Geology & Geophysics
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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.
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July 25, 2017
Exxon Mobil Corp. today announced that it has discovered additional oil in the Payara reservoir offshore Guyana, increasing the total Payara discovery to approximately 500 MMboe.
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July 24, 2017
Reveal Energy Services announced today the commercialization of IMAGE Frac 2.0 pressure-based fracture maps that validate completion designs on every well with minimum operational risk and cost.
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July 24, 2017
Sperry Drilling, a Halliburton business, has announced the release of the Radian Azimuthal Gamma Ray and Inclination Service, a geosteering solution that provides real-time, high-quality borehole images and continuous inclination measurements.
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July 24, 2017
Anglo African Oil & Gas plc, an independent oil and gas developer, has provided an update on activities with regards to the development of the producing Tilapia oil field in the Republic of Congo.
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July 20, 2017
CGG GeoSoftware has donated a full suite of its software technologies to the Petroleum Learning Center, a joint educational project of Tomsk Polytechnic University in Russia and Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. The donation includes training licenses for each of the software solutions (HampsonRussell, Jason, PowerLog, EarthModel FT, InsightEarth and VelPro) in its product portfolio.
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July 19, 2017
Sound Energy, the African and European focused upstream gas company, has provided an update on the TE-7 extended well test, including an initial measurement of the reservoir pressure build-up response.
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July 19, 2017
CGG announced the award by Petrobras of a contract to process the seismic data from a 3D Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) survey covering a full-fold area of 2180 km2 in Brazil’s deepwater Santos Basin.
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July 18, 2017
Poseidon is wading into the battle between U.S. crude and Middle East supplies in the world’s biggest oil market.
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July 17, 2017
Mexico will delay its next offshore oilfield auctions by a month, giving international bidders more time to evaluate recent major crude discoveries that highlight the potential value of the assets.
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July 17, 2017
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 849, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 7121/8-1. The well was drilled about 25 km southeast of the Snøhvit field in the Barents Sea. The well proved gas.
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July 14, 2017
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.2 on Friday struck Stroud, Okla., about 20 mi (32.2 km) from the key oil storage hub in Cushing, Okla., the Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) said.
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July 14, 2017
Xodus Group has won a contract with Cairn Oil and Gas of Vedanta Ltd. to conduct exploration and appraisal work on its Rajasthan block in northwest India over the next two years.
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July 13, 2017
Premier Oil, which produces more than half its oil in the British North Sea, said on Thursday that exploring for resources in the basin was no longer attractive, a day after it announced a major discovery off Mexico.
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July 13, 2017
Angry Dutch residents living near the huge Groningen gas field demanded a total halt to production, accusing oil giants of causing house-damaging earth tremors and the government of lying at a hearing in the Netherlands' highest court on Thursday.
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July 13, 2017
The world is awash with oil, but in pockets of the market lower-quality, sulphur-rich crude is limited and buyers are competing for cargoes.
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July 13, 2017
The Barryroe Partners have been granted a two-year extension to the term of the First Phase of SEL 1/11 to July 2019 and overall term to July 2021 by the Minister for Communications, Climate Action & Environment subject to the Barryroe Partners carrying out a work program that includes the evaluation of newly reprocessed 3D seismic data together with an assessment of the Jurassic and Triassic exploration potential of the lisence area.
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July 13, 2017
Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS has successfully completed the drilling and production testing of Alta appraisal well 7220/11-4 (Alta-4) located in PL609 in the southern Barents Sea.
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July 12, 2017
Eni has successfully drilled and tested the Amoca-3 well in the shallow waters of Campeche bay, in offshore Mexico. It has proven the presence of multiple significant oil levels in the Orca and Cinco Presidentes Formations.
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July 12, 2017
Providence Resources, the Irish based exploration company, has provided an operational update regarding Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 2/14 located in the southern Porcupine basin. FEL 2/14 is operated by Providence Resources plc (56%) on behalf of its partners Capricorn Ireland Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cairn Energy PLC, 30%) and Sosina Exploration Limited (14%), collectively referred to as the “JV partners”.
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July 12, 2017
Talos Energy announced that the Zama-1 exploration well, offshore Mexico, has discovered oil.
