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Statoil cleared for Oseberg drilling

Nov 23, 2015

Statoil is the operator for production license 104 and has received consent to drill exploration well 30/89 S on the Oseberg field. Statoil has allocated 54 days for the activity and will be drilling with the Songa Delta, in approximately 99m water depth…

KrisEnergy gets Rossukon approval

Nov 23, 2015

The Department of Mineral Fuels (DMF), the government agency responsible for Thailand’s upstream petroleum industry, granted approval to KrisEnergy for the production area application (PAA) for for an area containing the Rossukon oil discovery in the Gulf of Thailand…

Premier spuds latest Falklands target

Nov 23, 2015

Premier Oil has spudded its latest Falklands Islands exploration well. The 14/20-2  Isobel - 2 well in the North Falklands basin is a second attempt on the Isobel Deep area, after drilling in May hit oil shows in a suspected high pressure formation…

OMV, Aptomar sign field service agreement

Nov 20, 2015

OMV Norway signed a three-year frame agreement with Aptomar to deliver its integrated field monitoring services for the operator’s future drilling activities.  As part of the frame agreement OMV will have access to the Aptomar’s 24/7 environmental monitoring services…

Small discovery for Statoil

Nov 20, 2015

Norway's Statoil has made a small discovery on its Tarvos exploration well in production license 120 in the northern part of the Norwegian North Sea. Well 34/8-16 S was drilled on the east flank of the Visund field, about 140 km northwest of Bergen…

Shell hits at Kaikias in GoM

Nov 19, 2015

Shell made a “major discovery” at its Kaikias well that could possibly surpass 100 MMboe, in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.  Map of the Mars-Ursa basin. From Shell. Kaikias is located about 60mi south of Louisiana…

Ophir Thai well fails

Nov 19, 2015

Ophir Energy’s G4/50-11 wildcat exploration well in the South Western Graben of the Gulf of Thailand failed to encounter a commercial discovery and will be plugged and abandoned.   The well targeted the Parichat Southwest prospect. The…

Roc, CNOOC JV spud off China

Nov 17, 2015

The Roc Oil and CNOOC-led joint venture spudded the WZ 12-8W-A6P1 appraisal well, in Beibu Gulf, offshore China, according to parnter Horizon Oil. Map from Horizon Oil. The well is located in the Weizhou 12-8 fields area…

BP's Bight exploration plan rejected

Nov 17, 2015

Australian regulators have rejected BP's environmental plan for the major's deepwater, four-well drilling plan in the Great Australian Bight. The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) said…

Primeline spuds East China Sea well

Nov 17, 2015

Primeline Energy Holdings has started drilling operations on the LS30-3-1 well in the East China Sea. Following the plug and abandon operation of LS23-1-1 announced 28 October, Primeline’s contractor, China Oilfield Service Ltd. (COSL)…

Quadrant to spud Roc-1

Nov 13, 2015

Quadrant Energy received the Noble Tom Prosser drilling rig that will mobilize to the Roc-1 well site in WA-437-P offshore Western Australia, and prepare for spud around 17 November 2015, according to partner Carnarvon Petroleum. The Roc-1 well…

Weatherford, Maersk Training enter partnership

Nov 12, 2015

Weatherford Secure Drilling Services and Maersk Training have entered a strategic partnership to enhance scenario-based training and competency for critical wells. The training will provide Weatherford, operator and rig-crew personnel with…

Kosmos in major Mauritania hit

Nov 12, 2015

Dallas-based Kosmos Energy encountered a “significant play-extending” discovery at its Marsouin-1 exploration well, offshore Mauritania, Africa, marking its second significant natural gas discovery within eight months in the area. Map of Block C8…

Atwood inks GoM, Brazil contracts

Nov 11, 2015

Atwood Oceanics has announced two contract activities in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and offshore Brazil. The Atwood Advantage. From Atwood Oceanics. An Atwood Oceanics subsidiary…

Atwood, Noble Energy extend rig contract

Nov 10, 2015

Atwood Oceanics announced that one of its subsidiaries agreed to an extension and rate adjustment to its existing contract with Noble Energy for the ultra deepwater rig, the Atwood Advantage, effective 9 November, 2015.  The agreement…

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