A drilling result that raises lots of questions
As we already reported a little while ago, the Ommadawn prospect targeted by OMV and partners Petoro (20%) and Neptune (20%) in PL970 was an interesting well to follow in…
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OMV targets Chalk overlying Ipswich salt dome
Back in 2008, Dong E&P Norway drilled well 1/3-11 only 1,200 m to the west of where 1/3-13 has now been spudded. However, the target of the Dong-operated well was…
Deep Blue – one of nine
The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded a license group, company, team or person who during the last two years have given a courageous and innovative technological contribution in exploration for oil…
10 000 votes – so far
The Exploration Innovation Prize is awarded a license group, company, team or person who during the last two years have given a courageous and innovative technological contribution in exploration for oil…
Nine candidates have been selected for the Exploration Innovation Prize 2019
This year’s 9 candidates, as selected by the programme committee of the NCS Exploration 2019 conference (“Recent Advances in Petroleum Exploration”), are presented here: The Exploration Innovation Prize 2019. In…
PDO for Luno II
The Solveig oil discovery in PL359, is located 15 km south of the Edvard Grieg field and will be developed via a subsea tie-back to the Edvard Grieg platform, involving…
A discovery from the underworld
Hades/Iris was the largest discovery of 2018 off the coast of Mid Norway with potentially 245MMboe gas and condensate (read also “500MMboe in 2018”). Hades contains gas and condensate in…
Exploring near Edvard Grieg
Exploration well 16/1-31 S and A is a dual branch well targeting both the Jorvik and Tellus East prospects on the eastern side of the Edvard Grieg field in PL338…
Dry well for Wintershall
Well 6706/6-2S drilled by Wintershall in PL 847 is the most northern well in the Hel graben in the Norwegian Sea, very close to Hvitveis, a minor discovery and 60km…
The winners of the Gullkronen 2019 are…
The Gullkronen awards are a yearly prize ceremony organized by Rystad Energy to recognize companies, teams or people who have shown outstanding achievements on the NCS during the previous year.…
More exploration around Hades/Iris
Hades/Iris was the largest discovery of 2018 off the coast of Mid Norway with potentially 245MMboe gas and condensate (read also “500MMboe in 2018”). OMV found gas and condensate in…
Wisting is growing
Operator OMV has increased the estimated recoverable resources from 350 million barrels in 2017 to 440 million barrels of oil in 2018. A significant effort has been made over the…