Drilling & Completion News

BG Group has its fifth consecutive gas discovery offshore Tanzania.

Apache (NYSE:APA) has drilled a productive extension well from the Beryl field in the UK central North Sea.

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.

Eni (MI:ENI;NYSE:E) has a new gas discovery offshore Mozambique at the Coral 1 well in Area 4.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:APC) has discovered a “major” new natural gas reservoir in Offshore Area 1 of the Rovuma basin, Mozambique.

Statoil (OSE:STL;NYSE:STO) has contracted Seadrill’s deepwater drilling semisubmersible West Aquarius for exploration offshore Newfoundland.

Total (NYSE:TOT; Paris: FP FP) has completed installation of the new AGMN platform for its Anguille field redevelopment offshore Gabon.

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

Borders & Southern has spudded its second well south of the Falkland Islands.

CGX Energy’s Eagle-1 well off Guyana failed to find commercial hydrocarbons.

Afren says an exploration well on the shallow-water Ebok north fault block (Ebok NFB) has encountered 370 ft (113 m) true vertical thickness of net oil pay in good quality sands.

Providence Resources looks to drill two further exploration wells off southern and eastern Ireland this year, following its recently completed Barryroe appraisal well in the Celtic Sea.

Norwegian Energy Co. ASA (Noreco) has spudded exploration well 6201/11-3 in PL 519 in the North Sea.

Petroleum Safety Norway has authorized BP Norge to drill an exploration well in the Norwegian Sea.

Statoil (OSE:STL;NYSE:STO) and partners Eni (MI:ENI;NYSE:E) and Petoro have agreed on further exploration drilling in the Skrugard area of the Norwegian Barents Sea.

Centrica Resources Norge has started drilling the Cooper prospect in the Norwegian Sea, using the semisub West Alpha.

The semisub Bredford Dolphin has started drilling an exploration well for Lundin Petroleum (NASDAQ:LUPE) on the Albert prospect in the Norwegian North Sea.

Caithness Oil has brought onstream the Lybster oil field in the nearshore Inner Moray Firth off northern Scotland.

The Teak-4A appraisal well offshore Ghana in the Cape Three Points block found thin, non-commercial reservoirs and will be P&A’d reports Kosmos Energy (NYSE:KOS).

Chevron Corp. has announced that the deepwater drillship Pacific Santa Ana has arrived in the Gulf of Mexico to work for Chevron under a five-year contract with a subsidiary of Pacific Drilling S.A.

A side track of the Johan Sverdrup appraisal well 16/2-11 in the Norwegian North Sea has confirmed good quality in Upper and Middle Jurassic reservoir, according to operator Lundin Petroleum (NASDAQ:LUPE).

Premier is abandoning its Stingray exploration well in the UK North Sea as a dry hole.

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

Plexus Holdings has won a £1.3-million ($2.1-million) order to supply BG International with 20,000-psi POS-GRIP wellhead technology for gas exploration drilling in the North Sea.