Upstream drilling news

The joint venture, InVision Offshore, Inc., will be based in Houston, Texas, US.

The drilling programme for well 25/7-7 relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 782 S.

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%).