TotalEnergies pays $199m for 75% ownership of Tungsten Explorer drillship
French supermajor TotalEnergies (LON: TTE) has signed a $199 million to take 75% ownership of the Tungsten Explorer drillship.
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Drilling “imminent” on Total’s mooted golden block
The plan, he said, would not be “to appraise everything”. Instead, the partners in the block would “accelerate the time to market … if we have the chance to really confirm the volumes which seems to have been discovered, there will be room to make fast track developments, like we did on Block 17, 25 years ago.”
Shell, Total appraisals under way off Namibia
Shell spudded the Jonker well in December. “I’m not saying anything apart from to say it is going well, it is going very well,” Shino said to applause.
Eni scores gas god off Cyprus
The Italian company said it would incorporate the well results into its evaluation of the area. Eni has its eye on a fast-track development in Block 6, it said.
Cyprus find for Eni, Total, with more drilling to come
Eni (ENI:MI) and TotalEnergies (LON:TTE) have made a major gas find at the Cronos-1 well, in Block 6 off Cyprus.
TotalEnergies signs up Tungsten Explorer for West Africa work
Vantage Drilling International has struck a deal to provide its Tungsten Explorer to TotalEnergies for at least 225 days.
Eni spuds Cronos well off Cyprus
Eni and TotalEnergies have begun drilling the Cronos-1 well offshore Cyprus.
Vantage sells three jack-ups to Saudi-owned ADES
Vantage Drilling International has agreed to sell three jack-up rigs to ADES Arabia, owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF).
Lebanon’s first exploration well fails
Total’s well offshore Lebanon has failed to find a reservoir in the Tamar formation, which was the exploration target.
ADES venture to drill Egyptian deepwater
ADES International has signed up to work on a second deepwater drilling campaign in Egypt.