Maersk Drilling has been awarded a one-well contract by Petrogas E&P Netherlands which will employ the harsh-environment jack-up rig Maersk Resolute to perform well maintenance and drill a side-track of the A9 well at the P9 Horizon field in the Dutch North Sea.
Guyana: CGX Energy provides update on the Kawa-1 and Makarapan-1 exploration wells offshore Guyana
08 Mar 2021
CGX Energy, a Canadian-based oil and gas exploration company focused on the exploration of oil in the Guyana-Suriname Basin, has provided an update on the Kawa-1 and
The
Kawa-1 exploration well on the
Corentyne block is currently expected to be drilled to a depth of approx. 6,500 metres in water depth of approx. 370 m and is scheduled to be drilled in the second half of 2021. The primary target is a Santonian age, stratigraphic trap, interpreted to be analogous to the discoveries immediately to the east on Block 58 in Suriname. The prospect is named after the iconic mountain overlooking the village of Paramakatoi in the Pakaraima Mountains of Guyana.
Siemens Gamesa has signed a 50 MW deal with EnergieKontor UK to supply the subsidy-free Longhill Burn wind farm near Edinburgh with the industry-leading SG 5.8-155 turbines, one of the most powerful wind turbines in the sector.
Egypt: SDX Energy extends West Gharib PSA for ten years to 2031
05 Mar 2021
AIM-listed
SDX Energy, the MENA-focused oil and gas company, has received final approval from the Egyptian authorities to extend the Production Services Agreements governing its producing
Meseda and Rabul oil fields in its West Gharib concession in Egypt until 9 November 2031.
Mark Reid, CEO of SDX, commented: We are very pleased to have secured this ten-year extension to the Production Services Agreement which we estimate increases SDX s share of reserves in our core West Gharib oil asset, certified at 2.2 million barrels in our 31 December 2019 CPR, by 60%. With a breakeven price of approximately US$20 Brent and to take advantage of the current strong oil price, we plan to commence in Q2 of this year, a drilling programme of up to twelve wells over the next three years with the goal of growing gross production back to around 3,000bbl/d. This drilling programme is in line with the capex gui
Angola: TDI-Brooks International completes two EBS programs offshore Angola
08 Mar 2021
Environmental Baseline Studies (EBS) for both
Cabinda Gulf Oil Company for the Republic of Angola and
ExxonMobil. TDI- Brooks safely and efficiently deployed the
R/V Proteus to
Block 15 for ExxonMobil offshore Angola to complete these programs.
For CAGBOC water column and sediment sampling included collecting 63 sediments samples, 27 water samples and 9 water column profiles. Chevron operates in Angola through its subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil Company. Chevron operates two of the four concessions that it owns in Angola. It operates Block 0 offshore Cabinda and Block 14, which lies west from Block 0, through its subsidiary Cabinda Gulf Oil (CABGOC).