Petroleum Safety Authority Norweay has given consent to Wintershall Norway ASA for exploration drilling in the North Sea with the semi submersible rig Songa Delta. The consent applies to drilling of exploration well 35/9-7 as part of PL 418 with Wintershall Norway ASA as operator. The well is located approx. 139 km from Flesland airport [...]
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Pacific Drilling S.A. has reached an agreement with South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries to extend until February 17, 2012 an option to construct a seventh ultra-deepwater drillship. Under the revised terms of the option agreement, the delivery of the drillship will be no later than May 17, 2014. The commercial terms of the option agreement [...]
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Octanex N.L. advises that the Operator of the Joint Venture exploring the WA-323-P and WA-330-P permits, Santos Offshore Pty Ltd (Santos), has provided the Company with an update on the latest timing for the drilling of the well on the Winchester prospect. Santos has advised that, due to a later projected delivery of the rig [...]
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Hyperdynamics Corporation resumed drilling operations on the Sabu-1 exploration well yesterday, on January 29th, in its concession offshore the Republic of Guinea in West Africa. Drilling recommenced from a point 2,304 meters subsea, after it was suspended on January 23 due to the drilling equipment problems. The well is expected to encounter prospective upper Cretaceous [...]
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Petroleum Safety Authority Norway has granted consent to Total E&P Norge AS has for use of the mobile facility Borgland Dolphin for drilling and completion of a production well in production licence 102 C. Total E&P Norge AS has been given approveal for use of Borgland Dolphin for drilling of production well 25/5-D-1 H. The [...]
Drilling operation on Storebjørn, in production license 450, has commenced. Well 7/12-13 S is the first well in the license, which was awarded in the 2007 APA licensing round (Awards in Predefined Areas). The Storebjørn prospect is located in the southern North Sea, in close proximity to existing infrastructure on the Ula and Gyda fields. [...]
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The first well in Bayfield’s exploration and appraisal programme in the offshore Galeota Licence Area is expected to spud today (27 January 2012). The Rowan Gorilla III is already on location and jacked-up in preparation for the drilling of the well, designated EG8, in approximately 135 ft of water to a total depth of approximately [...]
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Leni Gas & Oil plc today announces the imminent arrival of the Ocean Columbia jack-up rig at the Eugene Island Field in the US Gulf of Mexico. As previously announced in December 2011 the Company has approved additional drilling at the Eugene Island-184 leases operated by Marlin Energy LLC (“Marlin”) where LGO holds a 7.25% [...]
Ophir Energy has contracted Ocean Rig’s “Eirik Raude”, a dynamically positioned semi-submersible rig, to drill its Equatorial Guinea exploration campaign. Ophir plans a 60 day programme beginning in April 2012 of three firm wells, plus one contingent well in its operated Block R. The wells are designed to delineate sufficient additional gas reserves and facilitate [...]
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Hyperdynamics Corporation today announced the Sabu-1 exploration well offshore Republic of Guinea was drilled to a total subsea depth of 2,224 meters, putting the well near the top of Cretaceous age sediments, and that the next string of 13-3/8 inch casing was successfully set. Following retesting of the blowout preventer, the well was drilled to [...]
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