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Further Delay in Barryroe Project Loan

Jun 18, 2019

Ireland's offshore Oil and gas company Providence Resources has again pushed back a deadline to receive $9mln of funding from Apec, its farm-in partner in the key Barryroe site off the south west coast.The loan from Barryroe's Chinese backer was due by June 14…

AzEire Gets Irish Offshore License Extension

Jan 11, 2019

Ireland-focused oil and gas exploration company backed by Seacrest Capital AzEire has been awarded an extension of a frontier exploration license (FEL) and a conversion of a license option to an FEL.'The Minister of State at the Department of Communications…

Nearly 100 applications in 30th UKCS licensing round

Nov 22, 2017

Nearly 100 applications covering 239 blocks were made by 68 companies in the 30th offshore licensing round on the UK Continental Shelf, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has revealed.  Applications came from companies ranging from multinationals to new country entrants…

Providence farms out on Helvick and Dunmore, offshore Ireland

Nov 02, 2017

Providence Resources has been given consent to farm out stakes in the the Helvick and Dunmore Lease Undertakings (LU), in the North Celtic Sea Basin, and Dunquin South, in Frontier Exploration Licence (FEL) 3/04, in the southern Porcupine Basin offshore Ireland…

Providence forging ahead with Barryroe

Sep 21, 2017

Providence Resources will proceed with drilling plans for its Barryroe appraisal project offshore Ireland, despite failing to consummate a farm-in agreement with Total. Providence's Ireland acreage in SEL 1/11…

Providence gets Barryroe extension

Jul 13, 2017

Providence Resources and its partners on the Barryroe field offshore Ireland have been given a two-year license extension as the firm continues its farm-out efforts. Barryroe is in Standard Exploration License (SEL) and is operated by Providence subsidiary Exola DAC (80%)…

Irish license dropped after disappointing results

Feb 15, 2017

Offshore Ireland focused Lansdowne Oil & Gas has relinquished license SEL 4/07 following disappointing results from the Midleton prospect well. Lansdowne had 20% interest in the license, alongside Petronas subsidiary PSE Seven Heads, with 80%…

AzEire gets Irish extension

Jan 27, 2017

AzEire Petroleum has been awarded an extension to its 100% working interest FEL 1/13 license in the Porcupine Basin, offshore Ireland. Map of FEL 1/13, from AzEire. The extension…

AzEire awarded multiple Irish blocks

Dec 08, 2016

AzEire has been awarded licensing options over multiple blocks and part-blocks in the North Celtic Sea and Fastnet Basins offshore Ireland. The combined area of these awards totals around 3163sq km and will be held under a petroleum prospecting license for the duration of the licensing option…

OGA issues new seismic contracts

Nov 15, 2016

The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded four new contracts worth about US1.25 million (£1 million) to supply more than 10,000km of reprocessed proprietary 2D seismic data of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) as part of the UK Government funded seismic acquisition program…

OGA awards contracts to Schlumberger and DownUnder Geosolutions

Aug 31, 2016

The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded two contracts worth more than £2.5 million to Schlumberger WesternGeco and DownUnder Geosolutions (DUG), in collaboration with Geopartners, to supply around 15,000km of reprocessed multi-client…

Lansdowne relinquishes Celtic Sea licenses

Apr 26, 2016

Ireland’s Lansdowne Oil & Gas has failed to farm out of two licenses off the south coast of Ireland, due to industry conditions that will prevent drilling at the prospects. “Due to adverse industry conditions, attempts to farm-out SEL 5/07…

OGA tenders for latest seismic program

Apr 20, 2016

The UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has invited seismic companies to tender for its 2016-2017 UK Government funded seismic acquisition and processing program. The contract will cover survey work over South West Britain, including the Celtic Sea…

Providence looks to drilling alliance to help appraise Barryroe

Feb 18, 2016

Irish independent Providence Resources is eying a potential risk sharing alliance with a drilling firm and contractors to help it move forward on its Barryroe oil field offshore Ireland.  Providence, 80% owner and operator of the Barryroe field…

Providence to take North Celtic Sea stake

Dec 03, 2015

Providence Resources has agreed an option with Petronas subsidiary PSE Kinsale Energy to take a stake in the southern portion of Offshore Petroleum Lease 1 (OPL 1) adjacent to the Barryroe oil field in the North Celtic Sea Basin.   Under the terms of the option…

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