Isabella: Appraisal drilling kicks off to confirm major North Sea discovery
TotalEnergies (PARIS: TTE) has kicked off hotly-anticipated appraisal drilling at the Isabella discovery in the UK North Sea.
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Eni preps for another deep-water development in Indonesia
Italy’s Eni is getting ready to prepare a field development plan for its deep-water Maha field offshore Indonesia after successfully drilling and appraising its Maha-2 well.
Six offshore wells active across Norway
Westwood Global Energy reports there were three exploration wells and three appraisal wells active at the end of October.
Petrofac wins North Sea contract
Petrofac has secured a contract from Zennor Petroleum to provide well design and well construction management services to support the Finlaggan well in the North Sea.
Total begins drilling of Antelope-6 appraisal well
Total has begun the drilling of the Antelope-6 appraisal well in Papua New Guinea.
Oil Search abandons Taza appraisal well in KRG
Oil Search has completed a drilling update on two of its wells in Papua New Guinea and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG). The company said the Taza 3 ST1 oil appraisal well in KRG has been plugged and abandoned with the rig being demobilised. The forward plan is to evaluate the results of the drilling, together with the recently proposed seismic, prior to making further drilling decisions.