Geology & Geophysics
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September 09, 2015
A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S’s oil unit cut $1 billion off its annual budget for capital expenditure after petroleum prices plunged.
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September 08, 2015
Polarcus Ltd. has received a Letter of Award from Shell Myanmar Energy for a 3D marine seismic project offshore Myanmar.
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September 04, 2015
Hoover Container Solutions, a subsidiary of Hoover Group Inc., and a global provider of chemical tanks, cargo carrying units and related products and services, has unveiled its new Liquitrac Tracer.
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September 03, 2015
MEO Australia has executed the Cuba Block 9 Production Sharing Contract (PSC) with the national oil company Cuba Petróleo Union (CUPET) in a ceremony in Havana, Cuba.
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September 03, 2015
Premier Oil Norge, operator of production license 539, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 3/7-10 S.
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September 02, 2015
ION Geophysical has announced an aggressive cost reduction initiative as part of an overall plan to align its operating expenses with business conditions and recent declines in the commodity price environment for crude oil and natural gas.
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September 02, 2015
GeoPark Ltd. has discovered a new oil field following the drilling of exploration well Jacana 1, located on the Llanos 34 Block in Colombia. GeoPark operates and has a 45% working interest in the block.
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September 02, 2015
PGS has decided to cold-stack the Ramform Viking after she completes a multi-client project offshore East Newfoundland in late October, the company said Wednesday.
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September 02, 2015
CGG, with the support of its Seabed Geosolutions joint venture with Fugro, has completed the acquisition of a 3D seismic survey over the Hail and Shuweihat oil and gas fields in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, one of the world’s most environmentally sensitive areas.
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September 02, 2015
Puntland Petroleum Minerals Agency (PPMA) has awarded ION Geophysical Corporation a contract to acquire 8,000 km of seismic data covering the entire Somalia Puntland offshore margin.
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September 01, 2015
ION Geophysical and the Tanzanian Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) announced Tuesday that TPDC has awarded ION a contract to acquire 4,058 km of 2D seismic, gravity and magnetic data over offshore Blocks 4/1B and 4/1C in the Rovuma Delta region.
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September 01, 2015
Polarcus has signed a contract with an undisclosed client for a non-exclusive broadband 3D marine seismic project offshore Brazil.
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September 01, 2015
The University of Wyoming (UW) has announced that FEI, the scientific and technical instrument manufacturer, will provide state-of-the-art imaging equipment, software and support for cutting-edge digital rock research that will have far-reaching impacts for Wyoming’s oil and gas industry and its economy.
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August 31, 2015
Shares of the natural-gas exploring units of Delek Group Ltd. plunged the most in 14 years in high volume on concern the discovery of the Mediterranean’s largest field off the coast of Egypt will curtail their exports.
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August 31, 2015
Alaska Governor Bill Walker has a message for President Barack Obama: Fill the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System while you still can.
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August 27, 2015
GeoPark Limited discovered a new oil field following the drilling of exploration well Chachalaca 1, located on the Llanos 34 Block in Colombia. GeoPark operates and has a 45% working interest in the block.
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August 27, 2015
CGG has announced today that its E&P data management solution for the seismic, well and production modules in the Diskos database, Norway’s National Data Repository, is now in production and accessible to all members of the Diskos group.
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August 26, 2015
AS Norske Shell has started drilling Portrush exploration well 6407/10-5 in the Norwegian Sea, Faroe Petroleum, a junior partner in the license, announced Wednesday.
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August 25, 2015
Pakistan Petroleum Limited, operator of the Gambat South Block with a 65% working interest, has announced another gas and condensate discovery at its Kabir X-1 exploration well in Sanghar District, Sindh, Pakistan.
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August 24, 2015
TGS has received an authorization from Mexico's Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) for the acquisition of multibeam, coring and geochemical analysis data over an area of approximately 600,000 sq km in Mexican waters.
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August 24, 2015
Bjarte Bruheim has stepped down from his role as the CEO of Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) with immediate effect. He has held this position since Jan. 7.
