Upstream drilling news

Interoil Colombia E&P and SLS have announced the testing of the three layers targeted in Vikingo.

While active drilling operations continue at the Megiddo-Jezreel #1 well in Israel, Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. has reached a depth of approximately 5345 ft.

W&T Offshore has contracted the Enterprise Offshore 264 jackup rig for drilling he ST 224 prospect.

Wavefront Technology Solutions Inc. has been issued a campaign of 15 well stimulations in Kuwait.

The operator of production licences L1/L2 in the northern Perth Basin, AWE Limited, has provided an update on the Waitsia-4 appraisal well.

AS Norske Shell has received consent for the use of Island Constructor for the start-up of well 6407/9-G-5 on the Draugen field.

Sound Energy, the African and European focused upstream gas company, has provided an update on its Eastern Morocco acreage post the OGIF acquisition, which is expected to complete shortly, and the recently initiated regional geophysical programme.

Marius Kluge Foss and Gina Nygard, Rystad Energy, review the state of the upstream industry on the Norwegian Continental Shelf and propose a way to electrify the Barents Sea, the new Norwegian petroleum province.

Aker BP has been given consent to drill exploration wells in block 25/2 in the North Sea.

Sound Energy has provided an update on the TE-7 extended well test.