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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Regionwide US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Lease Sale 256 generated $120,868,274 in high bids for 93 tracts in federal waters. The sale on 18 November featured 14,862 unleased blocks covering 121,875 square miles. -
ConocoPhillips wildcat discovers significant natural-gas condensate resource.
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The well was meant to prove hydrocarbons in Triassic-aged sandstones within the Kobbe formation of the Polmak prospect.
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A 25th licensing round on the Norwegian Continental Shelf has been announced.
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The two oil companies will spend more than $400 million to find targets in the expansive offshore area that is currently the subject of the world’s largest 3D survey.
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The new field is the fourth exploration well the operator has drilled offshore Norway in the past 16 months.
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The new deal will focus on developing Arctic onshore blocks in a region where a successful LNG project already exists.
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The Houston-based exploration company will work with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company if it strikes big in the vast onshore block.
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Zion expects to spud the Megiddo-Jezreel #2 well at its current well location near Bet She'an by the middle of this month. The new license may be extended for a total of 12 months.
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Africa Oil announced Impact Oil & Gas entered into two agreements for exploration areas offshore South Africa. The company has a 31.10% shareholding in Impact, a privately owned exploration company.
