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Geoscientists in the oil & gas industry face many challenges in their quest to de-risk and drill the best wells and more confidently forecast production.

Condor Petroleum Inc., a Canadian based oil and gas company focused on exploration and production activities in Turkey and Kazakhstan, provides an operations update.

Well 7325/4-1 is in the Hoop area in the Barents Sea, around 275 km from Nordkapp and 200 km from Bjørnøya (Bear Island).

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and BP have announced that they are moving forward to develop already-discovered deepwater gas fields, bringing new gas production for India.

the Layang Field is located approximately 7 km east of the producing Helang Gas Field in Block SK10.

Exxon Mobil has announced positive production well test results from the Muruk 1 sidetrack 3 well in the Papua New Guinea North Highlands located about 13 miles (21 km) northwest of the Hides gas field.

Sparrows Group and INNOVO have deployed a new electric drive 700 Te multi-reel drive system for the first time. Sparrows was hired by a global energy services provider to deliver the system and personnel for an umbilical laying operation off the coast of Trinidad.

OvationData Limited has announced the extension of its current trace management service agreement with PGS to 2023.

CGG’s JumpStart™ multi-client geoscience programs integrate the most advanced seismic data with reviewed, calibrated and interpreted well and geological data for petroleum systems evaluation, supported by regional interpretations and reports.

Halliburton has announced an agreement with GroundMetrics, a San Diego company specialising in the development of electromagnetic sensor systems, to deliver full field reservoir characterisation and monitoring services.