Total Plans Exploration Well In UK North Sea
Total said it will start drilling in the third quarter at the prospect located 150 km (93 miles) east of the Shetland Islands and near its Alwyn platform.
Exploration Continues: Kosmos Strikes Gas Offshore Senegal
The latest find boosts Kosmos’ gross resource estimate for the Greater Tortue Complex to 17 trillion cubic feet, adding to the region’s potential.
Israeli Group Finds Signs Of Large East Mediterranean Gas Field
A group led by Isramco Negev and Modiin Energy said a resource report showed there could be an estimated total of 8.9 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas at the Daniel East and West fields.
Additional Oil Discovery Puts Falklands Area In Spotlight
The recent find, which builds on the Isobel-1 oil discovery made in May 2015, adds to the commerciality of the area.
Sinopec Strikes Oil At Beibu Bay Test Well
Wei-4 well, southwest of China's coastal city of Beihai, tested a daily output of 1,264 tonnes of crude and 71,800 cm of natural gas at a first layer, Reuters said.
Woodside Discovers Gas Offshore Myanmar
The Shwe Yee Htun-1 exploration well in Block A-6 in the Rakhine Basin offshore area of Myanmar has hit a gross gas column of about 129 m (423 ft), Woodside said in a news release.
Cairn Energy Successfully Tests Senegal Production Well
The company said it had produced high-quality oil at a rate of around 8,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) from its SNE-2 well around 100 km (62 miles) off the coast of Senegal.
Lundin Strikes Oil At Rolvsnes Prospect Offshore Norway
The well, located south of the Edvard Grieg Field, encountered a gross oil column of 30 m in porous granitic basement, Lundin said in a news release.
Etom-2 Well Hits Oil In Kenya
Oil samples, sidewall cores and wire line logging all indicate the presence of high API oil in the best quality reservoir encountered in the South Lokichar Basin to date, Tullow said.
Wintershall Makes Small Oil Find In North Sea
Encountering a 275-m thickness of moderate to good reservoir quality in the Brent group, the well proved light oil in the Tarbert and Oseberg formation with columns of 11 m and 3 m, respectively.