Geology & Geophysics
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August 14, 2017
President Edgar Changa Lungu heralded the beginning of Zambia’s new oil industry, when he commissioned the launch of a full tensiometer survey by Tullow Oil in Luapula province. The survey is the first of its kind to be undertaken in Zambia.
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August 11, 2017
GeoPark Limited and Wintershall Energía S.A., a subsidiary of the BASF group, the fourth-largest gas producer in Argentina with over 15 blocks, have announced the discovery of a new oil field in the CN-V block (GeoPark 50% WI, Wintershall 50% WI) in the Neuquen basin, Mendoza Province of Argentina.
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August 10, 2017
Teledyne CARIS has announced the release of Bathy DataBASE (BDB) 4.4. This new version addresses the important areas of feature generalization and automation of product generation for chart compilation, as well as the increasing emphasis on bathymetric Lidar surveys.
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August 09, 2017
ION Geophysical Corporation has announced acquisition is in progress on a new 2D multi-client program offshore Panama. Supported by industry funding, this is the first seismic survey acquired there in approximately 30 years.
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August 09, 2017
Pantheon Resources plc, the AIM-quoted oil and gas exploration company with a working interest in several conventional projects in Tyler and Polk Counties, onshore East Texas, has provided the following update.
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August 08, 2017
First gas has been exported from Cygnus Bravo, the satellite wellhead platform in the Southern North Sea’s Cygnus development, operated by ENGIE E&P UK Limited.
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August 07, 2017
Woodside has advised that the Pyi Thit-1 exploration well in Block A-6 in the Southern Rakhine basin, located offshore Myanmar, has intersected a gross gas column of approximately 65 m. A net gas pay interval of approximately 36 m has been interpreted within the primary target sandstone reservoir.
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August 07, 2017
BP announced today it has brought online a highly productive natural gas well in the Mancos shale, highlighting the potential of the New Mexico field to be a significant new source of U.S. natural gas supply.
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August 07, 2017
Statoil and partners OMV and Petoro have made a small gas discovery in the Gemini North well, northeast of the Wisting discovery in the Barents Sea. The well also proved oil.
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August 07, 2017
The well encountered oil and gas in the primary objective and oil in the deeper secondary objective, in a separate accumulation to the SNE field.
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August 03, 2017
ION Geophysical Corporation has announced a new 3D multi-client broadband reimaging program offshore the Western Gulf of Mexico, using the Mexican National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) data library.
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August 01, 2017
Sacramento basin-focused natural gas developer and producer, Sacgasco Limited has advised that it plans to commence drilling of the Company’s 1+ Tcf Dempsey 1-15 well in the Sacramento basin in California on Aug. 1, 2017.
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August 01, 2017
An attack by Islamist militants on an oil exploration team in Nigeria’s northeast has hurt the government’s agenda to find new crude reserves and quashed hopes of a quick recovery of the West African nation’s least developed region.
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July 31, 2017
Talos Energy LLC, as operator, together with its joint venture partners Sierra Oil and Gas S. de R.L de C.V. and Premier Oil Plc, has announced that the Zama-1 exploration well, offshore Mexico, has completed drilling operations, reaching a TD of 13,480 ft (4,109 m). Zama-1 is the first offshore exploration well to be drilled by the private sector in Mexico.
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July 31, 2017
Lukoil has successfully completed a 3D seismic survey at Mishvan area in the Nenets Autonomous District. The company used a survey procedure which had never been used in Timan-Pechora Oil and Gas Province before.
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July 28, 2017
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP ASA a drilling permit for well 25/4-11, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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July 28, 2017
Africa Oil Corp. has provided the following update on its operations in Kenya.
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July 28, 2017
Gazprom Neft has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran’s Oil Industries’ Engineering & Construction (OIEC), confirming both companies’ mutual interest in combining forces in the preliminary assessment and investigation of the geological potential of oil fields located in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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July 26, 2017
Karoon Gas Australia Ltd. is pleased to announce that its Board has approved the development concept for the Echidna light oil discovery, progressing the project to the next phase in the development, Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED).
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July 26, 2017
Echo Energy, the South and Central America focused upstream gas company, has announced the signature of a technical evaluation agreement (TEA) for the Rio Salado Block, onshore Bolivia.
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July 26, 2017
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway, the UK and Atlantic Margin, has announced the results of the 31/7-2S Brasse sidetrack appraisal well in the Norwegian North Sea.
