Upstream drilling news

Woodside has contracted the VALARIS DPS-1 semisubmersible for the campaign.

The added well intervention scope has a firm duration of 31 days, which means that the Maersk Intrepid rig is now contracted until February 2022.

Equinor has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 31/11-1 S, the first exploration well in production licence 785 S.

Woodside has also said the Ocean BlackRhino drillship is due to begin development drilling at the Sangomar project offshore Senegal next week.

Preliminary estimates place the potential of the Eban–Akoma complex between 500 and 700 million boe in place.

The Jabillo-1 well drilled by ExxonMobil in the Canje Block, offshore Guyana, did not show evidence of commercial hydrocarbons.

The field will produce around 115 000 boe/d at plateau, with the start of production having been delayed from 2016.

Total investments in the project, intended to extend the lifetime of the Alvheim field, are projected at around US$1 billion and production is scheduled to start in 1Q24.

Carnarvon Petroleum has signed a letter of intent with an unnamed rig contractor, and a formal rig contract is now being finalised.

The Baltic jack-up rig has been contracted by Total E&P Nigeria for five wells, starting this month.