Lundin Energy, a Swedish oil firm focused on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, on Tuesday said it had started production from the Extended Well Test (EWT) at its Rolvsnes offshore field, the first subsea tie back development for the Edvard Grieg platform.The Rolvsnes field is located in a production license on the southern side of the Edvard Grieg field and is a weathered and fractured granite basement reservoir…
Oil company ConocoPhillips has drilled a dry well at the Bounty prospect in the Norwegian Sea, offshore Norway, and will plug and abandon the well.ConocoPhillips drilled the wildcat well 6306/3-2 some 30 kilometers south of the Fenja field in…
French oil and gas seismic data firm CGG said Thursday it had secured a four-year contract extension for its dedicated reservoir services center for Petrobras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.'[CGG's] in-house team of reservoir characterization specialists…
Oilfield services company Schlumberger on Monday announced an enterprise-wide deployment of the cloud-based DELFI cognitive E&P environment for the U.S. oil firm ConocoPhillips. ConocoPhillips will use Schlumberger digital solutions enabled…
Oilfield services giant Schlumberger on Tuesday announced the GeoSphere 360 3D reservoir mapping-while-drilling service. 'The service leverages advanced cloud and digital solutions to deliver real-time 3D profiling of reservoir objects. This…
Oil and gas company Wellesley Petroleum has completed the drilling of the wildcat well 36/1-4 S in the North Sea off Norway, and the well is dry, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate said Thursday. Wellesley Drilled the well some 40 kilometers…
Oil and gas company Lundin Energy has drilled a dry well at the Melstein prospect in the production licence 886, offshore Norway.The wildcat well has been drilled about 72 km east of the Ormen Lange field in the Norwegian Sea and 55 km northwest of Kristiansund…
Polish oil firm PGNiG has drilled a dry well in the production licence 937, in the Norwegian Sea.The well, formally named 'Well 6306/3-1 S' - the Fat Canyon Prospect - was drilled using Dolphin Drilling's Borgland Dolphin semi-submersible drilling rig…
Norwegian oil and company Aker BP has made a minor oil and gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea.According to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Aker BP ASA, as the operator of the production licence 127 C, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 6607/12-4 and appraisal well 6607/12-4 A…
The recent downgrade of Hurricane Energy's Lancaster field recoverable reserves estimates has led Norwegian energy intelligence Rystad Energy to revise its expectations for the UKCS overall and say that the basin might never again hit output…
Oil and gas company Wellesley has failed to find hydrocarbons at its 6204/11-3 exploration well in the North Sea, offshore Norway.Wellesley, as the operator of the production license 829, drilled the wildcat well 6204/11-3 (also known as the Schweinsteiger prospect)…
UK-based oil and gas company Hurricane Energy has appointed Antony Maris as Chief Executive Officer ('CEO') designate, and executive director of the company.Maris' appointment follows the resignation of Hurricane Energy's long-standing CEO Robert Trice…
With reports this week that a broad majority in the Norwegian Parliament supports proposed tax breaks to help the oil and gas industry affected by low oil prices, oil industry is responding and promising investments.On the back of the stimulus from the government in the form of temporary tax breaks…
The UK-focused oil firm Hurricane Energy has said it is very pleased with the performance of its Lancaster Early Production System offshore the UK.Hurricane started up its Lancaster field west of Scotland's Shetland Islands in May 2019, via the Aoka Mizu FPSO…
The drill bit still plays a key role across the region, with exploration increasingly the domain of national oil companiesReports of the death of exploration have been greatly exaggerated. Since the 2014 oil price downturn, the industry has re-imagined exploration…
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