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Statoil wins its first Nicaraguan licenses

May 29, 2015

Statoil will make its first moves into Nicaraguan waters after the country awarded the Norwegian explorer four licenses off its Pacific coastline.  The 29 May announcement came after meetings last September where delegates from Statoil and the state oil company…

W&T in Ewing discovery

May 29, 2015

W&T Offshore encountered hydrocarbon pay at Ewing Banks 910 with the successful drilling and evaluation of the Ewing Banks 910 A-5 ST well in the Gulf of Mexico.  The company logged 160ft of gross hydrocarbon interval and is currently completing the well…

Woodside exits Tanzania PSA

May 27, 2015

Australia’s Woodside Petroleum will exit the Lake Tanganyika South block it farmed into last July, according to partner Beach Energy. Beach Energy made the announcement on 27 May that Woodside decided not to enter the next phase of exploration on the production sharing agreement (PSA)…

Spectrum, Schlumberger enter 2D agreement

May 19, 2015

Spectrum entered into a cooperation agreement with Schlumberger to jointly acquire and process Spectrum's offshore Mexico Campeche-Yucatan 2D regional multi-client program. The cooperation agreement includes more than 44,000km of regional…

FEI, Weatherford in reservoir characterization agreement

May 18, 2015

FEI and Weatherford Laboratories entered into a joint agreement to offer advanced reservoir characterization services to the oil and gas industry. The two companies will work together to create new workflows that integrate Weatherford’s traditional core analysis an FEI’s digital rock imaging…

Gambia grants Erin extension

May 15, 2015

Houston-based, Africa-focused explorer Erin Energy, formerly CAMAC, has been granted a 24-month extension on two of its offshore Gambia licenses. Erin Energy, which operates the blocks with 100% interest, received approval to extend the…

Borders & Southern updates Falklands discovery

May 14, 2015

London-based Borders & Southern (B&S) completed a comprehensive seismic reservoir characterization study to investigate the Early Cretaceous shallow marine play fairway of its Darwin discovery offshore the Falkland Islands. The objective…

GeoTeric plug-in for Landmark's DecisionSpace

May 12, 2015

Foster Findlay Associates (ffA) has released a plug-in linking GeoTeric 2015 and Landmark’s DecisionSpace Geosciences as part of Landmark’s iEnergy Partner Program. This new plug-in enables GeoTeric and DecisionSpace Geosciences users to move seismic volumes…

AziNam gets Namibia operatorship

May 12, 2015

AziNam, an offshore, Namibia-based exploration company, received government approval to assume operatorship of Petroleum Exploration License (PEL) 34 offshore Namibia. During 2014, AziNam increased its working interest in PEL 34 from 20% to 40%…

AziPac acquires Indonesian stake

May 11, 2015

Asia Pacific focused AziPac acquired 50% interest in the North Madura production sharing contract (PSC) located offshore Java Sea, Indonesia. AziPac, through its subsidiary Azipac North Madura, acquired 25% interest from Mitra Energy…

Gazprom, PetroVietnam to drill off Vietnam

May 07, 2015

Gazprom and PetroVietnam entered into agreements to explore offshore Vietnam later this year, marking the first deepwater well in the area with a depth exceeding 1600m. Gazprom, PetroVietnam signing agreements…

OTC15: Day two roundup

May 05, 2015

OE staff reports from the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston on Tuesday, 5 May 2015. Vietnamese delegates addressed challenges and opportunities in fractured basement reservoirs on Tuesday morning’s “Understanding the Challenges of Vietnam Fractured Basement Exploration…

Chariot gets Mauritania extension

May 01, 2015

Chariot Oil & Gas and partners secured a one-year extension on its current exploration phase of the C-19 license offshore Mauritania, North Africa. Map from Chariot.  As part of the extension…

All terrain trenching

May 01, 2015

Subsea trenching has become more versatile with Fugro and SMD’s Q1400. Mike Daniel explains. Launching the Fugro Q1400 trenching system. Photos from Fugro Subsea. It is important to bury wind farm cables…

Technology-led exploration success

May 01, 2015

For Shell, exploration isn’t just about the seismic, it’s about joining up the petabytes’ worth of seismic dots between its global team of experts. Meg Chesshyre reports. Subsurface imaging, but…

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