Shelf Drilling receives extension on jack-up rig for Egypt operations
The contract extension is for the Trident 16 jack-up rig, which is operating in the Gulf of Suez offshore Egypt.
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The contract extension is for the Trident 16 jack-up rig, which is operating in the Gulf of Suez offshore Egypt.
It is anticipated that production from the Bruce, Keith and Rhum fields, located in the UK North Sea, will be fully restored over the coming days.
Norway's Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) has given Equinor consent to use the Deepsea Atlantic mobile drilling facility for drilling and completion on the Tordis and Vigdis fields.
Empire Energy Group Ltd. has received Northern Territory Government approvals for the drilling of Carpentaria-1.
Drilling of confirmation well 31/5-7 Eos south of the Troll field in the North Sea took place to determine the suitability of the reservoir in the Johansen formation for CO2 storage.
The Charlie-1 appraisal well on the North Slope of Alaska commenced drilling on 2 March.
The Gamba well DTM-5H was successfully brought online as of 4 March. The second well, DTM-4H, is scheduled to come onstream in the coming week.
The NitroForce drilling motor provides increased power and performance to complete longer laterals faster and with greater control.
Drilling at the BMK-1 well has encountered commercial quantities of gas in both target horizons.
The execution of the contract extension will enable Frontera to undertake a workover and well service programme which is expected to return production levels at Block 192 near 8500 bpd in the coming weeks.
The contract has an estimated duration of 21 days and is expected to commence in March 2020, in direct continuation of the rig’s current contract.
Preliminary estimates place the size of the oil discovery, 11 km southeast of Gudrun, between 1 and 2.7 million m3 of recoverable oil.