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Lille Prinsen oil find will be closely watched by UK Mid North Sea High operators

September 20, 2021

Operator Lundin targeted multiple reservoirs with the now completed Lille Prinsen 16/1-34S&A drilling campaign. Before the main target – the Zechstein – was drilled by well 16/1-34A, the shallower Paleocene…

Regional Update: The Caspian Sea

Ian Cross, Moyes & Co

September 19, 2021

A regional update on the resource and political situation in the Caspian Sea. The Caspian Sea is shared between Iran, and the four former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia…

Rebound in Africa?

Ian Cross, Moyes & Co

September 19, 2021

Encouragement that we may see a modest rebound in Africa as we go into the final quarter of 2021 with Egypt and Angola leading the charge in M&A activity. The…

Future of European Oil and Gas Licensing

GEO ExPro

September 18, 2021

The two major oil and gas producers in northern Europe appear to be on slightly different trajectories when it comes to their approach to future exploitation of their continental shelves.…

Exploration drilling may become a little bit more expensive in Norway

Henk Kombrink

September 13, 2021

As the website Politico mentioned last week, the main parties in Norway all support the oil and gas sector, with only the Greens challenging the status quo. The Greens are…

Maximising Economic Recovery: The Race to Find Proven Oil

Matt Mulcahy and Fazrie Wahid, Bridge Petroleum

September 10, 2021

As North Sea oil and gas fields reach the end of their lives and face decommissioning, can their infrastructure be used to invigorate stranded undeveloped reserves and discoveries? Maximising Economic…

Harbour close to finalising Talbot appraisal well

Henk Kombrink

September 9, 2021

Back in 1965, Phillips Petroleum was awarded licence P079 in Quadrant 30 during the second UKCS Licensing Round. Eyes were mostly on Mesozoic structures along the Josephine Ridge, but the…

Bergknapp – a Norwegian Sea success story

Henk Kombrink

September 7, 2021

As announced yesterday, operator Wintershall and partners DNO (30%) and Spirit Energy (30%) concluded drilling appraisal well 6406/3-10A on the Bergknapp discovery in the Norwegian Sea – about 8 kilometres…

Only traces of oil found in the latest Liatårnet appraisal well

Henk Kombrink

September 2, 2021

In a press release issued by the NPD yesterday, it was announced that the 25/2-22S appraisal well on Liatårnet only proved traces of oil in the Miocene Skade Formation interval,…

Neptune kicks off drilling Dugong Tail

Henk Kombrink

September 2, 2021

The Dugong Tail prospect can be seen as another compartment in the NE-SW trending fault block – or relay ramp between the Marulk Basin in the NW and the Tampen…

Lundin explores and appraises with Lille Prinsen drilling campaign

Henk Kombrink

August 27, 2021

Lundin and partners are steadily continuing an extensive 2021 nine-well drilling campaign and other activities in the Greater Edvard Grieg area. Amongst those were the near-Solveig well 16/4-13S to explore…

The basin that lacked a final push

Henk Kombrink

August 25, 2021

As part of a PhD project carried out at Aberdeen University, Laura-Jane Fyfe recently published a paper in Petroleum Geoscience where she and her co-authors assess the prospectivity of the…

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Exploration

Lille Prinsen oil find will be closely watched by UK Mid North Sea High operators

Regional Update: The Caspian Sea

Rebound in Africa?

Future of European Oil and Gas Licensing

Exploration drilling may become a little bit more expensive in Norway

Maximising Economic Recovery: The Race to Find Proven Oil

Harbour close to finalising Talbot appraisal well

Bergknapp – a Norwegian Sea success story

Only traces of oil found in the latest Liatårnet appraisal well

Neptune kicks off drilling Dugong Tail

Lundin explores and appraises with Lille Prinsen drilling campaign

The basin that lacked a final push

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