Upstream drilling news

PGNiG has obtained interests in two more exploratory and production licenses in the Norwegian Sea as well its first production license in Pakistan.

In the wake of Brexit, the Paris Agreement, Donald Trump’s election and with further political and economic milestones ahead, International Petroleum (IP) Week 2017 will assess the future impact of these events on the global oil and gas sector.

Halliburton has announced it has signed a contract with Shell Iraq Petroleum Development to provide drilling services for sustained production at Shell’s Majnoon oilfield in Southern Iraq.

Danos has secured a contract to perform mechanical hook-up and commissioning (HUC) support services for the Hess Stampede tension leg platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico.

Isolation Technologies (IsoTech), a designer and manufacturer of zonal isolation equipment, has developed the IsoTech Combo Tool to improve slurry placement with a single tool.

The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for wellbore 6507/3-12, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.

BNK Petroleum Inc. has announced that it has successfully finished drilling the first well of its 2017 drilling programme, the Chandler 8-6H well, in the Company's Tishomingo Field, Oklahoma.

UK Export Finance (UKEF) has announced that it will provide US$400 million in support for a GE Oil & Gas contract with Ghana's Offshore Cape Three Points Project.

Faroe Petroleum has announced that it has been awarded four new prospective exploration licences, including two operatorships, under the 2016 Norwegian APA (Awards in Pre-defined Areas) Licence Round on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Tullow Oil has announced that the Erut-1 well in Block 13T, Northern Kenya, has discovered a gross oil interval of 55 m with 25 m of net oil pay at a depth of 700 m. The overall oil column for the field is considered to be 100 to 125 m.