Celebrating Ramsay’s Rock Folds and Fractures
This new volume of J.G. Ramsay’s Folding and Fracturing of Rocks, edited by Bond and Lebit, offers 14 case studies related to rock folding, fracturing and strain from the UK,…
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Is Equinor going to be lucky where Wintershall wasn’t? – A Friday North Sea wrap-up
Exploration highlights on the Norwegian Continental Shelf This week the NCS Exploration – Recent Discoveries took place as a digital event, spread out over two days. A large number of…
Denmark on the brink of ceasing exploration activity – a Friday North Sea wrap-up
In a statement issued yesterday, the Danish government announced that Total has withdrawn its 8th Round Application.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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…