Geology & Geophysics
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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.
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September 22, 2016
CGG announced today that the final pre-stack depth-migrated data for Phase 1 of its Davros 3D BroadSeis and BroadSource multi-client survey in the northern Carnarvon basin on the North West Shelf of Western Australia is available now.
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September 21, 2016
Shell Canada, operator of the Shelburne basin joint venture exploration project, has advised that the drilling of the first exploration well has been completed and is non-commercial.
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September 20, 2016
CGG said Tuesday that the Fast Trax Reverse Time Migration (RTM) data from its Encontrado multi-client mega-merge project, covering the Perdido fold belt, has been delivered on time to the industry and the Comision Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH) ahead of Mexico’s December licensing round.
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September 19, 2016
Junex Inc. has announced that long-term oil production testing of its Galt No. 4 horizontal well continues to deliver strong results.
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September 19, 2016
Eni has resumed exploration activities onshore Tunisia in the Sahara desert, approximately 700 km south of Tunis.
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September 16, 2016
Three new proposed oil sands developments have cleared an important early step in the regulatory process.
