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On behalf of the Abu Dhabi Government, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) signed an agreement with Cepsa, a Spanish integrated oil and gas company, awarding it a 20% stake in Abu Dhabi’s offshore SARB and Umm Lulu concession.
PAO NOVATEK (NOVATEK) won the open auction to acquire a 100% stake in Maretiom Investments Limited and 100% of Velarion Investments Limited from ALROSA.
New drilling assessment for Atlas clients within OPITO Skills Screening tool.
Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. announces that during the current open hole wireline logging and subsequent reaming (cleaning the well bore) operations, Zion encountered free-flowing hydrocarbons while circulating drilling mud.
TAG Oil Ltd. has provided a positive update on its Pukatea-1 exploration well, which was spudded on January 24, 2018. The Pukatea-1 well is located in TAG Oil’s operated Puka permit (PEP 51135, 70% TAG Oil) in the Taranaki Basin of New Zealand.
DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG announces a significant increase of production from its oil fields in the Gulf of Suez and from the Disouq gas fields in the Onshore Nile Delta. The next phase of the West Nile Delta (WND) development is intended to contribute to the company's target. DEA plans to invest about US$500 million in Egypt during the coming three years.
SDX Energy Inc., the North Africa focused oil and gas company, has provided an operations update.
Mayan, the AIM listed oil and gas company, has announced the initiation of production at the Gilbreath #19 well at Forest Hill Field, Wood County, Texas and the Morris #1 well at Stockdale Field, Wilson County, Texas.
The contract is part of Saudi Aramco’s multi-billion dollar Marjan Crude Increment Program; one of the company’s oil and gas mega-projects designed to enhance its energy sustainability, diversify the economy, expand gas production, and localise domestic content.
Faroe Petroleum plc, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway and the UK, has announced that it has executed a transaction with Suncor Energy Norge AS for the sale of a 17.5% working interest in the Fenja development located in PL586 in the Norwegian Sea.
The blocks were awarded to the consortium of Total (operator, 40%), ENI (40%) and Novatek (20%) in the frame of the 1st offshore licensing round, launched by the Lebanese government in January 2017.
Mayan has announced the initiation of production at the Gilbreath #19 well at Forest Hill Field, Wood County, Texas and the Morris #1 well at Stockdale Field, Wilson County, Texas.