Upstream drilling news

The contract is for the West Polaris drillship in Southern Asia.

The contract, valued at US$20 million, will see Expro provide its Intervention Riser System with associated surface support equipment, to be deployed from Pacific Drilling’s drillship, Pacific Santa Ana, for PETRONAS's Chinguetti Field Phase II plug and abandonment (P&A) contract, offshore Mauritania.

Block Energy is implementing a fully-funded back-to-back drilling programme designed to ramp up oil production at West Rustavi, Georgia, and test its historic gas discoveries.

Lincoln Crestal is the second in a three-well programme on Hurricane's Lincoln and Warwick assets offshore the Shetland Islands, UK.

The contracts will see KCA Deutag provide eight high performance land rigs to clients in eastern Siberia, northern Russia and southern Russia.

The equipment includes multiple high-impact horizontal sidetracks at the West Rustavi licence in Georgia.

The contract is for the the Shelf Drilling Scepter jack-up rig, and is expected to run from 1Q20 to 2Q22.

The onshore Dunga oilfield in western Kazakhstan is operated by Total (60%), alongside Oman Oil Company (20%) and Partex (20%).

Eco and its partners on the Orinduik Block, Tullow Guyana B.V. (Operator, 60% Working Interest (WI)) and Total E&P Guyana B.V. (25% WI), estimate the well will take up to 40 days to drill.

The contract is for six high-pressure high-temperature exploration wells on two jack-up rigs in the Arabian Gulf.