Australia & New Zealand Drilling and Completion News

New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) has assumed operatorship of the PEP 38259 permit offshore New Zealand.

ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) has contracted the Transocean Deepwater Frontier for work offshore Australia on the Jansz-Io drilling project at the Gorgon LNG project.

The Thistle 1 exploration well is under way in the Otway basin offshore Victoria, Australia.

Shell has signed a contract for AGR to supply its Riserless Mud Recovery system to multiple development wells offshore northwestern Australia to feed the Prelude FLNG installation.

Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX) has another gas discovery offshore Western Australia in the Exmouth Plateau area of Carnarvon basin.

New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) is aiming to drill the Kakapo prospect offshore New Zealand’s Taranaki basin.

Chevron Corp. has announced a natural gas discovery in the Exmouth Plateau of the Carnarvon basin offshore Western Australia.

Chevron is reporting two more successful gas wells offshore Western Australia in the Carnarvon basin.

Buccaneer Energy Ltd. has selected Archer Drilling LLC to operate the Adriatic XI jackup.

PTT Exploration and Production Public Co. Ltd. (PTTEP) has found more natural gas in AC/RL7 block in Australia.

Hess Australia has awarded Expro a $6 million-plus contract for an offshore appraisal drilling campaign on Australia’s North West Shelf.

Atwood Oceanics Inc. says it has received a six-month contract from Chevron Australia Pty Ltd.

New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZE:NZO) is looking to rename and drill the Kaupokonui prospect in the offshore Taranaki basin.

Rialto Energy has an agreement with Transocean to use the jackup GSF Monitor for a first-phase drilling campaign in the CI 202 concession, offshore Cote d’Ivoire.

Karoon Gas Australia Ltd. says operator ConocoPhillips has approval from the Australian Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population, and Communities to begin drilling offshore in the Browse basin.

Buccaneer Energy Ltd. says the Alaskan Industrial Development and Export Authority have voted to invest $30 million as a joint owner in the acquisition of a jackup drilling rig.

Entek Energy Ltd. has announced an update on the VR 342 well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Santos reports an oil discovery at Finucane South, Carnarvon basin, offshore Western Australia.

Woodside has discovered more gas in the Pluto area of the Carnarvon basin off Western Australia.

Buccaneer Energy Ltd. is closing in on permission to drill offshore southern Alaska.

Woodside Petroleum believes the Greater Laverda area off Western Australia could hold over 100 MMbbl of recoverable oil.

Cooper Energy plans to resume drilling the Hammamet West prospect offshore Tunisia this fall.

LLC Gazflot has commissioned Plexus Holdings to supply its TRT-S mudline suspension equipment for a drilling program in the Okhotsk Sea off eastern Russia.