Exploration/discoveries
A total of 20 companies submitted applications for new exploration blocks offshore Norway.
Egypt’s newest round of drilling agreements advances its quest to boost investment in mature fields to stop the freefall in gas production.
Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
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Follow-up sidetrack tested up to 5,000 B/D of oil. -
The record-setting probe has yielded a discovery estimated to be between 53–90 million BOE.
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First gas is flowing from IOG’s Blythe H2 well, part of the Southern Banks gas development in the UK southern North Sea.
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Successful well trio adds as much as 30 million BOE of recoverable reserves.
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CNPC’s record-breaking 11,100-m exploration borehole in the Taklamakan Desert promises to unlock the science of producing oil and gas trapped in the world’s deepest reservoirs.
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A testing and completion program for the CN-1 discovery is under review.
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New well on the South Salinas project encounters commercial quantities of oil.
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The acreage comprises 10 leases covering approximately 25,430 contiguous acres.
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New well northwest of Cizre strikes 162 m of light oil pay.
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New probe extended past 5.3 miles deep in Tarim Basin.
