Upstream drilling news

Well 7221/4-1 will be drilled from the West Bollsta drilling facility.

The Yumna 1 well was spudded on 26 December 2019 and is located in Block 50, 30 km offshore east Oman.

Siemens will modernise a complete and integrated drilling-drives lineup, including auxiliaries and controls, that will be installed on an offshore jackup drilling rig for a customer in the Middle East.

Darren Rendall and Marc Petty join the Aberdeen-based mooring services provider as Technical Director and Marine Manager, respectively.

IFR and SIMMONS EDECO will work together to pursue oil and gas opportunities in the Mexican market primarily focused on upstream oil and gas.

IKM Production Technology UK has been awarded a 12-month contract to support CNOOC Petroleum Europe with the provision of slops treatment services.

The existing US$50 million bank delivery financing for the rig will be replaced with a new US$100 million take out facility maturing in 31 December 2021.

Faithful+Gould and Atkins have been awarded the pre-final investment decision upstream facilities and shared project management team services for the Zama development project from Talos Energy Inc.

Mudlogging and LWD logging results from the Primary targets in the Tumbes Formation indicated that the Marina-1 well encountered thin water bearing sands with no oil and only minor gas shows.

Salah is expected to a reach its targeted depth of approximately 9000 ft in late March/early April and is targeting gross P50 unrisked prospective resources of c.71 billion ft3 equivalent, as estimated by management.