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Ensco plc has announced the completion of its acquisition of Atwood Oceanics, Inc.

“Old offshore fields are now declining faster, and as a consequence, 1 million bbls of oil have been removed from production balances,” said Per Magnus Nysveen, Head of Analysis at Rystad Energy.

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.