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Equinor To Extend Hemidal Profitable Operations
Equinor company announced the extension of profitable operations at Heimdal, which is processing gas from Valemon, to 2023, according to a press release. The company will drill 3-4 new gas wells for Valemon in 2021 an...
Shell Contracted Halliburton to Drill in Iraq
Shell has signed a $210m contract with Halliburton to drill 30 wells in Iraq’s Majnoon oil field, Reuters reported. The agreement will double the field’s production after three years. Majnoon’s outpu...
Ophir Energy to Drill Offshore Ivory Coast
UK listed independent Ophir Energy says preparations for drilling to restart on the deepwater Ayame-1 oil exploration well offshore Ivory Coast are at an advanced stage, Offshore Engineer informed. The company said it... Cairn Energy to Drill 2 Well Offshore of Senegal
UK’s Cairn Energy and Senegal joint venture partners have decided to drill two appraisal wells on the SNE oil field off Senegal in early 2017 using the Stena Drilling’s 2007-built drillship, Stena DrillMAX, Ecof...
Petroceltic Drilled First out of 24 Gas Wells in Algeria
The Dublin-based Petroceltic International had successfully drilled the first of 24 new development wells on its Ain Tsila gas and condensate field in Algeria. The AT-10 well, which was spud by the Sinopec Rig in Febr...
US Oil&Gas Rig Count Drops to Record Lows
The number of rigs drilling for oil and natural gas in the US has fallen to the lowest level since at least 1940, oil services company Baker Hughes Inc said, The Wall Street Journal reported. The number of combined ri...
Russia’s Rosneft to Solo Drill First Offshore Well
Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft will start drilling its first international offshore well as a sole operator off the south coast of Vietnam this month, The Financial Times reported. The drilling campaign in Viet...
SOCO: Congo’s Baobab Marine-1 Well Comes up Dry
Central African oil player, SOCO International, said it came up empty-handed while drilling the Baobab Marine 1 well in the waters off the coast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, UPI reported. In early February, SO...
