Geology & Geophysics
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August 21, 2017
Empyrean Energy, the oil and gas development company with interests in China, Indonesia and the United States, is pleased to announce that it has been informed by Sacgasco Limited, the operator of the Dempsey 1-15 well in the Sacramento basin, onshore California, that the field appraisal drilling component of the Dempsey 1-15 well has been successfully concluded.
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August 18, 2017
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) today announced results of its 2017-2018 board of directors election.
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August 18, 2017
Highlands, the London-listed natural resources company, has announced that it has successfully drilled and set surface casing in both the Wildhorse 5-64 15-16-1BHZ and Powell 5-64-15-16-1CHZ wells.
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August 17, 2017
As of Aug. 16, Well La-107 has been successfully drilled to its planned TD of the 6-in. hole section at 3,180 m MD (3,166 m TVD) where the base of the Logbaba formation was encountered.
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August 15, 2017
Rockhopper Exploration plc, the oil and gas company with key interests in the North Falkland basin and the Greater Mediterranean region, has provided the following update concerning the Abu Sennan drilling concession, onshore Egypt.
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August 15, 2017
Azinor Catalyst Limited, the Seacrest Capital Group-backed E&P Company focused on the UK Continental Shelf, is pleased to announce that the 14/11a-2 well on the Partridge Prospect, was spudded at approximately 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 15, 2017, using the Ocean Guardian semisubmersible drilling rig.
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August 14, 2017
Oil and gas software firm iLandMan is now offering nationwide well data and status information thanks to a new integration with geoscience data company TGS.
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August 14, 2017
BNK Petroleum Inc. has announced the completion of the fracture stimulation of the Hartgraves 1-6H well (100% working interest), which is located in BNK’s Tishiminogo field, in the SCOOP region of Oklahoma.
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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.
