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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The drilling program is the first exploration well to be drilled in production license 785 S. -
The find kicks off Petrobras’ latest drilling campaign, which is focused primarily on offshore blocks holding subsalt potential that the company acquired at a series of bid rounds that started in 2017.
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The Gulf of Mexico discovery, a product of infrastructure-led exploration, boasts 100 million bbl of gross potential.
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With all permits, personnel, and equipment in place, Zion is set to operate the well.
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The Hassa-1 exploration well in the prolific Stabroek Block was the giant’s second setback to its drilling campaign in recent months.
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The SEMZ-11X is the US independent’s second exploration well in the Southeast Meleiha Concession.
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The US Interior Department says native company missed deadline to conduct polar bear den assessment work ahead of planned geological activity.
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The discovery well is located in the south-western Ring of Bozhong Sag in the Bohai Bay where average water depth is about 23 m.
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Bahama Petroleum's Perseverance #1 establishes petroleum system, will be plugged and abandoned
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ExxonMobil and Petronas discovered hydrocarbon-bearing zones in an exploration well on Block 52 offshore Suriname, adding to ExxonMobil’s finds in the Guyana-Suriname basin.
