Whilst drilling for additional Frigg satellite accumulations (Frigg GammaDelta) in 1986, well 25/2-10 hit an oil and gas bearing sandstone at around 1 [...]
Equinor is currently drilling 7322/6-1S (Shenzhou), a prospect some 40 km west of Wisting, in an area of the Bjarmeland Platform that has not been exp [...]
Based on an analysis of 40 fields that started production since 2010, Anders Wittemann from Wittemann E&P Consulting (WEPC) concludes that it is p [...]
In a press release issued yesterday, partner OKEA announced that the 15/12-26 well drilled by operator Chrysaor Norge in PL973 targeting the Ilder pro [...]
Following a string of four discoveries that altogether may add up to about 250 MMboe, Equinor and partners Vår Energi (25%), Idemitsu Petroleum (15%) [...]
About three weeks ago, we already reported on the 15/12-26 (Ilder) well, shortly after it had spudded in the Norwegian North Sea. Based on the informa [...]
Operator Equinor, together with partners Vår Energi (25%), Idemitsu Petroleum (15%) and Neptune Energy (15%), has added a unique discovery to the list [...]
Thirty years ago, a geologist from Statoil (now Equinor) concluded that Upper Jurassic source rocks in the Stord Basin may not have generated oil due [...]
In less than two years, Equinor and partners have succeeded in confirming four consecutive oil finds: Echino (65 MMboe recoverable), Swisher (13 – 38 [...]
In a press release issued by Equinor yesterday, the company states that it has found additional volumes worth 19 – 26 million barrels of oil equivalen [...]
Looking at wells drilled in all sectors of the North Sea over the past years, it is clear that near-field or infrastructure-led exploration is now lea [...]
The Heimdal Terrace and the adjacent part of the Utsira High will be the focus of exploration, appraisal and development drilling.
Exploration
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The subsurface of the North Cape Basin in the Barents Sea is full of salt that has formed diapirs in places, even creating overhangs. "Therefore, sign [...]
The Barents Sea can do with a bit of success. Following an unsuccessful three-well campaign where the Spissa, Polmak and Bask exploration wells all tu [...]
The first well of the campaign (15/12-25 - Jerv) was not the success the company and partners OKEA (30%) and Petoro (20%) had hoped for, as it proved [...]
As announced late March, PGNiG is acquiring all of INEOS Group’s oil and gas assets in Norway for a total sum of 615 million USD. Ineos’ portfolio for [...]
The company aims to streamline exploration and development of resources in the greater Alvheim area. [...]
Based on the very low pressure reported in Jerv, it seems reasonable to include the area into the UK Fleming field outline. [...]
No additional side tracks were drilled. [...]
Following on from the success of Røver North, this time Equinor and partners announce the discovery of 75-120 MMboe in Blasto. [...]
Equinor and partners spudded well 34/6-5S in PL554, hoping to add volumes to the Akkar and Garantiana discoveries. [...]
Being one of the positive surprises last year, the company hopes to confirm the volumes found with well 6406/3-10. [...]
After a number of Barents Sea dry holes, Equinor and partners Vår (30%) and Petoro (20%) this week announced the discovery of 31 to 50 MMb of recovera [...]
Equinor has awarded PGS and Shearwater GeoServices framework agreements for 4D towed streamer seismic acquisition on the Norwegian continental shelf ( [...]
CGG announced today phase two of its multi-client 3D survey in the Northern North Sea, which will expand on the phase one acquisition initiated in 202 [...]
Located in the Norwegian Sea, the field that already produced more than 400 MMboe is able to produce yet another 400 MMboe in the years to come. [...]
Situated in between the Warka and Slagugle discoveries, well 6507/4-2S could be the third successful test of the area in less than a year. [...]
When comparing numbers with Norway, the UK seems very quiet, but behind these numbers a more subtle picture emerges. [...]
With an option to also drill a side-track into the so-called West Segment, the company hopes to add up to 25 MMboe. [...]
The North Sea has got such a long exploration history that it is sometimes required to tell that tale in order to put current activity in perspective. [...]
Seven companies have applied for production licenses in the 25th licensing round on the Norwegian shelf. The deadline for applications was 23 February [...]
Pandion Energy shows how data resulting from the Released Wells Initiative can be used to further investigate reservoir quality in the Cara discovery. [...]
With Equinor and partners now drilling the Isflak well in between the Havis and Drivis discoveries, it is thought that the changes of success are quit [...]
