Exploration

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February 22, 2018
A new report from Westwood Global Energy Group, the energy market research consultancy, has highlighted 10 potentially commercial discoveries in 2017 considered likely to be more than 100 MMboe.
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February 12, 2018
Sound Energy, the Morocco focused upstream gas company, has announced the award of an eight-year petroleum agreement relating to the area currently covered by the Sidi Moktar onshore exploration permits in the Essaouira basin, central Morocco (Sidi Moktar).
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February 12, 2018
Echo Energy plc, the South and Central American focused upstream oil and gas company, is pleased to announce its 2018 work program, onshore Argentina.
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February 09, 2018
ExxonMobil Corporation has added 2.7 Bboe of proved oil and gas reserves in 2017, replacing 183% of production.
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February 08, 2018
CGG, its technology partner, and Ardiseis, subsidiary of the Arabian Geophysical and Surveying Company (ARGAS), the Middle East’s seismic acquisition specialist, have announced the successful completion of the world’s highest-density broadband seismic survey ever acquired onshore or offshore.
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February 08, 2018
Sound Energy, the Moroccan upstream gas company, is pleased to provide details of its 2018 work program and an update on the Company's acquisition of geophysical and geological data in Eastern Morocco.
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February 07, 2018
TGS announces expansion of its 2018 onshore seismic activity with the Canton 3D seismic survey in the Anadarko basin.
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February 02, 2018
Chevron Corp. had its best year of oil and natural gas discoveries in more than half a decade as rebounding energy prices lifted drillers out of the worst slump in a generation.
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January 23, 2018
SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced that a gas discovery has been made at its ONZ-7 development well on the Sebou permit in Morocco.
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January 22, 2018
India’s biggest oil and gas explorer has widened its first debt-raising plan to as much as $5.48 billion to buy state-run refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corp.
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January 19, 2018
Prospex Oil and Gas Plc, the AIM quoted investment company, is pleased to announce that it has been advised by the operator Po Valley Energy Limited (PVE) that strong flowrates from testing operations have confirmed a significant commercial gas discovery at the Podere Maiar-1d appraisal/redevelopment well.
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January 15, 2018
ExxonMobil today announced that it encountered hydrocarbons after drilling the onshore P’nyang South-2 well, located in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
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January 11, 2018
MONGOLOIA -- Petro Matad, the AIM-quoted Mongolian oil explorer is pleased to provide an update on its 3D seismic acquisition program.
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January 11, 2018
Beach Energy Ltd. has announced a new gas field discovery at Haselgrove-3 ST1 in the onshore Otway basin, in South Australia. Flow test results from the primary target Sawpit Sandstone indicate a high deliverability reservoir and provide encouragement to move towards commercialization of a large gas resource.
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January 11, 2018
Further to the Company’s announcement on Oct. 4, 2017, Petro Matad, the AIM quoted Mongolian oil explorer has provided an update on its 3D seismic acquisition program.
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May 17, 2017
Africa Oil Corp. has announced that the Emekuya-1 well in Block 13T, Northern Kenya has encountered approximately 75 m of net oil pay in two zones.
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May 17, 2017
FairfieldNodal and Schlumberger today announced a strategic multiclient joint venture in the southern Delaware basin of West Texas.
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May 15, 2017
Exxon Mobil Corporation has announced positive results on the Muruk-1 sidetrack well in the Papua New Guinea North Highlands, 13 mi (21 km) northwest of the Hides gas field.
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May 15, 2017
Gazprom Neft has acquired a subsoil usage licence for Novosarmaskoye field in the Orenburg Oblast. The licence — for the exploration and production of hydrocarbons — was issued by the Federal Subsoil Resources Management Agency, and runs until May 5, 2037.
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May 15, 2017
Santos has announced further positive results from the Muruk-1 exploration well, being drilled in the Papua New Guinea Highlands.
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May 10, 2017
U.S. shale explorers are boosting drilling budgets 10 times faster than the rest of the world to harvest fields that register fat profits even with the recent drop in oil prices.
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