Exploration news

Statoil resets its exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and was today deemed high bidder on 13 leases in the 2017 Central Lease Sale.

Masirah Oil Limited and its partners have announced that the drilling of exploration well Karamah#1 in Block 50 Oman has started on 17 March 2017.

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.