Exploration/discoveries
Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
Only about one-third of Africa’s discovered hydrocarbon resources have reached commercialization.
The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission has set its sights on anticorruption efforts for the 2025 Licensing Round, which began on 1 December.
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The Mexican state oil company believes it has found a new oil field on par with past billion-bbl finds. -
Increasing downhole pressures were the culprit, rig will be released as planned.
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The drilling program is the first exploration well to be drilled in production license 785 S.
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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.
