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ANADARKO ANNOUNCES FIRST DEEPWATER DISCOVERY OFFSHORE MOZAMBIQUEAnadarko Petroleum Corporation today announced the Windjammer exploration well in the frontier Rovuma Basin offshore Mozambique has reached an intermediate casing point and encountered more than 480 net feet of natural gas pay in high quality reservoir sands, with a gross column of more than 1,200 feet. To date, this well has tested one of the seven identified play types in Anadarko's operated acreage offshore Mozambique. Full text |
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Anadarko Petroleum Corporation today announced a deepwater discovery at the Venus exploration well in block SL 6/07 offshore Sierra Leone. Venus is the first deepwater test in the Sierra Leone-Liberian Basin. Full text
DONG Energy and partners, Faroe Petroleum and First Oil Expro, are today announced a discovery of gas in the Glenlivet license West of Shetland.The Glenlivet well is the first well to be operated by DONG Energy in Great Britain in the West of Shetland sector. The exploration well is being drilled with the deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig, Transocean Rather. Full text
StatoilHydro has confirmed the existence of oil, gas and condensate in the north-eastern part of the Smørbukk deposit, which is part of the Åsgard field in the Norwegian Sea. Full text
Norwegian Energy Company ASA, Exploration drilling on the Tasta prospect in Norway has just started. Noreco has a 40 per cent ownership share and is the operator. The Tasta prospect is situated 15 km East of the Jotun field in the Norwegian part of the North Sea. Full text
Eni started up subsea gas production in North Bardawil field, within the North Bardawil Concession, located in the Mediterranean offshore of Egypt. The expected maximum production rate will be 2.7 million scm per day, approximately 17,000 boe/day, of which about 6,000 boe/day as Eni equity share. Full text
Santos today announced that the Burnside-1ST1 exploration well in permit WA-281-P in the Browse Basin offshore Western Australia has encountered a 65 metre gross gas column in the primary target, the Brewster Sandstone. Further work will be done to determine the commercial significance of the discovery. Full text
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) today announced a discovery at the Vito exploration well in Mississippi Canyon block 984. The well encountered more than 250 net feet of oil pay in subsalt Miocene sands. The Vito well was drilled to a total depth of approximately 32,000 feet in 4,038 feet of water, using the Noble Amos Runner deepwater drilling rig. Full text
Gas has been proven by StatoilHydro in exploration well 6507/3-7 Idun North in the Norwegian Sea. Currently being completed, the well is located two kilometres northwest of the Idun find and 12 kilometres north of the Skarv find. Full text
BP and SOCAR (the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan) announced today they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly explore and develop the Shafag and Asiman structures in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. Full text
Repsol has made two new offshore oil discoveries in the Spanish Mediterranean. The Montanazo D-5 and Lubina-1 wells are located 45 kilometres from the coast of Tarragona, where the company is developing similar satellite fields. Full text