Equinor (60%), Wellesley (20%) and Source Energy (20%) have been given a drilling permit for wildcat well 30/2-5 S in production licence PL 878.
Equinor (60%), Wellesley (20%) and Source Energy (20%) have been given a drilling permit for wildcat well 30/2-5 S in production licence PL 878. The area comprises parts of Blocks 30/2 and 30/3. The well will be drilled about 17 km south of Kvitebjørn.
Neptune Energy has won consent to drill exploration wells 34/4-15 S and 34/4-15 A in production licence PL 882 in the North Sea at a water depth is 331 m.
A consortium of Repsol (30%), Petronas (28.33%), Wintershall Dea (25%) and PTTEP (16.67%) has made significant oil discoveries on the Polok and the Chinwol prospects in Block 29 offshore Mexico. Polok is a play opening discovery within the Early Miocene reservoir of the Salina Basin (part of the Sureste Basin), whereas Chinwol encountered oil in formations of the Pliocene.
Conoco Phillips has encountered hydrocarbons from the one well on its Harpoon exploration prospect on Alaska’s prolific North Slope.
Qatar Petroleum has announced the start of the development drilling campaign for the North Field East Project. The first of 80 NFE development wells was spudded on 29 March.
Neptune Energy has announced that the drilling campaign on the Fenja field is now underway, following the spudding of the first well. Fenja is Neptune’s first operated development project on the Norwegian Shelf and is estimated to contain 97 million boe. Fenja will deliver around 40 kboepd at plateau. Located in the Norwegian Sea 120 km north of Kristiansund and at a water depth of 320 m, the subsea field will be developed as a tie-back to the Njord-A platform.
Spirit Energy has been given consent to drill exploration well 7321/8-2 S in production licence PL 719 in the Barents Sea. Water depth at the site is 466 m.
Neptune Energy has announced two hydrocarbon discoveries in northwestern Germany. Drilling of the Adorf Z15 appraisal well, in the municipality of Emlichheim, reached final depth of 3500 m in the Carboniferous formation in February 2020. Subsequent production tests indicated flow rates of up to 1700 boepd gross. In the Ringe region, Neptune’s joint venture partner Wintershall Dea began operations in December 2019 to develop an extension of the existing reservoir. The Bentheim sandstone formation was found to beoil-bearing at a depth of 1500 m.
