Good News Tuesday

With everything currently going on in the world, we could all use a pick-me-up or good news. Here are five articles to make the day a little brighter:

• Total has made a discovery of 209 feet of net pay lean gas in the Central North Sea. The HPHT field will prove a technical challenge to develop in the current climate, but technical reserve results are still encouraging.

• Pacific Sharav was just contracted for two wells in the Gulf of Mexico. The contract is expected to run from November to February 2021 with a dayrate of $230,000.

• Discovery well KL6-1-3 was drilled by CNOOC in Bohai Bay and found an oil pay with a thickness of 20 meters.

• BP Angola awarded a contract to TechnipFMC under which they will manufacture, deliver and install subsea equipment to develop Platina.

• Logan Industries will provide drilling contractor Diamond Offshore condition-based monitoring (CBM) services for wireline tensioners under a new 10-year deal.

• An Allseas drillship will be repurposed to harvest deep-sea metals needed to unlock the full potential of electric-powered vehicles and other ‘green’ technologies.

Image courtesy of Allseas