Hoang Long Joint Operating Co. has discovered hydrocarbons in its latest appraisal well on the Te Giac Den prospect off southern Vietnam.
Development of the Chim Sáo field off southern Vietnam remains on schedule, according to Premier Oil.
Reliance Industries has notched a fourth successive gas discovery in the KG-DWN-2003/1 (D3) exploration block in India’s Krishna Godavari basin off eastern India.
Hoang Long Joint Operating Co., the operator of block 16-1 in the Cuu Long basin off southern Vietnam, has spudded its first well in the Te Giac Trang (TGT) development/appraisal drilling program.
Coastal Energy has completed its latest well on the Bua Ban field development in the Gulf of Thailand.
Reliance Industries has resumed drilling of the KGV-D3-W1 exploration well on the KG-DWN-2003/1 (D3) license in the Krishna Godavarai basin offshore eastern India.
Construction has started on the Sevan Driller II platform at the Cosco Shipyard in Oidong, China.
Serica Energy is lining up wells on two exploration prospects offshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Seadrill Ltd. says it has won a six-month extension on the semisubmersible drilling rig West Hercules from Husky Oil China Ltd.
Keppel FELS expects to deliver the KFELS B Class jackup rig West Callisto to Seadrill before the end of July.
The Tom Hum Xanh 1X exploration well in block 31, Vinh Chau graben system, offshore southern Vietnam now is P&A’d according to Salamander Energy Plc.
Hoang Long Joint Operating Co. has secured the jackup PV Drilling-1 for a program in block 16-1 in Vietnam’s Cuu Long basin.
AWE has decided to plug and abandon the Kahu-1 exploration well offshore New Zealand as a dry hole.
Chevron Corp. reports that its Sappho-1 exploration well off Western Australia is a natural gas discovery.
Coastal Energy has updated information regarding its development and exploration drilling operations in the Gulf of Thailand.
Jurong Shipyard has agreed to sell its CJ-70 harsh environment jackup to Seadrill subsidiary JSPL for S$356 million ($257 million).
Ensco has agreed to acquire for $186 million a high-spec jackup (KFELS MOD V - Super B Class design) suited for drilling deep gas wells.
Diamond Offshore Drilling has sold the Ocean Shield, a 350-ft. high-specification jackup rig, to Ensco for $186 million.
Northern Offshore’s drillship Energy Searcher has returned to Vietnamese waters to resume drilling operations for Vietgazprom, the joint venture between Petrovietnam and Gazprom.
Reliance Industries Ltd. reports its seventh discovery in block CB-ONN-2003/1 offshore India in the Cambay basin.
Salamander Energy has spudded the Tom Hum Xanh-1X exploration well offshore Vietnam, according to Origin Energy Ltd.
Salamander Energy has plugged and abandoned its Tom Su Lua-1X exploratory well off southern Vietnam as a dry hole.
The logs on three Bua Ban development wells in the Gulf of Thailand are encouraging, says Coastal Energy Co. Bua Ban A-01, A-02, and A-05 each indicated pay in the Oligocene.
AWE Ltd. says work is under way at the Liyun-1 wildcat in the Bulu PSC of East Java basin offshore Indonesia.
AWE reports hydrocarbon shows in target sands reached while drilling the Tui South West prospect off New Zealand.
