Upstream drilling news
ADNOC Drilling completes first offshore integrated drilling services well
The well was delivered to ADNOC Drilling’s client, ADNOC Offshore – also a subsidiary of ADNOC.
Inaugural event to focus on subsea and drilling industries in Brazil
The Subsea & Drilling Brazil conference will take place from 28 – 29 November in Rio de Janeiro.
Solstad Offshore to support Total E&P South Africa drilling campaign
The contracts are to support Total E&P South Africa's operations in Block 11B/12B and the drilling programme is expected to take up to 280 days.
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.