Norway, Cyprus-based drilling contractor Songa Offshore has taken delivery of its third Cat D drilling rig from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in South Korea. The Songa Encourage follows delivery of the Songa Equinox and the Songa Endurance earlier this year…
W&T Offshore announced a 'significant discovery' at the Ewing Banks 954 A-8 exploratory well located in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The EW 954 A-8 well penetrated a total of 150ft of measured depth hydrocarbon pay contained in two sands…
Vaalco Energy’s North Tchibala 2-H well, the second development well drilled by Vaalco in the North Tchibala field, was brought online, offshore Gabon. The well was stabilized at rate of approximately 500 b/d, gross. The well was drilled to a measured depth of 16…
Rosneft produced 2 million tonne of oil since the production start at the Northern Tip of Chayvo field in 2014. Image from Rosneft. The Northern Tip of Chayvo field is located in the Sakhalin shelf area…
KrisEnergy, an independent upstream oil and gas company, announces that it has completed drilling of the Mustika-1 exploration well in the Sakti production sharing contract (PSC) in the East Java Sea. Image from KrisEnergy…
North Sea focused explorer Independent Oil and Gas has signed a rig contract with Transocean for use of the John Shaw semisubmersible drilling rig. The rig will be used to drill an appraisal well on IOG's 100% operated Skipper oil discovery in Block 9/21a in the Northern North Sea…
Otto Energy has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Byron Energy for the staged farm-in for participating interests in to up to three lease areas held by Byron in the Louisiana Gulf of Mexico (GOM) area. The transaction…
Germany's Wintershall has made a minor oil discovery on the Syrah exploration well in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. The operation, in production license 248, included wild cat well 35/11-18, targeting Middle Jurassic rocks in the Brent group…
Independent Oil and Gas has executed a well management contract with AGR Well Management for the drilling of the North Sea appraisal well on Skipper, which is on track to spud in late January or early February 2016. As part of its payment…
It goes without saying that Art Berman with Labryrinth Consulting Services has a belief about oil prices that is likely not shared by many in the oil and gas industry: Berman believes the prices should be lower. “Prices have to fall further…
Seadrill Partners has secured one-year contract extensions for the T-15 and T-16 tender rigs with Chevron Thailand E&P. The contracts will now expire in July and August 2019, respectively. The total backlog of the two contract extensions is approximately US$80 million…
Apache is to increase investment in drilling to 78% of its annual capital spending in 2016-2020, compared to 51% in 2012-2015, a business breakfast was told in Aberdeen this morning. Investment in seismic will double, from 5% of its capital spending to 10%…
Norway-based eDrilling launched a simulator for drilling and well engineering and training of all engineering disciplines, to help the industry with efficient and safe well delivery. WellSim Interact represents the ultimate training/engineering…
Lundin Malaysia commenced drilling of the Imbok-1 exploration well in blocks SB307 and SB308, offshore East Malaysia. The Imbok prospect is in shallow water and lies to the east and south of two major producing fields in offshore East Malaysia…
The Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has announced that 26 companies have bid for acreage in the 23rd licensing round. The round offers nearly 60 frontier exploration blocks with around half in the exciting new Arctic province of the Norwegian Southeast Barents Sea…
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