Archive for the ‘Exploration Development’ Category

The US drilling rig count fell 9 units, reaching 975 rigs working for the week ended June 7, according to Baker Hughes data. The count is down 87 units from the 1,062 rigs working this time a year ago.

Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources has revoked five oil mining leases and one oil prospecting license. It cited “noncompliance with statutory regulatory obligations” and said it was acting under a “presidential directive on recovery of legacy …

A joint venture of Santos Ltd. and Carnarvon Petroleum Ltd. has confirmed a “major” oil and gas discovery with the Dorado well, drilled in the Bedout subbasin about 160 km offshore Port Hedland, Western Australia.

Gazprom Neft and Royal Dutch Shell PLC have agreed to form a joint venture for development of oil and gas fields in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of northwestern Russia.

Angola’s new licensing agency will offer 10 oil and gas blocks in the first of several auctions it plans in a 6-year strategy. Paulino Jeronimo, chief executive officer of the National Agency of Petroleum, Gas, and Biofuels (ANPG) said at a conference …

Cooper Energy Ltd., Adelaide, has signed natural gas supply agreements with Sydney distributor and retailer AGL Energy Ltd. for production from Cooper’s Sole field offshore Gippsland basin and its Casino Henry operations in the offshore Otway basin.

Aker BP ASA will plug exploration well 15/6-15 in PL814, 15 km northeast of Gina Krog field in the North Sea. The well was a dry hole. The exploration well—the first in the license—was drilled to a vertical depth of 3,761 m subsea with Odfjell Drilling…

Thirty companies, some of them in groups, have received offers for the award of 37 licenses covering 141 blocks in the UK’s 31st offshore licensing round. The frontier areas are in the Faroe-Shetland basin, Moray Firth, East Irish Sea, East Shetland Pl…

W&T Offshore made an oil discovery with its Gladden Deep well on Mississippi Canyon 800 block in the US Gulf of Mexico, reported partner Kosmos Energy Ltd. of Dallas. Gladden Deep is a subsea tie back expected to be brought online through the exist…

Aker BP plans to use two new technologies in development of Aerfugl gas and condensate field in the Norwegian Sea, reports partner PGNiG Upstream Norway. The Polish Oil & Gas Co. subsidiary says the subsea wells will use the world’s first 7-in. ver…