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INPEX awarded exploration block AC/P71 offshore Western Australia

INPEX CORPORATION has announced that its subsidiary INPEX Browse E&P Pty Ltd (INPEX Browse) was awarded an exploration permit over release area AC22-1, now named AC/P71 (the Block) in Australia’s 2022 offshore petroleum exploration acreage release. INPEX Browse will be Operator and hold 100% working interest in the title.

 

New Zealand Government to reverse oil and gas exploration ban

Removing the ban on petroleum exploration beyond onshore Taranaki is part of a suite of proposed amendments to the Crown Minerals Act to deal with the energy security challenges posed by rapidly declining natural gas reserves, Resources Minister Shane Jones says.

 
 
 

Exploration discovery at Bunga Aster-1 Well

Hibiscus Petroleum Berhad has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hibiscus Oil & Gas Malaysia as the operator of the PM3 commercial arrangement area production sharing contract, has successfully completed the drilling of the Bunga Aster-1 exploration well.

 
 

Petrobras carries out scientific expeditions in the Equatorial Margin region

Researchers from Petrobras, the Geological Survey of Brazil (SGB), and 10 universities from the states that make up the geographical region of the Equatorial Margin, as well as two research institutions from the Southeast, has embarked for a scientific expedition on the Hydroceanographic Research Vessel (NPqHo) "Vital de Oliveira," operated by the Brazilian Navy.