Exploration news

SDX Energy Inc. , the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has announced the commencement of drilling operations on the SD-1X well at its South Disouq concession in Nile Delta area of Egypt.

Energean Oil & Gas has announced that it has signed an exploration and production concession contract with the State of Montenegro covering offshore blocks 4219-26 and 4218-30, following approval from the Parliament of Montenegro.

The study integrates over 8500 km of new broadband prestack time-migrated 2D BroadSeis™ data and complementary marine gravity and magnetic data acquired with the seismic.

Bell Geospace has won another contract with RakGas to acquire just under 15 000 line kilometres of airborne survey data. The contract will see Bell Geospace fly FTG and Magnetics surveys in Zanzibar.

Professor Paul de Leeuw, Director of the Oil & Gas Institute at Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University, examines the impact of the UK's decision to leave the EU and what this means for the country's oil and gas industry.

Carlsen 3D (CAR17 3D) is a 5490 km2 multi-client survey in open acreage located in the Southwest Barents Sea between the Tromsø and Sørvestnaget Basins.

Total has started up production from the Moho Nord deep offshore project, located 75 km offshore Pointe-Noire in the Republic of the Congo. Operated by the Group, the project has a production capacity of 100 000 boe/d.

Beginning in early April 2017, FairfieldNodal will commence back-to-back surveys in the North Sea, continuing what is expected to be a busy acquisition season.

CGG GeoSoftware has donated its HampsonRussell software suite, covering all aspects of reservoir characterisation, to the University of Texas of the Permian Basin (UTPB) Geology Program.

Cairn has announced the results of the SNE-5 appraisal well offshore Senegal where operations have been safely and successfully completed ahead of schedule and under budget following drilling, logging, drill stem testing and the setting of pressure gauges.