Geology & Geophysics
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July 25, 2016
Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd. has announced the successful re-entry and casing of Amungee NW-1H horizontal well, and the spudding of the Beetaloo W-1 vertical well in the Beetaloo basin, Australia.
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July 25, 2016
Highlands Natural Resources has entered into a farm-in agreement in Arapahoe County, Colo., with Renegade Oil & Gas Company, which will allow it to drill up to six horizontal wells in acreage prospective for the Niobrara shale formation.
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July 22, 2016
BOEM Director Abigail Ross Hopper announced Friday that the bureau will offer 23.8 million acres offshore Texas for oil and gas exploration and development in a milestone lease sale that will include all available unleased areas in the Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.
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July 21, 2016
Lundin Norway, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lundin Petroleum, has commenced its 2016 exploration and appraisal campaign in the Loppa High area in the southern Barents Sea. The campaign will be carried out by the Leiv Eiriksson semisubmersible.
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July 19, 2016
On June 27, Visuray performed the first downhole X-ray diagnostic operation offshore Norway for Statoil.
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July 19, 2016
The CGG Amadeus has commenced an 884 sq km 3D seismic acquisition program in the G10/48 contract area in the Gulf of Thailand, KrisEnergy said Tuesday. The program, which was awarded to CGG Services, is expected to last 41 days.
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July 18, 2016
Devon Energy Corp. has brought online another successful spacing pilot and a record-setting oil well in the over-pressured oil window of the STACK play.
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July 15, 2016
Fugro has been awarded a geotechnical site investigation contract by ONGC India for the KG-DWN-98/2 project on the East Coast of India.
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July 14, 2016
ConocoPhillips has entered into an agreement to sell its 35% interest in three exploration blocks offshore Senegal, which include the SNE and FAN discoveries.
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July 13, 2016
The OGA has awarded contracts for the second government-funded £20 million ($26.5 million) seismic campaign to promote underexplored areas of the UK Continental Shelf.
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July 12, 2016
Petrobras has announced the start-up of the Lula Central production system, with the interconnection of the first production well (8-LL-81D-RJS) to FPSO Cidade de Saquarema, on July 8, and the production stabilization at around 30 Mbpd on July 11.
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July 12, 2016
The BGP Pioneer has commenced acquisition of the Buscador near-shore 2D seismic survey, offshore Mexico, Searcher Seismic said in a statement.
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July 12, 2016
Searcher Seismic’s Olympus 3D Reprocessing Project in the Carnarvon basin, Western Australia, has commenced processing at DownUnder GeoSolutions’ Perth facility.
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July 11, 2016
Faroe Petroleum has completed a successful side-track appraisal well on the Brasse discovery in license PL740 in the Norwegian North Sea.
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July 07, 2016
Tullow Oil Norge has finished drilling exploration well 16/5-6 on the Rome prospect in production license PL776 in the Central North Sea.
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July 06, 2016
Neos and Lockheed Martin are building a unique sensor, which is so advanced it could find a 10-m tall hill buried 1 km below the earth's surface.
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July 05, 2016
Lebanon may soon approve measures to push ahead with a stalled first auction of offshore oil and natural gas rights, ending years of political wrangling as it tries to catch up in a regional race to tap energy wealth in the eastern Mediterranean.
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July 01, 2016
Three fossil fuels—petroleum, natural gas, and coal—have provided more than 80% of total U.S. energy consumption for more than 100 years. In 2015, fossil fuels made up 81.5% of total U.S. energy consumption, the lowest fossil fuel share in the past century.
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July 01, 2016
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has underscored the criticality of oil and gas production in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to Alaska and the entire nation.
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June 30, 2016
Exxon Mobil today said that drilling results from the Liza-2 well, the second exploration well in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, confirm a world-class discovery with a recoverable resource of between 800 MMboe and 1.4 Bboe.
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June 30, 2016
Fugro has deployed the multi-purpose offshore survey vessel Fugro Gauss to join the Fugro Brasilis offshore Mexico, to help complete the world’s largest seep-hunting survey for TGS.
