Upstream drilling news

The wellhead installation marks the beginning of Gusar’s contracted work with Gazprom for the first year of an up to five-year jack-up gas exploration drilling programme on the Kara Sea Shelf.

Warwick West is the third and final well of the 2019 Greater Warwick Area drilling programme on Hurricane's Lincoln and Warwick assets.

The company will offer a range of services in the Middle East and Asia covering drilling rig inspection, auditing and training.

The jack-up rig Asian Endeavour-1 is now en-route to the first well in Empyrean's drilling campaign in the West Natuna Basin.

The company's management’s has said that the Biscathorpe-2 well, which was drilled by Union Jack earlier this year, remains one of the UK’s largest onshore unappraised conventional hydrocarbon targets.

The Norwegian contractor, who demonstrated and implemented a best practice CMS covering operations on one of its North Sea assets, achieved the accreditation in under four months.

Drilling of the Etame 9P appraisal wellbore is expected to take approximately four weeks, after which the company will commence drilling the Etame 9H development well targeting the Gamba reservoir.

The Africa-focused oil and gas company has released its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2019.

Drilling Systems has launched a new licence-based pricing model which will cut the overall cost of entry level simulator technology by more than half.

The company has upgraded its full year oil production guidance to 21 000 – 23 000 bpd from 19 000 – 22 000 bpd.