Upstream drilling news

The Dvalin gas field is being developed as a subsea field tied back to Heidrun, which lies some 15 km to the northwest.

Peterson will provide Repsol with integrated supply base operations management, logistics and pipe yard operations.

The DAV MX™ CircSub was deployed in order to avoid the cost of a dedicated jetting assembly run.

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.