Geology & Geophysics
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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.
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June 29, 2016
TGS has announced the commencement of the Northwest Shelf Renaissance 2D seismic survey offshore northwest Australia. The survey consists of approximately 8,000 km of long offset, broadband 2D seismic data as well as magnetic and gravity data.
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June 28, 2016
AWE Limited has been advised by Santos, as Operator, that a successful Drill Stem Test (DST) has been conducted on the G Sand reservoir at the AAL-4XST1 appraisal well, offshore Indonesia, achieving an averaged stabilized flow rate of 828 bopd on a 64/64-in. choke over a 9-hr period.
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June 27, 2016
Europa Oil & Gas has received notification from the UK’s Oil & Gas Authority that the PEDL 143 license in the Weald basin, Surrey, has been extended by two years until Oct. 1, 2018.
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June 24, 2016
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition is set to ban shale gas fracing in Germany, passing legislation in parliament on Friday that is set to end years of discussion over whether the nation should follow the U.S. in launching a boom in drilling.
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June 22, 2016
The Obama administration will fight a federal judge’s ruling overturning its effort to regulate hydraulic fracturing on public lands, a decision that struck another blow to the president’s environmental legacy.
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June 21, 2016
The shale gas revolution brought the U.S. both energy-superpower status and a short list of headaches. There are engineering challenges, many wells have a disappointingly short productive lifetime, and those lifetimes can vary even within the same field.
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June 21, 2016
Weatherford Labs and Enthought announced that they are participating in the study of a 2,725-ft (830-m) core recovered from the central area of the Chicxulub Crater.
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June 20, 2016
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- MOL Group made a new oil and gas discovery in the MOL-operated TAL Block in Pakistan, the company said.
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June 20, 2016
CGG GeoConsulting’s NPA Satellite Mapping group has launched the multi-client EARS BasinMap for exploration de-risking across the vast region of East Africa, from regional-to-prospect or play scale.
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June 20, 2016
Oil and Natural Gas Corp., India’s biggest explorer, is preparing to spend on its biggest ever crude binge as sub-$50 oil halves the cost of rigs and services.
