Upstream drilling news

Maersk Training is set to increase headcount across its UK sites as it looks to recruit new instructors due to industry demand.

The contract extension has a duration of one year and is expected to commence in July 2023, in direct continuation of the rig’s current contract.

Eni announces new oil and gas discoveries in Western Desert for approximately 8500 boe per day.

Resources for the entire Cambozola prospect have been estimated at 159 million boe.

EnerMech has won two contracts in Azerbaijan since entering a new JV with Oil & Gas Proserv, an affiliated company of Nobel Energy Group.

The Jade prospect has a GCA audited mean in place potential of 225 million bbl and a P10 in place upside of 395 million bbl.

Cervantes-1, an oil exploration well in the onshore Perth Basin licence L14, failed to encounter hydrocarbons.

Operated with power from the grid, KCA Deutag’s rig at the Adorf carboniferous gas field will use electrical motors in place of diesel-driven generators, removing an estimated 1000 t of CO2 emissions from the drilling operation.

The sale to Geoplex Drillteq Ltd. includes five drilling rigs.

The operations in the reservoir section are still at an early stage and it has yet to be confirmed if commercial volumes are present.