Upstream drilling news
ADNOC Offshore awards Weatherford directional drilling services contract
The agreement entails using the Weatherford Magnus® rotary steerable system in both re-entry wells and new wells.
Transocean relinquishes interests in drillships under construction
The total estimated future costs associated with the delivery and placing the drillships into service would have been approximately US$1.1 billion.
Plexus Holdings Russian licensee installs first wellhead for Gazprom
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 well spudded by Hurricane Energy
Warwick West is the third and final well of the 2019 Greater Warwick Area drilling programme on Hurricane's Lincoln and Warwick assets.
ModuSpec reorganises as independent operating company
The company will offer a range of services in the Middle East and Asia covering drilling rig inspection, auditing and training.
Jack-up rig mobilised for Empyrean Energy's drilling campaign offshore Indonesia
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.
Union Jack Oil announces 1H19 results
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.
COSL Drilling Europe achieves OPITO CMS approval
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.
VAALCO Energy begins Gabon drilling campaign
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.
Tower Resources releases 1H19 interim results
The Africa-focused oil and gas company has released its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2019.