Doubling of Aldous volumesThe results of appraisal well 16/2-10 have increased production license PL265 estimates to between 900 million and 1.5 billion barrels of recoverable oil equivalent. |
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Aker Exploration is partner in Production License 304 which has started drilling on a prospect near the Grane and Balder fields. The prospect is called Aegis and is drilled with the rig Songa Dee.
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Oil has been discovered by StatoilHydro in the Gygrid prospect about 20 kilometres north-east of Njord in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea. Made by an exploration and an appraisal well, the discovery contains 20-30 million barrels of recoverable oil. Full text
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) today announced the Turkish government approved an agreement between its affiliate ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Turkey B.V. and the Turkish national oil company Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı (TPAO) to explore two deepwater blocks in the Black Sea. Full text
Spectrum's Egyptian joint venture, Spectrum-Geopex has completed the first phase of a significant computer systems upgrade at its seismic data processing centre in Nasr City, Cairo that will quadruple its
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Gas has been discovered by StatoilHydro in the Harepus prospect in the Norwegian Sea and the Corvus prospect in the Oseberg area of the North Sea. A tie-back to Åsgard together with the Gamma discovery made in the same licence in 2008 will be considered. Full text
Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola (Sonangol) and BP Exploration (Angola) Limited today announced the 'Oberon' oil discovery in ultra-deepwater Block 31, offshore Angola. This is the eighteenth discovery made by BP in Block 31 and is located in the southern portion of Block 31 about 335 kilometres northwest of Luanda and 4.3 kilometres to the north-east of the Dione discovery. Full text
StatoilHydro has struck gas during the drilling of a sidetrack on the Fulla prospect ten kilometres northeast of the Frigg field in the North Sea.Earlier this year an exploration well on the same prospect encountered small volumes of gas. The combined volumes proven through the two wells are estimated at between 63 and 107 million barrels of oil equivalent. Full text
StatoilHydro has reached agreement with BPC Limited to become the operator of three offshore exploration licences, Zapata, Islamorada and Falcones in the Cay Sal area of the south-western Bahamas. Full text
RWE Dea AG has reached an agreement with Fairfield Energy to farm-in to the undeveloped gas field Clipper South in the Southern British North Sea. Under the terms of the agreement, RWE Dea will acquire a 50% equity in part of blocks 48/19a, 48/19c and 48/20a. The Clipper South Field is located in the Sole Pit Basin in the Southern North Sea within the Rotliegend tight-gas play fairway. Full text
More oil and gas have been discovered by StatoilHydro with an exploration well drilled about 35 kilometres east of Gudrun in the North Sea and roughly 30 kilometres south of Grane. More detailed studies of collected well data will be needed to evaluate the resources and determine further activity around the discovery. Full text