Malaysian independent oil and gas exploration firm Hibiscus Petroleum has spudded a new well at the Teal West field in the North Sea, off the coast of the United Kingdom. The drilling operations is being done with Shelf Drilling’s Shelf Drilling Fortress jack-up rig, which was prepared and mobilized from Invergordon in Scotland on September 8, 2025. Fluids from the Teal West well will be processed and exported from the Anasuria FPSO. Anasuria Hibiscus UK Limited (AHUK), Hibiscus Petroleum’s wholly-owned subsidiary, operates the Anasuria FPSO through its Anasuria Operating Company joint venture with Ping Petroleum UK, a subsidiary of Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNeX). AHUK noted that the UK oil and gas sector is under significant pressure, with activity levels at historic lows and that Teal West is one of only three development wells being drilled across the entire UK Continental Shelf in 2025.