Upstream drilling news

The ultra-deepwater drillships Noble Bob Douglas, Noble Tom Madden and Noble Don Taylor, which are currently executing drilling assignments for ExxonMobil offshore Guyana, are included in the framework agreement, and other drilling rigs may be added to the agreement.

Gaffney Cline and Associates has been commissioned by the operator on behalf of the Duyung PSC partners to update its view of the Mako field.

Rystad Energy has predicted that of the top 30 high-impact wells to be drilled in 2020, five are located in North America, seven in South America and six in Africa.

Grupo R is to lease the La Muralla IV platform for Shell to operate in the deepwaters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Norway may restrict oil firms’ access to offshore resources in the Arctic by moving the so-called ice edge, a line that sets a legal limit on the extent to which companies can go north in search of oil.

The contracts awarded include directional drilling, logging while drilling, surface data logging, drilling and completions fluids, cementing, liner hangers, coring and well completions services.

The OYF-2 well in Morocco has been drilled to a measured depth of 1210 m and has encountered commercial quantities of gas in excess of pre-drill estimates.

The drilling operation by the Stena Forth drillship is estimated to take 30 days and shall drill to approximately 3000 m subsea.

The Sharjah National Oil Corporation (SNOC) and its partner Eni, have announced a successful new discovery of natural gas and condensate onshore in Sharjah.

The two rigs will be built collaboratively between IMI and Lamprell, with Lamprell’s share of project value amounting to circa US$350 million.