Exploration/discoveries
Discovery yields the largest hydrocarbon column to date in the Dussafu Marin license offshore Gabon.
Technology and partnerships play a pivotal role in how the oil industry finds and produces energy from frontier regions and brownfields, both now and in the future.
Kuwait Petroleum’s managing director of planning and finance said that more investment will be needed to keep Kuwait’s mature oil fields flowing while production is brought on stream.
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Wood Mackenzie said "advantaged barrels" that are cheap to extract and with low emissions represent less than a third of untapped resources. -
QatarEnergy’s acquisition of a 30% interest in E&P blocks offshore Lebanon with TotalEnergies and Eni expands the company’s East Med portfolio while enabling the Emirate to help mediate Beirut’s longstanding political and economic crisis.
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Namibia, Brazil, and Algeria scored major discoveries in 2022 as the industry drilled fewer exploration wells but found better and larger prospects.
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The authors of this paper describe the path of an operator’s successful exploration program that has integrated geologic and geophysical understanding and new technology to discover 8 billion BOE at the time of writing.
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A total of 20 new exploration blocks are on offer within the Israeli Economic Zone.
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The Agua-Marinha block is located in the Campos Basin off Brazil.
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Equinor will participate in 25 exploration wells on the NCS this year.
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New well on the Gydan Peninsula strikes gas and condensate.
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Both finds will be tied back to the nearby Ram-Powell TLP.
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The deal marks the biggest injection into Libya's flagging oil and gas industry in 2 decades, but not everyone in the ruling government is on board.
