Total and partners Equinor , Exxon and BP have signed an agreement with state-owned Sonangol of Angola to extend their production licences to 2045.
Total and partners Equinor, Exxon and BP have signed an agreement with state-owned Sonangol of Angola to extend their production licences to 2045. Located 150 km off the Angolan coast in water depths from 600 to 1400 meters, Block 17 has produced almost 3 billion barrels of oil since 2001. The Zinia Phase 2, CLOV Phase 2 and Dalia Phase 3 projects are under development on Block 17 to add 150 million barrels of resources. Other projects for extending the production of Pazflor, Rosa, Girassol and Dalia are being studied. Two wells are already planned for 2020.
DNO’s wildcat well 6507/7-16 S 4 km west of the Heidrun field in the northern part of the Norwegian Sea has encountered a total gas column of 52 m in the early and middle Jurrassic-age Garn, Not and Ile formations, of which 48 m is sandstone with good-to-very-good reservoir quality. Under the gas column, there is a 4m-thick oil column in the Ile Formation. Net water-bearing reservoir rocks of about 75 m were encountered deeper in the Ile, Ror and Tilje Formations, mainly with moderate-to-good reservoir quality. The discovery is estimated at 1 to 2 million standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable oil equivalents.
Petrotal has completed its second horizontal well in the Bretaña oilfield in Peru. The well reached the target Vivian formation at a vertical depth of 2696 m. The 863-m horizontal section makes the 5H well the longest horizontal well drilled to date in Peru. Initial production from the 5H well was 8,250 BOPD.
Spirit Energy’s Ossian-Darach exploration well in the Southern North Sea reached a total depth of 3300 m and encountered both gas and oil.
Neptune Energy has been granted a drilling permit for wildcat well 6507/8-10 S in production licence PL 889. The well will be drilled 7 km east of the Heidrun field in the Norwegian Sea. Neptune Energy has also won consent for exploration drilling in Block 6507/8 in the Norwegian Sea east of the Heidrun field.
Aker BP has been granted a drilling permit for appraisal well 25/2-22 S in production licence PL 442. The well will be drilled about 37 km north of the Heimdal field in the North Sea. Aker BP has also won consent for exploration drilling in Block 25/2 in the North Sea.
Equinor and Rosneft have taken an investment decision on the first stage of the conventional North Komsomolskoye field in Western Siberia.
Wintershall Dea has won consent for well 6604/5-2 S in production licence PL 894 120 km southwest of the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea.
Equinor is drilling well 30/6-31 S in production licence PL 053 8 km northeast of the Oseberg field centre in the North Sea. Equinor is also drilling well 7219/9- 3 in production licence PL 532 about 25 km southwest of Johan Castberg FPSO in the Barents Sea.
OMV is drilling well at PL 644 close to Aasgaard field in the North Sea.
