Upstream drilling news

Shell will use the VALARIS DS-10 for drilling one well offshore Namibia and Sao Tome and Principe.

Blythe is the second development well in IOG's Phase 1 North Sea project and is expected to take under three months to drill and complete.

Sapakara South in Block 58 encountered 30 m of net pay of oil, in a good quality Campano-Maastrichtian reservoir.

The Whiptail-1 well encountered 246 ft (75 m) of net pay in high-quality oil bearing sandstone reservoirs.

The Egyptian Vulture prospect marks the first of an anticipated seven well exploration programme which will involve Longboat Energy over the next 18 months on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Initial interpretations indicate a total of over 40 m MD of net oil pay across three different reservoir units in the Al Jahraa-8 development well.

Pharos Energy is carrying out an infill programme to increase production from the TGT field in the Cuu Long Basin.

The drilling programme, for an unnamed international oil company, is expected to commence in 2Q22 for a duration of approximately 150 days.

The work programme is scheduled to last approximately four months and to start the process of converting approximately 100 million boe (gross) of 2C resources into 2P reserves.

Borr Drilling's Prospector-1 jack-up is expected to arrive on location in the Dutch North Sea before the end of July and to remain on contract with Kistos for approximately four months.