Equinor completes appraisal well on Wisting discovery in the Barents Sea
The objective was to acquire data on the reservoir and cap rock, for use in ongoing evaluation and development of the discovery.
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88 Energy announce second light oil discovery
88 Energy has announced further successful flow test results from the Company’s Hickory-1 discovery well, located in Project Phoenix on the North Slope of Alaska.
VAALCO Energy announces accretive all cash acquisition expanding its West African footprint
VAALCO Energy has announced that it has entered into a sales and purchase agreement to acquire Svenska Petroleum Exploration AB.
PETRONAS awards seven new PSCs under Malaysia bid round 2023
PETRONAS has been awarded production sharing contracts (PSCs) for six exploration blocks and one discovered resource opportunities (DRO) cluster marketed under the Malaysia Bid Round 2023 (MBR 2023).
Equinor Energy AS discovers oil in exploration well 30/12-3 S
The wells were drilled about 40 km south of Oseberg and 150 km west of Bergen. The drilling was conducted by the Deepsea Stavanger drilling rig.
Wintershall Dea awarded exploration licences on the Norwegian Continental Shelf
The company has been awarded 13 exploration licences by the Norwegian Ministry of Energy in the 2023 Award in Predefined Areas (APA) – five licences as operator, and eight as partner.
Yokogawa announces dates of its Users Conference
Yokogawa Corp. of America and KBC (a Yokogawa Company) have announced the dates of their upcoming Users Conference, YNOW2024.
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Significant gas discovery at Layaran-1, Indonesia
Harbour Energy has noted operator Mubadala Energy’s announcement that the Layaran-1 well has made a significant gas discovery on the South Andaman licence (Harbour 20%), offshore North Sumatra, Indonesia.
TotalEnergies announces new offshore exploration license
TotalEnergies and its partners, QatarEnergy and Petronas, have signed a production sharing contract for Block 64 with Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname (Staatsolie), the state-owned oil company of Suriname.
Equinor is increasing its ownership in the Linnorm discovery
The company has entered into an agreement to acquire Shell’s equity in and operatorship of the Linnorm discovery in the Norwegian Sea.
PGS awarded 3D exploration contract in Asia Pacific
The Ramform Sovereign is scheduled to mobilise for the survey in December and the contract has a total duration of approximately 50 days.
Invictus Energy Limited announces gas discovery in Zimbabwe
The company has announced a gas discovery in the Mukuyu-2 well at its 80% owned and operated Cabora Bassa Project in Zimbabwe.
The NPD conducts mapping of gas resources
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has conducted a mapping of gas resources that, for various reasons, have yet to be developed. Several of these discoveries could be produced in a manner that is profitable from a socio-economic perspective.
Malaysia records over 1 billion boe of exploration discoveries in 2023
PETRONAS and its petroleum arrangement contractors recorded 19 exploration discoveries and two exploration-appraisal successes, contributing over 1 billion boe of new resources for Malaysia in 2023.
Equinor’s exploration and operations activities in Norway exceed 93 billion NOK
A new report shows that deliveries to exploration, operation and modification of Equinor-operated fields and onshore plants in Norway exceeded 93 billion NOK in 2022, an increase of approximately 13% from the previous year.