Exploration

Total's successful bids in three blocks will add to the company's high grade exploration portfolio.

Statoil has been awarded blocks 1 and 3 in the Saline Basin in the Deepwater exploration tender in the Mexican Round 1.

Aminex has confirmed that an independent inspection of the Caroil 2 drilling rig has now been completed in Tanzania

Petroperu awarded a 75% working interest in and operatorship of the Morona Block to GeoPark.

The final data sets show a spectacular uplift in subsalt imaging.

Jacobs is to deliver a front-end engineering and design package and detailed engineering for the Vito host platform topsides.

Baker Hughes, CSL Capital Management and Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division have agreed to form a North American land pressure pumping company.

The operator Centrica submitted the Plan for Development and Operation (PDO) of the Oda discovery in the North Sea to the authorities today.

Reservoir modelling software selected to determine well placing and reduce geosteering risk.

The company used its software to help mine 50 years of North Sea exploration data, as part of a Data Challenge set by Common Data Access (CDA).

The company has reported that deepwater exploration and appraisal activity has dramatically declined.

The Italian Ministry of Economic Development has formally awarded Po Valley a preliminary Production Concession for the Company’s 47 billion ft3 offshore Teodorico gas field in the northern Adriatic Sea.

The well was drilled about 60 km northeast of the oil and gas discovery 7220/11-1 (Alta) and about 20 km east of 7220/8-1 Johan Castberg.

The well is anticipated to complete within 12 days.

Lundin Petroleum's completion of the Neiden exploration well 7220/6-2R has resulted in an oil and gas discovery.