Archive for the ‘Discoveries’ Category

Eni SPA is evaluating a natural gas discovery in the Nour North Sinai Concession offshore Egypt. The Nour-1 New Field Wildcat cut 33 m of gross sandstone pay with a 90-m gas column in the Oligocene Tineh formation.

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. The nearby 24/9-3 (Gamma) oil discovery can be viewed as being part…

Siccar Point Energy has spudded an exploratory well on its Blackrock prospect 140 km northwest of the Shetland Islands between undeveloped Cambo and Rosebank oil fields. Main reservoir targets are Tertiary Colsay and Upper Jurassic sands on the Corona …

IGas Energy PLC, London, encountered more than 250 m of hydrocarbon-bearing shale in its vertical Springs Road-1 exploration well in North Nottinghamshire, England. The company reported “significant gas indications” in Upper and Lower Bowland shale and…

PTTEP Australasia (Ashmore Cartier) Pty. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of PTT Exploration & Production PCL, reported making a natural gas and condensate discovery with its Orchid-1 well, the first exploration well drilled in permit AC/P54 in the …

Aker Energy reported an oil discovery with its Pecan South-1A well on the Deepwater Tano Cape Three Points (DWT-CTP) block offshore Ghana. The Maersk Viking drillship will drill a sidetrack appraisal well, said block operator Aker Energy.

Bahrain is discussing development of an offshore oil and gas discovery it disclosed last year with US oil companies, Reuters reports. Oil Minister Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Khalifa told the news service, “Maybe towards the end of this year we might be in…