Exploration

The company's subsidiary, Lundin Norway AS, completed drilling of exploration well 7220/6-3 on the Børselv prospect in PL609 on the Loppa High in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry.

The expanded programme will be approximately 9000 km and is the only modern data available offshore Panama.

Headquartered in Chile, with offices and operations throughout South America, Wellfield Services selected Sercel’s latest-generation 508XT system to conduct surveys in challenging terrain with dense vegetation in Brazil.

The inaugural TopSeis survey was commissioned by Lundin Norway AS over the Loppa High in the Barents Sea and is designed to better image a complex carbonate reservoir located at depths of between 400 to 2000 m below the seabed.

Paradigm will introduce its production management solution and showcase its high-definition workflows for reservoir characterisation, modelling and production engineering, at the 2017 SPE ATCE.

The Essen-based exploration and engineering company DMT was contracted by the Canadian oil and gas producer, Vermilion Energy Inc. to carry out a seismic exploration survey in the Netherlands. The field work is now underway.

CGG has been present in Brazil for over 55 years, since the company began working with Petrobras in 1961. Its long-established Rio de Janeiro Subsurface Imaging Center, with its strong reservoir characterisation group, has the largest computer capacity and greatest expertise in the region.

CGG has announced the start of acquisition of its first complementary wide-azimuth (CWAz) survey, known as AC CWAz, a BroadSeis™ 3D multi-client programme in southern Alaminos Canyon, Gulf of Mexico.

The associated prospects are located in two promising plays and areas of the GoM: Wilcox in Central GoM next to the Anchor discovery, and Norphlet in Eastern GoM nearby to the Appomattox discovery.

The Board of Directors of Armour Energy Limited has announced that Armour has been granted the exploration licence for the Kanywataba Block in the Albertine Graben in Uganda.

The contract will see Bell Geospace fly FTG surveys across 12 000 square kilometres onshore in the Republic of Guinea’s Bove basin and 1366 square kilometres of the onshore coastal strip of Liberia lying within the known extent of the Roberts-Bassa basin.

Shell will benefit from technical solutions, contract management expertise and cost efficient initiatives Petrobras applies to Brazil’s pre and post-salt projects. Shell will share with Petrobras its deepwater experience, especially on cost efficiency efforts and use of technology.

The well encountered a 75 m-thick Cenomanian sedimentary channel sequence, but it contained predominantly siltstone and clays with no hydrocarbon shows. The well will be plugged and abandoned.

The Environment Agency has granted permits to enable HHDL to carry out extended flow tests at HH-1, store any produced oil, drill and test both a side-track from the existing HH-1 well and new borehole HH-2. The Company has a 32.435% interest in the Licences.

The two companies aim to provide a comprehensive, real time solution for marine logistics management that significantly reduces costs and risks.