
Equinor awards Maersk Drilling rig contract
The hybrid jack-up rig Maersk Intrepid will drill three wells and plug one in the Martin Linge field offshore Norway.
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The hybrid jack-up rig Maersk Intrepid will drill three wells and plug one in the Martin Linge field offshore Norway.

Wildcat well 30/6-31 S encountered poorly developed sandstones in the Intra Heather Formation with poor reservoir quality and no traces of petroleum.

US oil production of at least 300 000 bpd will be shut during May and June, according to a Rystad Energy analysis of early communication from US oil producers.

OKEA has announced that its assets produced a total of 19 099 boe/d in 1Q20, compared to 19 498 boe/d in 1Q19.

Fenja is Neptune’s first operated development project on the Norwegian Shelf and is estimated to contain 97 million boe.

Maersk Drilling is to reduce its offshore crew pool as a result of tenders and projects being delayed or cancelled.

The government has proposed an extension of the so-called ice edge boundary to the constantly changing southern fringe of the permanent ice sheet.

Hild is the sixth jack-up rig that Keppel has delivered to Borr Drilling.

The Adorf Z15 gas well and the Ringe 6 oil well in northwestern Germany have been successfully drilled.

The company is deferring its Australia infill drilling campaign into 2021.

The company's VeroTM automated connection integrity has successfully completed 100 runs and 33 000 tubular connections in operations worldwide since its market debut.

The US is seeing an immediate and severe drop in OCTG tonnage requirements, as operators have slashed their drilling programmes by in some cases up to 50%.