Exploration news

Shell has said that the marine 3D seismic survey, planned over the Resolution and Endeavour gas discoveries, is now anticipated to be acquired in February 2022 rather than 1Q21.

The Stena Carron drillship has arrived on location at the Bulletwood-1 wellsite on the Canje Block, offshore Guyana and has commenced drilling operations.

The drilling programme for well 16/4-13 S relates to the drilling of a wildcat well in production licence 359.

The agreement is for the North Ras Kanayis Offshore block located in the Herodotus Basin, offshore Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea.

The new discovery at the Meleiha Concession adds 10 000 bpd to Eni's gross production in the Western Desert of Egypt.

ADNOC has awarded the exploration rights for Abu Dhabi’s Offshore Block 3 to a consortium led by Eni Abu Dhabi B.V. and PTTEP MENA Ltd.

Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 75 million and 200 million bbl of recoverable oil equivalent.

The four-month campaign will cover two areas totalling 2800 km2 in the Arabian Sea off the west coast of India.

Fugro will provide positioning services for an exploration programme in Block 52 in the Guyana-Suriname Basin.

Two of Neodrill's CAN-ductors were installed in April on two of Neptune Energy’s exploration wells in the Norwegian North Sea.