High Court expresses confidence in Lancaster’s future
“The company is profitable, and anticipated to remain profitable for at least the year.” This is the number one circumstance provided by the High Court of Justice in their judgement…
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CGG awarded imaging contract by Lundin Energy Norway
CGG has been awarded a major project by Lundin Energy Norway AS for the seismic imaging of an innovative simultaneous node and streamer 3D survey currently being acquired over a…
Dr Wendell Phillips: Adventures in Middle Eastern Oil
The 20th century American explorer Dr Wendell Phillips is best known for his colorful exploits in archaeology, and for being an independent oilman who broke into the Middle East at…
“Found” 7 profitable MMboe
Lime Petroleum acquires 33.84% of producing Brage Field in Norway from Repsol. As of 15 June 2021, Lime Petroleum entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement with Repsol Norge…
From a dry well in the Ula to an intrusion hotshot
Today we continue our series dedicated to the deepest wells drilled in the countries around the North Sea. Previously, we discussed the Havelange well in Belgium, Tjuchem-02 in the Netherlands,…
Finder Energy acquires Azinor North Sea licences
Following the award of its first North Sea licence in February this year, when Finder Energy announced it had been awarded a 100% interest in P2530 near the Kittiwake area…
Welcome to two days of in-depth geoscience
Starting today, two days of talks, discussions and networking will allow you to get up to speed with all that is happening with regards to new technologies enabling us to…
Dalmatia: Where Karst Meets Coast
This famously beautiful Mediterranean coastline stretching between Montenegro’s Bay of Kotor north-west to Croatia’s Rab island, features craggy mountains, rugged islands in an azure sea, and waterfalls tumbling over travertine…
Breakthroughs in Geology
In his new book, Breakthroughs in Geology, Graham Park, Emeritus Professor of Tectonic Geology at the University of Keele, UK, describes the ideas that he believes have transformed earth science.…
It’s nearly… conference time!
If there’s one thing that is exciting about new technology, it is the ability to detect subsurface features that were previously clouded in noise. The NCS Exploration Conference 2021 (19-20…
The well that took 1468 days of drilling to reach TD
Last week, we reported on the deepest well drilled in the UKCS (6368 m TVDSS). The week before it was the equivalent in the Dutch sector (6002 m TVD), with…
Shearwater GeoServices acquires streamers and renews fleet
Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (Shearwater) last week announced two transactions to take over marine seismic acquisition assets previously owned by Polarcus. Polarcus’ lenders in February this year instructed the company…