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Premier proves pay at Isobel Deep

Jan 11, 2016

Premier Oil has confirmed its Isobel Deep oil discovery offshore the Falklands, as well as an additional discovery in the same well.  The well, which was a re-drill of the 14/20-1 Isobel Deep well, hit 27m of net pay, with no oil water contact or gas…

Not all gloom, says Hannon Westwood

Jan 08, 2016

A year on since the oil price collapse and the effects are making themselves felt across Northwest Europe, particularly in the UK and Norwegian sectors.   The count of exploration and appraisal well spuds in the UK is an all-time low…

Lundin spuds Bombazon well

Jan 08, 2016

Lundin Petroleum has started drilling the Bambazon exploration well in Block SB307/SB308, offshore East Malaysia. The Bambazon prospect is in shallow water and lies to the north of a major producing field in offshore East Malaysia. The well will target hydrocarbons in Miocene aged sands…

Wintershall to use Kongsberg's SiteCom

Jan 06, 2016

Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies has been awarded a 3-year contract by Wintershall for provision of its hosted SiteCom real-time data aggregation and visualization solution for well construction. All real-time, planned and historical…

Italy reintroduces 12-mile exploration restriction

Jan 06, 2016

Restrictions on offshore exploration in Italian waters have been reintroduced, according to UK-based explorer Rockhopper Exploration. The firm says the Italian Parliament has approved its 2016 Budget Law, which reintroduces restrictions…

Quadrant hits at Roc-1

Jan 04, 2016

Quadrant Energy encountered condensate rich gas from at least three hydrocarbon columns at the Roc-1 well, offshore Western Australia. Map of Roc-1, courtesy of Carnarvon. Roc…

Myanmar pays off for Woodside

Jan 04, 2016

Woodside Energy has made a gas discovery offshore Myanmar giving hope to the string of majors who entered the country following its emergence from sanction driven isolation.  Woodside made the discovery on the Shwe Yee Htun-1 exploration well in Block A-6 in the Rakhine Basin…

Senegal well flows for Cairn

Jan 04, 2016

UK based independent Cairn Energy has successfully tested its SNE-2 appraisal well offshore Senegal. The firm performed drilling, coring, logging and drill-stem testing (DST), as part of its latest, minimum three-well exploration campaign offshore Senegal…

Tackling the backlog

Jan 01, 2016

With many assets now more than 25 years old, asset integrity is a daily concern on the UK Continental Shelf. Is the industry keeping up? Elaine Maslin reports. Rope access is used to get to areas usually out of reach…

First cut is the deepest

Jan 01, 2016

OE reached out to analysts Wood Mackenzie and IHS Energy to find out the view on the next 12-18 months. And the outlook is not so great for exploration spend. Audrey Leon and Elaine Maslin report. Wood Mackenzie Image from iStock…

Middle Eastern resilience

Jan 01, 2016

Both maintaining and launching new offshore production is high on the agenda in the Middle East, not least in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Iran. IHS’ Mirzi Moralde outlines current activity in the region. Total’s…

Offshore’s opportunity?

Jan 01, 2016

Innovate, collaborate, standardize; lead with lean.   One could argue that the future of the global offshore E&P business, particularly deepwater development, is ours to create. Confronted…

Bringing subsea projects “in the money”

Jan 01, 2016

Jon Fredrik Müller and Audun Martinsen, of Rystad Energy, take a look at rising costs and the downturn and share how these two will affect the subsea market going forward. An illustration of the Johan Sverdrup field center…

IOG gains North Sea extensions

Dec 31, 2015

Independent Oil & Gas (IOG) has received extensions from the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) for its Cronx and P2085 licenses located in the North Sea. Cronx OGA has extended the Cronx license by one year to 9 January 2017. In addition…

Vitol dry off Ivory Coast

Dec 31, 2015

Map of CI-508. From Genel. Vitol Energy is plugging and abandoning the Aigle-1X exploration well off the Ivory Coast after failing to encounter hydrocarbons, according to partner Genel Energy…

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