As drilling on Dugong is about to resume soon, John Wood looks back at the exploration history of the area north of Snorre. [...]
Through analysing hundreds of cuttings from a single well, depositional history and provenance changes are brought to life with the QEMSCAN technique. [...]
With Mol announcing another dry well in the Mandal High area, there will probably be little appetite to continue exploring. [...]
Not only is the discovery located in a "frontier" part of the basin, the Brent succession in the area is also likely to be different. [...]
Looking at the present-day creaming curve, it will take up to 100 years to find 7 billion barrels. If these barrels are there to be found in the first [...]
The Board of Directors of OKEA has appointed Svein J. Liknes as new CEO of OKEA. The founder and current CEO of OKEA, Erik Haugane (68), has been in d [...]
Whilst the creaming curve for conventional North Sea oil discoveries flattens off, it is important to realise that only a fraction of oil has so far b [...]
Having been registered on the Euronext Growth Oslo last week, Horisont Energi is now planning to produce blue ammonia to leverage the green revolution [...]
As will be presented during the upcoming #DIGEX2021 conference next month, the NPD has embarked on using machine learning technology to better map NCS [...]
Last attempt in three-well campaign also fails to prove commercial quantities of hydrocarbons, casting further doubt on future of the Barents Sea. [...]
A combination of modelling and seismic interpretation results in a better grip on Triassic sediment distribution patterns. [...]
Following the awards of the 2020 APA round yesterday, we had a look at some of the more frontier licences and made some inferences on the plays being [...]
There were 90 producing fields on the Norwegian shelf at the end of last year. Production from the Johan Sverdrup field made oil production higher in [...]
Following 14 discoveries, NPD seems to be quite pleased with exploration results in 2020. Achievements of one company stand out. [...]
Mol spuds third well in the Mandal High area that more likely experienced hydrocarbon charge than previous two exploration wells. [...]
Photo: The four who in 1911 were the first to reach the South Pole: Oscar Wisting, Olav Bjaaland, Sverre Hassel and Roald Amundsen. As previous claims [...]
«In 2016 ConocoPhillips built a new exploration strategy,” Arild Skjervøy, Exploration Manager in ConocoPhillips Norway, says.
“We focus on countri [...]
Yme field field redevelopment start imminent
Operator Repsol this week announced the arrival of the upgraded Maersk Inspirer rig at the Yme field i [...]
A quick 2020 recap
In terms of exploration wells spudded, 2020 was a year of strongly reduced activity, particularly on the UK Continental Shelf. W [...]
In this way Sval’s portfolio will be enhanced by the development asset Dvalin (10%) and by increasing its holding in the Nova development from 10% to [...]
With an upside of 200MMbo, 6507/5-10 (Slagugle) in the Norwegian Sea is the largest oil discovery on the NCS this year. [...]
Team of experts aims to further unlock Late Permian and Triassic exploration and storage potential. [...]
Looking at a map of the Norwegian Northern North Sea (see above), with the structural elements as a background to the existing fields and exploration [...]
Lundin Energy’s 2P reserves as at 31 December 2020 are 670.9 MMboe and reflect a positive revision of 39.3 MMboe. The 3P reserves as at 31 December 20 [...]
As announced by the NPD yesterday, Equinor did not find reservoir sandstones in the 34/7-37S well drilled to the south of the Borg field in production [...]
“Denmark will end all new oil and gas exploration in the North Sea, as part of a wider plan to stop extracting fossil fuels by 2050,” BBC reports. The [...]
Well 7018/5-1 is situated in PL960 and was operated by operated by Equinor. Partners are Petoro (20%), Lundin Energy (20%) and Wintershall Dea (20%). [...]
Torger Rød will replace Kristin F. Kragseth who has accepted the position as CEO of Petoro, the management company for the Norwegian state-owned oil a [...]
Danish Government happy to send CO2 abroad
In an article published on the Energy Watch website this week, it was announced that the Danish governme [...]
Being the first well drilled in production licence 891, well 6507/5-10S is operated by ConocoPhillips and partnered by Pandion Energy at 20%.
Read mo [...]
With the NCS Exploration Strategy conference taking place this week, there's a bit too much to report on, so we will focus on a few highlights today a [...]
The Northern Lights project is the transport and storage component of Longship, the Norwegian Government’s full-scale carbon capture and storage proje [...]
Aker BP announces small discovery in Norwegian Sea
Well 6607/12-4 was drilled to target Jurassic/Triassic reservoir rocks of the Garn, Ile, Tofte, [...]
