for its projects located on the North Slope of Alaska.

Kosmos holds rights in the Block 45 and Block 42 contract areas under production sharing contracts with the Government of Suriname’s Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V.

International energy consultancy Xodus Group has revealed it has won £5 million worth of field development work over the past twelve months.

International Frontier Resources Corporation (IFR) joint venture Tonalli Energia (Tonalli), in partnership with Mexican petrochemical leader Grupo IDESA, has announced production test results of its workover of the previously drilled TEC-2 well.

Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the completion of drilling of the ELM-1004 exploration well at the Company's Fracción C asset, onshore Argentina and a gas discovery for the first well in its four well exploration campaign.

SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced the positive results of the well test conducted on the Ibn Yunus 1X well following the recent conventional natural gas discovery at South Disouq, Egypt (SDX 55% working interest and operator).