Upstream drilling news

SLB has announced the award of a contract by TotalEnergies to its OneSubsea™ joint venture for a 13-well Subsea Production System scope, including associated equipment and services, in the development of the Kaminho project, offshore Angola.

CGX Energy and Frontera Energy, joint venture partners in the Petroleum Prospecting License for the Corentyne block offshore Guyana, today announced that the joint venture has submitted a notice of potential commercial interest for the Wei-1 discovery to the Government of Guyana, which preserves the joint venture’s interests in the License.

The Vår Energi operated Cerisa exploration well in production license PL 636 was successful with estimated gross recoverable resources of between 18 – 39 million boe.

Pytheas Energy has announced the addition of three producing oil and gas properties to its growing portfolio, the Andrews Crane Asset, the Bakken Asset, and the Minerva-Rockdale Asset.

Ocean Installer have been chosen by Equinor and its partners in the Troll A license as the SURF Contractor for their new 12 billion NOK investment in the Troll Phase 3 – Stage 2 Project.

Vallourec has signed with the National Oil Company of Abu Dhabi a two-year extension to the 2019 contract originally worth US$ 900 million. This extension will take effect in January 2025 and will last up to January 2027.

Technip Energies, through its joint-venture TKJV LLP with KPSP, has announced the signing of a long-term services frame agreement with Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. (KPO) for the development of the Karachaganak Field, located in northwest Kazakhstan near Aksai.

Matador Resources has announced that a wholly-owned subsidiary of Matador has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a subsidiary of Ameredev II Parent, including certain oil and natural gas producing properties and undeveloped acreage located in Lea County, New Mexico and Loving and Winkler Counties, Texas.

The Zama Unit partners Wintershall Dea, Pemex (operator), Talos Energy and Harbour Energy have awarded the front-end engineering and design contract (FEED) for the development of the Zama oil field to the French engineering company DORIS.

Baker Hughes has announced a significant order from Petrobras for workover and plug and abandonment (P&A) services in pre-salt and post-salt fields offshore Brazil.