Exploration/discoveries
Technology and partnerships remain important, while phased approaches may supplant lengthy appraisal programs, experts said during CERAWeek.
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.
Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
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Consortiums led by ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies lead the charge into the blocks offered in the oft-delayed offshore parcel auction. -
The discovery in Putumayo could benefit from nearby existing infrastructure.
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The Anita Garibaldi was built by MODEC and will produce Marlim and Voador together with FPSO Anna Nery, already in operation.
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Mukuyu-1 sidetrack proves a working hydrocarbon system in the Cabora Bassa basin.
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Wellesley estimates that the drilling campaign has proved a developable gas-condensate accumulation of 60 to 100 million BOE.
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The Uganda oil project envisions drilling more than 450 wells on 35 well pads, leading to an estimated production of 230,000 BOPD at its peak once production starts up.
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The next phase of drilling is expected to resume in mid-2024 and includes several sidetrack wells, long-reach directional wells, and stratigraphic exploration wells.
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Challenges to development, including costs, cited as reasons for turning back the acreage.
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Jackup rig Borr Norve has started drilling operations on the project’s fourth production well, DHIBM-6H.
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Additional milestones reached could add $14 million to purchase price.
