Upstream drilling news

PAO NOVATEK announced that its subsidiary OOO Arctic LNG 3 commenced drilling of the first well at the North-Obskiy license area located in the shallow waters of the Ob Bay. The initial well is drilled using a jack-up floating drilling rig “Amazon” leased from “Gazprom flot”. The drilling process is based on zero discharge principle, whereby all of the waste products are collected and transported 125 km to Sabetta onshore base.

Savannah Petroleum PLC, the West African focused British independent oil and gas company, has announced that the fourth well in its current Niger drilling campaign, Eridal-1, was spudded on 27 July 2018.

Carnarvon Petroleum Limited confirms that the QuadrantCarnarvon Joint Venture have completed additional wireline evaluation since the last update

PJSC "LUKOIL" announces the completion of drilling of the first production well from the wellhead platform at the Yury Korchagin field in the Caspian Sea.

Eland Oil & Gas PLC, an oil and gas production and development company operating in West Africa with an initial focus on Nigeria, through its joint-venture subsidiary Elcrest Exploration and Production Nigeria Ltd has announced the following update on the Opuama-10 well on Opuama Field, OML 40.

Wellesley Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 925, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 35/12-7 in the North Sea.

Since the previous report, the company has added approximately US$405 million in contract backlog.

Europa holds a 20% interest in the Holmwood conventional oil exploration prospect in the Weald Basin in Surrey, UK.

Sound Energy is converting existing synthetic interests held by an affiliate of Schlumberger in several Moroccan gas licences into joint venture licence participating interests.

The well was drilled to a total depth of 7842 ft and encountered 32.6 ft of net conventional natural gas pay.