Upstream project news

Block Energy is implementing a fully-funded back-to-back drilling programme designed to ramp up oil production at West Rustavi, Georgia, and test its historic gas discoveries.

The Block is located in the Bonaparte Basin of the North West Shelf of Australia and covers a surface area of 3460 km2.

Lincoln Crestal is the second in a three-well programme on Hurricane's Lincoln and Warwick assets offshore the Shetland Islands, UK.

During pressure testing a small leak was identified on the shallower D9000 completion string, which has now been resolved through a remedial tubing patch.

The contracts will see KCA Deutag provide eight high performance land rigs to clients in eastern Siberia, northern Russia and southern Russia.

A petrophysical analysis has confirmed the likely presence of a 35-m column of oil in the Biscathorpe-2 well in the Humber Basin, UK.

The contract covers FEED work for offshore wellhead platforms, pipelines and cables associated with the North Field Expansion project.

Acreage is on offer in the Central North Sea, Northern North Sea, Southern North Sea and the West of Shetlands.

The seismic programme has identified a number of new leads for the project in Queensland, Australia.

The 1123 million boe average monthly discovered volumes year-to-date reflect an approximate 35% uplift compared to the 827 million boe seen in 2018.