Geology & Geophysics
News
October 17, 2017
FairfieldNodal will begin a large Z700 acquisition project offshore Trinidad in late October 2017.
News
October 11, 2017
Specialists from the Gazprom Neft Science and Technology Centre, in partnership with Yandex Terra (LLC Seysmotek), Pangea PJSC and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) are developing Russia’s first integrated platform for the processing and interpretation of seismic data, supporting the entire seismic-survey cycle, from objective setting to project completion.
Article
October 2017
Well interventions in declining fields are viewed as challenging, yet increasingly necessary. Despite the difficulties, advanced drilling technologies and techniques can deliver increased yields and reduced costs over traditional intervention methods in legacy assets.
News
October 10, 2017
Statoil and partners have made an oil discovery in the Verbier sidetrack well in the outer Moray Firth on the UK Continental Shelf, proving a minimum of 25 million recoverable barrels of oil in the immediate vicinity of the wellbore.
News
October 09, 2017
Paradigm today unveiled Paradigm k, its new Production Management solution, in the company’s booth #3163, at the 2017 Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio. Paradigm k is a cloud-based, collaborative workflow for production and reservoir engineers to support field operations in maintenance and management of the well system.
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October 09, 2017
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway), has commenced drilling of exploration well 7219/12-2 on the Hufsa prospect in PL533, in the southern Barents Sea.
News
October 06, 2017
ExxonMobil's fifth new oil discovery offshore Guyana, proves "that deepwater can still be attractive."
News
October 06, 2017
The SEG International Exposition and 88th Annual Meeting in Houston concluded Friday 29 September with attendance of 7,266, exceeding SEG’s “Post-Hurricane Harvey” projections by 45%. Geoscientists from more than 70 countries convened for this annual information exchange, educational, and networking event.
News
October 05, 2017
ExxonMobil today announced it made a fifth new oil discovery after drilling the Turbot-1 well offshore Guyana.
News
October 04, 2017
Gazpromneft-Sakhalin, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, has completed drilling of a prospecting and appraisal well at its Ayashsky license block, located on the continental shelf of the Okhotsk Sea. As a result, a new hydrocarbon field has been discovered, with initial in-place reserves estimated at 255 million tonnes of oil equivalent (MMtoe).
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October 04, 2017
Just 125 mi southwest of the Fort McMurray oil-sands hub in northern Alberta, investors are rushing to secure rights to land that produces crude at much lower costs than the massive operations the region’s known for. That’s because beneath the area’s characteristic oil-rich soil, which requires expensive extraction and refining techniques, there’s crude trapped between layers of rock that can be pumped with conventional gear.
News
October 03, 2017
Aker BP ASA, operator of production licence 442, has completed the drilling of appraisal well 25/2-19 S and wildcat well 25/2-19 A.
News
September 29, 2017
CGG has successfully completed acquisition of the first-ever full-scale commercial survey using TopSeis, its latest offshore broadband seismic acquisition and imaging solution.
News
September 29, 2017
ION Geophysical Corporation has announced an approximate 50% extension to its previously announced program offshore Panama, due to strong client interest and prefunding to evaluate offshore Panama in advance of the anticipated license round.
News
September 29, 2017
Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 609, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 7220/6-3. The well is dry.
News
September 28, 2017
Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lundin Norway AS, has completed drilling of exploration well 7220/6-3 on the Børselv prospect in PL609 on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry.
News
September 27, 2017
Hansa Hydrocarbons Limited has announced that the N05-1 exploration well drilled offshore Netherlands on its GEms licences, has been confirmed as a significant discovery, encountering gas in the target basal Rotliegend sandstones.
News
September 27, 2017
Eni Norge AS, operator of production licence 697, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7122/10-1 S. The well, which was drilled about 10 km southwest of Goliat field, is dry.
News
September 26, 2017
CGG has completed ahead of schedule an 11,500 km2 wide-azimuth (WAZ) survey on behalf of Pemex in the deepwater Perdido area.
News
September 26, 2017
Eni successfully drilled the Miztón-2 well, in the shallow waters of Campeche bay, offshore Mexico, boosting the estimates of the resource in place for Contractual Area 1 to over 1.4 Bboe.
News
September 26, 2017
Gazpromneft-Yamal, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, has begun pilot oil production from the Achimov deposits at its Severo-Samburgskoye oil field (in the Purovsky District, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug).
