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Rosneft: Kara Sea field reserves confirmed

Dec 04, 2014

Russian authorities confirmed the reserves in the Pobeda oil and gas field, located on the Kara Sea shelf, Rosneft announced. The field was discovered through the Universitetskaya-1 well. The gas reserves were discovered in the chalk deposits of Cenomanian Age and Apt-Alb Age…

Searcher in Irish 2D seismic

Dec 04, 2014

Searcher Seismic, in conjunction with project partner MAGE, is conducting a 2D seismic survey off western Ireland. Map of Echidna Regional Broadband 2D seismic survey. From Searcher Seismic.   The Echidna…

Masirah orders 3D seismic off Oman

Dec 03, 2014

Masirah Oil commissioned a new 3D seismic survey of Block 50 offshore Oman to be conducted by Dolphin Geophysical. The Artemis Arctic. From Dolphin Geophysical.   Block 50 is located on the southeast coast of the Sultanate of Oman…

PGS moves Asia Pacific headquarters

Nov 26, 2014

Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) will relocate its regional headquarters from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, next July as part of the company's plan to restructure its Asia Pacific business.  'Kuala Lumpur is the hub of the vibrant…

SeaBird gets TGS 2D seismic contract

Nov 20, 2014

SeaBird Exploration Plc received a letter of award (LOA) from TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. (TGS) to acquire up to 300,000km of 2D seismic data offshore Mexico and in the US Atlantic. The survey will cover a minimum of 150,000km and up to 300…

Government, industry take action to stimulate exploration on the UKCS

Nov 19, 2014

At the PETEX 2014 conference in London on 18 November,  Oil & Gas UK announced the kick-off of two projects aimed at stimulating exploration on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) and appealed  for further industry participation in the 21st Century…

Projects target North Sea exploration boost

Nov 19, 2014

A bid to boost exploration rates in the UK North Sea has seen the launch of two new initiatives, including a move to re-assess the potential of the central North Sea.  The first is an industry-wide review, led by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)…

Rosneft approved for Arctic research

Nov 18, 2014

The Russian National Committee for United Nations Environment Programme (UNEPCOM) endorsed Rosneft and the Russian Geographical Society's initiative to continue its Arctic research program. This program will help define the principles of economic activity regulations in the region…

Lundin bites dust on Kitabu-1

Nov 18, 2014

Lundin Petroleum’s Kitabu-1 exploration well, in Blocks SB307/SB30, offshore Sabah, Malaysia, came up dry, the Swedish independent announced on 18 November. Lundin said that the primary reservoir interval contained poor quality siltstone…

First modules ready for Petrobras FPSO

Nov 14, 2014

The Consórcio Tomé Ferrostaal (CTF) consortium of Rheinmetall International Engineering, and Brazilian company Tomé Engenharia, delivered two modules for the first of a series of six floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels to Brazilian national oil company Petrobras…

Polarcus expands multi-client footprint offshore Guinea-Bissau

Nov 14, 2014

In collaboration with Petroguin E.P., Polarcus secured additional industry prefunding to acquire a new 3D multi-client survey offshore Guinea-Bissau, expanding theits 3D multi-client data library across the Mauritania-Senegal-Guinea-Bissau basin in the AGC and Guinea-Bissau to over 8300sq km…

CGX to drill Guyana well in 2015

Nov 13, 2014

Canada's CGX Energy said the jackup rig slated to spud its offshore Guyana prospect is due to be completed by end of January 2015. The Hakuryu-12 jackup drilling rig, soon to be part of Japan Drilling Co.'s fleet, is currently under construction in Singapore at PPL Shipyard…

Rosneft completes East Siberian seismic

Nov 07, 2014

Rosneft has concluded seismic data acquisition on the East-Siberian-1 Block in the offshore area of the East Siberian Sea. The company carried out the seismic data survey independently with R/V Orient Explorer, with the amount of 2D work totaling 2000km…

Advancing seismic through advanced science

Nov 03, 2014

With its latest software release, Paradigm offers high-definition seismic processing for a general user. Sarah Parker Musarra discussed the powerful new software with Paradigm SVP Indy Chakrabarti. Accurate…

Predicting pressures

Nov 03, 2014

With a slightly different approach, hydrodynamic modeling can be used for overpressure prediction in on and offshore environments. Marcell Lux, Ahmed Amran, and Marianna Vincze explain. Fig. 1…

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