Oilfield services firm AGR has been awarded a three-year well management services contract with options with Edison Norge, supporting Edison across its operating licences, including the its first operated exploration well on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS)…
Five companies have been awarded licenses covering 10 exploration blocks in the Adriatic Sea in Croatia's first licensing round. The round had offered 29 blocks in the eastern Adriatic Sea covering a total of 36,822sq km. Bids were received from six companies for 15 exploration areas…
Oil shows were found on the Jawkara-3 well in the Sfax Offshore Exploration Permit, off Tunisia, according to Norway-based oil and gas explorer DNO. Jawhara-3 well vertically drilled to a total depth of 2815m by DNO and state-run Entreprise Tunisienne d'Activités Pétrolière…
With well data often scarce, many deep water Gulf of Mexico operators rely on the structural images and elastic properties derived from seismic when evaluating the probability of success and estimating reserves in prospective fields. Vincent Vieugue suggests this is not enough…
The shallow waters of the Persian Gulf, also known as the Arabian Gulf, belie the plethora of offshore infrastructure – new and old – in the Middle East. Elaine Maslin probes beneath the waves. In 2005…
The giant Libra field has many challenges, sitting in Brazil’s deepwater pre-salt. Claudio Paschoa take a look at the development plans. The Libra prospect and the pre-salt region. Image from Mercopress…
Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometry (FTG) is aiding prospect evaluation in a formerly disputed zone of the Barents Sea, adjacent to the Norwegian-Russian border. Dr. Stephen Rippington, Dr. Neil Dyer, and Chris Anderson explain. Fig…
The weather conditions west of Shetland are some of the harshest in the world, even without the help of hurricanes, typhoons and squalls. Elaine Maslin reports on how some companies are attempting to better understand the region. The…
Year in review: 2014 - OEDigital’s top stories Mozambique NG flow test. OE staff presents a look back at 2014’s top stories posted on OEDigital.com. It was a year filled with highs and lows…
Lundin Petroleum's exploration well 6405/12-1 on the Lindarormen prospect is being plugged and abandoned as a dry hole. The well was in production license 584, 150km northwest of Kristiansund on the Norwegian coast, about 80km northeast of the Ormen Lange field…
Transocean's Sedco Express semisubmersible drilling rig arrived at the Oyo field in oil mining lease (OML) 120 to begin operations for CAMAC Energy, offshore Nigeria. The Sedco Express. From Transocean…
The deadline to apply in Mozambique’s fifth licensing round has been extended to 30 April 2015. The Institute of National Petroleum (INP), on behalf of the Government of the Republic of Mozambique, announced the extension for the competiive…
The Petroleum Safety Authority of Norway (PSA) is giving BG Norge the go-ahead to drill the exploration well 34/3-5 in the Jordbær Sør prospect, in the northern North Sea. The exploration well is located in production license PL 373 in the Tampen area…
Moroccon authorities have approved a farm-in deal between London based exploration minnow Chariot Oil & Gas and Australia's Woodside on the Rabat Deep Offshore permits I-VI. Woodside is committed to pay 100% of the 3D seismic acquisition…
BPZ Energy completed the Corvina CX15-14D development well offshore Peru. Block Z-1 map. From BPZ. The CX15-14D well is located in Block Z-1 and is to the west of the six previously drilled CX-15 wells…
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