Exploration

Statoil and partners OMV and Petoro have made a small gas discovery in the Gemini North well, northeast of the Wisting discovery in the Barents Sea. The well also proved oil.

The project will offer the industry the highest-resolution 3D seismic data available in this extremely prospective area.

PETRONAS’ subsidiary PC Carigali Mexico Operations, S.A. de C.V., has been awarded shallow water Block 6 in the Gulf of Mexico’s Salina Basin.

ION Geophysical Corporation has announced a new 3D multi-client broadband reimaging programme offshore Brazil.

The survey is being conducted by Schlumberger Guyana Inc. using R/V GECO Eagle and two supporting vessels, and is expected to be completed within 50 days following which the results will be interpreted before an announcement is published.

ION Geophysical Corporation has announced that its imaging services supported the historic Zama-1 discovery offshore Mexico made by Talos Energy, LLC (Talos) and their partners.

Exxon Mobil Corporation has discovered additional oil in the Payara reservoir offshore Guyana.

CGG has extended its Santos VII multi-client survey to optimise Saturno field imaging.

Senex has announced a Birkhead oil discovery on the western flank of the South Australian Cooper Basin.

Sacgasco Limited has advised Empyrean that installation of the surface conductor for the Dempsey 1-15 appraisal and exploration project is now complete.

African Petroleum has provided an update regarding its licence interests in The Gambia and Senegal, West Africa.

CGG announced today the award by Petrobras of a contract to process the seismic data from a 3D Ocean Bottom Node (OBN) survey covering a full-fold area of 2180 km2 in Brazil’s deepwater Santos Basin.

Centrica plc and Stadtwerke München GmbH have reached an agreement to combine Centrica’s European oil and gas exploration and production business with Bayerngas Norge AS.

HIMA has recently announced Servelec Controls as its approved oil and gas-focused systems integration partner in the UK.

Xodus Group has won a contract with Cairn Oil and Gas of Vedanta Ltd to conduct exploration and appraisal work on its Rajasthan block in north-west India over the next two years.