Upstream drilling news

The company will continue to assess additional well packages in the region as it builds out its production base.

AAOG holds a 56% working interest in the producing Tilapia field, which is located in the prolific Lower Congo Basin in the Republic of the Congo.

It will be the first major rig refurbishment completed at HENDERSON’s new service centre and rig yard at 6750 Bender Road in Houston, Texas.

BP Exploration Operating Company Limited (‘BP’) has exercised the one-month option to extend the charter of the Safe Caledonia. Total value of the option is US$2.4 million.

Carnarvon Petroleum Limited has provided the following update on the drilling of the Phoenix South-3 (PS-3).

Anglo African Oil & Gas plc, an independent oil and gas developer, has provided an update on its planned multi-horizon TLP-103 well to be drilled at the company's Tilapia licence in the Republic of Congo.

The update provides details on Deep Well 801, Deep Well A5 and Deep Well A6.

Carnarvon Petroleum Limited has provided the following update on the drilling of the Dorado-1 well.

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.