Exploration

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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.
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March 14, 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 5 well in the West Gharib Concession in Egypt.
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March 14, 2018
Zoltav Resources, the Russia-focused oil and gas exploration and production company, is pleased to provide an update on the Company’s exploration program to assess the resource potential of the Carbonian and Devonian structures in the Western fields of the Bortovoy Licence, Saratov.
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March 13, 2018
Nutrient-rich ash from an enormous flare-up of volcanic eruptions toward the end of the dinosaurs' reign kicked off a chain of events that led to the formation of shale gas and oil fields from Texas to Montana.
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March 2018
If the dam don’t break, recovery will continue
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March 05, 2018
Emerson announced today a long-term global agreement with Total S.A. to provide all Total geoscientists with access to Emerson’s Paradigm exploration and production (E&P) software portfolio, to help the global energy leader maximize performance of reservoir subsurface modeling and formation evaluation.
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February 27, 2018
G3 Exploration Ltd., an independent specialist in the exploration and development of coal bed methane gas (CBM), with roots in China and a focus on international expansion, is pleased to provide a progress update of the exploration and development activities for its Baotian-Qingshan (GGZ)2 Block, situated in the Guizhou Province, China.
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February 22, 2018
A new report from Westwood Global Energy Group, the energy market research consultancy, has highlighted 10 potentially commercial discoveries in 2017 considered likely to be more than 100 MMboe.
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February 2018
Successful exploration is the art of managing failure
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February 12, 2018
Sound Energy, the Morocco focused upstream gas company, has announced the award of an eight-year petroleum agreement relating to the area currently covered by the Sidi Moktar onshore exploration permits in the Essaouira basin, central Morocco (Sidi Moktar).
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February 12, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the South and Central American focused upstream oil and gas company, is pleased to announce its 2018 work program, onshore Argentina.
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February 09, 2018
ExxonMobil Corporation has added 2.7 Bboe of proved oil and gas reserves in 2017, replacing 183% of production.
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February 08, 2018
CGG, its technology partner, and Ardiseis, subsidiary of the Arabian Geophysical and Surveying Company (ARGAS), the Middle East’s seismic acquisition specialist, have announced the successful completion of the world’s highest-density broadband seismic survey ever acquired onshore or offshore.
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February 08, 2018
Sound Energy, the Moroccan upstream gas company, is pleased to provide details of its 2018 work program and an update on the Company's acquisition of geophysical and geological data in Eastern Morocco.
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February 07, 2018
TGS announces expansion of its 2018 onshore seismic activity with the Canton 3D seismic survey in the Anadarko basin.
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February 02, 2018
Chevron Corp. had its best year of oil and natural gas discoveries in more than half a decade as rebounding energy prices lifted drillers out of the worst slump in a generation.
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January 23, 2018
SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced that a gas discovery has been made at its ONZ-7 development well on the Sebou permit in Morocco.
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January 22, 2018
India’s biggest oil and gas explorer has widened its first debt-raising plan to as much as $5.48 billion to buy state-run refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corp.
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January 19, 2018
Prospex Oil and Gas Plc, the AIM quoted investment company, is pleased to announce that it has been advised by the operator Po Valley Energy Limited (PVE) that strong flowrates from testing operations have confirmed a significant commercial gas discovery at the Podere Maiar-1d appraisal/redevelopment well.
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January 15, 2018
ExxonMobil today announced that it encountered hydrocarbons after drilling the onshore P’nyang South-2 well, located in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
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