Citing an anonymous source the Petrowatch said, “The Sagar Vijay has drilled a dry hole at its third location offshore KG-DS-OS/3 defying hopes of a strike during testing after drilling stopped late July. The first was water bearing and the second is also likely to be water bearing. Sagar Vijay now moves to her fourth location, most likely on the same block.”

“On August 28th, the Belford Dolphin abandoned her fifth dry well offshore Gujarat and moved to location GS-DW-1-3 further west. On August 30th, the rig began drilling her sixth well on this block in water depths of 2500 meters to a target depth of 3800 meters.

“In late August meanwhile, Discoverer 534 abandoned her second dry hole [because] the MDT at the second well did not yield any promising results. On August 24th, Discoverer 534 began drilling at her third location: GD-3-1 in water depth of 1036 metres to TD of 2800 metres,” added the informant.