Exploration

The licence awarded to Eni is located in deep water in the unexplored Namibe Basin.

Work will now begin on discharging the planning conditions and the detailed planning for the development works at the Wressle oilfield.

Work on the 3D ocean bottom node seismic acquisition survey will continue through most of 1Q20.

GlobalData's thematic report, ‘Arctic Exploitation’, evaluates the competitive position of different Arctic countries in tapping the hydrocarbon reserves of the region.

ION is reimaging 22 000 km2 of data over the country’s deepwater blocks to create a contiguous volume for a holistic exploration perspective of the margin.

The extension is for the purpose of completing the NJOM-3 well currently in process on the Njonji structure.

The jack-up rig is built to Keppel’s proprietary KFELS B Class design and is the fifth of eleven jack-up rigs that Borr Drilling has ordered from Keppel.

The award includes 7 licences in the North Sea, 2 licences in the Norwegian Sea and 3 licences in the Southern Barents Sea.

Following drilling of the Nangwarry-1 well, a gross gas column of at least 65 m has now been confirmed in the top of the Pretty Hill Sandstone.

Maersk Voyager will be employed offshore Angola and Namibia for a campaign which includes the deepest water depth ever drilled offshore.

8 of the production licences are in the North Sea, 8 in the Norwegian Sea and 7 in the Barents Sea.

The newly acquired seismic programmes provide modern high-resolution imaging which encompass 1606 km2 with an additional 632 km2 to be acquired in 2020.

The contract is expected to commence in August 2020 and run through April 2022 with an option to extend.

The company was drilling northwest of the Balder field in the central part of the North Sea when it made the discovery of several oil and gas-bearing intervals.

The world’s oil and gas explorers powered ahead and discovered 12.2 billion boe in 2019.