Shares in UK oil and gas firm Hurricane Energy (LON:HUR) stormed upwards by 5.90% to 53.27p (as of 15:15 BST) after the company said that well completion work for the Lancaster field was finished. Accordingly, the two production wells in the area are now ready to be connected to the sub-sea infrastructure.
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Management said that the remaining work to reach production was proceeding as scheduled and that the company should achieve first oil in the first half of 2019.