Exploration/discoveries
Geophysicist Markos Sourial discusses advances in seismic imaging, the challenges of modern data processing, and what they mean for the next wave of subsurface professionals.
Supermajor aims to start appraisal activities in 2027 and is evaluating development possibilities for the deepwater find offshore Brazil, which is the company’s largest discovery in 25 years.
Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
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State-run company will direct $2 billion towards frontier drilling in the area. -
Petroleum Development Oman is building infrastructure for the project’s initial phase.
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Statfjord has produced 5.1 billion barrels of oil equivalent over its four-plus decades online.
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New discovery pair drilled near Fram field.
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New find located in Shell’s prolific Perdido Corridor in western US Gulf.
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State-run Staatsolie retains its 40% stake in Block 5.
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Phase 2 production should reach 40,000 BOE/D by mid-2022.
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Onshore stake valued at $1.1 billion.
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Compared with 2020, the largest discoveries made last year may hold just a third of the oil and gas reserves, according to new data from Westwood Global Energy Group.
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Field cluster in the South China Sea expected to produce over 45,000 B/D of oil in 2023.
