Latin America Drilling & Completion News

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.

Borders & Southern has found gas condensate with its first exploration well offshore the Falkland Islands.

Sete Brasil Participações S.A. has signed a letter of intent with Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd. to design and build five semisubmersible drilling rigs for $4.12 billion.

Both Petrobras (NYSE:PBR) and OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A. (Bovespa: OGXP3; OTC: OGXPY.PK) have reported new oil finds offshore Brazil in the Santos basin.

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. ( Petrobras) has completed drilling the successful extension well 3-BRSA-1032-RJS (3-RJS-697) in the Iara area of the presalt Santos basin offshore Brazil.

Exploration drilling should resume in mid-year on the Guyane Maritime permit off French Guiana, according to Wessex Exploration.

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. has a third presalt oil find in block BM-S-8 of deepwater Santos basin.

Borders & Southern says drilling continues on its Darwin prospect off the Falkland Islands.

The second post ANP agreement well drilled by Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) offshore Brazil in the Santos basin presalt Tupi Northeast has discovered oil.

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) has another presalt discovery in the Campos basin.

Repsol Sinopec Brasil has discovered oil and gas in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.

AGR has completed its first operation offshore Brazil using its EC-Drill technology.

The jackup Atwood Beacon has spudded Repsol’s Jaguar-1 on the Georgetown Petroleum Prospecting License offshore Guyana.

Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) has approved contracting of 21 offline rigs with Sete Brasil and five dual-activity rigs with Ocean Rig.

Petrobras (PBR:NYSE) has completed drilling of the Franco NW well in the Santos basin presalt area.

The semisubmersible Leiv Eiriksson has spudded the first-ever exploration well south of the Falkland Islands for UK independent Borders & Southern (B&S) Petroleum.

OGX Petróleo e Gás has announced first oil with the beginning of the extended well test (EWT) in the Waimea accumulation.

Petrobras has detected a production string rupture at the FPWSO Dynamic Producer.

Cordiant Capital Inc. is supporting the construction of a deepwater drillship by the Schahin Group.

OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A. has found hydrocarbons in well 1-OGX-63-SPS in block BM-S-57 in shallow water offshore Brazil’s Santos basin.

Diamond Offshore’s semisub Ocean Guardian has completed its long tour of duty in the offshore North Falkland basin.

Petrobras has discovered light oil and gas accumulation in the Tambuata prospect in Brazil’s offshore Espirito Santo basin.

The semisub Ocean Guardian has completed coring and logging operations at Rockhopper Exploration’s latest exploration/appraisal well in the offshore North Falkland basin.