Exploration
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February 06, 2020
Dubai and Abu Dhabi made what could be the world’s largest natural gas discovery since 2005 as the two biggest sheikhdoms in the United Arab Emirates aim to push the country to energy self-sufficiency.
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February 05, 2020
Guyana vigorously defended its oil contract with ExxonMobil after the deal was criticized by human-rights group Global Witness just a month before the country holds a general election.
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February 03, 2020
Dubai and Abu Dhabi made what could be the world’s largest natural gas discovery since 2005 as the two biggest sheikhdoms in the United Arab Emirates aim to push the country to energy self sufficiency.
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January 31, 2020
Equinor and its partner Shell have completed a joint acquisition of the 49% interest held by Schlumberger in the Bandurria Sur onshore block in Argentina’s Neuquén province. The consideration for each partner for their 24.5% interest is USD 177.5 million.
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January 30, 2020
Mexico’s government-owned oil company just laid claim to most of the country’s biggest private discovery, putting it on a collision course with the U.S. firm that made the find five years ago.
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January 28, 2020
The first-ever licensing round comprises 12 blocks in the MSGBC basin, offshore Senegal. Companies will be able to submit bids over the coming six months, with final applications delivered to the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy at the latest by Friday, July 31st, 2020.
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January 27, 2020
ExxonMobil has increased its estimated recoverable resource base in Guyana to more than 8 billion oil equivalent barrels and made a further oil discovery northeast of the producing Liza field at the Uaru exploration well, the 16th discovery on the Stabroek Block.
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January 23, 2020
Western Europe’s biggest oil and gas producer just witnessed its final investment boom, according to Norway’s largest bank.
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January 17, 2020
Oil production in Angola has slumped by a third in the past decade to less than 1.4 million barrels a day, reflecting years of underinvestment in new projects.
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January 16, 2020
Turkey will issue new exploration licenses in the eastern Mediterranean now that it’s set a maritime border with Libya, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday, a step liable to exacerbate strains with Greece and the European Union.
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January 16, 2020
Gulf Energy Information announced the availability of EWA TechLink, a new spatial research tool pairing comprehensive technical content with detailed project data.
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January 14, 2020
PETROSEN has partnered with TGS, GeoPartners and PGS to provide over 14,000 km of 2D data, over 10,000 km² of 3D data and over 50,000 km² of Multibeam data with associated shallow cores and geochemistry, to interested parties.
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January 13, 2020
Norway’s vision of establishing a new major oil province off its northern tip has suffered another blow.
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January 09, 2020
South Sudan's President, Salva Kir, seeks to reverse the "lack of environmental standards and guidelines" in its oil and gas activities, as the East Central African nation seeks to ramp up production.
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January 09, 2020
China said it will open up oil and gas exploration to private and foreign firms, offering further details of a policy that will help assuage concerns over access to the industry ahead of next week’s signing of an interim trade deal with the U.S.
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January 08, 2020
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said officials would announce a plan by mid-February that would make clear how private companies could participate in the nation’s energy sector.
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January 07, 2020
The Maka Central-1 well successfully tested for the presence of hydrocarbons in multiple stacked targets in the upper Cretaceous-aged Campanian and Santonian intervals and encountered both oil and gas condensate.
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January 07, 2020
The Liberia Petroleum Regulatory Authority has announced the launch of its next offshore licensing round in the Harper basin, one of the last unexplored and undrilled regions offshore West Africa.
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January 02, 2020
The independent oil producer’s first discovery of the new year comes after a calamitous 2019 in which its stock declined 64% and the chief executive officer and exploration chief stepped down.
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December 31, 2019
The 32nd UK Offshore Licensing Round, which closed on 12th November 2019, offered acreage in the Central North Sea, Northern North Sea, Southern North Sea and the West of Shetlands.
