Total, operator, and its co-venturers Qatar Petroleum and Petronas have won the C-M-541 deep offshore block in the 16th Bidding Round held by Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency (ANP). The acreage is located in the pre-salt Campos Basin...

The National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels of Angola has announced the terms of reference, bidding rules and qualification criteria of its 2019 bid round, starting the countdown to a 12 November 2019 deadline for operators and interested parties wishing to bid on the 10 frontier blocks located in the Namibe and Benguela Basins...

ADES has announced that it has entered, through its subsidiary, into a second deepwater drilling campaign with a an international oil company for deepwater drilling services in the Egyptian Mediterranean area...

IADC has issued V2.0 of the DDR Plus for final comment, after receiving and considering wide-ranging input from across the industry over the past eight months since V1.0 was launched earlier this year...

Shelf Drilling has announced that it has received an award for a three-year contract for the Trident II jackup rig with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for operations in the Mumbai High, offshore India. The planned start-up of operations is Q1 2020...

Equinor has been awarded exploration acreage in the Northern Carnarvon Basin offshore Western Australia. The new exploration permit, WA-542-P, has been awarded to Equinor as operator and 100% owner...

Forum Subsea Technologies’ latest remotely operated vehicle (ROV), the XLe Spirit, has successfully completed sea trials in Norway. The vehicle is the first of a new generation of electric observation class ROVs...

SIMMONS EDECO has announced that it has completed an onshore drilling campaign for a major oilfield services company in Mexico. The contract required SIMMONS EDECO to provide onshore drilling services on a field in the south of Mexico...

It may be hard to imagine, but CARBO’s new NANOMITE C ceramic microppant contains particles that are more than five times smaller than the smallest particles on 100 mesh frac sand. Watch the video for more information...

Gyrodata recently launched the Quest gyro-while-drilling (GWD) tool to help operators to mitigate the risk of collision in complex projects. Its solid-state sensor package means there is no impact from shock and vibration or magnetic interference, allowing for more accurate wellbore placement when drilling in challenging areas such as the Bakken, said Rob Shoup, Vice President Special Projects, Gyrodata, at the 2019 SPE Annual Technical Conference in Calgary, Canada, on 30 September. In this video with DC, Mr Shoup explains the potential for this tool to replace MWD, as well as initial field results. Watch the video for more information.