Exploration/discoveries
Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
Sale 262 will be the first new auction covering leases in US Gulf federal waters in 2 years.
Oil and gas companies drilled 75 “high-impact” wells in 2024, representing 5.2 billion BOE.
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Apache filed appraisal plans for its Maka and Sapakara oil discoveries in block 58 offshore Suriname. -
Beach Energy plans to drill at its Artisan-1 well about 32 km offshore Victoria, Australia, in the Otway basin, before the end of 2021. The well was delayed due to COVID-19.
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Total made a significant second gas condensate discovery on the Luiperd prospect, located on Block 11B/12B in the Outeniqua Basin, 175 km off the southern coast of South Africa.
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BP was the only operator to place a bid in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board call for bids, which offered 17 parcels in the eastern Newfoundland region.
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The Broadside exploration well in Block TTDAA 3 within BHP’s Southern Deepwater Acreage was drilled in September.
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Drilling rig scheduled to arrive on 27 October.
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Warrego Energy and partner Strike Energy spudded their second well, West Erregulla 3 (WE3) in the Perth Basin onshore West Australia.
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Equinor issued a letter of intent to Odfjell Drilling and its semisubmersible rig Deepsea Aberdeen for the drilling of 15 wells for the Breidablikk Group, which recently submitted the plan for development and operation. Drilling is scheduled to start in spring 2022 with the campaign estimated to last through autumn 2024.
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A recent round of funding which raised $18 million positioned ReconAfrica to proceed with drilling and seismic programs for the Kavango basin in Namibia, said CEO Scot Evans.
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Total resigned its operator role for five exploration blocks located in the Foz do Amazonas Basin, 120 km offshore Brazil.
