Upstream drilling news

Eni, BP and Total have successfully tested the well drilled on the Bashrush prospect in the North El Hammad concession.

Yannis Bassias, former President & CEO at Hellenic Hydrocarbon Resources Management (HHRM), talks about exploration in the Mediterranean, changes in the gas market, ultra-deepwater drilling, and explains why Greece “is not a declared gas province yet”.

The GD 250HDD pump expands Gardner Denver’s pump offerings into the wider horizontal directional drilling space for the first time.

Saipem and Vår Energi have reached an agreement for the execution of 4 wells to be drilled in the Barents Sea and in the North Sea.

The company is to resume drilling in the Barents Sea and the North Sea.

A Rystad Energy analysis shows the number of drilled wells globally is expected to reach around 55 350 this year, the lowest since at least the beginning of the century.

Weatherford will project manage the drilling and completion of 20 wells in the Al-Nasiriyah field in the Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq.

Hydrocarbons were discovered at the Dugong well (PL 882), located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, last week.

Equinor and its partners have signed a letter of intent with Odfjell Drilling for the Deepsea Atlantic rig to drill 12 wells during phase 2 of the Johan Sverdrup field development.

The latest issue of Oilfield Technology begins with a review of the Asia upstream sector.