North Sea oil news

The drilling programme for wells 35/10-7 S and A relates to the drilling of a wildcat well and an appraisal well.

The work, which is being managed out of Ardyne’s Aberdeen headquarters, has commenced and is expected to last up to four years across two assets in the North Sea.

The divestment of the licences to Quattro Energy will see United exit activities in the North Sea region.

Resources for the Bergknapp oil discovery are estimated at 40 - 84 million boe after appraisal.

Based on resources of 21 million boe and its proximity to the nearby Alba infrastructure, Wood Mackenzie assumes the discovery could be an ideal candidate for a short-cycle, high-return tie-back to the Ithaca-operated facilities.

Aker BP’s preliminary resource estimate for the discovery was between 13 and 32 million m3 of recoverable oil, but this is likely to be downgraded.

Duva is the third field involving Neptune Energy to be brought online this year, following Gjøa P1, also offshore Norway, in February and Merakes, offshore Indonesia, in April.

The survey will be executed during 3Q21 for a multi-client company.

The drilling programme relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 882.

The jack-up rig Mærsk Innovator has been contracted to drill three subsea development wells in Block 28/9 on the UK Continental Shelf.