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Bass gets Auz suspension, extension

Oct 07, 2015

Australia’s National Offshore Titles Authority (NOPTA) granted Bass Strait Oil Co. a 12-month suspension and extension for the work program and permit term or its 100% owned and operated VIC/P68 permit offshore Australia.  Map of Vic/P68…

Cairn's Senegal 3D seismic starts

Sep 17, 2015

Cairn Energy has started a new 3D seismic survey over the Sangomar Deep, Sangomar and Rufisque permits, offshore Senegal. The Polarcus Adira 3D seismic vessel is acquiring data in the north and east parts of the permits along trend from…

Levitt-1 well disappoints

Aug 12, 2015

Quadrant Energy Australia’s Levitt-1 exploration offshore Western Australia will be plugged and abandoned after no hydrocarbon shows were found. Map of Levitt-1. From Karoon. Levitt-1…

Seabird starts Gigante seismic

Jun 30, 2015

SeaBird Exploration will now commence the Gigante survey for TGS Nopec, after receiving all necessary permits. The vessels Osprey Explorer and Hawk Explorer have commenced acquisition while Northern Explorer is currently mobilizing to Mexico…

Northern adds to Italian seismic program

Jun 16, 2015

Northern Petroleum announced that the environmental impact assessments (EIA) for its three remaining exploration permit applications in the southern Adriatic have been approved. These approvals are in addition to the two EIA approvals for exploration permit applications announced on 10 June 2015…

IPB receives exploration permit extension

Jun 12, 2015

IPB Petroleum announced that the company’s application for a 12-month suspension and extension to the WA-471-P exploration permit work program has been approved by the Commonwealth–Western Australia Joint Authority. Following IPB’s application in May 2015…

Italy approves Northern's 3D seismic program

Jun 10, 2015

Italian regulators will allow London-based explorer Northern Petroleum to conduct 3D seismic data studies at two of its wholly-owned permit areas in the southern Adriatic Sea. The approval to conduct new seismic in permits F.R39.NP and F…

Quadrant takes over Apache Australian business

Jun 09, 2015

The Macquarie/Brookfield-led consortium completed the acquisition of Apache’s Western Australian business, renaming the business Quadrant Energy, according to partner Carnarvon Petroleum. Phoenix map…

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…

Mexico ramps up Gigante seismic work

May 18, 2015

Mexico is ramping up its offshore seismic data acquisition with recent awards to TGS-NOPEC and Norway-based Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS). The Atlantic Explorer. From PGS. Mexico's…

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…

MEO receives NT/P68 extension approval

May 13, 2015

The National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator (NOPTA) has granted a six-month extension to the permit year 5 of NT/P68 located offshore northern Australia, said MEO Australia Ltd.  Permit year 5 will now end 26 October, plus give…

IPB secondary terms revision approved

Apr 24, 2015

IPB Petroleum has entered the secondary term of its WA-424-P exploration permit as operator with a 100% working interest. The company applied and has received approval from the Joint Authority for a variation of the permit’s secondary term work program (permit years 4 to 6 inclusive)…

MEO gets Aussie extenstion

Apr 21, 2015

The National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator approved MEO Australia and the WA-454-P joint venture’s application to extend the work permit program by six months off Western Australia. The December 2015 extension is to provide…

Woodside drops Morocco option

Apr 21, 2015

London-listed Atlantic margin explorer Chariot Oil & Gas Atlantic is seeking a new partner of its Rabat Deep permit offshore Morocco after 25% equity holder Woodside elected not to take an option to take over operatorship and fund a well on the license…

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