A new geological analysis of the Rockall area offshore the UK suggests that previous exploration failures in the area have been due to a misunderstanding of the subsurface. Exploration in the Rockall Basin, in the North Atlantic, north and west of Ireland and Scotland…
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded four new contracts worth about US1.25 million (£1 million) to supply more than 10,000km of reprocessed proprietary 2D seismic data of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) as part of the UK Government funded seismic acquisition program…
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has attracted 29 applications covering 113 blocks in the latest offshore licensing round which targeted under-explored areas of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). The 29th frontier licensing round, launched on 27 July 2016…
Statoil is giving up on exploring the Reinga basin offshore New Zealand, following its three-year study of the area, which has shown low probability of a discovery. Map of New Zealand, from Statoil…
CGG has started a large broadband 3D multi-client survey in the pre-salt area of the deep water Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. Santos VII (Saturno) is the third phase in CGG’s most ambitious pre-salt project to date, collectively known as the Santos Basin Trilogy…
The Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded two contracts worth more than £2.5 million to Schlumberger WesternGeco and DownUnder Geosolutions (DUG), in collaboration with Geopartners, to supply around 15,000km of reprocessed multi-client…
The UK's Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded more than £200,000 in the final stage of its exploration license competition which was launched earlier this year to stimulate further interest in offshore oil and gas exploration activity in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS)…
Elaine Maslin examines new UK government funded seismic shoots and data reprocessing, all free to the industry, which are among initiatives aimed at boosting UK Continental Shelf exploration. Seismic…
The UK's offhsore regulator, the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), has launched the 29th Offshore Licensing Round, with more than 1200 blocks on offer. The latest round has been set out to support the OGA’s objective of maximizing economic recovery…
Norway-based geoscience firm Spectrum started a 15,000km multi-client 2D survey offshore Brazil in the Santos and Campos Basins. The new acquisition program is an outboard extension of Spectrum's 2012 Santos Campos Phase 1 survey, and will tie other programs in the Santos…
A consortium led by Merlin Energy Resources and comprising; Riley Geoscience; Network Stratigraphic Consulting; IGI; and G. Dunford Exploration has secured a €1.9 million contract from the Irish Petroleum Infrastructure Programme (PIP) to complete an integrated chronostratigraphic…
The UK's Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded contracts for the second UK government funded £20 million seismic campaign to promote under-explored areas of the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS). PGS and WesternGeco have been awarded the…
The UK's Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), a newly formed independent regulator, has released a second invitation to tender (ITT) for the 2016-2017 UK Government funded seismic program. This tender is for reprocessing legacy seismic data in…
The University of Aberdeen is to get a £250,000 grant from the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) to investigate the potential for hydrocarbon exploration in the Rockall area of the North Atlantic. The funding is part of a package of measures…
The UK Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) has invited seismic companies to tender for its 2016-2017 UK Government funded seismic acquisition and processing program. The contract will cover survey work over South West Britain, including the Celtic Sea…
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