
Europa Oil & Gas comments on Irish Government's intention to phase out oil exploration licences
The Irish Government has confirmed that its proposals ‘will relate to future applications’ and that ‘existing licences will remain valid’.
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The Irish Government has confirmed that its proposals ‘will relate to future applications’ and that ‘existing licences will remain valid’.

The contracts are to support Total E&P South Africa's operations in Block 11B/12B and the drilling programme is expected to take up to 280 days.

The contract covers an area of 1600km2 for 3D seismic with associated 2D work to be executed over a 1.5-month period from end 3Q19 for the undisclosed client.

The JV will pursue acquisitions of producing oil and gas assets across the Permian Basin where Henry Resources has operated for over 50 years.

The wellhead installation marks the beginning of Gusar’s contracted work with Gazprom for the first year of an up to five-year jack-up gas exploration drilling programme on the Kara Sea Shelf.

An application of thermography has been to detect wet insulation, which is one of the drivers for corrosion under insulation (CUI) attack.

Warwick West is the third and final well of the 2019 Greater Warwick Area drilling programme on Hurricane's Lincoln and Warwick assets.

Changes in the quality of the crude oil being pumped had impacted pump reliability in the field, located offshore Abu Dhabi.

The jack-up rig Asian Endeavour-1 is now en-route to the first well in Empyrean's drilling campaign in the West Natuna Basin.

The company's management’s has said that the Biscathorpe-2 well, which was drilled by Union Jack earlier this year, remains one of the UK’s largest onshore unappraised conventional hydrocarbon targets.

The UK-focused company achieved first oil from the Lancaster field in June this year.

A key focus for the period ended was ongoing discussions with the Ghanaian authorities about the ratification of the company's signed Petroleum Agreement on the Tano 2A Block offshore Ghana.