UK’s oil and gas exploration and production company Premier has announced that both the Bonneville exploration well (28/9a-6) and its side track (28/9a-6z) have discovered oil. The Bonneville prospect is located four kilometres south of the Burgman discovery on the Catcher licence in the UK Central North Sea. The Bonneville well was drilled to a [...]
Premier Oil UK Limited has exercised its option to extend the term of its drilling contract with Awilco Drilling PLC for the WilPhoenix rig. This option is for a period of approximately 70 days commencing in March 2014 and has an estimated additional contract value of USD 22 million. WilPhoenix is one of Awilco Drilling’s [...]
UK-based drilling contractor Awilco Drilling PLC announces today that it has signed the contract with Premier Oil UK Limited for the provision of WilPhoenix semi-submersible offshore drilling rig for a term drilling program. The program will start in direct continuation from the previous Premier contract and is firm until 28th February 2014 with options for [...]
UK’s Awilco Drilling PLC has signed a Letter of Intent with an undisclosed operator for the provision of WilPhoenix for a term drilling program. The program will start in direct continuation from the Premier contract and is firm until 28th February 2014 with options for up to an additional 250 days. Based on commencement on [...]
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On October 6 Awilco Drilling PLC signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Hess UK Ltd for the provision of WilPhoenix for work related to their 2012 abandonment program on the Fife and Fergus fields. Yesterday, Awilco confirmed that the contract is signed and is due to commence late Q1 2012. The contract duration is [...]
Antrim, an international oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Calgary, Canada, today announced it has commenced drilling operations on the Antrim-operated Erne prospect in the UK Central North Sea block 21/29d (Antrim working interest 50%). Erne is an Eocene Tay Formation oil prospect located between the Fyne (Antrim working interest 35.1%) and [...]
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![UK: Awilco Provides Update on WilPhoenix and WilHunter Contracts]()
The WilPhoenix commenced its contract with AGR on the 27 June and the WilHunter commenced its contract with SPD and Nautical Petroleum on the 1 July. The contract commencements follow on from the rigs’ respective final system testing and commissioning activity, undertaken during mobilization and on location. The additional cost of rig testing, commissioning and [...]
![UK: Awilco Drilling’s WilPhoenix en Route to its Drilling Location]()
Awilco Drilling PLC confirms that the WilPhoenix and WilHunter are delivered from the Remontowa Shipyard in Poland following extensive rig upgrading and re-classing projects. WilPhoenix is currently en route to its drilling location. WilHunter is undergoing its last preparations before departure to its drilling location and is expected to leave today. Both rigs are [...]
![AGR to Undertake UK Drilling Campaign Using WilPhoenix Rig]()
AGR Petroleum Services, Aberdeen, U.K., has reported it will undertake a multi-well, multiclient drilling campaign valued at £3 million on behalf of three international operators, utilizing the semisubmersible drilling rig WilPhoenix. The largest independent well management firm will drill four wells across the UK Central North Sea and West of Shetland having first pioneered [...]
![UK: AGR Declares Option Wells for WilPhoenix Semi-submersible Rig]()
AGR Petroleum Services Limited has declared option wells numbered one, two and three of its contract with Awilco Drilling Limited for the Wilphoenix. These options represent the second, third and fourth wells of AGR’s multi well multi client 2011 drilling programme. The combined contract value for the declared option wells is approximately USD 22 [...]
