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QTEC, PFM merger forms FOCUS

Jan 26, 2016

Aberdeen headquartered QTEC Energy Services and Calgary headquartered Performance Fluid Management (PFM), both companies specializing in the management of drilling fluids on drilling installations, are merging to create a new company, FOCUS…

Lundin completes Bambazon well

Jan 25, 2016

Lundin Malaysia completed, and will plug and abandon the Bambazon exploration well in Block SB307/SB308, offshore East Malaysia. The well encountered approximately 15m of net logged reservoir pay with oil shows over three main reservoir…

Lundin spuds Fosen prospect offshore Norway

Jan 25, 2016

Lundin Petroleum has started drilling exploration well 16/4-10 on the Fosen prospect, offshore Norway. The well is about 27km south of the Edvard Grieg field and 11km south of the Luno II discovery. It will explore the Fosen prospect…

Woodside spuds latest Myanmar probe

Jan 22, 2016

Woodside Energy and partner Daewoo International have started drilling their latest exploration well offshore Myanmar just weeks after announcing a gas discovery in the region. The latest well, the Thalin-1 well in Block AD-7, was spudded 20 January…

JX Nippon lines up Loanan drilling

Jan 22, 2016

JX Nippon E&P is gearing up to drill an exploration well on the Loanan prospect west of Shetland.  The Japanese exploration firm has awarded Norway's Odfjell Drilling a contract to use the semisubmersible Deepsea Stavanger for the well…

Paradigm upgrades Sysdrill 10 suite

Jan 20, 2016

Paradigm has released Paradigm Sysdrill 10.5, the latest version of its integrated suite of well planning and drilling engineering applications.  New features in this release include updated modelling, including HDGM for declination calculation and ISCWSA Rev 4 error models…

Lundin's Lorry prospect lacks fuel

Jan 20, 2016

Swedish exploration firm Lundin Petroleum's latest exploration well 6407/10-4 on the Lorry prospect in the Norwegian Sea has been classified as dry. The well, in PL700B, on the northern part of the Frøya High in the southern Norwegian Sea has been plugged and abandoned…

Noble in GoM layoffs

Jan 19, 2016

Noble Corp. is expected to lay off 100-120 people that work on the Noble Danny Adkins semisubmersible drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. According to a letter from Noble’s director of personnel, to the Texas Workforce Commission, Noble…

Appetite for exploration, despite oil price

Jan 19, 2016

Norway's latest awards in predefined areas (APA) round was announced today, with some 56 licenses offered to oil firms. Duncan John, Partner at consultancy StrategicFit, offers his views. This APA round has shown that appetite for exploration in Norway has been resilient to low oil prices…

Norwegian license round hailed success

Jan 19, 2016

Norway's latest awards in predefined areas (APA) license round has been hailed a success with some 56 exploration licenses being offered on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.  The APA rounds offer acreage in known areas on the shelf, rather than frontier acreage…

Cairn spuds SNE-3 off Senegal

Jan 18, 2016

The second appraisal well, SNE-3, to be drilled on the SNE oil field, 100km offshore Senegal, has been re-entered and will now be drilled to planned total depth. SNE-3 well, located approximately 3km south of the initial SNE-1 discovery well…

ExxonMobil, Hunting partner on autonomous tools

Jan 18, 2016

ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. has signed a joint development agreement with Hunting Energy Services’ Titan division to develop new autonomous tools technology focused on well construction and intervention efficiency.   The two Houston…

Anadarko brings Heidelberg online

Jan 18, 2016

Anadarko Petroleum achieved first oil at Heidelberg in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico last week. Map of Heidelberg. Courtesy of Anadarko. Heidelberg is located in Green Canyon 859…

Quadrant confirms Roc-1

Jan 18, 2016

Quadrant Energy confirmed presence of condensate-rich gas after completing a wireline logging program of the Roc-1 well, offshore Western Australia. Partner Carnarvon Petroleum said initial analysis showed condensate to gas ratio at the top end of the range of 20-40 bbl per Mcm…

Suncor's latest North Sea well dry

Jan 18, 2016

Suncor Energy's latest exploration well close to to the Balder field has been classified as dry by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. Exploration well 25/10-14 S was drilled on production license 571 near the Balder field offshore Norway…

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