Exploration

Eni Oman BV in partnership with Oman Oil Company Exploration and Production has awarded Shearwater GeoServices a seismic survey in Block 52, offshore Oman.

Vår Energi is the largest independent exploration and production company on the Norwegian continental shelf, with a net production rate of more than 170 000 boe/d in 2018.

The company has announced that drilling at Indico-1 well on the CPO-5 block has reached target depth of 10 604 ft measured depth and has encountered the targeted Lower Sands of the Une formation.

Afoxé discovery is a further confirmation of the oil exploration potential still held in southern part of Block 15/06, previously considered mainly gas prone.

Leading ROV and hydrographic survey company, Rovco, has been awarded further funding to develop the next stage of its integrated live 3D vision and artificial intelligence (AI) survey technology.

The Paus Biru-1 exploration well has resulted in a gas discovery.

The Cassidy prospect sits within the PL405 Oda licence and is being drilled back-to-back with the production wells on the Oda structure.

The first exploration well on Orinduik is to be drilled in late May - early June 2019, on the Jethro-Lobe prospect.

The programme spans shallow water and deepwater wells in several regions requiring a combination of jack-ups, semi-submersibles, and drillships.

During this period OMV will continue to benefit from onsite access to CGG’s subsurface imaging and reservoir characterisation expertise and technology.

The Petroleum Safety Authority has granted the company consent to drill on the Bøyla field.

As part of the transaction, Tullow will become the operator, and will partly carry Discover for a 3D seismic survey and the first exploration well.

Planning application to be considered by a meeting of the North Lincolnshire Council Planning Committee on 28 November 2018.

The Brasse East well is being drilled immediately east of the Brasse field, discovered by Faroe in 2016 and appraised in 2017.

As announced on November 8th, 2018, the company drilled the SGZ 6X exploration well to a total depth of 5195 feet and cased the well as a potential Bahariya light oil discovery.