Exploration/discoveries
The Göktepe-3 discovery boosts Turkey’s gas reserve estimates by 10%, supporting Ankara’s ambitions to become a regional gas export hub.
The new policy aims to accelerate the leasing timeline and expand access to public lands.
The contracts build on Cairo’s decades-long strategic energy alliance with Moscow, which will soon include nuclear energy.
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Additional milestones reached could add $14 million to purchase price. -
Lebanon hopes to join the club of EastMed gas producers as TotalEnergies and its partners spud an appraisal well near Beirut’s maritime border with Israel where gas is already being produced.
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The wells in its Tishomingo field add more than 1,500 BOE/D to the company’s production.
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The announcement underscores the potential importance of the Orange Basin.
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Preliminary evaluation indicates gross recoverable resources of 120 million–230 million BOE.
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak commits to future oil and gas licensing rounds as new analysis shows domestic gas production has around one-quarter the carbon footprint of imported liquefied natural gas.
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OMV’s discovery of a domestic gas resource coincides with its agreement to import LNG from BP to be regasified in Rotterdam, as Austria knits together a strategy to ensure its energy security.
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The Pickerel-1 well encountered 90 ft of high-quality oil-bearing Miocene reservoir and will be tied back to the Tubular Bells production facilities.
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The Irpa gas field, Verdande oil field, and Andvare production-well tiebacks will extend the lives of the mature Aasta Hansteen and Norne fields into the late 2030s.
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The Carmen gas discovery offshore Norway was far bigger than expected and a short tieback away from production.
