Anadarko Petroleum Company has started drilling theCaravel-1exploration wellin the Canterbury basin offshoreNew Zealand. Drilling is expected to take about 40 days, using the drillship Noble Bob Douglas. The expected total depth is 2800m subsea…
Despite record levels of UKCS investment during 2013, the year proved to be disappointing both in terms of exploration and appraisal drilling activity and to a lesser extent the acquisition and divestments market. UKCS Drilling Levels 32…
Trinity Exploration & Production spudded the El Dorado exploration prospect, located offshore the west coast of Trinidad in the PGB license in 6ft of water. The well is 2km from Trinity-operated production infrastructure. Trinity is operating…
The spudding of the Phoenix South-1 well has been pushed back by Apache until 2Q 2014, because of the company’s operational timetable including other projects Apache has in Western Australia.JV partner, Carnarvon Petroleum said that moving…
Salamander Energy plc announced the spud of an exploration well in Block G4/50, Gulf of Thailand targeting the Ayutthaya prospect. Ayutthaya is located in the Western Central sub-basin, less than one mi northeast of the recent Surin oil discovery…
Russian oil firm Lukoil Overseas has started drilling in deep water off the coast of Sierra Leone. The company is drilling the Savannah prospect on Block SL-5-11, using the semisubmersible Eirik Raude drilling rig, in more than 2000m water depth…
Trinity Exploration & Production plc, an independent focused on Trinidad and Tobago, issued an update today on its upcoming exploration program. Trinity plans to spud two offshore exploration wells in 4Q 2013, one on the west coast (El…
Eni has spud the Cua Lo-1 exploration well located in Block 105-110/04, in the Gulf of Tonkin, off Vietnam, partners Neon Energy and KrisEnergy announced. The well, spud on August 11, 2013, is designed to test the large Cua Lo gas prospect…
KrisEnergy spuds Tayum-1 well KrisEnergy spudded the Tayum-1 exploration well in the Kutai PSC, offshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia, using the Randolph Yost jackup. The well is targeting multiple stacked deltaic sandstone reservoirs…
HRT’s wholly-owned subsidiary HRT Walvis Petroleum Ltd., spud the Wingat-1 (2212A/07) exploration well offshore the Republic of Namibia. The Wingat-1 well, which targets the Wingat Prospect inside Petroleum Exploration License 23, is located…
BC Petroleum spud the Spaoh2 well last month. It will target a total depth of 2710m subsea, is the third well in a multiwell appraisal drilling program in the Balai Cluster off east Malaysia.
Australian exploration company Jacka Resources hired the GSP Jupiter jackup rig to drill and test its Hammamet West-3 exploration well off Tunisia, which is expected to spud later this month. The rig is en route to Tunisia and will require the…
Australian firm spuds new well off Brazil Click to view largerKaroon spudded its Emu-1 exploration well located within Blocks S-M-1102 and S-M-1037 in the Santos Basin off Brazil, the company announced on 11 February 2013.Karoon…
Lundin Petroleum spud its Ogna exploration well, in PL453S, off Norway. Drilled by the Maersk Guardian, the wildcat will target hydrocarbons in the upper to middle Jurassic reservoirs of the Ogna prospect, located 65km northeast of BP’s Ula field in the southern North Sea…
Lundin Petroleum has commenced the fourth well in its 2012 Malaysian drilling campaign with the spud of Tembakau-1 exploration well in PM307 Block, offshore east coast Peninsula Malaysia.The well will target hydrocarbons in Oligocene and Miocene…
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