Exploration

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August 08, 2018
Santos today announced the Barikewa-3 well, located in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) onshore Forelands region, intersected 25 m of net gas pay within the Toro and Hedinia reservoir objectives.
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August 06, 2018
After partnering for three decades at Australia’s oldest LNG export plant, Woodside and Chevron are competing to shape the next phase of the country’s gas development.
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July 27, 2018
President Energy, the upstream oil and gas company with a diverse portfolio of production and exploration assets focused primarily in Argentina, provides an update in relation to its workover programme at the Puesto Flores/Estancia Vieja Concession (the Concession) in Rio Negro Province, Argentina.
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July 24, 2018
SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced that a gas discovery has been made at its SD-3X well in the South Disouq Concession, Egypt (SDX 55% working interest and operator).
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July 24, 2018
Petro River Oil Corp., an independent oil and gas exploration company that utilizes 3D seismic technology to discover and develop oil and gas reserves in proven oil and gas basins, announced today the discovery of its largest oil field with the successful drilling of the Arsaga 25-2 exploration well in Osage County, Okla.
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July 20, 2018
TGS announces expansion of its 2018 onshore seismic survey Dawson Phase II in Canada.
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July 20, 2018
Schlumberger Ltd., the world’s biggest oilfield services company, and No. 3 Baker Hughes have their sights set in different directions as they move into the second-half of 2018.
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July 18, 2018
ConocoPhillips has provided an update on its operating plan for Alaska, focusing on the company’s long history of creating value in the state and an ongoing commitment to invest in low cost of supply opportunities.
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July 11, 2018
Savannah Petroleum announce its third consecutive discovery in the R3/R4 PSC Area, southeast Niger.
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July 10, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the successful completion of drilling of the CSo-2001(d) well in which a notable gas column has been interpreted from the wireline logging suite.
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July 10, 2018
Petro Matad, the AIM quoted Mongolian oil explorer, has advised that the Snow Leopard-1 well (Petro Matad 100%) in the Taats basin of Block V spudded on July 9, 2018.
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July 09, 2018
Eni announces a second light oil discovery on the B1-X exploration prospect located in South West Meleiha license, in the Egyptian Western Desert, some 130 km North of the oasis of Siwa.
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July 06, 2018
Oil explorers deployed more rigs in the U.S. this week as crude prices breached $75/bbl for the first time since 2014.
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July 06, 2018
Ecopetrol reports that Búfalo-1 well confirmed the presence of oil in the Valle Medio del Magdalena, located near the town of Guaduas, Department of Cundinamarca.
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July 02, 2018
Anglo African Oil & Gas plc, an independent oil and gas developer, is pleased to announce the results of further work on the TLP-102 well on the Tilapia license in the Republic of the Congo.
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June 29, 2018
South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources has issued a moratorium on new applications for petroleum exploration and development in order to change its licensing process.
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June 28, 2018
Pan-African explorer Oranto Petroleum is farming into two exploration blocks located onshore Zambia. Blocks 17 and 27 represent Oranto’s first investment in the country.
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June 25, 2018
Otto Energy Limited has advised that it has executed a binding term sheet agreement that will see Otto participate in the drilling of a highly prospective Nanushuk oil trend exploration well within its Western Blocks on the Alaska North Slope in early 2019.
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June 22, 2018
The Eagle Ford Group of Texas contains estimated means of 8.5 Bbbl of oil, 66 Tcf of natural gas, and 1.9 Bbbl of natural gas liquids, according to a new assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey. This estimate consists of undiscovered, technically recoverable resources in continuous accumulations.
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June 21, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced that a significant light oil column has been interpreted in its third well, onshore Argentina.
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June 20, 2018
Mozambique’s oil and gas regulator said exploration contracts for the nation’s fifth licensing round in 2015, which awarded blocks to companies including ExxonMobil Corp. and Eni SpA, are close to being finalized.
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