At 06:00 WST on the 23rd of May an 8-1/2” drilling assembly was being made up as final preparations are made to recommence drilling in the 8-1/2” hole section. Since the last update the 8-1/2” hole section was drilled to a depth of 4740m where drilling difficulties halted progress. The 8-1/2” hole was then plugged [...]
After eight months of operation, Karamay Xinjie Liquefied Natural Gas Co., Ltd., under Xinjiang Xinjie Co., Ltd., of which Kunlun Energy Company Limited is the holding company, has made major breakthroughs in the oil-to-gas project for oilfield special operations vehicles. The product has been well received by oilfield customers. On 3 October 2012, upon transformation, [...]
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In November 2012, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd. began drilling the Matang-1 exploration well through its 100% subsidiary, Japex Block A Ltd., in the Matang structure in Block A Aceh in Indonesia’s Aceh region. A production test was recently conducted and approximately 700,000 m3 of natural gas per day has been successfully produced. Medco, the [...]
Cuadrilla has announced plans to drill an exploration well at its Balcombe site later this year. The company intends to commence discussions with local residents to explain exactly what this work will involve. The drilling work will commence in the summer. Specifically Cuadrilla plans to drill and take samples of the underground rock in a [...]
As outlined in Energy World Corporation Ltd. (EWC) 2012 Annual Report, EWC has been planning to drill a further appraisal well in ATP 549P by twinning the existing Sheoak- 1 well. As a follow up to planning, the Directors of EWC announced that this twinned oil and gas exploration well located in ATP 549P in [...]
BG Group of UK said it had completed another successful drill stem test in Block 1 offshore Tanzania, with initial results from the Mzia-2 well showing better than expected properties in the deeper Cretaceous reservoir. The test on Mzia-2, the first done on a Cretaceous discovery in deep water off Tanzania, flowed at a maximum [...]
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An estimated $65.5 billion was invested drilling an estimated 10,173 U.S. shale oil and natural gas wells in 2011, according to API’s 2011 Joint Association Survey on Drilling Costs. The investment number represents an 87.6 percent increase in shale drilling expenditures from 2010 levels and more than half of an estimated $124.8 billion spent on [...]
FX Energy, Inc. reported results of a drill stem test (DST) on the Tuchola-3K well in north-central Poland. Gas flowed at a rate of approximately 5 million cubic feet per day with traces of condensate from a dolomite section in the Ca1/Upper Devonian. The Company will run a 7” liner to a depth of approximately [...]
Cub Energy Inc. announced the Makeevskoye-16 (“M-16″) well has tested significant volumes of natural gas from a new pool gas discovery on the Makeevskoye Licence in Ukraine. The M-16 well tested gas from the S5 zone at more than 4.3 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d). The M-16 is operated by KUB-Gas, a partially-owned subsidiary [...]
Icon Energy and joint venture partner Beach Energy announced update on the Halifax-1 unconventional vertical well in ATP 855P. Due to heavy localised rains, the well was shut-in early March and choked back for the major part of the month and is currently flowing gas at an unconstrained rate of 1.8 MMscf/d and stimulation fluid [...]
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