Well 6407/1-8S was spudded in September with the primary target being reservoirs of the Middle Jurassic Garn and Ile Formations of the Apollonia prosp [...]
On November 3rd, Equinor spudded well 7018/5-1 (Spissa) in the SW Barents Sea in a search for hydrocarbons in the Troms Finnmark Fault complex. This i [...]
On the last day of October, well 34/7-37S was spudded in production licence 089. Equinor is the operator at 41.5%, licence partners are Petoro (30%), [...]
Published jointly by the Netherlands Centre for Geodesy and Geo-informatics (NCG), SkyGeo and TU Delft, the map shows the movement of billions of meas [...]
The NCS Exploration Strategy 2020 conference took place in November with presentations by oil companies on their strategies and plans. In addition, bo [...]
Late this fall, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate completed a five-week expedition on the Mohn Ridge in the Norwegian Sea. The purpose was to secure [...]
New platform successfully installed in Dutch offshore
Last week, Heerema’s heavy lift vessel Sleipnir successfully installed a new minimum faciliti [...]
Neptune Energy Norge AS, operator of production licence 586, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 6406/12-G-1 H, which is an e [...]
Lundin has this month embarked on a high impact drilling campaign, using the brand new drilling rig West Bollsta. The first prospect that is currently [...]
28 years after Saga Petroleum AS made the H-Central oil discovery, Equinor has returned to explore for more volumes in the Draupne Sandstone as it tar [...]
Exploration highlights on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
This week the NCS Exploration – Recent Discoveries took place as a digital event, spread [...]
Lundin Energy AB announced that it has completed exploration well 7221/4-1, targeting the Polmak prospect in licences PL609 and PL1027, in the souther [...]
When Phase 2 starts up in the fourth quarter of 2022, the full field plateau production is increased to 720 Mbopd.
Following the successful increase [...]
The redevelopment of the Snorre field in the North Sea consists of six subsea templates, which will be tied into Snorre A. The authorities have now gi [...]
The well was drilled about 27 kilometres southwest of the Skarv field in the central part of the Norwegian Sea and a few kilometres north of the Victo [...]
NCS Exploration – Recent Discoveries 2020 will take place on 14-15 October. However, this year the conference will take place in a digital format.
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According to the Norwegian Environment Agency, the well (6607/12-4) aims to test the reservoir and hydrocarbon potential of the Middle and Lower Juras [...]
“Let’s face it,” Ingvild explains over a Teams morning coffee chat, “few people really warmed up to the idea of having a digital conference until very [...]
Located in the Norwegian Sea 120 kilometres north of Kristiansund and at a water depth of 320 metres, the Fenja field is on track to be producing firs [...]
A team of researchers is going to investigate the Atlantic breakup through drilling the magmatic and sedimentary Paleogene succession. [...]
During a live presentation yesterday, NPD's Director of Exploration Torgeir Stordal presented its new resource report for exploration. The main conclu [...]
The key result of the analysis, which includes exploration activity and results from 2017 to around October 2020, is that the highest return on explor [...]
This week, Wellesley Petroleum, in partnership with Petoro (20%) and Equinor (20%), spudded well 6204/11-3 to test the Schweinsteiger prospect in PL82 [...]
The operator's investment projection for the development is approx. NOK 11 billion. Wintershall DEA expects to start up in November or December.
Th [...]
During the now digital NCS Exploration Conference, Torgeir Stordal, Director of Exploration at the NPD, will highlight that the NCS has still got much [...]
The Norwegian Oil and Gas Association, on behalf of project participants, has embarked on a major exercise to analyse all cuttings from all released E [...]
Only 11.5 percent of exploration licences in the Barents Sea have resulted in production. "The area has not met expectations," says NTNU professor in [...]
In an area with mixed results so far, the partnership hopes to de-risk the Cretaceous play through drilling 6507/4-1. [...]
With the licensees on the Grane field and researcher Geir Evensen shortlisted too, there's fierce competition. [...]
In what was predicted to be a risky well, Sleipner and Skagerrak reservoirs unfortunately proved dry. [...]
Equinor and partners Vår Energi and Petoro hit water in the Mist prospect [...]
Although activity on the NCS may still seem buoyant compared to the UKCS, well deferrals in both areas is high according to Westwood Global Energy’s a [...]
The highly prolific Viking Graben has seen spectacular exploration successes over the last decades and is to date a coveted area with multiple proven [...]
Two small finds in the licence so far may become commercial once a bigger discovery can be added. [...]