Cornish Metals Inc has installed the second submersible pump to dewater the mine at the South Crofty tin project in Cornwall. COMMISSIONING The pumps, in New Cooks Kitchen shaft, are for stage I of the two-stage mine dewatering programme. The specialist high-head 950 kW vertical submersible pumps manufactured by KSB in Germany are controlled by […]
Equipment & Logistics
Hartshead-RockRose complete seabed survey
Hartshead Resources NL and joint venture partner RockRose Energy Ltd have completed a geotechnical survey to determine seabed conditions of the Anning and Somerville gas fields. SUITABILITY Soils information from the cores will feed into the engineering design of platform anchor points and location of the jack-up drilling rig over the platforms. Analysis results of […]
Tullow Oil adds second well to exceed 100,000 bopd at Jubilee South East
Tullow Oil plc has produced more than 100,000 bopd after bringing on stream a second well at the recently started Jubilee South East (JSE) project, offshore Ghana. BUSINESS PLAN The company said that both the JSE wells were performing in line with expectations and increased production rates by 50% compared with the first half of 2023. […]
Tullow Oil starts oil production at $1bn Jubilee South East JV project
Tullow Oil plc has started production from the first well at the $1 billion Jubilee South East (JSE) joint venture project in the Tano basin, offshore Ghana. FUTURE DRILLING In 2023, partners Kosmos Energy, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, Petro SA and Jubilee Oil Holdings aim to bring on stream a further two producers and one water […]
Predator results show further extension of Moulouya Fan
Predator Oil & Gas Holdings plc said that MOU-4 well drilling results showed the Moulouya Fan anomaly extended farther than previously mapped at Guercif, onshore Morocco. INTERVALS Operations showed mixed findings, with two of four prospects awaiting consultant NuTech wireline logs including the M1 Sand shallow interval from 540 to 589 metres TVD MD, not […]
Cora starts tendering process for Sanankoro mine
Cora Gold Ltd has begun the tendering process for the front-end engineering and design and construction of the Sanankoro gold mine in southern Mali. BOUNDARIES The company is awaiting the end of Mali government’s November 2022 permit moratorium before formally starting the contract mining process. The application for the Sanankoro mining permit, which includes hybrid […]