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Exploration

RWE Dea Norge discovers oil offshore Norway

The series of exploration successes for RWE Dea in Norway continues. Having already made a major gas discovery in the Zidane licence area in mid-September, the semisubmersible drilling rig Bredford Dolphin just made another discovery in the Titan prospect (PL 420), with a promising oil discovery.

 
 
 
 
 

The Territorial Oil Dispute

In the last year a number of territorial disputes, which had been quietly ignored before the financial crisis, have come back to prominence; the disputes have been further exacerbated by the presence of oil in some instances.

 

Opening oil exploration to the East Coast

The African Continent’s west coast has long been an oil rich haven for oil companies from the west to exploit, yet now with the continual discoveries of oil rich deposits in the east, companies are turning their attention to countries like Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique to source large quantities of Africa’s oil reserve.

 

Dry well in the Norwegian Sea

Drilling of the exploration well 6603/5-1S on the Dalsnuten prospect in license PL392 in the Norwegian Sea by Noreco has been concluded. The well did not encounter reservoir rocks and was dry.

 

UK consuming a third more CO2 than in 1990

New research from Policy Exchange shows that Britain and the EU are only on course to meet international carbon targets because emissions have been ‘off shored’ to countries like China.

 

Latin American oil exports

Taryn Evans, Central and Latin America analyst for AKE, examines the stability of US oil imports from Latin America.

 
 
 

Petrobras to use Subsea 7 pipelay vessel

Petrobras has awarded a two year US$ 110 million contract to Subsea 7 for the exclusive use of its Lochnagar pipelay vessel for two years.

 
 

The energy world faces unprecedented uncertainty

According to the International Energy Agency’s latest World Energy Outlook, much stronger action is needed to accelerate the transformation of the global energy system.