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October 30, 2013
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Schlumberger has announced the release of the SonicScope multipole sonic-while-drilling service for wells with large boreholes. The SonicScope service provides high fidelity measurements to determine formation pore pressure and breakout limits to improve drilling risk management.
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Cairn starts drilling offshore Morocco and adds exploration acreage to its Atlantic Margin portfolio
October 30, 2013
EDINBURGH -- Cairn has entered into a farm-in agreement with Kosmos Energy and the Moroccan National Oil Company (ONHYM) for a 20% non-operated interest in an exploration block offshore North West Africa which is scheduled for drilling in H2 2014.
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October 29, 2013
HOUSTON -- Cobalt International Energy has announced discoveries at its Lontra #1 and Mavinga #1 deepwater pre-salt exploratory wells offshore Angola.
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October 29, 2013
STAVANGER, Norway -- OMV (Norway) AS, operator of production licence 537, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 7324/7-1 S. The well has been drilled about five km northwest of the oil discovery 7324/8-1 (Wisting Central) and about 170 km northeast of the gas/oil discovery 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg.
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October 29, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg) -- Governor Jerry Brown said it may take as long as 18 months for California, to complete an environmental review of hydraulic fracturing.
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October 25, 2013
SAN DONATO MILANESE -- Eni has successfully completed the Evans Shoal North-1 appraisal well in the Evans Shoal gas field in the Timor Sea, Australia. The field is located offshore in the NT/P48 exploration permit, in the north Bonaparte basin, some 300 km northwest of Darwin.
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October 25, 2013
STAVANGER, Norway -- Wintershall Norge AS, operator of production licence 457, has completed drilling of wildcat wells 16/1-19 S and 16/1-20 A.
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October 25, 2013
JAKARTA (Bloomberg) -- Work at 19 Indonesia exploration wells may halt after the finance ministry shifted the cost of land and building taxes for oil and natural gas projects.
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October 25, 2013
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released the initial edition of a new monthly Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) to provide region-specific insights into oil and natural gas drilling rig efficiency, new well productivity, existing well decline rates, and overall oil and natural gas production trends.
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October 24, 2013
MURMANSK (Bloomberg) -- A Russian court denied bail to Greenpeace activists arrested for protesting against Arctic oil drilling even after prosecutors dropped a piracy case against them in favor of a lesser charge of hooliganism.
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October 24, 2013
STAVANGER -- The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for well 16/5-5, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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October 24, 2013
STAVANGER -- Eni Norge, operator of production licence 529, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 7016/2-1. The well was drilled in the Barents Sea about 185 km southwest of the Snohvit field and 160 km northwest of Tromso.
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October 24, 2013
CALGARY (Bloomberg) -- Encana, returned to a Q3 profit and beat analysts’ estimates after increasing its oil and petroleum liquids output as prices rose.
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October 23, 2013
TRIPOLI: Repsol has made a high-quality light oil find (40º API) in Libya’s Murzuq basin. The find was made in block NC115 in the Sahara desert, 800 km south of Tripoli.
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October 23, 2013
PARIS (Bloomberg) -- GDF Suez became the second utility to buy into United Kingdom shale with the purchase of assets from Dart Energy.
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October 22, 2013
RIO DE JANEIRO (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s failure to attract more than one bid for a license to develop the country’s biggest oil discovery is a windfall for Petroleo Brasileiro.
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October 21, 2013
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Petrobras has completed a formation test in well 3-BRSA-1178D-SES (3-SES-176D), informally known as Farfan 1. This is the first well to evaluate the production capacity of the accumulation located in the concession area BM-SEAL-11, block SEAL-M-426, in the ultradeep waters of the Sergipe-Alagoas basin.
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October 18, 2013
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Atlas Copco has purchased the operational assets of Archer Underbalanced Services, a leading service provider of down-the-hole hammers, drill bits and compressed air packages to U.S. land-based oil and gas drilling companies.
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October 18, 2013
WASHINGTON -- Sixty-four percent of voters in Florida support offshore drilling for domestic oil and natural gas resources, according to a new poll conducted by Harris Interactive for the American Petroleum Institute's “What America is Thinking on Energy Issues” series.
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October 18, 2013
HOUSTON (Bloomberg) -- Schlumberger Ltd. said third-quarter profit rose as higher crude prices led to more drilling around the globe.
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October 17, 2013
STAVANGER -- Repsol Exploration, operator of production licence 541, has completed drilling of wildcat well 4/4-1. The well is dry.
