Geology & Geophysics
Article
May 2017
Latin America schleps forward on its quest for recovery
Article
May 2017
Colloidal nanoparticles could prevent clay-related flow impairment in the reservoir.
Article
March 2017
Recovering from a six-year drilling low that was reported last May, African E&P is slowly picking up the pieces. The region has seen numerous setbacks, despite having the potential to become one of the leading oil and gas producers and exporters in the world. Much of East Africa is riddled with severe debt and economic unrest, impeding investment and the development of infrastructure.
Article
January 2017
Soldiers to scientists
News
December 29, 2016
Ophir and its JV partners, BG Tanzania (Shell) and Pavilion Energy, have concluded the drilling of two exploration wells offshore Tanzania, safely and on time.
News
December 29, 2016
Exxon Mobil has reported a new natural gas discovery in the Papua New Guinea North Highlands, 13 miles (21 kilometers) northwest of Hides gas field.
News
December 27, 2016
Gazprom Neft has opened up a new field in Serbia with recoverable reserves in the order of 432,000 tonnes.
News
December 27, 2016
Eni has been awarded two exploration blocks offshore Cyprus, following a competitive international bid round.
News
December 27, 2016
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will offer more than 48 million acres offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for exploration and development, in a lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Central Planning Area (CPA).
News
December 23, 2016
Energy firms including Imperial Oil and BP will get a year of consultations to hash out the fate of their rights in Canada’s Arctic after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s drilling freeze set the stage for a dispute over license extensions.
News
December 22, 2016
Premier Oilfield Laboratories, LLC (POL) has acquired COREX UK Ltd. Established over 40 years ago, COREX is an international provider of analytical services for the oil and gas industry, helping to improve hydrocarbon recovery while mitigating risk for E&P operators.
News
December 21, 2016
The Newfoundland and Labrador Oil & Gas Industries Association (Noia) has responded to the moratorium on new oil & gas leasing in Arctic waters announced late yesterday.
News
December 20, 2016
President Barack Obama banned new offshore oil and gas development in more than 100 million acres of the U.S. Arctic and undersea canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, an announcement certain to provoke a fight with the Republican-led Congress and his successor in the White House.
News
December 20, 2016
Benthic has been awarded a contract by the Libra Consortium for an offshore geotechnical investigation in the Libra field area, which lies about 140 miles off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
News
December 19, 2016
President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights in much of the U.S. Arctic and parts of the Atlantic, a move that could indefinitely restrict oil production there, according to two people familiar with the decision.
News
December 19, 2016
BP agreed to buy stakes in West African licenses held by Kosmos Energy for $916 million as the British producer builds its natural-gas business following an acquisition in Egypt last month.
News
December 16, 2016
Charlotte Bishop, remote sensing projects manager, NPA Satellite Mapping, CGG, has been elected as chair of the Geological Remote Sensing Group (GRSG).
News
December 14, 2016
CGG announced that its equipment business, Sercel, has delivered four of its new-generation 508XT land acquisition systems to two seismic companies recently awarded survey work in India by ONGC and Oil India, as part of a new national seismic program commissioned by the Indian government.
News
December 09, 2016
Global spending on oil and natural gas exploration is set to fall next year to the lowest level in 12 years as the industry cuts costs and shuns more expensive areas, such as the Arctic, according to Wood Mackenzie.
News
December 08, 2016
OMV Petrom begins experimental gas production from Romania's Padina field.
News
December 08, 2016
Polarcus has received two Letters of Intent from two undisclosed clients for two additional marine seismic projects offshore South America.
