Baker Hughes (BHI) has introduced its DEEPFRAC deepwater multistage fracturing service, which aims to save operators hundreds of millions of dollars in offshore developments through efficiency gains across the completion phase. Using multiposition sleeves and patented flowback control technology…
Fractured basement explorer Hurricane Energy is closer to proving its Halifax discovery is linked to its Lancaster field, forming a single field, which would be the UK's largest undeveloped discovery on the UK Continental Shelf. Hurricane…
Fractured basement reservoir explorer Hurricane Energy says its previous 300 MMbbl estimate for the Lancaster field, west of Shetland is conservative. The firm has completed technical analysis of the Lancaster, Lincoln and Warwick assets…
UK Oil & Gas Investments subsidiary UKOG Solent has been granted a one-year extension to its initial term on license P1916, off the Isle of Wight, England, to 31 January 2018. UKOG says P1916 contains an undrilled Portland limestone conventional oil prospect…
UK independent fractured basement reservoir explorer Hurricane Energy has started drilling on its Halifax well west of Shetland on the UK Continental Shelf. The well, being drilled using the Transocean Spitsbergen semisubmersible drilling rig…
UK independent Arenite Petroleum is seeking investors to help it drill a proof-of-concept horizontal well into UK Permian carbonates, as well as test an underlying Carboniferous strata. The move, which will target two horizons in the Permian carbonates…
Hurricane Energy has confirmed a 'very significant fractured basement discovery,' potentially containing more than 250 MMbbl recoverable, in its Lincoln field appraisal well offshore west of Shetland, UK, the firm says. The well has…
UK fractured basement player Hurricane Energy has agreed in principal deal for a floating production and storage offloading (FPSO) unit to develop its Lancaster field and is set to drill its nearby Halifax prospect, west of Shetland, UK. Under a heads of terms agreement…
Hurricane Energy was awarded the P2308 licence (Halifax) offshore the UK by the Oil and Gas Authority in an out of round application. The licence is contiguous to, and extends north east from, Hurricane’s existing Lancaster licence. The…
Schlumberger released the GeoTesting geology-based well test design and interpretation services at the 2016 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. GeoTesting services, built in the Petrel exploration and production software platform…
Hurricane Energy's pilot well on the basement reservoir Lancaster discovery West of Shetland has indicated resources 'significantly greater' than the firm's 200 MMbbl base case, the company said this morning. Hurriane has completed…
UK-based fractured basement explorer Hurricane Energy has spudded its 205/21a-7 Lancaster well, west of Shetland. The well is a pilot well, the first in a two-well program, designed to refine the Lancaster resource range, provide a second…
A new preliminary report into a helicopter crash which killed 11 offshore workers and two pilots has pointed to a fatigue fracture in the aircraft's gear box as the most likely cause. The Airbus Helicopters H225, operated by CHC Helicopters…
UK-based fractured basement explorer Hurricane Energy has suspended farm-outs talks on its west of Shetland Lancaster project after raising enough financing to do its latest appraisal work itself. The firm raised £52.1 million in May…
Results from a comprehensive environmental analysis have found minimal environmental impacts from offshore fracking, off California. Image from BSEE. The study, conducted by the…
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