Exploration/discoveries
Preliminary estimates indicated recoverables of between 30 million and 110 million BOE at the discoveries, which Equinor called its largest of the year.
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.
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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. -
Six international and Egyptian companies will search for oil and gas in the Mediterranean and Red Sea with the drilling of 17 new exploration wells.
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Regionwide US Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Lease Sale 256 generated $120,868,274 in high bids for 93 tracts in federal waters. The sale on 18 November featured 14,862 unleased blocks covering 121,875 square miles.
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ConocoPhillips wildcat discovers significant natural-gas condensate resource.
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The well was meant to prove hydrocarbons in Triassic-aged sandstones within the Kobbe formation of the Polmak prospect.
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A 25th licensing round on the Norwegian Continental Shelf has been announced.
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The two oil companies will spend more than $400 million to find targets in the expansive offshore area that is currently the subject of the world’s largest 3D survey.
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The new field is the fourth exploration well the operator has drilled offshore Norway in the past 16 months.
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The new deal will focus on developing Arctic onshore blocks in a region where a successful LNG project already exists.
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The Houston-based exploration company will work with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company if it strikes big in the vast onshore block.
