Category: Exploration
UKCS: Found oil close to Rosebank
Siccar Point Energy has completed drilling the Blackrock exploration well 204/5b-2 in the West of Shetland.
The target of the well was the intravol [...]
OGA has launched a technology portal
The portal is based on information provided by operators through the OGA’s Stewardship Survey and other sources.
It enables operators to access inf [...]
Azinor, UKCS: Hunting 500 MMboe
Azinor Catalyst Limited has committed to the Oil and Gas Authority its intent to drill two wells in 2020 as part of a three-well drilling campaign.
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The smoking gun
Raise your hand if you want to find the next Skrugard, Alta, Gotha or Goliat field in the Barents Sea!
Or – even better – join the crowd and take p [...]
EarthNET – one of three finalists
According to the criteria, The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded to a license group, company, team or person who during the last couple of years [...]
Revitalizing Exploration on the UKCS
Finding cost on the UKCS has been reduced from 9 to 1 $ per bbl in only five years, says Andy Samuel, CEO of OGA in a recent podcast published by OGA [...]
Nine candidates have been selected for the Exploration Innovation Prize 2019
This year’s 9 candidates, as selected by the programme committee of the NCS Exploration 2019 conference (“Recent Advances in Petroleum Exploration”), [...]
Hurricane tests another fractured basement reservoir
Hurricane Energy focuses on hydrocarbon resources in naturally fractured basement reservoirs and on April 16 spudded the 205/26b-C well ("Warwick Deep [...]
Equinor strenghtens position in Argentina with seven offshore blocks
Equinor submitted the winning bids for five blocks as operator. Equinor also participated in winning bids for one block to be operated by YPF and one [...]
Pandion acquires exploration acreage offshore Mid-Norway
Pandion Energy AS has entered into an agreement with Equinor to acquire a 20 percent interest in licenses PL 263 D and PL 263 E, containing the Appo [...]