Churchill Drilling Rools has performed the first full rig test its HyPR HoleSaver, which it has described as the world’s first full-strength disconnect sub. To an audience of industry superintendents, senior drilling engineers and fishing specialists…
Premier Oil's exploration well 3/7-10 S on the Myrhauk prospect in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea is to be plugged and abandoned as a dry hole. The well, on the south east flank of the Mandal High in production license 539, reached total vertical depth of 3464m…
Nigerian operator Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum (YFP) has hit hydrocarbon pay at the Aje-5 production well on the OML 113 license, offshore Nigeria, according to partner Panoro Energy. Aje is an offshore field located in the western part of…
Magadanmorneftegaz, Lisyanskmorneftegaz (joint ventures of Rosneft and Statoil) and China Oilfield Services Ltd. (COSL) signed a contract to drill two exploration wells in 2016. The wells will be drilled in the Magadan-1 and Lisyansky areas of the Okhotsk Sea…
Landmark, a Halliburton (HAL) business line, has announced that Eni, a major integrated energy company, has entered into a multi-year contract for Landmark’s entire suite of exploration and production applications. Eni chose Landmark’s…
More than 40% of drilling problems occur during offshore operations, significantly increasing non-productive drilling time and therefore cost. As oil operators move towards more complex drilling environments, they find themselves exposed to high risk…
Weatherford’s Steve Rosenberg and Ming Zo Tan demonstrate how drilling-with-liner technology isolated a depleted sand section in deepwater Gulf of Mexico well in one trip. The Weatherford Defyer…
Drilling on Statoil’s Mariner will be a mega project – but Statoil is looking to lighten the load in ways that could only be done on such a large project. Elaine Maslin found out more. The Mariner field concept artists’ illustration…
Designer mud is helping Total tap pressure depleted HPHT reservoirs in the UK North Sea. Elaine Maslin takes a look. The West Franklin well head platform installation last year. Photos from Total…
Shell disconnected the Noble Discoverer drillship from its anchors in the Chukchi Sea after weather temporarily put a halt to its Arctic operations over the weekend. The Noble Discoverer. From Shell Flickr…
Statoil, operator of production license 72 B, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 16/7-11 on behalf of production licenses 72 B, 72 D and 72 E. This is the second exploration well in production license 72 B. The…
OEG Offshore, a global provider of cargo carrying units (CCUs) and A60 modules to the oil and gas industry, has announced the merger of its US business with Louisiana based oilfield equipment provider Cameron Rental and Tank (CRT). The…
Statoil has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway to drill exploration well 15/3-10 in a prospect named Sigrun East with the potential of a sidetrack well. The area where the well is to be drilled is around…
Shell has made a hydrocarbon discovery on the West-1 (Auriga) well on the northern Browse Basin offshore Australia. Shell has been drilling the well, in Petroleum Permit Area AC/RL9, using the Stena Clyde semisubmersible drilling rig (pictured)…
Shell has started drilling on the Portrush exploration well 6407/10-5 in the Norwegian Sea. The Portrush prospect is in license PL793 about 10km southeast of the producing Statoil-operated Njord field and 20km west of the Shell-operated Draugen field…
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