Archive for the ‘Discoveries’ Category
Corvus field appraisal drilling confirmed more gas resources offshore Western Australia. Drillers reported a 2,093-ft gross interval, one of the largest columns to be discovered on the North West Shelf, said Santos Ltd. of Adelaide.
Energean to develop gas strike off Israel
April 16th, 2019 by Latest News
Energean Oil & Gas plans to develop a natural gas discovery in its deepwater Karish North exploration well offshore Israel. The well, drilled to 4,880 m TD in more than 1,700 m of water by the Stena DrillMAX drillship, encountered a gross hydrocarb…
Talos Energy updates Zama appraisal program
April 16th, 2019 by Latest News
Talos Energy Inc. and partners drilled the Zama-2 ST1 appraisal well 589 ft updip of the Zama-2 well and 1.4 miles north of the Zama-1 exploration well offshore Mexico on Block 7 in the Sureste basin. Talos operates Block 7. Partners are Sierra Oil &am…
Appraisal results lower Verbier potential
April 10th, 2019 by Latest News
A dry well drilled to appraise Equinor’s Verbier oil discovery in the Moray Firth off Scotland lowers resource potential to the lower end of the initially estimated range, a partner reported earlier this month. Jersey Oil & Gas, which holds an…
Cadogan plans test of well in Ukraine
April 10th, 2019 by Latest News
Cadogan Petroleum plans to test its Blazh-10 well in western Ukraine after open-hole logs indicated oil in the target Paleocene Yamna formation. The well penetrated a 207-m Yamna section at a depth 50 m higher than prognosis.
Elephant hunt resumes
April 9th, 2019 by Latest News
Oil and gas companies are hunting the proverbial elephant again. Some of them are, at any rate.
Equinor 36/1-3 wildcat off Norway is dry
April 3rd, 2019 by Latest News
The Equinor 36/1-3 wildcat on production license 885 in the Northern North Sea was dry, reports partner Cairn Energy PLC. The Transocean Spitsbergen semisubmersible drilled the well to 2,873 m below sea surface in 230 m of water 15 km east of a gas dis…
Israel expands offshore exploration opportunities
April 2nd, 2019 by Latest News
Israel launched its second offshore licensing round in late 2018 in hopes of attracting international investors capable of finding oil and natural gas resources to rival or surpass previous discoveries.
Aker BP makes North Sea oil, gas discovery
April 2nd, 2019 by Latest News
Aker BP confirmed an oil and gas discovery with a gross resource estimate of 60-130 million boe from the Froskelar Main exploration well in license 869 in the North Sea’s Alvheim area.
Vedanta to appraise oil discovery in India
March 27th, 2019 by Latest News
Vedanta Ltd.’s oil and gas unit plans to appraise an oil discovery in its H-2 well in the Krishna-Godavari basin on India’s East Coast. The well, on Block KG-OSN-2009/3, encountered multiple reservoir zones in a Mesozoic sequence at 3,310-4,026 m with …