Equinor awarded exploration acreage offshore Western Australia
The block in the Northern Carnarvon Basin covers 4815 km2 and lies approximately 100 km from the Australian coast.
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The block in the Northern Carnarvon Basin covers 4815 km2 and lies approximately 100 km from the Australian coast.
Wintershall Dea will retain a 70% participating interest and operatorship in its Potiguar offshore exploration blocks.
Senegal’s ambitions to become a major oil and gas producer have been overshadowed by allegations President Macky Sall’s brother was involved in fraud related to two offshore gas blocks being developed by BP.
Operations involved drilling over 2000 m and acquiring more than 1400 high quality samples and over 900 m of seismic PCPT data.
Lease Sale 254, scheduled for March 2020, will be the sixth offshore sale under the 2017 – 2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
The report by Nalcor Energy-Oil and Gas and Beicip-Franlab, in partnership with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has identified an additional 3 billion bbl of oil and 5.8 trillion ft3 of gas potential offshore Newfoundland.
The 6th Production Sharing Round is scheduled for 7 November and will offer the Aram, Boomerang, Southern Cross, Southwest Sagittarius and North Brava blocks, distributed in the Santos and Campos basins.
The company is exploring the potential to co-operate with an unnamed international oil company in respect of its blocks in Namibia.
The enhanced imaging volumes from the Greater Plutonio development in the Lower Congo Basin were delivered four weeks early for the project.
Services to be provided will include data acquisition utilising remote operated vehicle (ROV)-deployed autonomous nodal recording technology in water depths up to 60 m.
The Irish Government has confirmed that its proposals ‘will relate to future applications’ and that ‘existing licences will remain valid’.
The contract covers an area of 1600km2 for 3D seismic with associated 2D work to be executed over a 1.5-month period from end 3Q19 for the undisclosed client.