Exploration

News
May 18, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the successful completion of the ELM-1004 exploration well drilling at the Company's Fracción C asset, onshore Argentina, and a gas discovery for the first well in its four-well exploration campaign.
News
May 17, 2018
Lukoil has built an integrated geological and geophysical model of fields and exploration structures of the Denisov depression in Timan-Pechora oil and gas province.
Article
May 2018
Despite the rise in crude prices, many Latin American countries are still grappling with considerable debt and declining production rates.
Article
May 2018
A direct detection technology identifies fundamental properties generated by the interaction of super-light elementary particles. These small, sub-atomic particles constantly emit an intrinsic radiation spectrum that can be tracked to draw inferences about mineral deposits.
News
May 09, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the commencement of drilling of the first exploration well in a four-well, back-to-back campaign in the Company's Fracción C asset, onshore Argentina.
News
May 08, 2018
SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, is pleased to announce that it has spud its Kelvin-1X exploration well at South Disouq, Egypt
News
May 07, 2018
SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced that a conventional natural gas discovery has been made at its LMS-1 exploration well on the Lalla Mimouna permit in Morocco (SDX 75%).
News
May 04, 2018
Thailand’s PTT Exploration & Production Pcl is ready to shell out as much as $1 billion on an overseas petroleum asset this year, and possibly more, as it tries to prop up growth amid falling reserves.
News
May 04, 2018
French energy giant Total SA plans to boost oil exploration and open more fuel stations in Africa’s most industrialized country.
News
May 03, 2018
Eni announces an oil discovery on the A-2X exploration prospect in the South West Meleiha license, in the Egyptian Western Desert, some 103 km north of the oasis of Siwa.
News
April 26, 2018
Mayan Energy, the AIM listed oil and gas company, has announced a new gas discovery at Stockdale field, in Wilson County, Texas, as part of its ongoing development activities at the Morris 1 well.
News
April 24, 2018
SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, is pleased to announce that an oil discovery has been made at its Rabul 4 Well in the West Gharib Concession in Egypt.
News
April 20, 2018
SDX Energy announced that a conventional natural gas discovery has been made at its LNB-1 exploration well in Morocco.
News
April 16, 2018
ConocoPhillips announced it has concluded its 2018 winter exploration and appraisal program in Alaska.
News
April 13, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced gas to surface on the first well of a three-well workover campaign at the Company's Fracción D asset, onshore Argentina.
News
April 13, 2018
TGS further expands its 2018 onshore seismic activity with the announcement of the Gloss Mountain 3D seismic survey. Gloss Mountain is a significant addition to our industry leading geoscience data position in the SCOOP/STACK area of the Anadarko basin.
News
April 13, 2018
Gazprom Neft has been confirmed as the winner of Rosnedra subsoil licensing rounds for six blocks in the Karabashsky exploration zone, located in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.
Article
April 2018
Things certain in life: Death, taxes and risk in exploration.
News
March 27, 2018
SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced that it has spud its Ibn Yunus-1X exploration well at South Disouq, Egypt.
News
March 16, 2018
Eni SpA’s unit in the Republic of Congo will sponsor a $30 million research center that will search for oil and renewable energy, government spokesman Thierry Moungalla said.
News
March 16, 2018
The Democratic Republic of Congo granted Total SA a one-year extension to a license allowing it to explore for oil along the Ugandan border.
Connect with World Oil
Connect with World Oil, the upstream industry's most trusted source of forecast data, industry trends, and insights into operational and technological advances.