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Denmark on the brink of ceasing exploration activity – a Friday North Sea wrap-up

October 9, 2020

In a statement issued yesterday, the Danish government announced that Total has withdrawn its 8th Round Application. According to an anonymous source, this means that Ardent is the only company…

Think twice before hitting the panic button

Henk Kombrink

October 8, 2020

With Equinor last week announcing that nearly a third of their Norwegian exploration workforce is being axed, the Norwegian major joins a long list of companies going through the same…

A conference as you never saw it before

Ingvild Ryggen Carstens

October 8, 2020

The NCS Exploration – Recent Discoveries Conference will be held October 14-15. This year the conference will be digital. To ensure a seamless broadcast of the conference, we started recording…

World’s first Ultra High Density multi-client 3D hybrid seismic acquisition successfully completed

October 6, 2020

The LumiSeisTM Norwegian North Sea Quadrant 35 Hybrid MC3D project is 800 km2 and covers a mature area that includes the fields Nova and Vega (under development), Aurora and Grosbeak.…

Premier to merge with Chrysaor

October 6, 2020

Premier and Harbour today announced that they have reached agreement with Harbour’s UK operating company Chrysaor, regarding a proposed all share merger between Premier and Chrysaor and the reorganisation of…

Pandion Energy swaps license interests with ConocoPhillips

October 5, 2020

Pandion Energy AS (Pandion Energy) has entered into an agreement with ConocoPhillips Skandinavia AS (ConocoPhillips) to swap half of its 20 per cent interest in PL 1047 in the North…

Lundin acquires Barents Sea portfolio from Idemitsu Petroleum Norge

October 5, 2020

The transaction gives Lundin Energy a 10 percent working interest in the major Wisting oil discovery (licences PL537 and PL537B) with estimated gross resources of 500 million barrels of oil…

From Breidablikk to Barryroe – a Friday North Sea wrap-up

Henk Kombrink

October 2, 2020

Do you like networking? It’s always a bit daunting to step out of that comfort zone and join a group of people you never met before. This week I joined…

Eight new production wells to be drilled on Tor

October 1, 2020

The Tor field was discovered in 1970 and produced from 1978 to 2015. In the summer of 2019, the licensees submitted a plan for development and operation (PDO) for a…

NCS Exploration Conference – Filming has started!

Ingvild Ryggen Carstens

September 29, 2020

The Norwegian Continental Shelf Exploration Conference, due to take place on 14-15 October, has experienced a huge make-over from a traditional physical conference to a fully digital meeting place. The…

From Cook to Schweinsteiger – a Friday North Sea wrap-up

Henk Kombrink

September 25, 2020

No reservoir for Schweinsteiger We start today’s wrap-up in the northernmost part of the Norwegian Northern North Sea, where Wellesley Petroleum recently spudded well 6204/11-3 in the hope to find…

CGG Commences Second Phase of Largest OBN Multi-Client Survey in UK CNS

Press Release

September 24, 2020

The survey started in March 2020 and has already received significant industry interest and prefunding, with first images targeted for Q1 2021. The Central North Sea is a highly prospective…

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In the News

Denmark on the brink of ceasing exploration activity – a Friday North Sea wrap-up

Think twice before hitting the panic button

A conference as you never saw it before

World’s first Ultra High Density multi-client 3D hybrid seismic acquisition successfully completed

Premier to merge with Chrysaor

Pandion Energy swaps license interests with ConocoPhillips

Lundin acquires Barents Sea portfolio from Idemitsu Petroleum Norge

From Breidablikk to Barryroe – a Friday North Sea wrap-up

Eight new production wells to be drilled on Tor

NCS Exploration Conference – Filming has started!

From Cook to Schweinsteiger – a Friday North Sea wrap-up

CGG Commences Second Phase of Largest OBN Multi-Client Survey in UK CNS

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