Upstream project news

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the 7th generation drillship Maersk Valiant, which will be employed by Noble Energy for a one-well campaign offshore Colombia.

With the approval of the EIA, Strata-X has the clearance to drill and test up to 75 additional wells covering 3 prospecting licenses within the high-grade area of the Botswana CBM fairway.

Based on extensive mapping of the underground the remaining potential of the Statfjord area is still considerable, according to Equinor and its partners.

Royston has completed the overhaul of a critical power system onboard another Bluewater Services operated floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.

In a two-year deal valued in the region of US$50 million, Petrofac will integrate the services of its Operations, Projects and Well Engineering service lines.

Wintershall Dea Norge AS, operator of production licence 894, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 6604/6-1 in the Norwegian Sea, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.

The company has said it achieved an estimated 2019 total CAPEX of US$300 million and OPEX (ex-lease costs) of US$11/boe, both below original guidance.

Formal technical environmental approval for the development of the Selva Malvezzi Gas-Field (Selva) in northern Italy has been received from the Italian Environment Ministry.

The discovery was made at the Maka Central-1 well drilled offshore Suriname on Block 58.

Drilling in block 6507/8 is scheduled to begin in mid-January 2020, and is estimated to last for 67 days.