Exploration/discoveries
Malampaya East discovery is estimated to hold 98 Bcf of gas and may help offset declines at the country’s only producing gas field.
Equinor, Aker BP, DNO Norge, and Vår Energi received the most licensing offers in APA 2025.
The agreement requires the partners to conduct their own proprietary 3D survey of Block 8 in hope of zeroing in on the sweet spot that eluded the TotalEnergies-led consortium when it drilled a dry hole in an adjacent block in 2023.
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Additional tie-back opportunities should move even more volumes through the facility. -
Partners confirm find, begin planning for additional well in the area.
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Gas discovery the first from nation’s offshore exploration concessions.
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KUFPEC makes commercial discovery of natural gas and condensate in the Anambas Block.
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Exploratory, development well success in current onshore program.
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Deal also includes commitment from Eni to drill four wells.
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State-run company will direct $2 billion towards frontier drilling in the area.
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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.
