Exploration

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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.
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February 22, 2019
ExxonMobil has announced that a new partnership with Microsoft will make its Permian basin operations the largest-ever oil and gas acreage to use cloud technology and is expected to generate billions in net cash flow over the next decade through improvements in analyses and enhancements to operational efficiencies.
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February 22, 2019
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation has announced the best year of its nearly three-decade public-company history that provided record financial results, the culmination and in-service of several long-dated infrastructure initiatives, and continued momentum on the free cash flow front.
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January 04, 2019
Jobs in the Texas oil patch dropped for the first time in almost two years, according to the state’s workforce commission.
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January 03, 2019
Eni has entered into an agreement to acquire 70% and operatorship of the Oooguruk oil field in Alaska from Caelus Natural Resources Alaska LLC.
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November 12, 2018
ADNOC signed a framework agreement with Aramco to explore potential opportunities for collaboration in the natural gas and LNG sectors.
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February 13, 2018
TAG Oil Ltd. has provided a positive update on its Pukatea-1 exploration well, which was spudded on Jan. 24, 2018. The Pukatea-1 well is located in TAG Oil’s operated Puka permit (PEP 51135, 70% TAG Oil) in the Taranaki basin of New Zealand.
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December 26, 2017
Oil held gains above $58/bbl as trading resumed following the Christmas holiday and after U.S. explorers refrained from adding rigs for a second week.
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December 26, 2017
India’s biggest oil explorer plans to snatch up producing assets to reach its goal of raising overseas output by more than half in about three years, a faster route than drilling for new reserves.
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December 21, 2017
TGS announces new multi-client acquisition project, Alonso 3D in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
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December 21, 2017
Eni has signed a Petroleum Agreement (PA) with the Moroccan State Company ONHYM to enter into the Tarfaya Offshore Shallow exploration permits I-XII, located in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean offshore the cities of Sidi Ifni, Tan Tan and Tarfaya.
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December 21, 2017
Rystad Energy concluded this week that 2017 was yet another record low year for discovered conventional volumes globally. Less than 7 Bboe has been discovered YTD.
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December 20, 2017
Congress is close to lifting a 40-year-old ban on energy development in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but drilling for oil in that frozen wilderness may still be years away as the effort faces exhaustive environmental reviews and likely lawsuits.
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December 20, 2017
United Oil & Gas Plc, the London Stock Exchange listed oil and gas exploration and development company, is pleased to announce the Podere Maiar 1 (PM1) well at Selva gas field in the Podere Gallina licence is to be flow tested next month, having been successfully cased for production.
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December 15, 2017
President Energy, the upstream oil and gas company with a diverse portfolio of production and exploration assets focused primarily in Argentina is pleased to announce successful results from its first two workover program wells at Puesto Flores field, Rio Negro Province, Argentina.
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December 13, 2017
Energean Oil & Gas has announced that Energean Israel has been awarded five offshore exploration licenses within the Israeli Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) by the Israeli Petroleum Commissioner following a recommendation by the Petroleum Council.
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December 13, 2017
The Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF), in collaboration with Maersk Oil, Nexen, Shell, Siccar Point Energy, TechnipFMC and the Oil and Gas Technology Center (OGTC), is leading a joint industry project (JIP) to investigate an alternative well foundation technology for subsea exploration and production wells.
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December 12, 2017
Eni successfully drilled the Tecoalli 2 well, in the shallow waters of the Campeche Bay, offshore Mexico. Thanks to the results of this well and the revision of the reservoir models of Amoca and Miztón fields, the hydrocarbon in place estimate for Area 1 is boosted from 1.4 to 2.0 Bboe, of which approximately 90% oil and the remaining associated gas.
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December 11, 2017
SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, is pleased to announce that a gas discovery has been made at its KSR-16 development well on the Sebou permit in Morocco (SDX, 75% Working Interest).
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December 08, 2017
The Trump administration has a plan in place to speed up permit reviews for drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge if Congress approves exploration there, an advisor to the U.S. Interior Department said Thursday.
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December 07, 2017
Chevron Corporation has announced a 2018 capital and exploratory spending program of $18.3 billion. This figure includes $5.5 billion for the company’s share of expenditures by affiliated companies.
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