Upstream drilling news

Pro forma for the acquisition, Noble will own and operate a high specification fleet of 24 rigs, with 11 drillships, 1 semisubmersible, and 12 jackups.

The well in licence VIC/P43 intersected a gross gas column of 69.5 m in the Upper Waarre Formation, including 62.9 m of net gas pay, with a gaswater contact intersected at 1990 m measured depth.

The contract covers consolidation of development, exploration and P&A activities in the Dutch and UK sectors of the North Sea.

Rystad Energy expects around 54 000 wells to be drilled worldwide in 2021, a 12% increase from 2020 levels, while in 2022 drilling is set to increase by another 19% year-on-year to about 64 500 wells.

LYTT has enhanced production at BP's North Sea Clair Ridge site by 2000 bpd via a 'tuning' strategy informed by real-time in-well data analysis.

The well streams from the BM-C-33 field, in the Campos Basin, will be sent to a FPSO located at the field. Gas and oil/condensate will both be processed at the FPSO to sales specifications and exported.

The company has completed a top-hole batch drilling campaign for five wells for Sabah Shell Petroleum Company’s Malikai Phase 2 Project.

Recoverable resources at exploration well 7220/7-4 in production licence 532 are so far estimated at between 5 and 8 million m3 of recoverable oil, corresponding to 31 – 50 million bbl of recoverable oil.

Asystom SAS has developed a solution for predictive maintenance for drilling facilities that uses machine learning with multi-sensors.

Petrogas E&P Netherlands B.V. will employ the harsh-environment jack-up rig Maersk Resolute to perform well maintenance and drill a side-track of the A9 well at the P9 Horizon field in the Dutch North Sea.