Russia Drilling & Completion News

Eurasia Drilling Co. (EDC) has issued a brief update on its Caspian Sea activity over the past year.

Eurasia Drilling Co. (EDC) has renamed its Trident 20 jackup Saturn.

Eurasia Drilling Co. (EDC) has updated its drilling activities in the Caspian Sea.

Dragon Oil has updated its ongoing drilling program in the Cheleken Contract Area of the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea.

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

Over the past two summers, a drillship and a semisubmersible rig have been in action off western Greenland for Cairn Energy.

Gazprom has discovered a new field offshore Sakhalin Island, within the Mynginskaya geological structure in the Kirinsky prospect.

The drilling rig Songa Mercur should start demobilization later this month from eastern Russia, after completing a program for Gazflot LLC offshore Sakhalin Island.

Total has discovered gas in the Caspian Sea in the Absheron block offshore Azerbaijan.

A team from Gazprom has visited the Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant in northern Russia to review progress on the Polyarnaya Zvezda and Severnoye Siyaniye semisubmersible drilling rigs.

Following installation of ancillary equipment and a facility systems readiness test, operator Gazprom will use the jackup rig Kolskaya to start drilling offshore Western Kamchatka.

Eurasia Drilling Company (EDC) and Schlumberger have completed the sale and purchase of each other’s drilling and service assets in Russia.

Gazflot LLC has agreed to take the Songa Mercur rig for a drilling campaign this summer offshore Sakhalin Island.

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.

KCA Deutag has teamed with Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen to provide drilling and rig training from the University’s new Energy Centre at its Garthdee campus.

Dragon Oil has completed a further development well in the Cheleken Contract Area of the Caspian Sea, and commissioned a new 14-in. in-field pipeline

Songa Offshore says the newbuild drilling rig Songa Eclipse, under construction at Jurong Shipyard Singapore, will now be delivered next July.

Fabricator Lamprell has confirmed a $210-million contract from Eurasia Drilling Co. (EDC) for a new, LeTourneau-designed jackup drilling rig.

Gazprom has discovered a new gas field in the Kirinsky block offshore Sakhalin Island.

Dragon completes further Turkmen well

Drilling contractor Songa Offshore has provided an update on the activities of its global rig fleet.

A new flow-channel hydraulic fracturing technique called HiWAY from Schlumberger is designed to maximize production by creating open flow channels within the propped fracture.

Songa Offshore’s drilling rig Songa Venus is off duty due to ongoing repairs to its BOP.

Eni China BV has contracted the Songa Mercur for a drilling program offshore China.