The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate granted Wintershall Norge a drilling permit for exploration well 10/4-1 in the North Sea. Well 10/4-1. From NPD. 10/4-1 is located in production license 734…
Tullow Oil is plugging and abandoning its Zumba exploration well (6507/11-11) in license area PL 591 in the Norwegian Sea, after failing to encounter hydrocarbons. The primary objective of the well was to prove hydrocarbons in the Upper…
Russian gas producer Gazprom and Shell signed an agreement to expand the Sakhalin-2 LNG project. Sakhalin-2 saw the development of two offshore oil and gas fields: Piltun-Astokhskoye and Lunskoye, off the north-eastern coast of Sakhalin…
Premier Oil is hoping to spud an exploration well on the Baguss prospect in Block 13/24c in the UK North Sea in H1 2016, according to partner North Sea Energy. The Bagpuss well targets lower cretaceous sands, jurassic sands and a granite wash formation about 1400ft subsurface…
Wintershall Norge, operator of production license 378, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 35/12-5 S. The well was drilled about 15km southwest of the Gjøa field in the North Sea and 80km southwest of Florø…
Statoil has handed out the largest contracts for the UK North Sea’s Mariner field that are worth more than US$1.57 billion (£1 billion) to the companies established in Aberdeen. Mariner. Image from Statoil…
Lundin Norway commenced drilling of exploration well 16/4-9 S on the Luno II North prospect in the North Sea. The main objective of well 16/4-9 S is to test the hydrocarbon potential and reservoir properties in the Luno II North prospect…
MEO Australia Malaysian-based Brooke Dockyard & Engineering Work Corp. signed an agreement to form a consortium to cooperate to identify and jointly bid on oil and gas exploration and development opportunities within Sarawak and the whole of Malaysia…
Northern Petroleum announced that the environmental impact assessments (EIA) for its three remaining exploration permit applications in the southern Adriatic have been approved. These approvals are in addition to the two EIA approvals for exploration permit applications announced on 10 June 2015…
Sound Oil, the European- and Mediterranean-focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the approval of the environmental impact assessment for the award of the D503-BR-CS permit, covering Sound Oil's Dora and Dalla assets in the Adriatic Sea…
Wellesley Petroleum Holdings, a new exploration company focused exclusively on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS), announced that Chris Elliott has been appointed as CEO. Elliott’s last role was exploration manager UK and Norway for Cairn Energy…
Shell is on the brink of Arctic exploration after the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s (BSEE) approval of the US supermajor’s oil spill response plan (OSRP) on 11 June. The Noble Discoverer…
Lundin Petroleum successfully completed drilling two appraisal wells that encountered hydrocarbon pay in the Alta discovery offshore Norway, in the Barents Sea. The Island Innovator. Image from Island Drilling…
China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) commenced production at the Dongfang1-1 gas field Phase I adjustment project ahead of schedule, in the South China Sea. Image from CNOOC. The…
Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) discovered four new shallow water fields offshore Mexico with the potential to produce at least 200,000 b/d of crude oil and 170 Bcf/d of gas. Map of shallow water discoveries off Campeche and Tabasco…