Upstream drilling news

Shelf Drilling Ltd has announced new contracts for two jack-up rigs in Nigeria.

Planning consent has been received from North Lincolnshire Council for the further development of the Wressle well site.

SCF Partners, Inc. acquires Newpark Fluids Systems business from Newpark Resources Inc.

Transocean Ltd. has announced a 365 day contract for the Deepwater Atlas with bp in the US Gulf of Mexico.

STRYDE has announced the signing of two significant contracts with Servicios Sísmicos de Exploración (SSE) and SeisGlobe Geoservices.

Worley and researchers at Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, have identified that a lack of trust between project stakeholders is slowing the pace of infrastructure delivery that is critical to net zero.

INPEX CORPORATION has announced that its subsidiary INPEX Browse E&P Pty Ltd (INPEX Browse) was awarded an exploration permit over release area AC22-1, now named AC/P71 (the Block) in Australia’s 2022 offshore petroleum exploration acreage release. INPEX Browse will be Operator and hold 100% working interest in the title.

Valeura Energy has announced first oil production from its Nong Yao C development, in Licence G11/48 (90% operated working interest), offshore Gulf of Thailand.

Iraq’s upstream sector is undergoing rapid change, with an increasingly diverse corporate ecosystem, and significant investment being funneled into boosting oil and gas production.

Seatrium has announced the successful delivery of its fourth jackup rig, named ‘Vali’, to Borr Drilling, about a year ahead of its planned delivery next year.