Upstream drilling news
Maersk Drilling and Noble Corp. to merge
The combined company will be named Noble Corp., and will be headquartered in Houston, Texas.
KCA Deutag secures land drilling contract extensions in Middle East
Multiple rig extensions have been confirmed for KCA Deutag in Saudi Arabia and in Oman.
Drilling at Sapote-1 well fails to find commercial hydrocarbons
The Sapote-1 well offshore Guyana encountered non-commercial hydrocarbons in one of the deeper exploration targets, following drilling by the Stena DrillMAX drillship.
Chesapeake selects Nabors to be US drilling contractor
Nabors will be the preferred drilling contractor for Chesapeake across its unconventional oil and natural gas assets in the US.
Neptune Energy begins drilling production wells at Fenja
Fenja is scheduled to come online in the first half of 2023 and will produce approximately 28 000 boe/d at plateau.
Petrobras contracts Valaris drillship
The contract, relating to the VALARIS DS-4 drillship, is for a minimum term of 548 days.
SDX Energy spuds well in West Gharib concession
SDX Energy has started a development drilling campaign in the West Gharib concession in Egypt that aims to grow production from c. 2400 bpd to c. 3500 - 4000 bpd by early 2023.
Aker BP receives drilling permit near Bøyla field
The drilling programme for well 24/12-7 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 1041.
World’s first fully automated land rig drills first well
The Nabors Industries rig reached total depth on a horizontal well for ExxonMobil in the Permian Basin.
Maersk Drilling given contract extension to drill world record well offshore Angola
The Ondjaba-1 well will be drilled at a new world record water depth of 3628 m.