Exploration/discoveries
New agreements for exploration and production in Africa include activity in the Orange Basin offshore Namibia, offshore Angola, Senegal, and Côte d’Ivoire. In the Gulf of Mexico, a memorandum of understanding for deepwater evaluation was signed between Woodside Energy and PEMEX and Viridien initiated its Walker Ridge Reimaging Extension. TotalEnergies provided a targe…
This work introduces a novel predictive methodology combining historical metocean data with real-time riser analysis for shallow water dynamically positioned rig operations.
Since the start of the Ukraine war, Norway has replaced Russia as the top gas supplier to the EU and Britain by maximizing its pipeline capacity and LNG volumes through its interests in export facilities in Norway and the US, as well as regasification in Europe.
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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. -
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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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.
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New well northwest of Cizre strikes 162 m of light oil pay.
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Life-extension project will double the facility’s life in hopes to double its output to date.
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Plan granted contains permission for one appraisal well and up to six horizontal development wells.
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The acreage comprises 10 leases covering approximately 25,430 contiguous acres.
