Shearwater awarded extension on Nebula survey offshore Brazil
The company is also nearing completion of work for CGG on its North Viking Graben survey.
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The company is also nearing completion of work for CGG on its North Viking Graben survey.
Halliburton will collaborate with Energean to deliver exploration, appraisal, and development wells offshore Israel.
The survey is designed to illuminate the regional plays in the ultra-deep and deepwater areas with a new azimuth and to provide prospectivity insights of an oil-prone area in relation to recent key wells and the shallow water geology.
The drilling programme for wells 35/10-7 S and A relates to the drilling of a wildcat well and an appraisal well.
The study will involve the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of seabed sediment samples and heat flow measurements to help assess the region’s resource potential.
Chariot will use the Stena Don rig for the planned Anchois gas appraisal well.
The Sasanof-1 exploration well is in WA-519-P in Commonwealth waters about 207 km northwest of Onslow, Western Australia, and is scheduled to drill in 1Q22.
Preliminary results indicate that the Hibiscus North field could be incorporated into future development planning with a possible tie back to the Hibiscus Ruche development but with reserves below the lower end of the pre-drill resource estimate of potential 10 to 40 million barrels of oil.
Resources for the Bergknapp oil discovery are estimated at 40 - 84 million boe after appraisal.
Bourbon will support exploration campaigns offshore Namibia and Sao Tomé.
The potential of the discovery can be preliminarily estimated at between 1.5 and 2 billion barrels of oil in place and between 1.8 and 2.4 trillion ft3 of associated gas.
Based on resources of 21 million boe and its proximity to the nearby Alba infrastructure, Wood Mackenzie assumes the discovery could be an ideal candidate for a short-cycle, high-return tie-back to the Ithaca-operated facilities.