Asia Drilling & Completion News

Mermaid Maritime subsidiary MTR-2 has won a contract for use of the tender drilling rig MTR-2 on a client’s oil and gas fields offshore Indonesia.

Songa Offshore has contracted Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering to build two semisubmersible drilling rigs for a total of $1.1 billion.

Seadrill has a Letter of Award to supply tender assist rig T18 to Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production.

Coastal Energy (TSX:CEN) (AIM:CEO) reports the successful results of the Bua Ban South A-03ST and A-05 wells.

Hardy Oil and Gas has agreed to relinquish exploration license KG-DWN-2001/1 (D9) in the Krishna Godavari basin off eastern India.

CNOOC Limited has discovered more gas in the Yinggehai basin of the western South China Sea.

China National Offshore Oil Co. (CNOOC) has successfully confirmed the Penglai (PL) 9-1 oil-bearing structure in Bohai Bay, discovered in 2010.

Premier Oil’s Biawak Besar-1x exploration well offshore Indonesia will be P&A’d after encountering only water-wet sands in the Miocene target.

Gazprom and Petrovietnam have signed agreements on staff training and on Gazprom International’s involvement in joint development projects offshore Vietnam.

Ensco plc (NYSE: ESV) has ordered a new ultra-deepwater drillship to be built at the Samsung Heavy Industries Shipyard in Geoje, South Korea.

North Atlantic Drilling has awarded Jurong Shipyard a $650-million turnkey construction contract to build a new harsh environment semisubmersible drilling rig.

BP (NYSE:BP) has contracted the ENSCO DS-6 deepwater drillship for five years at $522,000/day plus cost adjustments.

Coastal Energy Co. (TSX:CEN) (AIM:CEO) has a hit and miss in the latest two wells drilled offshore Thailand in the Bua Ban South area.

The MB Century 28 rig has spudded the Tutung Alpha-3 (TA-3) appraisal well for Salamander Energy in the Bontang PSC, offshore Indonesia.

ONGC (NSE: ONGC, BSE: 500312) has discovered gas in the GK-42-1 prospect off northeast India.

Salamander Energy expects to take delivery of the jackup Ensco-53 on March 24 for a drilling program on the B8/38 license in the Gulf of Thailand.

Santos has found more gas in the Sangu area off Bangladesh.

Coastal Energy Co. (TSX:CEN) (AIM:CEO) has found what it says is a new oil reservoir separate from the Bua Ban Main field offshore Thailand.

Hardy Oil & Gas has provided an update on its various E&P programs offshore India.

Premier Oil says a well on the Anoa field off Indonesia has generated gas from the Lama formation.

Gujarat State Petroleum Corp. has spudded the appraisal well DDE-A-2 offshore eastern India.

India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) (NSE: ONGC, BSE: 500312) has notched two shallow water discoveries this year offshore India.

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology Centre (KOMtech) and ConocoPhillips are jointly designing a jackup capable of drilling in Arctic Sea ice regions.

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.