Exploration News

 

Exploration in 2020: The Transition is Yet to Start

Jan 10, 2020

The Energy Transition and Extinction Rebellion may have led the energy news agenda and stimulated reflection in many exploration and production (E&P) boardrooms in 2019, but the impact on exploration drilling is not yet apparent. The global high impact well[1] count in 2019 was 91 wells…

Optimum, Lekoil in OPL310 Survey Ahead of Drilling

Jan 10, 2020

Optimum and Lekoil, partners in the OPL 310 license offshore Nigeria, have kicked off the site survey ahead of the planned drilling expected later this year.'The marine vessel, conducting the site survey, arrived at site location yesterday and…

Oil And Gas Discoveries Hit 4-Year High

Jan 09, 2020

The global oil and gas explorers powered ahead and discovered 12.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in 2019, the highest volume since 2015.According to Rystad Energy, last year recorded 26 discoveries of more than 100 million boe, with…

More Than Half of Norway's O&G Reserves Yet To Be Produced

Jan 09, 2020

Norway started producing oil more half a century ago, and, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, it still hasn't produced half of the resources available.'NPD's analyses show that around 48 percent of resources have been produced…

KEPCO Starts Caspian Sea Oil Exploration

Jan 01, 2020

Khazar Exploration and Production Company (KEPCO), a subsidiary of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) which handles exploration operation in the Caspian Sea region in northern Iran, has announced the start of two major projects within areas run by the company…

Novatek Bags Bukharinskiy License

Dec 31, 2019

Russian natural gas producer and LNG major Novatek said that its wholly-owned subsidiary Arctic LNG 1 has secured the rights to explore the Bukharinskiy license.Arctic LNG 1 won on the auction for geological survey, exploration and production…

Serica Wins 'Out of Round' North Sea Licence

Dec 19, 2019

The mid-tier UK oil & gas company operating mainly in the North Sea, Serica Energy has announced an “out of round” North Sea licence award.The exploration and production firm said that  its wholly owned subsidiary, Serica Energy (UK) Limited…

Beach Energy Eyes Offshore New Zealand

Dec 19, 2019

Australian oil and gas exploration and production company Beach Energy Limited has signed an agreement with OMV GSB Oil Exploration to acquire a 30% participating interest in exploration permit (EP) PEP50119 in the Great South Basin, offshore New Zealand…

PTTEP Charters Energy Drilling for Arthit Gig

Dec 12, 2019

Singapore based Energy Drilling  has been awarded a contract by the Thailand's oil and gas company  PTT Exploration & Production International (PTTEP) to provide drilling services on the Arthit field in Gulf of Thailand.The builder and manager…

Croatia Awards Licence to INA for Gas and Oil Exploration

Dec 05, 2019

The Croatian government said on Thursday it had awarded a licence to energy group INA for gas and oil exploration and exploitation on one block in the country's central and mountainous southern area.It gave no financial details.Earlier this…

Karoon Hires Stena Drillship for Peru

Nov 17, 2019

Australia exploration company Karoon Energy has signed an agreement with the drilling contractor Stena Drilling and oil company Tullow Oil to contract the Stena Forth drillship for Karoon’s Marina-1 exploration well located offshore Peru.'The Stena Forth has been contracted to drill one well…

SeaBird Wins New OBN Survey

Nov 11, 2019

Norwegian seismic company SeaBird Exploration has received a letter of intent for the exclusive provision of source vessel services for an ocean bottom node (OBN) survey.The survey will take place in the Eastern Hemisphere, said the global provider…

Shell Eyes Brazil Exploration Areas

Nov 08, 2019

The head of Royal Dutch Shell Plc in Brazil said on Friday that it currently made more sense for the company to look for exploration areas.Speaking after Brazil's disappointing oil auctions this week, which Shell chose to sit out, Andre Araujo said the Buzios block…

MDL Concludes Spirit Flexible Transpooling

Nov 05, 2019

MDL Marine Services has successfully completed tranpooling of a flexible product for an independent UK exploration and production company, Spirit Energy.The project was managed by MDL Project Engineering Team and entailed relocating the client’s…

Kosmos Strikes Oil Off Equatorial Guinea

Nov 03, 2019

American upstream oil company founded and based in Dallas Kosmos Energy made an offshore oil discovery in Equatorial Guinea, Reuters reported quoting the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons.The S-5 well was drilled at a total depth of 4,400 meters…

Current News

Borr Drilling Secures New Drilling Rig Contracts Across Four Regions

Borr Drilling Secures New Dril

BP, ADNOC JV Takes FID on Harmattan Gas Project off Egypt

BP, ADNOC JV Takes FID on Harm

Oil Hikes 7% after Trump Says US-Israel will Keep Striking Iran

Oil Hikes 7% after Trump Says

EnQuest Enters Malaysia with Cendramas Production Sharing Deal

EnQuest Enters Malaysia with C

Subscribe for OE Digital E‑News

 
Offshore Engineer Magazine