Geology & Geophysics
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June 09, 2017
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) announces that the Company has entered into pre-funding agreements related to 3D CSEM data surveys in the Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea using the conventional technology and the new Deep Blue source.
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June 08, 2017
Empyrean Energy plc, the oil and gas development company with interests in China, Indonesia and the United States, is pleased to announce that a 3D seismic survey has commenced on its 100% owned Block 29/11, offshore China.
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June 08, 2017
Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazpromneft-Vostok has acquired the subsoil usage licence for the Parabelsky block, located in the Tomsk Oblast. The licence, for geological prospecting at the block, was awarded by the Subsoil Usage Department for the Central Siberian Okrug and runs to May 10, 2022.
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June 08, 2017
CGG announced today that the final products from its Encontrado multi-client reprocessing project across the Gulf of Mexico’s prolific Perdido fold belt have been delivered on schedule to the Comision Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) and the industry.
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June 08, 2017
Sercel announced today that its multi-sensor solid streamer, the Sentinel MS, has been commercially deployed for the first time and is being successfully operated on a large 3D CGG multi-client survey being conducted by the CGG Geo Coral in the southern Porcupine basin in Ireland.
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June 07, 2017
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Statoil Petroleum AS a drilling permit for well 7219/9-2, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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June 07, 2017
An agency instrumental to America’s surge in energy production would lose half its funding in President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget.
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June 06, 2017
Repsol has uncovered its largest volume of gas of the last five years offshore Trinidad and Tobago, where the find is the most significant in a decade for the country. The company estimates the finds made in two wells at 2 Tcf.
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June 06, 2017
With a maiden voyage that takes her to the deep waters of Ireland’s Atlantic margin and the far North of the Barents Sea, Fugro Venturer is the newest of Fugro’s successful purpose-designed, standardized survey vessels, originally formulated in 2013.
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June 06, 2017
Oilex Ltd. has released the following update on the Cambay field workover program in India, and ongoing activities.
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June 06, 2017
NEL, the flow measurement R&D specialist, has developed a new method to improve the accuracy of differential pressure meters for high viscosity oil, which will help the oil & gas industry to reduce financial exposure and tackle the challenges involved in its measurement.
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June 02, 2017
BP Trinidad & Tobago (BPTT) today announced that it has made two significant gas discoveries with the Savannah and Macadamia exploration wells, offshore Trinidad. The results of these wells have unlocked approximately 2 Tcf of gas in place to underpin new developments in these areas.
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June 01, 2017
A new U.S. Geological Survey study shows that unconventional oil and gas production in some areas of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas is not currently a significant source of methane or benzene to drinking water wells. These production areas include the Eagle Ford, Fayetteville, and Haynesville shale formations, which are some of the largest sources of natural gas in the country and have trillions of cubic feet of gas.
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May 31, 2017
CGG GeoConsulting announced today that it has been awarded a contract to supply digital well products to the Oil & Gas Authority (OGA), the UK Government industry regulator, as part of a wider tender for comprehensive subsurface databases and information sources to encourage further exploration in underexplored areas of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
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May 31, 2017
TGS announces its second Permian seismic project in 2017. The West Lindsey 3D multi-client seismic survey is located to the southwest of the previously announced West Kermit 3D. This new project will encompass a minimum of 190 mi2 predominantly in Reeves County, Texas.
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May 30, 2017
Stephen Greenlee, president of Exxon Mobil Exploration Company and vice president of Exxon Mobil Corporation, will be the keynote speaker at the Society of Exploration Geophysicists 87th Annual Meeting.
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May 29, 2017
SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, is pleased to announce the results of the well test conducted on the SD-1X well following the recent natural gas discovery at South Disouq, Egypt.
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May 29, 2017
Husky Energy is moving forward with the West White Rose Project, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador.
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May 26, 2017
Interoil Colombia E&P and SLS (strategic partner) finished the drilling of the exploratory well Vikingo-1 on May 9th, down to a final depth of 5,936 ft in the Paleozoic basement.
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May 26, 2017
UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC has announced that the drilling rig and key equipment necessary to drill the Broadford Bridge-1 (BB-1) Kimmeridge Limestone well are now on site. All regulatory permissions are now in place and drilling is expected, therefore, to commence shortly.
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May 26, 2017
TGS and Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) announce the fourth 3D seismic project offshore Eastern Canada for 2017. Long Range 3D will comprise approximately 9,100 km2 of 3D GeoStreamer data in the Eastern Newfoundland region.
