Upstream drilling news

The regulation provides that exploratory drilling projects in a specific area of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador offshore are excluded from the requirement to undergo a project-specific federal Impact Assessment.

Borr Drilling will now delay delivery of five newbuild jack-up rigs until mid-2022.

Exploration drilling is anticipated to commence at the Pensacola gas prospect in 2H21 and in 2022 at the Selene gas prospect.

The Semakovskoye field in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area has recoverable gas reserves in excess of 320 billion m3.

El Salmiyah-5 was spudded on 3 February 2020, and reached total depth of 4400 m MD on 17 April 2020.

Simmons Edeco supplied drilling and completion services for Newpek on a recently acquired concession in the Trevino oilfield, in the Burgos Basin in the state of Tamaulipas in northeastern Mexico.

Seadrill has said it will delist from the New York Stock Exchange and maintain a single listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

33 rigs were placed at their respective monsoon locations before the onset of the seasonal adverse weather conditions.

The technology aims to reduce uncertainty and saves rig time by enabling operators to accurately position packers, perforating guns and the bottomhole assembly without running wireline or moving the work string.

Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority has given Neptune Energy consent to use the facility for production drilling for a period of 240 days.