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Exploration/Discoveries, Headlines, North Sea & Western Europe
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Lundin Petroleum AB announced that the sidetrack 16/2-11A of the appraisal well 16/2-11 has confirmed good quality in Upper and Middle Jurassic reservoir. The well was drilled approximately 2.05 miles (3.3 kilometers) southwest of the discovery well 16/2-6 and 2,493 feet (760 meters) north east of the 16/2-11 appraisal well. The Johan Sverdrup field is located [...]
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Exploration/Discoveries, Headlines, Licensing & Concessions
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
Norwegian oil giant Statoil announced Friday that it and its Oseberg Area Unit partners have made a small oil discovery on the PL053 production license in the North Sea. Statoil said that the Oseberg partners are in the process of concluding drilling operations in the exploration well 30/6-28S. The well drilled by the rig COSL Pioneer [...]
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Africa, Exploration/Discoveries, Headlines
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Statoil, along with its partner ExxonMobil, confirmed Friday that the Zafarai-1 well in Block 2 offshore Tanzania has encountered indications of natural gas in a good-quality reservoir. Statoil said that drilling operations are still ongoing and that it is too early to give any indication of size and commerciality. The well was spud in early January [...]
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Exploration/Discoveries, Headlines
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Brazil’s OGX has confirmed the existence of pre-salt microbiolite reservoirs with hydrocarbons in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin. As previously announced, the wildcat well 1-OGX-63-SPS, located in the BM-S-57 block, identified hydrocarbon both in the Aptian and Albian sections. OGX holds a 100 percent working interest in this block. “The confirmation of these [...]
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Exploration/Discoveries, Headlines
Monday, January 16th, 2012
OGX has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the Albian and Aptian sections of well 1-OGX-63-SPS in the BM-S-57 block, in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin. OGX holds a 100 percent working interest in this block. “This discovery is important for its huge hydrocarbon column and net pay identified in the Albian section, [...]
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Exploration/Discoveries, Headlines
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Lundin Petroleum has discovered oil in the Janglau-1 well that was drilled in Block PM308A, offshore Peninsular Malaysia. Janglau-1 was drilled to a total depth of 3,820 meters by the jackup rig Offshore Courageous (350′ILC). The objectives of the well were Oligocene intra-rift sands and the underlying fractured pre-Tertiary section. During drilling below 3,153 meters, [...]
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Exploration/Discoveries, Headlines
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Norway’s Statoil has received a huge boost to its reserves with the announcement that two previous North Sea oil discoveries are connected which may represent the biggest find in the Norwegian continental shelf in 30 years. Statoil said in a statement Tuesday that the Aldous and Avaldsnes oil discoveries together contain between 500 million and [...]
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Exploration/Discoveries, Headlines
Monday, July 4th, 2011
OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A. (“OGX”) the Brazilian oil and gas company responsible for the largest private-sector exploratory campaign in Brazil, today announced that it has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the Santonian section of 1-OGX-47-RJS well, in the BM-S-59 block, in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin. OGX holds a 100% [...]
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