Tulip Oil starts gas production in Dutch North Sea
Tulip Oil Netherlands Offshore announces the start-up and commissioning of the Q10 offshore gas development in the Dutch North Sea, only 15 months after taking the Final Investment Decision (FID).…
Posts by Liesbeth Breesch
Dry well for Wintershall
Well 6706/6-2S drilled by Wintershall in PL 847 is the most northern well in the Hel graben in the Norwegian Sea, very close to Hvitveis, a minor discovery and 60km…
Non-commercial oil in Bergand
Well 35/11-22S on the Bergand prospect was drilled in PL 248C west of the Fram field. The well did not find oil in the Middle to Lower Jurassic targets in…
No reservoir, no biogenic gas
Wellesley Petroleum was chasing biogenic gas in Songesand in PL 931 in the northern North Sea together with partner DNO. The target of well 35/4-2 was to prove gas in…
5 UK wells for Equinor
Equinor started a 2019 exploration well campaign on the UKCS. The first well is currently being drilled on the Bigfoot prospect, located south of the Mariner field in licence P2314.…
High impact discovery renews interest in HPHT play
One of the four high impact discoveries is the Glengorm discovery in the UK North Sea by CNOOC (“Discovery in UK North Sea”), which is potentially the biggest since Culzean…
Revival of the injectite play
Several fields in the Norwegian and British part of the North Sea are producing from sand injectite reservoirs. Availability of broadband seismic data and successful production from earlier developments has…
First well on Gjøkåsen is dry
Equinor has completed the drilling of well 7132/2-1 Gjøkåsen Shallow in PL 857 in the southeastern part of the Barents Sea. The well is dry. The target was to prove…
TopSeis over Castberg area
The Greater Castberg TopSeis™ survey of 5000 square km, covering existing and newly awarded licenses and open acreage, will be acquired and processed in 2019 with final delivery estimated in…
Shell farm-in to licenses in the southern North Sea
Shell will acquire a 70% working interest in Licence P2252 from Cluff Natural Resources and will be appointed licence operator. In addition, Shell has the option to acquire a 50%…
EM anomaly: a “pointer” for hydrocarbons
Lundin is drilling well 7121/1-2S on the Pointer/Setter prospect in the Barents Sea (read also “Lundin tests Lower Cretaceous in Hammerfest Basin”). The target of the well is a stratigraphic…
Repsol is growing in Norway
Repsol is growing steadily with 3 new exploration licenses and by buying more production in Norway. Repsol has reached an agreement with Total to acquire its 7.65% stake in the…