Guyana's upcoming drilling

Tullow and its partners have upcoming drilling in Guyana over the summer over two blocks. The blocks are: Orinduik: Tullow (60% operator), Total (25%), Eco Atlantic (15%) Kanuku: Repsol (37.5% operator), Tullow (37.5%), Total (25%) In August, the Stena Forth drill ship will arrive on Orinduik for a two well campaign to drill the Jethro and Joe prospects. In October, Repsol is scheduled to drill the Carapa prospect on Kunuku. Guyana remains...

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Zama resource increase

Talos and Premier Oil have announced the successful appraisal of Zama in Block 7 offshore Mexico under the Zama-3 well. Premier has indicated a P90-P10 resource range of 670-970mmboe with P50 of 810mmboe. This further reaffirms the resource base and provides an upgrade to the previous 600mmbbl (oil) estimate. The Zama-3 well follows: The initial Zama-1 discovery in 2017 Zama-2 appraisal in January 2019 Zama-2ST1 sidetrack well in April 2019 Zama-3...

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Kurdistan steps up efforts to eliminate gas flaring

The Kurdistan Ministry of Natural Resources ("MNR") has asked the Shaikan field partners (Gulf Keystone and MOL) to re-submit a revised FDP for the field to address additional MNR requests on gas management. The next well planned on the field will now be used to assess the feasibility of gas reinjection into the Jurassic formation, rather than as an originally planned Jurassic production well. Whilst a key driver to be reservoir management and...

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Dry well in the Barents near Korpfjell

The 7335/3-1 exploration well on Production Licence 859 has drilled a dry well. The partners on the licence are: Equinor 65% operator, Lundin 15%, DNO 20%. The licence lies in the Barents Sea and the 7335/3-1 well is located c.8km southeast of the Korpfjell gas discovery. Both the primary and secondary exploration targets encountered sandy and poor reservoirs. The well was drilled by the West Hercules drilling rig to 4,268m below the sea surface...

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Woodside's Pluto LNG restart delayed

Source: RBC Woodside's restart from its planned Pluto LNG turnaround will be delayed until the end of June after initial restart efforts were unsuccessful. Vibration in the refrigerant compressor has delayed restart. In the interim, Woodside will be purchasing cargoes from the market to fulfill its contractual obligations. However Woodside are making a healthy margin of  c.USD5/mmbtu with the current lull in Asian spot LNG prices due to...

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PGNiG acquires Total's 22.2% stake in King Lear

Total has sold its 22.2% stake in King Lear to PGNiG. This follows AkerBP's acquisition of Equinor's 77.8% stake in the field in October 2018 for USD250 million. In October 2018, AkerBP noted that King Lear is one of the largest undeveloped discoveries in Norway and that it planned to develope the field as a satellite to Ula. Ula is operated by AkerBP (80% with DNO as 20% partner) and the tie-back will improve capacity utilisation at the Ula...

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Hurricane reaches first oil and Lancaster

Hurricane has reached first oil at the Lancaster field. The Aoka Mizu FPSO completed the start-up phase with a 72-hour production test and combined production from the wells reached the targeted 20mbopd, marking the contractual completion of commissioning. Hurricane now expects to ramp up production over the next six months towards the longer-term ~85% operating efficiency target. Production guidance is: c.9mbopd for the next three months; followed...

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