Asia Drilling & Completion News

Estaleiro Jurong Aracruz has won a $792.5 million contract from Guarapari Drilling BV, the Netherlands, to design and build a drillship, based on Jurong Shipyard’s proprietary Jurong Espadon drillship design.

TNK-BP’s first offshore drilling is now under way at Lan Do field offshore Vietnam.

Lundin Petroleum says its Bertam-2 appraisal well off peninsular Malaysia has confirmed the field’s potential as an oil producer.

An EPCI (engineer, procure, construct, install) contract has been awarded for the Anoa Phase 4 development in the Natuna Sea off Indonesia, according to operator Premier Oil.

BHP Billiton has issued a termination notice for Transocean’s Deepwater Expedition rig scheduled to begin drilling in SC 55 offshore Palawan, Philippines.

Northern Offshore, Ltd. has announced that Vietgazprom, a joint venture between Petrovietnam and Gazprom, has selected the drillship Energy Searcher for an upcoming drilling program offshore Vietnam.

Kenai Offshore Ventures has contracted Keppel FELS Shipyard in Singapore for repair and modifications of the jackup Endeavour, ahead of a drilling program offshore Alaska for Buccaneer Energy.

Lundin Petroleum has spudded the Bertam-2 appraisal well in the PM307 Production Sharing Contract (PSC) offshore Peninsular Malaysia.

Coastal Energy Co. reports continuing success offshore Thailand at its Bua Ban North A-11 well.

ONGC has notched a deepwater gas discovery offshore India.

Coastal Energy Co. reports successful drilling of its first horizontal development well at Bua Ban North in Thailand.

Lundin Petroleum has discovered oil in the Janglau-1 well in block PM308A offshore Peninsular Malaysia.

ExxonMobil has extended for two years a contract with Seadrill for the ultra-deepwater semisubmersible drilling rig West Aquarius.

Petronas Carigali has discovered oil in the Wakid structure offshore Sabah.

AWE (Titan) NZ Ltd. has contracted to drill the Atlas-1 well in the Titan PSC offshore East Java basin, Indonesia.

Cairn Lanka (Pvt) Ltd. has notified the government of Sri Lanka of a gas discovery at well CLPL-Barracuda-1G/1 in block SL 2007-01-001 of the Mannar basin.

Niko Resources has signed what it calls the largest ever deepwater exploration drilling contract in the history of Indonesia.

Two rigs owned by Songa Offshore are under assignment to Petronas offshore Malaysia.

The Bua Ban North A-09 appraisal well in the Gulf of Thailand is a success, says Coastal Energy Co.

Premier Oil has discovered gas offshore Vietnam, but with a 99% CO₂ content.

Cairn India has completed infill drilling and workover activities designed to augment oil production and increase water injection capacity at the Ravva field offshore eastern India.

Ensco has announced a shared drilling contract for the ENSCO 8505 with Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Apache Deepwater LLC, and Noble Energy Inc.

TSC Group has secured a $29.2 million contract for a Super M2 jackup rig package from CIMC Raffles Shipyard.

Seadrill has found work for two new ultra-deepwater newbuild semisubmersible drilling rigs.