Geology & Geophysics
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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.
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July 11, 2017
Devon Energy Corp. has announced that it has brought online a record-setting Meramec well and commenced production on several high-rate wells in the core of the over-pressured oil window of the STACK play during the second quarter of 2017.
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July 11, 2017
Cairn Energy has announced the results of the FAN South-1 well in the South Fan prospect offshore Senegal.
Article
July 2017
While much of West Africa suffers from economic hardship, political turmoil and corruption, other regions are thriving. Despite the risk to E&P activity in these precarious areas of operation, producers cannot ignore its abundant resources and its affluent potential to be an international hydrocarbon hotbed.
News
July 10, 2017
Statoil, along with its partner, Husky Energy, has finalized a two-well exploration drilling program in the Flemish Pass basin offshore Newfoundland.
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July 10, 2017
DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, has announced resumption of appraisal drilling at the Peshkabir discovery on the Tawke license in the Kurdistan region of Iraq following extended testing of the Cretaceous and Jurassic reservoirs in the Peshkabir-2 well.
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July 07, 2017
Zennor Petroleum Limited has announced that on June 30, 2017, its subsidiary, Zennor North Sea Limited, completed the acquisition of interests in and under United Kingdom Petroleum Production Licence P359.
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July 07, 2017
Sound Energy, the Moroccan and European focused upstream gas company, is delighted to report the success of operations to date at the Koba-1 well at Sidi Moktar, onshore Morocco.
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July 03, 2017
Gazprom Neft PJSC has acquired a 25.02% stake (with the right to increase this to 50%) in Evrotek-Yugra. Evrotek-Yugra, owned by Spain’s Repsol, holds exploration and production rights to seven license blocks in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.
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July 03, 2017
Faroe Petroleum has announced the results of the Drill Stem Test (DST) on the 31/7-2 S Brasse appraisal well in the Norwegian North Sea (Faroe 50% and operator, Point Resources 50%).
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July 03, 2017
Statoil Petroleum AS, operator of production licence 532, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7219/9-2. The well proved oil.
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June 29, 2017
Hurricane Energy plans to raise $520 million for test drilling at its Lancaster oilfield in the North Sea, a major milestone for the project that could breathe new life into the ageing offshore basin.
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June 29, 2017
BP will book a $750-million charge for unsuccessful exploration campaigns in Angola, the company said on Thursday, a write-off that will weigh on its second-quarter results.
