Geology & Geophysics
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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.
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October 13, 2015
Wireless Seismic has announced the sale and delivery of its RT System 2 seismic data acquisition system to the Indonesian seismic contractor, PT Elnusa Tbk (Elnusa), after comprehensive system field trials in north Sumatra, Indonesia.
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October 13, 2015
Repsol Norge, operator of production license 642, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 6306/5-2, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate announced Tuesday. The well is dry.
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October 13, 2015
Sri Lanka will issue a fresh international tender for offshore oil and gas blocks after billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Cairn India Ltd. relinquished its exploration rights in the South Asian island.
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October 12, 2015
OMV has discovered gas in the Latif South-1 exploration well in Pakistan’s Latif exploration license, the company said Monday.
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October 12, 2015
MILAN, Italy -- Eni has been awarded two new exploration licenses—North El Hammad and North Ras El Esh—offshore Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea, as a result of the 2015 EGAS bid round.
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October 09, 2015
Gazprom Neft has acquired additional licenses for geological prospecting, exploration and development at the Yuilsky-3, Lyaminskiy-6 and Severo-Ityakhskiy-1 Blocks, all of which are in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.
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October 08, 2015
A group of five Democratic senators has introduced legislation to permanently prohibit drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf of California, Oregon and Washington State.
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October 07, 2015
TEL AVIV -- An Israeli energy company has reported a major oil discovery in the Golan Heights.
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October 06, 2015
The Monterey formation in the deepest parts of California’s San Joaquin basin contains estimated mean volumes of 21 MMbbl of oil, 27 Bcf of gas and 1 MMbbl of NGL, according to the first USGS assessment of unconventional, technically recoverable resources in the Monterey formation.
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October 06, 2015
Brazil will auction crude-exploration blocks on Wednesday for the first time since a colossal corruption scandal crippled the nation’s oil industry and forced state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA to scale back investments.
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October 06, 2015
Ikon Science has added two new RokDoc plug-ins for Petrel to its portfolio of existing tools on the Ocean platform. This latest addition contributes the first plug-ins covering geopressure data calculation, analysis and viewing to the E&P subsurface community.
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October 06, 2015
Fugro, in conjunction with long-time associates, Diavaz, has been awarded an extension of the ongoing offshore geophysical and geotechnical campaign by Pemex.
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October 05, 2015
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland and Labrador -- The area covering the 11 parcels currently on offer in the Flemish Pass has an in-place oil and gas resource potential of 12 Bbbl of oil and 113 Tcf of gas, according to the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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October 05, 2015
As Canada’s oil patch grapples with a price shock, pipeline delays and rising tax rates, the federal election could add another barrier to recovery by reining in a key incentive for development of new wells.
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October 05, 2015
Lundin Norway, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lundin Petroleum, has started drilling exploration well 7220/6-2 in PL609.
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October 01, 2015
Noble Energy’s Cheetah exploration well, in the Tilapia license offshore Cameroon, reached the targeted Cretaceous interval and is being plugged and abandoned. The well encountered both crude oil and natural gas shows in multiple non-commercial reservoir sands.
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October 01, 2015
Statoil Petroleum, operator of production license 169, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 25/11-28. The well was dry.
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September 30, 2015
While Russia is continuing to pump crude oil at record levels, producing on average 10.685 MMbpd in 2015, the continuous pressure from U.S./EU sanctions is having an impact on the strategic course of the Russian oil and gas industry, says an analyst with research and consulting firm GlobalData.
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September 30, 2015
New federal fracking regulations were blocked by a U.S. judge in Wyoming who said the government’s Bureau of Land Management lacks the authority to control hydraulic fracturing.
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September 30, 2015
Baker Hughes has announced the commercial release of its VisiTrak geospatial navigation and analysis LWD service.
