Geology & Geophysics
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November 21, 2016
Total and SOCAR, the national oil company of Azerbaijan, have signed an agreement establishing the contractual and commercial terms for the first phase of production from Absheron gas and condensate field.
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November 18, 2016
Over 50 years of North Sea exploration data has been mined as part of a Data Challenge set by Common Data Access (CDA), a subsidiary of Oil & Gas UK established to facilitate the sharing of well and seismic data by the oil and gas industry.
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November 18, 2016
Drillers burned by a two-year slump in crude prices are slowing exploration of deepwater prospects off the coast of Africa, undermining a key driver of growth on the continent.
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November 14, 2016
Paradigm has announced that Task Fronterra, a leading global geoscience consultancy, has standardized its advanced borehole data analysis service offering on the Paradigm Geolog petrophysical analysis and formation evaluation solution.
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November 03, 2016
Shell and its joint venture (JV) partners, Pavilion Energy and Ophir Energy, have started their drilling program offshore Tanzania.
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November 01, 2016
Statoil has submitted a Plan for Development and Operation for the Trestakk discovery on the Halten Bank to Norway’s Minister for Petroleum and Energy Tord Lien. Capital expenditures are estimated at approximately 5.5 billion NOK ($670 million).
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October 31, 2016
The UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) received 29 applications covering 113 blocks in the latest offshore licensing round which targeted under-explored areas of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
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October 28, 2016
TGS is to expand its NWAAM multi-client library in the MSGBC basin. The company is to acquire more than 11,500 km of long-offset broadband 2D seismic data as well as magnetic and gravity data in the Republic of Guinea, Guinea Bissau and the AGC joint exploration zone between Guinea Bissau and Senegal.
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October 27, 2016
Statoil, the first of the major oil producers to report third-quarter earnings, posted an unexpected loss for a second quarter in a row as maintenance and exploration expenses compounded the impact of lower crude and gas prices.
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October 26, 2016
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) and Russia’s Federal Subsoil Resources Management Agency (Rosnedra) have entered into an agreement to exchange seismic data from the areas around the demarcation line in the Barents Sea.
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October 25, 2016
CGG has been awarded a major contract by Pemex to deliver an orthogonal wide-azimuth integrated solution designed to optimize subsalt seismic imaging in the geologically complex deep waters of the Perdido area.
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October 19, 2016
Successful Well Test in Bedout Basin Offshore Western Australia
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October 18, 2016
The Attribute Assisted Seismic Processing & Interpretation (AASPI) Consortium at the University of Oklahoma and Geophysical Insights, headquartered in Houston, Texas, have announced a major cooperative agreement.
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October 18, 2016
CGG GeoSoftware has announced a series of new software releases across its reservoir characterization product portfolio.
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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.
