National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) has drilled and completed 46 oil and gas wells in onshore and offshore fields during the first eight months of the current Iranian Calendar year which started on March 21.

The Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) has signed a contract with Schlumberger International Company to drill 37 oil wells in Al-Zubair filed operated by Eni company in Al-Basra.

Pharos started operations on the first well of the three-well program. The drilling of the first well was conducted using the ECDC-2 Drilling Rig, with expectations to last for 24 days.

Neptune Energy announced the start of the last well campaign on the Fenja field in the Norwegian sea as a part of its Fenja development project.

Saipem has been awarded new onshore drilling contracts in the Middle East and in South America worth $70 million,

This came as the company published on September 29th an update of the production summary before taxes and royalties.

The ASX-1X exploration well at the Egyptian Abu Sennan license reached a total depth of 4,272 meters ahead of schedule.

Iraq signed an initial agreement with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for the latter to drill 150 wells in the Iraqi Buzurgan oilfield.

BP has agreed to pay $29.3 million for outstanding commitment to drill an exploration well in the offshore A1 block in the West Africa.

SDX company announced that it drilled the new well “HA- 1X” in South Disouq and started spudding it as a part of the Company’s 2021 drilling campaign after the successful drilling of IY-2 well announced in July.