Exploration

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

Beach Energy, Cooper Energy, Leigh Creek Energy, Cordillo Energy, Gidgee Energy and Vintage Energy are the companies to have been awarded exploration licences by the South Australia State Government.

The exploration well drilled by Eni is located in the North El Hammad licence in the Nile Delta.

CGG GeoSoftware has collaborated with Alibaba Cloud to deploy its suite of proprietary geoscience software solutions on the Alibaba Cloud platform.

The company will carry out the Brazil Nebula survey extension for CGG and a 3D scope for Oil India lasting 1.5 months, starting in 3Q20.

The Torngat survey covers approximately 3300 km2 and sits within Labrador Sea’s southern sedimentary basins, where frontier exploration has already successfully identified hydrocarbons.

The new joint data library will comprise nearly 1 million line km of complementary data.

The semi-submersible rig Mærsk Developer will used for a one-well exploration campaign in Block 52 offshore Suriname.

As Total and CNOOC develop billions of barrels of proven oil reserves near Lake Albert, the Ugandan government is committed to attracting more investment into the development of its hydrocarbons potential through the Second Licensing Round.

The regulation covers matters such as the extension of the productive life of mature fields and the exploration of marginal and onshore fields along with investments in deep and ultra deepwater acreages.

The plan released by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management revokes an Obama-era management system for a huge swathe of federal land on the western North Slope, the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

Exploratory drilling has begun at the Shirotno-Rakushechnaya prospect structure, located to the north of the V.I. Grayfer field in the North Caspian Sea.

Spirit Energy has received permission to drill a wildcat well in production licence 780, about 5 km north of the Ivar Aasen field in the central part of the North Sea.

The pre-defined areas include blocks in the North Sea, Norwegian Sea and Barents Sea.

The agreement between the two companies includes the reprocessing and imaging of over 5000 miles2 of multi-client seismic data.