The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for well 35/12-5 S. The well will be drilled from the Borgland Dolphin drilling facility after concluding the drilling of wildcat well 6507/3-11 for E.ON E & P. The area in the permit consists of parts of blocks 35/8 and 35/11.
Total has abandoned exploration work at its shale well in Denmark despite a gas discovery. The French oil major said the thickness of the layer at the Vendsyssel-1 well in the northwest of the country had been thinner than expected.
3D Oil said the Sea Lion-1 exploration well is now expected to spud late August. The company said the West Telsto jack-up drilling rig has been contracted by Vic/P57 in a joint venture with Carnarvon Hibiscus as operator to drill the well.
Experts in well intervention are being called upon to submit an abstract on the topic and share the latest developments with their peers. The findings will be shared at the annual SPEICoTA European Well Intervention Conference which takes place at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre in November. A range of topics will be covered over two days, with a focus on new technology and innovative solutions, subsea fields, mature fields and challenging environments.
The first well has been spudded on the Gina Krog field in the Norwegian North Sea. Statoil said drilling began earlier this week using the Maersk Integrator rig, which will now be in use until 2019. The milestone is one of many for the company on the Gina Krog development project.
Strike Energy has suspended operations at the Southern Copper Basin Gas Project. The firm temporarily shut down work on two of its wells as localised flooding hit the area.
Cairn Energy has completed work on the SNE-1 well in Senegal after failing to hit hydrocarbons at a lower target. The company and its joint venture partners had previously discovered oil in the upper clastic target. However the deeper target of Karstified and fractured Lower Crestaceous shelf carbonates returned no hydrocarbons, Cairn Energy said.
A well drilled by Lundin Petroleum in offshore Malaysia has come up dry. The company said it had completed the Kitabu-1 well located in blocks SB307/SB308, offshore Sabah. The objectives for the well had been Miocene aged turbidite sands of similar age to the Shell operated South Furious 30 oil field.
Oil giant ConocoPhillips has abandoned a dry hole in the Kamoxi-1 exploration well in Block 35 offshore Angola. The company has earmarked an after tax charge of $140million as a dry hole expense in the fourth quarter of 2014.