Exploration

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July 2023
Winning
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July 24, 2023
(WO) — Following the completion of testing, Parex Resources Inc. has announced the abandonment of its wholly-owned Chirimoya exploration well at VIM-431 in Colombia.
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July 20, 2023
The aim is to advance the Vranino 1-11 exploration block in Bulgaria, which has coal bed methane natural gas exploration potential, as well as opportunities in Turkey.
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June 14, 2023
Cumulatively, the discovered deposits hold over 30 MMboe of recoverable resources, equivalent to around three quarters of OMV Petrom’s 2022 production.
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June 08, 2023
Ikon’s Time-Lapse Ji-Fi app offers complete 4D fluid tracking capabilities for production and injection scenarios and is applicable in most hydrocarbon production campaigns.
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May 26, 2023
Colombia needs to consider the importance that oil and gas still have for the balance of payments and the fiscal accounts, Trade Minister German Umaña said.
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May 22, 2023
STRYDE’s seismic sensor technology will be utilized on an upcoming 3D seismic survey conducted by Nigerian geoscience solutions provider, ATO Geophysical Limited, as part of an onshore oil and gas exploration project in the region.
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May 2023
Fork in the road
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May 2023
After 60 years of E&P activity, the Cooper basin remains Australia’s largest onshore O&G province, supplying domestic gas markets in southeastern Australia and export markets via the Gladstone LNG plant. This strategic basin has potential for further discoveries, as well as opportunities to play a key role in Australia’s energy transition through CCS projects in depleted fields.
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May 11, 2023
Chief Executive Officer Ricardo Roa told investors that he hoped more oil contracts and bidding rounds for exploration blocks would be forthcoming.
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March 28, 2023
In an exclusive interview with the African Energy Chamber, Foday B. L. Mansaray, Director General of Sierra Leone’s Petroleum Directorate, spoke on the country’s exploration agenda to develop its hydrocarbon-rich, ultra-deep basins
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March 23, 2023
Seismic surveys use sound waves to help oil and gas companies build an image of hydrocarbon deposits buried deep underground. They are considered a fast and efficient way to map out new reserves, which is essential given that the world’s oil and gas supplies are dwindling even as energy demand is soaring, and renewables aren’t ready to do the heavy lifting of keeping the lights on around the globe.
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March 14, 2023
ANPG, Exxon and state-owned Sonangol signed an addendum to blocks 30, 44, and 45 in the Namibe Basin to make exploration in the area more competitive. Exxon will pursue a potential exploration well in 2024 as a result of improved fiscal terms.
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February 28, 2023
As part of the sales process, OMV will invite potentially interested parties to submit expressions of interest and binding offers. The sales process is expected to take place over the next few months.
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February 22, 2023
The government expects oil output to increase by 250,000 bpd once the blocks covered by the agreements start producing, Oil Minister Hayyan Abdul Ghani said on local television on Tuesday.
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February 17, 2023
To fend off climate change, the world’s biggest energy consumers are trying to reduce their consumption of fossil fuels as they transition to renewable sources. That could turn Suriname’s oil fields into stranded assets if they aren’t developed fast enough.
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February 17, 2023
The company is on track to achieve a production rate of over 350 Kboed by the end of 2025 based on 17 sanctioned projects with the majority well into execution with committed investments, including the key projects Balder X, Johan Castberg and Breidablikk.
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February 15, 2023
The 10 exploration blocks on offer are within the producing Malay, Sabah and Sarawak basins as well as the newly opened Penyu basin. These blocks cover various geological play settings with sizeable prospects to be explored.
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February 07, 2023
The talks come as European and U.S. companies step up efforts to extract oil and gas from the region and help make up for sanctions-related supply losses from Russia.
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February 01, 2023
The collaboration leverages decades of experience and expertise in HPC infrastructure and solutions and opens a new chapter in the respective histories of both companies.
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