Exploration

ION will integrate and reimage approximately 24 000 km2 of MPME-held 3D data and can expand the scope to include 15 000 km of 2D data pending industry support.

Yannis Bassias, former President & CEO at Hellenic Hydrocarbon Resources Management (HHRM), talks about exploration in the Mediterranean, changes in the gas market, ultra-deepwater drilling, and explains why Greece “is not a declared gas province yet”.

Providence Resources is working with SpotOn Energy and members of a consortium to finalise the farm out work programme for Exploration Licence SEL1/11, which includes the Barryroe oil and gas field offshore Ireland.

The cordless 'green seismic' technology is connected via wireless systems, in lieu of cables, so the technology does not require special heavy machinery to install them.

The preliminary calculation of the size of the discovery is between 0.9 and 1.5 million m3 of recoverable oil.

Hydrocarbons were discovered at the Dugong well (PL 882), located in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, last week.

The project will take place in the Asia Pacific region.

Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 3 and 10 million m3 of recoverable oil equivalents. The licensees will consider following up the discovery in an overall assessment of the area.

Jaguar plans to utilise Emerson’s E&P software solutions for seismic and well data analysis amongst other areas.

Andrew Lewis and Bruce Karr, Fairfield Geotechnologies, USA, consider the emerging role of multi-client seismic data in unconventional asset development and exploration.

Sasol was awarded Block 16/19 in 2005.

The survey extends Hammerfest Basin coverage further west and north into the southern Loppa High, with first data available in 4Q20.

Wildcat well 7321/8-2 S was drilled about 110 km north of the Johan Castberg field and about 310 km north of Hammerfest.

Logs and cuttings have identified hydrocarbons and a decision has been made to initiate coring.

The partners will be sharing operational and technological competencies for developing hard-to-recover oil reserves in the Orenburg Oblast region of Russia.