Upstream drilling news

OMV (Norge) AS completes the drilling of the Hades and Iris exploration well 6506/11-10 in PL 644 B.

Otto Energy Limited has provided the following update on the Company’s 50% owned South Marsh Island Block 71 oil project following the ASX announcement by the operator, Byron Energy Limited.

Total announces first gas from the Timimoun field in southwestern Algeria. The production complex with a capacity of around 5 million m3 of natural gas per day at plateau (around 30 000 boepd, is jointly operated by Sonatrach (51%), Total (37.75%) and Cepsa (11.25%).

Minor oil discovery north-west of the Gjøa Field in the North Sea – 35/9-13, 35/9-14 and 35/9-14 A

Petróleos Mexicanos and Lewis Energy México signed the first Integrated Exploration and Extraction Contract (CSIEE) for the Olmos field, which is located in the state of Coahuila. The purpose is to assess and develop the Eagle Ford field in Mexico.

Cadogan Petroleum plc, an independent, oil & gas company listed on the London Stock Exchange, has announced that production from the Blazh-3 well in the Monastyretska license has increased from 45 bpd to circa 125 bpd following the successful completion of a workover to re-perforate some of the old intervals and open new ones.

The LJ43 design has been selected as the bases for a new building programme of drilling jack-ups which are to be built at the new IMI yard in Ras Al Khair, eastern Saudi Arabia.

Byron Energy Limited has announced that production has commenced at its flagship South Marsh Island Block 71 (SM71) oil development, in the shallow water of the Gulf of Mexico.

SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced that it has spud its Ibn Yunus-1X exploration well at South Disouq, Egypt.

UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC (UKOG) has announced that it has been informed by Horse Hill Developments Ltd (HHDL) that it has now received final decision notices from Surrey County Council (SCC), discharging all of the pre-commencement conditions.