Geology & Geophysics
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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.
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September 16, 2016
Tullow Oil announced Friday that the drilling and testing of the Cara prospect, in license 636 in the Norwegian North Sea, has been completed.
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September 15, 2016
Mubadala Petroleum, Operator of the Manora Oil Development joint venture, has advised that drilling of the MNA-17 well, in the Northern Gulf of Thailand, has now been completed.
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September 15, 2016
Europe’s largest natural gas field may only produce less than half of what it did four years earlier as the Netherlands seeks to reduce the risk of earthquakes linked to output.
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September 15, 2016
Eni has signed a Concession Contract with the government of Montenegro related to the exploration of four blocks in the country’s offshore.
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September 15, 2016
Wintershall Norge, operator of production license 248 F, is in the process of completing the drilling of four wells in the North Sea.
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September 14, 2016
PGS and TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company have jointly agreed principal terms and conditions for the purchase of a majority of the Multi-Client library of Dolphin UK Ltd. PGS and TGS will make this purchase on a 50/50 basis.
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September 09, 2016
Total Norge, operator of production license 618, is in the process of completing the drilling of exploration well 1/5-5. The well, on the HPHT Solaris prospect in the North Sea, is dry.
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September 07, 2016
The Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining of the Republic of Uruguay has been authorized by the President of the Republic to allow the Administración Nacional de Combustibles, Alcoholes y Portland (ANCAP) to contract directly with TGS for the purpose of standardization and commercialization of a multi-client well data program for exploration wells in Uruguay.
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September 07, 2016
Schlumberger WesternGeco and ION Geophysical have announced a new 3D multiclient reimaging broadband program offshore Mexico, which uses Mexico's National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) data library.
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September 06, 2016
Devon Energy has successfully tested its third Meramec spacing pilot and commenced production on two high-rate, extended-reach lateral oil wells in the core of the over-pressured oil window of the STACK.
