Upstream drilling news

The two companies, along with ADNOC Drilling, will provide rigless services across six of ADNOC's artificial islands in the Upper Zakum and Satah Al Razboot fields.

Seadrill’s West Saturn drillship will be fitted with FUELSAVE’s combustion conditioning technology to reduce fuel consumption and harmful emissions while it operates in the Bacalhau field in Brazil.

KCA Deutag Kazakhstan LLP will focus on PSA projects in Kazakhstan, covering engineering, procurement and leasing of drilling rigs, as well as their operations and maintenance, re-construction and modification.

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.