Drilling / Completions

China drilled 8,882 meters deep to pump crude from Asia’s deepest oil well

July 27, 2019 | Asia, Drilling / Completions

London, UK | – China’s oil giant PetroChina has dug some 8,882 meters below Earth’s surface to create the deepest oil well on land in Asia. The previous record was set by another Chinese oil major. The drilling of the Luntan One well at the Tarim oilfield in northwest China’s Xinjiang was completed on Thursday, Chinese media reported, citing the local branch of the company. It took PetroChina more than a year to finish the work due to the complex geological structure and high temperature …

Australia’s FAR Limited prepares to drill Gambia’s first offshore well in 40 years

August 23, 2018 | Company Operations, Drilling / Completions, West Africa

London, UK | – Australian African-focused independent oil company, FAR Limited has selected its final well location for the upcoming Samo-1 well in its Gambian exploration program. Following reprocessing and interpretation of 3D seismic data, detailed mapping of the Samo Prospect and detailed well engineering, FAR Gambia Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of FAR Limited, as Operator of the block A2 joint venture, has approved a Samo-1 well location. The Samo Prospect lies immediately to the south and along trend from the giant SNE oil …

US-based Apache plans to drill 50 oil wells in Egypt in a year

March 26, 2018 | Company Operations, Drilling / Completions, Egypt

Cairo, Egypt | – Minister of Petroleum Tariq al-Mulla discussed recently with the CEO of US-based independent oil explorer, Apache Corporation, John Christman, and his accompanying delegation, the activities of the corporation in Egypt and its targeted investment plans during the coming years in the fields of exploration and production of gas. According to a statement released from the Petroleum Ministry on Friday, Christman pointed out that his corporation is planning to follow an ambitious new exploration program which involves the drilling of 50 wells using …

Statoil plans to drill five to six wells in Arctic Barents Sea in 2018

November 28, 2017 | Drilling / Completions, Exploration / Discoveries, North Sea & Western Europe

London, UK | – Norwegian multinational oil and gas company and the world’s largest offshore operator, Statoil will continue to drill for oil in the Arctic Barents Sea next year even though its 2017 campaign was mostly disappointing, the company’s head of exploration told Reuters on Nov. 28. Statoil plans to drill between 25 and 30 wells in Norwegian waters in 2018. Of these wells five or six are expected in the Barents and the rest will be split between the North Sea and the …

Kenya awards firms licence to drill for natural gas

October 13, 2017 | Drilling / Completions, Kenya

London, UK | –  Zarara Oil & Gas Ltd will start drilling two wells of natural gas after Kenya’s National Environment Management Authority (Nema) approved environmental licences for well sinking on Pate Island off the coast in Lamu. This is in line with the government’s plan to expedite commercial gas production for power generation. The company has been set strict deadlines by the Ministry of Energy to start drilling Pate 2 by the end of the year and later Pate 3 as the government wants …

Senegal and Far joint venture partners to begin drilling offshore Senegal

December 01, 2016 | Drilling / Completions, Senegal

London, UK | – FAR Limited an independent, Australian oil and gas explorer and its Senegal joint venture partners have agreed to perform a drilling programme in SNE oilfield in offshore Senegal. Scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2017, the drilling programme will comprise two appraisal wells. The wells will be drilled to optimise the SNE field development plan before it is submitted to the Government of Senegal for approval. The joint venture has completed a thorough rig tender evaluation procedure and executed …

Exxon Mobil to start drilling first Liberia well in November

October 19, 2016 | Drilling / Completions, Liberia

Monrovia, Liberia |  – American multinational energy giant Exxon Mobil Corporation  will start drilling its first exploratory well off the coast of Liberia in November, the world’s largest publicly-traded oil company said on Tuesday. “ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Liberia Limited, an affiliate of ExxonMobil, plans to drill a deepwater exploration well on the Liberia-13 Block, located about 50 miles offshore Liberia, beginning in November 2016,” a spokeswoman said. This long-awaited wildcat offshore Liberia was canned more than two years ago over the Ebola virus outbreak …

South Africa’s Sasol begins drilling of Mozambique PSA licence

May 26, 2016 | Drilling / Completions, South Africa

London, UK | – Drilling is under way at Sasol’s production sharing agreement (PSA) licence in Inhambane province, Mozambique, in terms of its field development plan (FDP), which was approved earlier this year,  the South African petroleum giant announced Thursday. Adjacent to Sasol’s current producing petroleum production agreement licence, the PSA development was an integrated oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) project. This marked the beginning of the drilling campaign, which was part of the first phase of the FDP, the delineation and initial development …