Exploration - 23 December 2014

Lundin Petroleum AB has completed the drilling of wildcat well 33/2-1 on PL555 located 200km northwest of Florø on the Norwegian west coast.

Ithaca Energy Inc. has announced the appointment of Mr Roy Buchan as Chief Operations Officer, starting 5 January 2015.

Bjarte Slettevoll, Technical Manager of Norway’s Sanco Shipping, explains how the company is bringing a different kind of support to seismic ships.

Dresser-Rand has released its 2015 training schedule, which includes a comprehensive list of product training programs.

Canacol has announced the acquisition of VIM 5 and VIM 19 contracts and the Clarinete gas discovery in the Lower Magdalena Valley of Colombia.

Strata-X Energy Ltd. has announced that it has begun drilling operations on the first of its planned vertical wells in its 100% owned Illinois Basin.

AWE Limited has provided an update in relation to exploration and appraisal activities in Perth Basin, onshore Western Australia.

Lundin has received consent to carry out exploration drilling of well 16/4-9 S.

Continental Resources, Inc. today announced a revised 2015 non-acquisition capital expenditures budget of US$2.7 billion.

Gazprom Neft has successfully carried out uninterrupted electrical prospecting at the Tympuchikansky and Vakunaysky blocks in Eastern Siberia.

BP and SOCAR sign an agreement to explore the shallow water around the Absheron Peninsula.

The oil price decline: PwC comments on the M&A and business impact.