Upstream drilling news

The contract is for Velesto’s jack-up rig NAGA 4 to drill seven firm wells, with an estimated contract value of US$17.68 million.

CNOOC Well Control Centre has developed new classrooms and installed several MultiSIMs, DrillSIM:5s and DrillSIM:Educators at its training centre in Tianjin, delivered by 3t-China and simulator developer, Drilling Systems.

The Maersk Viking drillship will drill four development wells at the Gumusut-Kakap project offshore Malaysia.

The company's multi-year, multi-well drilling campaign offshore Ghana has began with the commencement of drilling of the first well at the Jubilee Field.

The agreement will increase Neptune’s existing interests in the Adorf, Apeldorn and Ringe gas fields and in the Adorf-Scheerhorn, Georgsdorf and Ringe oilfields.

The contracts have been awarded for work in Pakistan, Russia, Kurdistan, south-eastern Europe and Germany.

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.