Geology & Geophysics
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October 18, 2016
LONDON -- Faroe Petroleum has reported an oil and gas discovery at the Njord North Flank in the Norwegian Sea.
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October 17, 2016
Launched today, the EV2 decision support platform enables oil and gas clients to determine the value of undrilled exploration acreage in the world’s most prospective basins.
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October 17, 2016
Sercel has sold 10,000 channels of its high-end UNITE cable-free land seismic acquisition system to NIS, a Serbian oil and gas company in which Gazprom Neft has a majority shareholding.
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October 14, 2016
Offshore Senior Policy Advisor Andy Radford today highlighted the importance of seismic surveys in the Gulf of Mexico and the potential significance of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) recently released Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS).
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October 12, 2016
Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. has announced that Origin Energy Resources Limited, the company's Joint Venture partner, has submitted a notification of discovery and an initial report on discovery to the Department of Primary Industry and Resources (DPIR) of the Northern Territory, Australia on the A mungee NW - 1H well in the Beetaloo basin, Australia.
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October 12, 2016
Searcher Seismic has commenced acquisition of the 11,000 km Hahonua 2D seismic survey offshore Papua New Guinea.
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October 11, 2016
BP has abandoned oil exploration in the offshore Great Australian Bight, five years after it began searching for resources in one of the world’s last frontier regions and before it could drill a single well.
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October 10, 2016
Sasol recently announced the completion of the first-ever 3D onshore seismic program in Mozambique.
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October 10, 2016
Statoil has received consent to drill four survey wells at Johan Sverdrup field, Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) Norway said Monday.
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October 07, 2016
Karoon Gas Australia has been awarded a license for exploration permit EPP46. The permit covers 17,793 km2 of Australia’s most active and prospective frontier oil province, the Ceduna sub‐basin, in the Great Australian Bight (GAB), offshore South Australia.
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October 06, 2016
Searcher Seismic has completed acquisition of the Buscador Near-Shore 2D Seismic Survey, offshore Mexico.
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October 06, 2016
Seabed Geosolutions, a joint venture between Fugro and CGG, has secured a new extension to its ongoing shallow water operations in the United Arab Emirates.
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October 05, 2016
CGG announced the start of a large broadband 3D multi-client survey in the pre-salt area of the deepwater Santos Basin. Santos VII (Saturno) is the third phase in CGG’s most ambitious pre-salt project to date, collectively known as the Santos Basin Trilogy. The project is designed to make ultramodern seismic datasets available as quickly as possible to support each phase in the pre-salt evaluation process in anticipation of Brazil’s next pre-salt licensing round.
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October 05, 2016
Caelus Energy Alaska has announced a significant light oil discovery on its Smith Bay state leases on the North Slope of Alaska.
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October 04, 2016
TGS has completed acquisition of its 186,000 km Gigante seismic survey in Mexico. Acquisition of this survey began in June 2015 with five seismic vessels contracted to acquire a dense, modern, long-offset regional 2D seismic grid.
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October 03, 2016
Weatherford has announced the official launch of its Compact formation sampler. The slim-profile wireline tool can capture up to three 700-cc samples in a wide range of borehole sizes.
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September 30, 2016
Lundin Norway has completed the drilling and testing of the re-entry of appraisal well 7220/11-3 A (Alta-3) on the eastern flank of the Alta discovery in PL609. The Alta discovery is estimated to contain gross contingent resources of between 125 MMboe and 400 MMboe.
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September 28, 2016
Pacific Exploration & Production has reached an agreement to sell its 35% working interest in five concession agreements—S-M-1101, S-M-1102, S-M-1037, S-M-1165 and S-M 1166—in Brazil’s Santos basin to Karoon Gas Australia.
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September 27, 2016
Schlumberger has announced the release of GeoTesting geology-based well test design and interpretation services.
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September 23, 2016
MOSCOW – Gazprom has reported a new gas and condensate field in the Sea of Okhotsk, near Russia’s Sakhalin island.
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September 22, 2016
Canacol Energy has revised its capital plan for 2016. The new capital plan accelerates the corporation's natural gas opportunities in Colombia, with three new gas wells.
