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The company entered into an agreement with Eni to acquire a 25.5% participating interest in block A5A, located in the Angoche basin, offshore the Republic of Mozambique.

The company has announced a new multi-client onshore 3D seismic project, South Hackberry 3D, located on the east flank of the Anadarko Basin in Garfield, Kingfisher and Logan Counties, Oklahoma.

Glaucus is a giant,” Robert Morris, senior research analyst, Europe upstream, at global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, said. “It will be one of the biggest discoveries of the year.”

From first production at the development, Equinor plans to use seafloor based seismic cable permanent reservoir monitoring (PRM) technology to observe what is happening in the reservoir over time to help maximise recovery rates.

LO16/20 includes the Company’s flagship Inishkea prospect which lies immediately to the north west of, and abuts, the producing Corrib gas field in the Corrib Field Petroleum Lease Area.

Jason 10.0, HampsonRussell 10.4 and PowerLog 10.0 also feature advanced machine learning capabilities and greater cross-product integration.

In response to Repsol's comments on the Indonesian gas discovery, Wood Mackenzie's research director, Andrew Harwood, has provided some commentary.

Geologists at the University of Aberdeen have discovered a huge swathe of the North Sea left unexplored for oil and gas because of so-called ‘phantom’ volcanoes they have proven don’t exist.

After years of budget cuts, oil and gas companies are finally stepping up their exploration game. Several wildcat wells planned for 2019 have the potential to be 'elephant' finds, according to Rystad Energy.

Following the announcement by Indonesia's upstream regulator SKK Migas on a gas discovery in Indonesia, Wood Mackenzie's research director Andrew Harwood provides commentary.

The company has announced the completion of the regional multi-client airborne gravity, gravity-gradiometry and magnetics survey covering the transition zone of the Gulf of Papua.

Russia had two natural gas discoveries in the West Siberian basin and an oil discovery in the Okhotsk basin, while Colombia had three conventional oil discoveries, all in the Llanos Orientales basin.

The Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) has awarded one new licence to DEA in its 2018 Bid Round.

The survey will include the highly prospective Castberg area, and cover existing and newly awarded licenses in addition to open acreage with several play models in multiple geological layers.