Exploration/discoveries
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The deal targets increased investment and production from one of the country’s largest onshore developments.
Malampaya East discovery is estimated to hold 98 Bcf of gas and may help offset declines at the country’s only producing gas field.
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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. -
Zion expects to spud the Megiddo-Jezreel #2 well at its current well location near Bet She'an by the middle of this month. The new license may be extended for a total of 12 months.
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Africa Oil announced Impact Oil & Gas entered into two agreements for exploration areas offshore South Africa. The company has a 31.10% shareholding in Impact, a privately owned exploration company.
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The seismic consortium comprising PGS, TGS, and WesternGeco was awarded a multiyear contract by Petronas to acquire and process up to 105,000 km2 of multisensor, multiclient 3D data in the Sarawak Basin, offshore Malaysia.
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Hess completed the sale of its 28% working interest in the Shenzi Field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM) to BHP, the field’s operator, for $505 million.
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Greenland opened three new offshore areas for application of oil and gas exploitation licenses off West Greenland. The areas are Baffin Bay, Disko West, and Davis Strait.
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Apache filed appraisal plans for its Maka and Sapakara oil discoveries in block 58 offshore Suriname.
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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.
