Oil and Gas Licensing Rounds Affected by Covid-19
A brief summary of oil and gas licensing rounds affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, that were announced by date of writing (April 2020). As Covid-19 spreads its infectious tentacles ever…
Exploration
New Reservoir Modelling Workflow
An innovative new modelling workflow for reservoir characterisation has been developed that is capable of producing an advanced 3D geomodel of any subsurface zone of interest and can identify potential…
Mixed Oil Exploration Results in the Rhine Graben
Neptune with partner Palatina GeoCon are testing oil at Schwegenheim-1 in the German Rhine Graben. Location of the Schwegenheim-1 well in the German Rhine Graben. Neptune with partner Palatina GeoCon…
After the success of Warka, will ConocoPhillips strike again in the Norwegian Sea?
Being the first well drilled in production licence 891, well 6507/5-10S is operated by ConocoPhillips and partnered by Pandion Energy at 20%. Read more about the Warka discovery here. The…
A tale of oil-down-to’s
28 years after Saga Petroleum AS made the H-Central oil discovery, Equinor has returned to explore for more volumes in the Draupne Sandstone as it targets the Fjell prospect. Here…
Apache drilling side-track in injectite play
As reported by the OGA, well 9/19b-29Z spudded on Monday last week (16/11) in UK Licence P1986. Classified as an exploration well, it is likely that it further appraises the…
Underexplored African Source Rocks
The source possibilities offered by the Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic in coastal East Africa are promising – but seriously underexplored. “…, while at the same time respecting their freedom to…
Dry well for Lundin in Barents Sea
Lundin Energy AB announced that it has completed exploration well 7221/4-1, targeting the Polmak prospect in licences PL609 and PL1027, in the southern Barents Sea. The well was dry. The…
Is Sakarya (Tuna-1) a transformational gas discovery for Turkey?
Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, recently stated that the Tuna-1 well may have established contingent resources of 405 Bcm (14.3 Tcf) of gas. In this article, Ciaran Nolan, who worked…
ConocoPhillips announces sizeable discovery in Norwegian Sea
The well was drilled about 27 kilometres southwest of the Skarv field in the central part of the Norwegian Sea and a few kilometres north of the Victoria discovery in…
Equinor proves potential of Upper Cretaceous play east of Maria field
Well 6407/1-8S was spudded in September with the primary target being reservoirs of the Middle Jurassic Garn and Ile Formations of the Apollonia prospect. Partners in the well are Lime…
Equinor to test reservoir potential updip of Agip gas discovery in Barents Sea
On November 3rd, Equinor spudded well 7018/5-1 (Spissa) in the SW Barents Sea in a search for hydrocarbons in the Troms Finnmark Fault complex. This is the second exploration well…