Lundin plans record number of wells
Lundin Norway has never planned that many exploration wells on the NCS as in 2019. At its Capital Market day, Lundin shared its drilling program with 15 exploration wells and…
Exploration
Oil and gas in Froskelår
Aker BP recently started a drilling campaign around the Frosk discovery in the Alvheim area (read more in “Drilling campaign around Frosk”). The first exploration well 24/9-14S on Froskelår Main…
Still some interest in exploring offshore Denmark
The deadline of the 8th Danish Licensing Round for areas for oil and gas exploration and production was today 1st of February 2019. The Danish Energy Agency announced it has…
Buchan Area Round is open
It is now possible for oil and gas companies on the UKCS to submit applications to obtain exploration licenses in the Greater Buchan Area. The OGA has officially opened the…
Glengorm geology
The exciting news of yesterday was the significant discovery in the Glengorm exploration well offshore UK. Operator CNOOC and partners announced a 250MMboe gas and condensate discovery in block 22/21c-13…
Discovery in UK North Sea
The Glengorm HP/HT exploration well in block 22/21c-13 in the UK North Sea was spudded in the summer of 2018 (read also “UK wildcats for 2019”). Operator CNOOC (formerly Nexen…
Jasper disappoints
Total E&P drilled a side-track 6406/6-6A on the Jasper prospect after making a discovery in well 6406/6-6S (See “Jurassic discovery”) in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea. Now the…
Drilling campaign around Frosk
Operator Aker BP has spudded well 24/9-14S, Froskelår Main in PL 869 next to the Frosk discovery from 2018. Frosk proved 50 mmboe of oil in sand injectites in the…
Chasing biogenic gas
Wellesley Petroleum has started drilling the Songesand prospect in PL931 (Wellesley 60%, DNO 40%) in the northern North Sea. Location of well 35/4-2 in PL931 The target for well 35/4-2…
Barents Sea Players and the APA awards
The analysis of the APA18 awards can tell us more about which companies are exploring in the most northern oil province of the NCS and the exploration strategy of these…
Activity on the Danish Shelf
Hess is planning to drill the Jill exploration well in License 06/16 in the Danish North Sea during the second half of 2019 reports Upstreamonline.com. After a break in exploration…
UK wildcats for 2019
Exploration activity on the UKCS reached a low in 2018. Only 7 exploration wells were drilled according to data from the OGA. Three additional wells were spudded in 2018 but…