NPD keeps on releasing relinquishment reports
As we reported on in July this year, the NPD started to release valuable subsurface information consolidated in relinquishment reports. Relinquishment reports often contain not only a lot of valuable…
Exploration
Nelson in the spotlight
Shell is back in the Nelson area. Not to test another Paleocene prospect, but to try and prove hydrocarbons in the Upper Jurassic pod/intra-pod area east of Nelson through drilling…
Dry well for PGNiG
As announced by the NPD yesterday, well 6306/3-1S drilled by PGNiG and Lime Petroleum (10%) in PL937 has come in dry. It cannot be stated differently, this was a courageous…
UK 3 – Norway 2
Against a backdrop of a (temporary) drop in drilling activity across the Norwegian Continental Shelf and a simultaneous increase in activity in the UK, the latter finds itself in the…
Undiscovered Hydrocarbon Potential in Sumatra
Exploring in Sumatra for oil and gas in naturally fractured and weathered basement reservoirs. Sumatra, Indonesia is the sixth largest island in the world covering an area of 445,000 sq…
Brazil Offering Deepwater Blocks in 17th Offshore Licensing Round
Late in 2020 Brazil announced details of its 17th Licensing Round in which 92 blocks in the offshore Campos, Pelotas, Potiguar and Santos Basins, covering a total of 53,900 km2,…
Two neighbouring countries, two contrasting exploration strategies?
As announced last week, the new German coalition plans include a potential ban on new exploration licences being issued in their part of the North Sea. Is this a surprise?…
Moderate and realistic
“Investment in the upstream UK oil and gas sector is absolutely critical,” said Tim Eggar, chairman of the Oil and Gas Authority during the Petex Conference in London this week.…
A blow for the Zechstein play
The discovery of oil in the Zechstein Hauptdolomite of the Ossian prospect (42/4-1Z) in 2019 triggered a significant amount of interest from the industry. After all, could oil be the…
Neptune Energy extends drilling contract with Odfjell Drilling
Yesterday, Neptune Energy announced it extended a contract for Odfjell Drilling’s Deepsea Yantai drilling rig, to include three additional wells in the Norwegian North Sea next year. The Deepsea Yantai…
One of the last remaining North Sea Chalk prospects
As the North Sea matures further, there is a clear trend of more “challenging” prospects to appear or re-appear on the exploration radar. Prospects that were ignored for years because…
Eni hits the sweet spot offshore Ivory Coast with Baleine-1X
The Baleine-1X well was drilled by Eni, their first wildcat in Ivory Coast, as part of a global multi-year drilling campaign with the Saipem 10000. Baleine-1X was drilled in 1,200 m water to a…