
DEA secures two licences in the Barents Sea
In the 24th licensing round, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has offered DEA two new licences in the Barents Sea.
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In the 24th licensing round, the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has offered DEA two new licences in the Barents Sea.

Lundin Petroleum AB has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS has been awarded three exploration licences in the 24th licensing round in Norway. All of the licences are located in the southern Barents Sea with one of the licences operated by Lundin Norway.

SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced that a gas discovery has been made at its SD-4X well in the South Disouq Concession, Egypt (SDX 55% working interest and operator).

Broad-spectrum airborne EM data acquired for first time at 7.5 Hz base frequency.

Seismic crews will now be able to deploy the 508XT solution in marsh zones and water depths of up to 25 m.

Long-awaited agreement with Elsevier's Geofacets assures the easy integration of AAPG's research into existing exploration workflows to optimise search results.

Dunquin is the latest in a series of multi-client surveys that CGG has recently been acquiring in the area, totalling 10 500 km2 of 3D and around 2000 km of long-offset 2D broadband data

Corridor has attributed the decision to a geotechnical analysis which revealed the play may be more gas prone than oil prone, as well as a failure to attract a joint venture partner.

CGG has completed acquisition of its Chickasha 3D survey in Grady and Caddo Counties, Oklahoma. CGG has also purchased the rights to the Ft. Reno 3D survey in Canadian County, adding to its continuously growing data library.

The company has also appointed a new COO, Gavin Lindsay, who joins from READ Cased Hole.

The technology enables the mapping of reservoir and fluid boundaries over 200 ft (61 m) away from the wellbore.

Equinor has received consent from the Petroleum Safety Authority to drill appraisal well 6608/10-18 in production licence 128 D in the Norwegian Sea.