Exploration/discoveries
In Asia, Valeura Energy and PTTEP advanced a Gulf of Thailand gas project, while Murphy Oil and Seadrill moved forward with projects in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In the Americas, Perenco, Petrobras, and Equinor advanced projects in Brazil, Canada, and elsewhere. Other developments included updates from Equinor, Serica Energy, BW Energy, and Sharjah National Oi…
Industry forecasts point to increasing upstream expenditure and production, even as geopolitical volatility and smaller discoveries challenge project economics.
The Society’s archive of technical papers, maps, figures, and geological data sets will be integrated into the GIX platform, enabling geoscientists to query AI agents about exploration opportunities within specific geographic regions while combining historical research with public data, proprietary information, and advanced analytics.
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Egypt’s newest round of drilling agreements advances its quest to boost investment in mature fields to stop the freefall in gas production. -
Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
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While new imaging capabilities are rejuvenating old data so explorers can discover hydrocarbons, finding and developing reserves is increasingly complicated.
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The operator estimates discovering more than 96 million BOE of recoverable volumes with its latest Norwegian North Sea exploration activity.
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The new schedule plans for sales in the US Gulf and Alaska through 2039.
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The number of high-impact wells drilled across the globe this year are expected to be on trend with the most recent 5-year average.
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BP called the Bumerangue discovery in the Santos Basin the company’s largest find in 25 years, and announced it had begun production from its tieback project at Argos ahead of schedule.
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Updates about global exploration and production activities and developments.
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The company said it is considering connecting the Vidsyn commercial discovery to the nearby Fenja subsea facility.
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Welligence projects explorers are targeting 50 billion BOE in the near term, with about 20% of that being gas.
