Schlumberger gets Masela drilling management project from INPEX
Saturday, October 22 2005 - 02:05 AM WIB
Top US oilfield services company Schlumberger Corp. said on Friday it had been awarded an Integrated Management Project by Japanese oil firm INPEX Corp for a remote three- to four-well deepwater appraisal campaign in the Masela block in Timor Sea.
INPEX and Schlumberger will design the drilling program and tender/contract packages for all services required for the work, supervise the execution of the work, and perform the post-drilling wrap-up.
Inpex, the operator and 100 percent interest holder of Masela Block would commence the drilling campaign first quarter of 2006. In 2002, INPEX confirmed a large natural gas accumulation in the block after two appraisal wells, Abadi-2 and Abadi-3, tested a total 32.4 million cubic feet a day of natural gas.
Schlumberger also said that during the third quarter of 2005, it had finished the world's two longest sand control well completions for ConocoPhillips? South Natuna Block B in Natuna Sea. (alex)