Upstream drilling news

The Gullfaks partners have decided to drill seven new wells and thereby improve oil recovery by 17 million bbls with good profitability.

In November last year, UK-based Corallian Energy revealed its plan to commence a two-well work programme, starting with the drilling of the Wick well, followed by drilling of Colter scheduled for Q1 2019.

The company is poised to deliver three Template Slot Adapters (TSA) and associated TCS connectors for a major operator in West Africa.

The independent oil and gas developer's TLP-101 and TLP-102 wells are located in the Tilapia field in the Republic of Congo.

Highlands has announced that its operating partner has successfully concluded completion operations for the six new wells at the East Denver Project and flowback has commenced from three of those six.

The independent operator has recently completed three significant acquisitions; an interest in the Babbage gas field acquired from Premier Oil on 6 December.

Following the company's most recent update of November 2, 2018, Zenith can confirm that the primary phase of its well C-37 well intervention has entered the final stage.

Anglo African Oil & Gas plc has announced that drilling operations have now recommenced on well TLP-103C at its Tilapia site in the Republic of the Congo.

Questerre Energy Corporation updated activities at Kakwa North, offsetting its joint venture production in the area.

International Frontier Resources Corporation has announced that Tonalli Energia, IFR’s joint venture (JV) with Mexican petrochemical leader Grupo IDESA, has spudded the first conventional horizontal well, (“TEC-11”), at its onshore Tecolutla block.