Exploration
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June 19, 2019
A ghost town in Cyprus’s Turkish-controlled north has become the latest pawn in the conflict surrounding Turkey’s drilling for natural gas off the island’s shore.
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June 18, 2019
ConocoPhillips Alaska (COPA) has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Caelus Natural Resources Alaska, LLC to acquire 100% of the Nuna discovery, located just east of the Colville River and approximately 5 mi southwest of Oooguruk field.
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June 18, 2019
Subsurface Imaging, part of CGG’s Geoscience division, has been awarded a landmark processing contract by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).
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June 17, 2019
Petrobras has made its biggest discovery in the Sergipe since the pre-salt in 2006. Of six fields, it expects to extract 20 MMcmd of natural gas, equivalent to a third of the total Brazilian production.
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June 2019
Sparrows Group has won contract renewals worth an estimated £30 million on the UKCS.
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June 2019
Timing factors that matter
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June 07, 2019
Gazprom Neft, Repsol and Shell have signed a memorandum of understanding at this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, establishing a JV to develop the Leskinsky and Pukhutsyayakhsky license blocks on the Gydan Peninsula.
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June 06, 2019
CGG and Fairfield Geotechnologies have signed a cooperation agreement to acquire a large-scale, multi-client survey in south-central Louisiana.
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June 05, 2019
CGG, a leading geoscience company, is pleased to announce collaboration with Microsoft to deliver its geoscience products, data and services on Microsoft Azure and accelerate Exploration and Development workflows for its oil and gas company clients.
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May 29, 2019
Oil giant Total SA, the only oil major exploring for crude in the Democratic Republic of Congo, indicated it’s pulling out of a block in the central African nation, one of its partners said.
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May 28, 2019
Caspian Sunrise has announced that work has commenced on a third core sample taken from Deep Well A8 on the Airshagyl structure at its flagship BNG Contract Area.
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May 28, 2019
Sercel has announced the successful delivery of five of its state-of-the-art 508XT seismic acquisition systems to India’s national oil company, ONGC.
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May 27, 2019
Five (5) new petroleum exploration licenses (PEL) in the Cooper Basin and three (3) new petroleum exploration licenses in the Otway Basin are being offered by the South Australian Government on the basis of work program bidding.
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May 24, 2019
The largest oil companies are playing an increasingly important role in high impact exploration but performance was down in 2018, limited by a lack of depth in the quality of global drilling opportunities, according to experts at research consultancy, Westwood Global Energy Group.
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May 16, 2019
Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, will be one of five Diamond Sponsors of the 2019 Imperial Barrel Award (IBA), an annual prospective basin evaluation competition for geoscience graduate students worldwide, jointly managed by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the AAPG Foundation.
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May 2019
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May 02, 2019
Ukraine's second licensing round took place Thursday on May 2, 2019.
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May 01, 2019
In a corner of outback Australia, a drilling crew will soon try tapping shale rocks that could hold more than three times the world’s annual consumption of natural gas.
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May 01, 2019
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has announced, as part of Abu Dhabi’s block licensing strategy and on behalf of the Supreme Petroleum Council (SPC) – the details of the second round of five new geographical oil and gas blocks open for bidding for both conventional and unconventional resources.
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April 23, 2019
Africa’s second-biggest oil producer looks to benefit from a surge in crude prices that could boost companies’ appetite for investments with an auction of nine blocks this year and seeking new refineries.
