Exploration news
NPD announces 25th licensing round
The licensing round encompasses 136 blocks in the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea.
PTTEP awards CGG seismic reprocessing contracts
CGG will conduct merged reprocessing of surveys from many vintages, including towed-streamer and OBC seismic data from offshore Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia.
Lundin Energy drills dry exploration well in southern Barents Sea
The well was located within the Kobbe formation of the Polmak prospect.
Maersk Drilling secures one-well contract extension for Maersk Viking
Brunei Shell Petroleum Company Sdn. Bhd. has exercised the option to add exploration drilling of one deepwater well to the work scope of the Maersk Viking.
Shearwater awarded Senegal 3D acquisition and processing contract
The contract has been awarded by Total, for an exploration survey covering 5000 km2 in the UDO Block Exploration area.
Liberia licence round pre-qualification deadline extended
The Government of Liberia has announced an extension of the timeframe for the Liberia License Round, 2020.
ConocoPhillips discovers gas southwest of Skarv field
Preliminary estimates place the size of the discovery between 8 and 30 million m³ of recoverable oil equivalent.
Beach Energy makes gas discovery in Otway Basin
Beach Energy has announced a gas discovery at Enterprise 1 in licence VIC/P42(V) in the nearshore Victorian Otway Basin.
Seabed Geosolutions awarded two 4D OBN surveys in Brazil
The total combined duration of the two surveys, awarded by Petrobras, is estimated around eight months.
Drilling of Ironbark-1 exploration well begins
Ironbark-1 will test the giant Ironbark gas prospect, which has a best estimate of 15 trillion ft3 prospective recoverable gas resource.