Exploration/discoveries
Formerly titled E&P Notes, this monthly snapshot of global E&P activity highlights ongoing developments worldwide.
The country’s foreign investment bid comes as Sonatrach launches its largest capital expenditure outlay—$60 billion to be spent from 2026 to 2030.
Co-owner Chevron confirmed the find at the Bandit prospect offshore Louisiana and suggested it may become a subsea tieback to existing faciltiies operated by Occidental Petroleum.
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The Orange Basin and Gulf of Guinea will see most of the high-impact drilling activity planned this year in Africa.
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Technology and partnerships remain important, while phased approaches may supplant lengthy appraisal programs, experts said during CERAWeek.
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CERAWeek panelists see AI as a way to leverage data and people in interpreting data for exploration, but a cultural shift at companies may still be needed.
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Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
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Equinor said it found between 14 million and 24 million BOE with its most recent exploration well in the Polynya Tubåen prospect.
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Companies largely focused on deepwater acreage in the second Gulf lease sale held under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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Operator started planning the development before it made its latest North Sea discovery.
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Cook Inlet leases have been a hard sell for federal or Alaska state authorities for years, given the environmental sensitivity of the area.
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This study evaluates the feasibility of drilling a closed-loop, unconventional geothermal system in the Pannonian Basin basement of Romania.
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Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
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