Exploration/discoveries
Data and impartial viewpoints can help de-risk exploration portfolios and keep resource estimates in check.
Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
Alaskan oil is entering a renaissance driven by a predicted 13% upswing in 2026 production, the largest since the 1980s, and a possible reboot of LNG exports to Asia from the Kenai Peninsula, supplied via pipeline from the North Slope.
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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. -
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.
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If brought to production, the flow of new gas supplies will help cut Jordan’s dependence on oil imports to fuel its power sector and industries.
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More than 30 oil and gas companies took part in the licensing round, which focused on mature areas that can be developed using existing infrastructure.
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After a line of four discovery wells in Suriname, Total and Apache are going off trend with a well to see if the potentially huge play extends north as well.
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The Dutch supermajor will take on a nonoperating stake in the largest exploration block in the North Argentine Basin, which remains largely unexplored.
