The General Petroleum Company (GPC) has announced that it achieved a new oil discovery in Abu Sennan concession at the Western Desert by drilling DSWS-1X exploration well with investments worth $1.5 million after finding petroleum evidences on Abu Rawash E and middle Bahria reservoirs.

The Egyptian Drilling Company (EDC) has announced that it managed to increase it market share within the onshore drilling market by 80% during 2020 despite the challenges of the pandemic compared to 60% in 2019.

The Iraqi Cabinet has approved the recommendation of the Ministerial Council for Energy for conducting a tender to drill 96 oil wells in Basra.

EP Petroecuador has announced that it will drill further 13 wells and maintain production at 400,000 barrels per day during 2021.

The National Oil Corporation of Libya (NOC) announced that it has completed the drilling operations of Erwan field of Zallaf company and it has put the first well of E04 on testing by applying the technology of zero gas flaring.

Neptune Energy along with its partners announced that it has started drilling operations in the Dugong appraisal well in Norweigan sector of the North Sea.

Energean company announced that Abu Qir Petroleum company, its joint venture (JV) with the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), has signed an integrated engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract with TecnhipFMC company for developing four subsea wells as well as subsea tie-back to the AbuQir Petroleum plant.

The National Iranian drilling Company (NIDC) announced that it has completed drilling 117 oil and gas wells on a distance of 85,616 meters during the last year.

Maersk Drilling company announced that has won a contract from Spirit Energy for the harsh-environment jack-up rig Maersk Resolve to drill a development well at the Grove North East in the UK North Sea worth $11.3 million.

Coretrax Company announced the first deployment of its expandable liner technology in Norway since its acquisition of Mohawk Energy.