Asia Drilling & Completion News

Hoang Long Joint Operating Co. has secured the jackup PV Drilling-1 for a program in block 16-1 in Vietnam’s Cuu Long basin.

Ophir Energy has engaged the new deepwater semisubmersible Maersk Deliverer to drill the first exploration well on the AGC Profond PSC off northwest Africa.

ONGC has contracted Indian construction company Larsen & Toubro (L&T) to refurbish an offshore drilling rig.

Seadrill’s ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig West Orion has started drilling operations for Petrobras offshore Brazil.

Chevron Corp. reports that its Sappho-1 exploration well off Western Australia is a natural gas discovery.

Coastal Energy has updated information regarding its development and exploration drilling operations in the Gulf of Thailand.

Jurong Shipyard has agreed to sell its CJ-70 harsh environment jackup to Seadrill subsidiary JSPL for S$356 million ($257 million).

Ensco has agreed to acquire for $186 million a high-spec jackup (KFELS MOD V - Super B Class design) suited for drilling deep gas wells.

Rowan Co.s has entered into a share purchase agreement with Skeie Technology AS, Skeie Tech Invest AS, and Wideluck Enterprises Ltd., to purchase Skeie Drilling & Production ASA.

The Clio-3 well offshore Western Australia in the Carnarvon basin is a gas discovery according to Chevron Corp.

Northern Offshore’s drillship Energy Searcher has returned to Vietnamese waters to resume drilling operations for Vietgazprom, the joint venture between Petrovietnam and Gazprom.

Reliance Industries Ltd. reports its seventh discovery in block CB-ONN-2003/1 offshore India in the Cambay basin.

Salamander Energy has spudded the Tom Hum Xanh-1X exploration well offshore Vietnam, according to Origin Energy Ltd.

Seadrill has taken delivery of the deepwater drillship West Gemini from Samsung in South Korea.

Salamander Energy has plugged and abandoned its Tom Su Lua-1X exploratory well off southern Vietnam as a dry hole.

Ophir Energy has contracted Odfjell Drilling’s new ultra-deepwater semi Deepsea Stavanger for Tanzania’s first deepwater drilling campaign.

The logs on three Bua Ban development wells in the Gulf of Thailand are encouraging, says Coastal Energy Co. Bua Ban A-01, A-02, and A-05 each indicated pay in the Oligocene.

AWE Ltd. says work is under way at the Liyun-1 wildcat in the Bulu PSC of East Java basin offshore Indonesia.

The PVD-1 jackup has spudded an exploration well in block DBSCL-01 in the Vinh Chau Graben system off southern Vietnam for operator Salamander Energy.

A drillstem test at the Tindalo-1 hit a flow rate of 18,689 b/d of oil, reports Kairiki Energy Ltd.

Offshore fabricator Lamprell says it is experiencing a higher level of rig refurbishment than in recent years, although average expenditure for this type of work remains low, on a par with last year’s levels.

Husky Oil China is encouraged by results from its first appraisal well at the Liuhua 29-1 gas discovery in the South China Sea.

Songa Offshore’s drilling rig Songa Venus is off duty due to ongoing repairs to its BOP.

Reliance Industries has suspended the KGV-D3-W1 exploration well in the Krishna-Godavari basin off eastern India, due to concerns over the BOP of the drilling rig Deepwater Expedition.