Upstream drilling news

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.

Centrica plc and Stadtwerke München GmbH have reached an agreement to combine Centrica’s European oil and gas exploration and production business with Bayerngas Norge AS.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 7220/11-4 A, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.

Waitsia-4 was spudded on 10 July 2017 and is forecast to take approximately five weeks in total to complete.

The discovery was made in the Blåmann well, between the Snøhvit and Goliat fields in the Barents Sea. Recoverable volumes are estimated at 2 - 3 billion standard m3, approximately 10 - 20 million boe.

Aker BP has received consent to drill two exploration wells in the North Sea.

Xodus Group has won a contract with Cairn Oil and Gas of Vedanta Ltd to conduct exploration and appraisal work on its Rajasthan block in north-west India over the next two years.

The company has completed six wells and is drilling the seventh one. The average daily production exceeded 14 thousand tonnes of oil last June.