Providence Resources P.l.c. the Irish oil and gas exploration and appraisal company today announced that drilling activities have now started on the 44/23-1 Dunquin exploration prospect in Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 3/04, off the west coast of Ireland. ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Ireland (Offshore) Limited (27.5% interest) operates FEL 3/04 on behalf of its partners, [...]
African Petroleum Corporation Limited announces a discovery at the Bee Eater-1 well, offshore Liberia. The well was designed to test the Turonian fan by way of a large step out of 9-5 km west of the original Narina-1 oil discovery and has encountered 48 metres of Narina equivalent oil bearing Turonian sandstone out of a [...]
Exxon Mobil, the world’s biggest publicly traded oil company, has hired four Platform Supply Vessels from the France-based ship owner Bourbon. Several shipbrokers have reported that the oil company is leasing the PSVs in support of its drilling operations offshore Ireland. Under the agreement, the vessels Bourbon Calm, Bourbon Rainbow, Bourbon Topaz and Bourbon Tampen [...]
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Ocean Rig, an international offshore drilling contractor, has entered into definitive documentation for one of its semi-submersible drilling rigs, the Eirik Raude, with a major oil company. The drilling contractor did not reveal the name of the client. The drilling contract is for a firm four-well program plus options, with an estimated duration of about [...]
African Petroleum Corporation Limited started drilling the Bee Eater-1 well in Block LB-09 offshore Liberia on the 4th January 2013 with Ocean Rig’s semi-submersible rig, the Eirik Raude. The Bee Eater-1 well is located 9.5 km north west of the 2012 Narina discovery which discovered high quality oil in Turonian reservoirs. The Bee Eater – [...]
Providence Resources P.l.c. has confirmed that it has now received formal notification from ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Ireland (Offshore) Limited that a letter of intent has been signed with Ocean Rig UDW Inc. for the “Eirik Raude” semi-submersible drilling rig. Under the terms of this Letter of Intent, it is proposed to utilise the “Eirik [...]
Ocean Rig UDW Inc., a Cyprus based drilling contractor specializing in offshore deepwater drilling services, has received a Letter of Intent for its semi-submersible drilling rig “Eirik Raude”. The drilling contractor, however, wouldn’t reveal the name of the client, but said that the LoI came “from an oil major”. The Letter of Intent is for [...]
Ophir Energy plc announces that the Fortuna East-1 (R5) step out exploration well in Block R, Equatorial Guinea, has successfully encountered gas in the eastern lobe of the Fortuna Complex. In addition, the well discovered gas in the deeper Viscata exploration target. The Fortuna East-1 (R5) well is 7 km ESE of the Ophir Fortuna-1 [...]
Tullow Oil plc announces that the Paon-1X exploration well in the CI-103 licence offshore Côte d’Ivoire has intersected good quality light oil in a Turonian fan system. Paon-1X is the first deepwater exploration well drilled in the CI-103 licence and has encountered 31 metres of net oil pay in a gross interval of 74 metres [...]
Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Mercury-2 exploratory appraisal well in Sierra Leone and the Kosrou-1 exploration well in Côte d’Ivoire have both encountered water bearing reservoirs with oil shows. Mercury-2 – Sierra Leone The Mercury-2 well was drilled 12 kilometres northwest of the Mercury-1 oil discovery, targeting an area where the extensive 3D [...]
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