Exploration
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January 05, 2022
ExxonMobil announced two oil discoveries at Fangtooth-1 and Lau Lau-1 in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana.
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January 19, 2021
“This year’s award of 61 new production licenses to as many as 30 companies shows that the petroleum industry still has significant expectations of making profitable discoveries on the Norwegian Shelf,” said Kalmar Ildstad, director of license management in the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
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January 14, 2021
Total and Apache Corporation have made a new significant oil and gas discovery at the Keskesi East-1 well, in Block 58 off the coast of Suriname. This follows previous discoveries at Maka Central, Sapakara West and Kwaskwasi.
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January 01, 2021
This deal, plus more to be announced, target drilling 23 wells in nine regions in the Mediterranean and three regions in the Red Sea, with a minimum total investment seen at $1.4 billion.
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December 30, 2019
CGG announced it has terminated the Seabed Geosolutions’ joint venture agreement effective December 31, 2019.
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December 23, 2019
ExxonMobil and its partners announced another oil discovery on the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, southeast of the Liza Field. The discovery adds to the current gross recoverable resource estimate of more than 6 Bboe.
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December 23, 2019
Under the agreement, Apache and Total will each hold a 50% working interest in Block 58, which comprises approximately 1.4 MM acres in water depths ranging from less than 100 m to more than 2,100 m.
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December 20, 2019
TGS announced the completion of a new multibeam and coring program covering over 213,0000 square kilometers in the Campos and Santos basins of offshore Brazil.
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December 13, 2019
CGG has completed JumpStart multi-client geoscience packages for the North West Shelf of Australia and the Banda Arc in the Asia-Pacific region.
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December 11, 2019
Maersk Drilling has signed agreements with Halliburton and Petrofac to collaborate on a shallow and deepwater exploration program to be delivered under Maersk Drilling’s master alliance agreement with Seapulse.
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December 11, 2019
Springfield Exploration and Production Limited and its partners have made a significant oil discovery following its maiden Afina-1 well drilling campaign in the West Cape Three Points Block 2, offshore Ghana.
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December 09, 2019
The new exploration contracts increase Canacol's land position for conventional natural gas in Colombia to 1.4 million net acres.
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December 09, 2019
Geofacets for ArcGIS provides users with one primary information solution that combines the mapping and analysis capabilities of ArcGIS, with the information and data discovery solutions of Geofacets.
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December 06, 2019
The survey results will be critical for planning a safe drilling program, and will provide key inputs for engineering and design studies for pipeline routing and subsea structures in future deepwater field developments.
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December 03, 2019
The new imaging project will process data from the prolific Mississippi Canyon, Viosca Knoll and De Soto Canyon areas using the latest imaging technologies to provide a significant uplift in data quality.
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December 02, 2019
Apache Corp. tumbled after the company’s update on a closely watched exploratory oil well off the coast of Suriname offered little indication as to whether it will be commercially viable.
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November 28, 2019
For the first time, an exploration well is being drilled in the North Sea where the objective is not to find oil or gas.
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November 27, 2019
Officially launched in April, the round received interest from 53 international and national companies, with 17 companies submitting official bids and seven companies awarded concessions for nine blocks.
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November 26, 2019
Equinor will reduce its focus on the frontier areas of the Barents Sea in another blow to Norway’s ambition to build a new oil province in its Arctic region.
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November 19, 2019
Planned to start in early 2020, the survey has already received significant industry interest and is being prefunded in part by BP. First results are targeted for Q1 2021.
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November 14, 2019
Full waveform inversion will be a key component in the workflow to achieve a high-resolution velocity model for depth imaging and seismic inversion for reservoir characterization.
