Santos Offshore Pty Ltd, the Operator of the Winchester-1 exploration well being drilled in the Dampier Sub-basin permit WA-323-P, offshore Australia, has announced that that at 06:00 hours (WST) on Tuesday, 21 May 2013, the well was at a depth of 2891m MDRT (measured depth below rotary table) and casing operations were underway. Operations over the last week [...]
Iran’s Marine-1 semi-submersible drilling rig is set to begin a 12-wells drilling campaign in the phase 20 of the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, according to Pourya Pornouri, Managing-Director of the International Drilling Company. The campaign will take three years to finish. According to the news published on the Pars Oil and Gas Company’s web [...]
Noble Energy-operated Carla South I-7 ST-1 sidetrack to the I-7 exploration well in Block I, offshore Equatorial Guinea, has encountered oil in good quality sandstones, PA Resources has announced. The sidetrack in Block I in Equatorial Guinea, drilled by the Atwood Hunter semi-submersible drilling rig, has reached a total measured depth of 3,460m. Drill cuttings, wireline log [...]
A likely start date has been confirmed for drilling in the Matuku prospect in PEP 51906 off Taranaki in New Zealand. The permit’s operator, OMV, has advised that the semi-submersible rig Kan Tan IV is expected to begin drilling in mid-September. The well is expected to take 40 days to drill to a target depth of 4756 metres. [...]
Xcite Energy has entered into a non-exclusive, confidential, binding sale and purchase agreement for certain technical data in respect of the Bentley 9/03b-6, 6Z well, and the recently concluded 9/03b-7 and 7Z extended pre-production well test. Under the terms of the Agreement, XER will receive $15 million in respect of the well data and associated [...]
Noble Energy has encountered ‘significant traces of natural gas’ at its Karish prospect, in the Mediterranean sea, offshore Israel. The well, located in the Alon C license, 75 kilometers north west of Haifa, has today reached a final depth of 4,790 meters below sea level (including the depth of the water). The U.S. independent informed its partners, [...]
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway AS a drilling permit for well 16/2-20, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Well 16/2-20 will be drilled from the Island Innovator drilling facility at position 58°56’25.80’’ north and 02°25’34.09’’ east in production licence 501. The drilling programme for well 16/2-20 relates to drilling of a wildcat [...]
The “Fault Margin” appraisal well in PL 265 on the Johan Sverdrup discovery, in the Norwegian part of the North Sea, is in the process of being completed. “Det norske oljeselskap ASA is of the opinion that the well results are very good. The result removes any uncertainty related to the reservoir quality in the [...]
Buccaneer Energy Limited today announced that its Cosmo # 1 well, offshore Alaska, spud at approximately midday EST on 13 May 2013 (Sydney) and is currently at 600’ drilling ahead. The Cosmopolitan Project (“Cosmo”) is located in 80’ feet of water approximately 30 miles to the north west of Homer. Cosmo is jointly owned with privately [...]
AWE Limited reports that a second successful Drill Stem Test (DST) has been conducted at the Lengo-2 appraisal well, offshore Indonesia, achieving a maximum gas flow rate of 21.2 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscf/d). Two further cores have been cut in the Kujung I reservoir from 757m to 784m (2,485 to 2,571 ft) recovering an estimated 24m [...]
