Exploration/discoveries
Equinor, Aker BP, and Vår Energi will combine resources and expertise to pursue some of the largest remaining exploration opportunities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
The Loran Phase 2 license award builds on BP’s growing presence in Venezuela as it seeks to develop offshore projects, particularly shared fields near Venezuela’s maritime border with Trinidad and Tobago.
Gran Tierra will refocus its investment strategy to strengthen its portfolio in Canada and Azerbaijan while Maurel & Prom, majority owned by Pertamina’s international upstream arm, grows its South American footprint in Colombia and Ecuador.
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Well and sidetrack encountered pay in the targeted Santonian interval. -
Challenges including increases in UK taxation have prompted operator Parkmead Group to drop plans to develop its Greater Perth project in the North Sea.
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Follow-up sidetrack tested up to 5,000 B/D of oil.
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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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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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Plan granted contains permission for one appraisal well and up to six horizontal development wells.
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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.
