Atlantic Petroleum entered into a US$1.1 million (DKK 7 million) sale and purchase agreement with Bridge Petroleum for its 25% interest in the Orlando development, offshore the UK. The deal also includes a deferred consideration in the…
Jerry Lee speaks with Thomas K. Holley about his 30-year career and challenges he faced as interim chair at the University of Houston’s petroleum engineering department. Holley. After nearly 30 years with Shell…
Atlantic Petroleum entered into heads of terms with London Oil and Gas (LOG) to inject about US$11.4 million of funds and assets into Atlantic by 24 June 2016. “Atlantic Petroleum's Orlando & Kells assets are expected to have a high value when the market conditions improve…
Cluff Natural Resources (CLNR) has signed heads of terms with Verus Petroleum UK for 25% participating interest in three licenses located in the Central North Sea and the Moray Firth. These licenses, two of which are effectively drill ready…
Lundin Petroleum has announced that it has entered into a committed short term revolving credit facility (RCF) of US$300 million and received additional commitments of $135 million under the reserve-based lending (RBL) facility accordion…
New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals, the government's petroleum permitting agency, has released its 2016 Petroleum Exploration Data Pack. This year’s data pack adds a number of new projects to the comprehensive compilation of open-file seismic and well data…
Carnarvon Petroleum has announced that operator Quadrant Energy has spud the Roc-1 well on 24 November 2015. Drilling is expected to reach 4700m total depth, and take about 35-40 days trouble free. Well logging and sidewall coring is expected to take about 5-10 days on success case…
The University of Houston (UH) petroleum engineering program – started in 2009 with just 20 undergraduate students – has been elevated to a full department within the UH Cullen College of Engineering. The move was announced this month. The new department…
African Petroleum, an independent oil and gas exploration company, is seeking strategic partners on its ten licenses in Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Senegal, The Gambia and Sierra Leone in order to share risk and potential reward of their exploration program…
Wintershall, a 100%-BASF subsidiary, plans to optimize its portfolio by selling to Tellus Petroleum its interest in assets in four non-operated fields in a US$602 million deal. The fields include Knarr (where Wintershall owns a 20% interest)…
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…
The Petroleum Bill and suite of associated regulations as well as a sovereign wealth bill have been put before the Bahamian House of Assembly for their second readings on 20 May, Bahamas Petroleum Co. announced. Image from Bahamas Petroleum…
Lundin Petroleum, through its wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway, entered into an agreement to farm-out a 30% working interest in PL338C to Lime Petroleum Norway. PL338C contains the Gemini prospect, which is currently being drilled with the Island Innovator rig…
Norway's Ministry of Petroleum has welcomed interest in its latest Awards in Pre-defined Areas licensing round, despite the expection that future discoveries in the area will be smaller than in the past. Stakes in some 54 new production…
African Petroleum signed a non-binding term sheet agreement with a private London-based independent oil and gas company to farm-in to African Petroleum’s 100% owned Liberian LB-08 license. LB-08 is situated in a highly prospective region offshore Liberia…
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