Geology & Geophysics
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October 26, 2015
Energean Oil & Gas has appointed Dr. Medhat Tarakhan as country general manager in Egypt.
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October 23, 2015
Gazprom Neft has started using “ray trace” modeling technology in its seismic surveys. The outcomes of initial testing at Novoportovskoye field led to the decision being taken to implement the technology throughout all fields operated by Gazprom Neft.
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October 23, 2015
TGS announced Friday that its Geological Products division purchased all the outstanding shares of Digital Petrodata LLC.
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October 22, 2015
With Exxon Mobil reported to be moving the Liza discovery in deepwater Guyana into pre-Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) less than five months after confirming the find, the project has the potential to yield significant returns for investors, according to GlobalData.
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October 22, 2015
CNOOC announced Thursday that the Caofeidian 6-4 oil structure in Bohai, discovered in 2014, has been appraised and confirmed as a mid-sized oil field.
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October 22, 2015
CGG announced Thursday that it has now received all necessary permits to start acquiring the industry’s first regional broadband seismic survey of the Barreirinhas basin in the Equatorial Margin of northern Brazil in early November.
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October 21, 2015
Baker Hughes expects activity in North America to fall this quarter, the company said as it reported a loss of $159 million, or 36 cents per share, for the quarter ended Sept. 30.
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October 21, 2015
Ophir Energy has commenced its two well exploration drilling program in Block G4/50, in the western Gulf of Thailand, with the spud of the G4/50-10 exploration well on the Soy Siam prospect, the London-based company announced Monday.
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October 21, 2015
Electromagnetic Geoservices (EMGS) has signed a contract extension, worth approximately $7 million, with an oil company in Malaysia.
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October 21, 2015
Landmark, a Halliburton business line, and CGG announced a geosciences technology collaboration on Wednesday.
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October 20, 2015
AWE Ltd. announced Tuesday that ROC Oil Company (ROC), the operator of Block 09/05 in China’s Bohai Bay basin, has confirmed that the second of two planned exploration wells in the block, QK12-3-1D, reached the planned total depth of 3,600 m MDRT (measured depth below the rotary table) at 03:00 AEDT on Oct. 18, 2015.
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October 19, 2015
A highlight of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) 85th international exposition and annual meeting underway here was the opening session on Monday morning with a welcome by Julius Doruelo, annual general meeting chair; presidential address from Christopher Liner and a panel session moderated by Michael Bahorich, a director of Global Geophysical.
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October 18, 2015
CGG announced Monday that Sercel has launched GeoTag, the acoustic positioning solution of choice for seabed seismic acquisition.
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October 18, 2015
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) inaugurated its 85th annual convention with an icebreaker on the exhibit floor with an enthusiastic turnout by delegates from throughout the world, despite an industry slowdown that has had a significant impact on the exploration sector.
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October 16, 2015
In light of current market conditions and low industry interest, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Friday that it will cancel the two potential Arctic offshore lease sales scheduled under the current five-year offshore oil and gas leasing program for 2012-2017.
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October 16, 2015
Three months ago, the head of Schlumberger Ltd. thought the industry had seen the worst of the U.S. oil market collapse. Now he’s not so sure.
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October 16, 2015
ESG Solutions has confirmed the acquisition of Spectraseis, a provider of surface-based seismic technology and services for hydraulic fracture monitoring (HFM) and induced seismicity monitoring (ISM), through its parent organization, Spectris plc.
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October 15, 2015
Wireless Seismic has announced the sale and delivery of its RT System 2 seismic data acquisition system to the Singapore-based oilfield services holding company, Yug-Neftegaz Private Limited (YNG), for seismic acquisition projects in Turkmenistan.
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October 15, 2015
More than 300 of the upstream industry’s brightest minds gathered Thursday to find out the winners of the 2015 World Oil Awards.
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October 15, 2015
The consortium responsible for the Libra oil field in the Santos basin pre-salt has completed the drilling of well 3-BRSA-1310-RJS, in the central area of the block.
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October 14, 2015
Lukoil’s Lira-1X wildcat has discovered a gas field in the Lira offshore structure, which is located on the Trident Block (EX-30), in the deep waters offshore Romania.
