Geology & Geophysics
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October 09, 2017
Paradigm today unveiled Paradigm k, its new Production Management solution, in the company’s booth #3163, at the 2017 Society of Petroleum Engineers Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio. Paradigm k is a cloud-based, collaborative workflow for production and reservoir engineers to support field operations in maintenance and management of the well system.
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October 09, 2017
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway), has commenced drilling of exploration well 7219/12-2 on the Hufsa prospect in PL533, in the southern Barents Sea.
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October 06, 2017
ExxonMobil's fifth new oil discovery offshore Guyana, proves "that deepwater can still be attractive."
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October 05, 2017
ExxonMobil today announced it made a fifth new oil discovery after drilling the Turbot-1 well offshore Guyana.
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October 04, 2017
Gazpromneft-Sakhalin, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, has completed drilling of a prospecting and appraisal well at its Ayashsky license block, located on the continental shelf of the Okhotsk Sea. As a result, a new hydrocarbon field has been discovered, with initial in-place reserves estimated at 255 million tonnes of oil equivalent (MMtoe).
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October 04, 2017
Just 125 mi southwest of the Fort McMurray oil-sands hub in northern Alberta, investors are rushing to secure rights to land that produces crude at much lower costs than the massive operations the region’s known for. That’s because beneath the area’s characteristic oil-rich soil, which requires expensive extraction and refining techniques, there’s crude trapped between layers of rock that can be pumped with conventional gear.
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October 03, 2017
Aker BP ASA, operator of production licence 442, has completed the drilling of appraisal well 25/2-19 S and wildcat well 25/2-19 A.
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September 29, 2017
CGG has successfully completed acquisition of the first-ever full-scale commercial survey using TopSeis, its latest offshore broadband seismic acquisition and imaging solution.
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September 29, 2017
ION Geophysical Corporation has announced an approximate 50% extension to its previously announced program offshore Panama, due to strong client interest and prefunding to evaluate offshore Panama in advance of the anticipated license round.
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September 29, 2017
Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 609, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 7220/6-3. The well is dry.
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September 28, 2017
Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Lundin Norway AS, has completed drilling of exploration well 7220/6-3 on the Børselv prospect in PL609 on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry.
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September 27, 2017
Hansa Hydrocarbons Limited has announced that the N05-1 exploration well drilled offshore Netherlands on its GEms licences, has been confirmed as a significant discovery, encountering gas in the target basal Rotliegend sandstones.
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September 27, 2017
Eni Norge AS, operator of production licence 697, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7122/10-1 S. The well, which was drilled about 10 km southwest of Goliat field, is dry.
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September 26, 2017
CGG has completed ahead of schedule an 11,500 km2 wide-azimuth (WAZ) survey on behalf of Pemex in the deepwater Perdido area.
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September 26, 2017
Eni successfully drilled the Miztón-2 well, in the shallow waters of Campeche bay, offshore Mexico, boosting the estimates of the resource in place for Contractual Area 1 to over 1.4 Bboe.
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September 26, 2017
Gazpromneft-Yamal, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, has begun pilot oil production from the Achimov deposits at its Severo-Samburgskoye oil field (in the Purovsky District, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug).
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September 25, 2017
Block Energy, an exploration and production company focused on the Republic of Georgia, has announced that it has agreed to acquire the outstanding 31% working interest in, and to become operator of the country's Norio field via a cash payment of $310,000 to Georgia Oil and Gas Ltd.
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September 25, 2017
The Permian basin of Texas and New Mexico holds 60 to 70 Bbbl of yet-to-be pumped crude oil, according to a study by IHS Markit Ltd.
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September 22, 2017
Hyperdynamics Corp. has announced that it has notified the government of the Republic of Guinea that it will be seeking a two-year appraisal period under its oil and gas production sharing contract.
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September 20, 2017
Wood Mackenzie has released Positioning for the Future, the first comprehensive study ever carried out into carbon emissions in the upstream oil and gas sector.
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September 19, 2017
Northwest Energy has confirmed that Xanadu-1 has intersected hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs demonstrated by elevated gas readings, oil shows, fluorescence and cut-fluorescence whilst drilling reservoir sections.
