Denmark's Maersk Oil Makes Small Oil Find Off Norway

Preliminary estimates suggest the find contains between 9 and 19 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalents.

Lundin Petroleum Finds More Oil At Alta Arctic Discovery

The resource estimate for the find was originally seen to contain between 125 and 400 million barrels of oil equivalent.

Freeport-McMoran Hits Oil Pay In Deepwater GoM

The well, combined with two follow-on development wells at Horn Mountain Deep, may be capable of producing an aggregate of 30,000 barrels of oil equivalents per day (boe/d).

Transerv Energy Hits Gas In Perth Basin's Warro Field

Transerv executive director Stephen Keenihan described the results as outstanding because they extended the known parameters of the gas at Warro, both at depth and laterally.

Faroe Petroleum Strikes Oil In Norwegian Sea

The drilling campaign is being operated by VNG Norge AS using the Transocean Arctic semi submersible drilling rig with partners Spike Exploration Holdings AS, Pure E&P Norway AS and Faroe.

ExxonMobil Starts Oil Production At Project Offshore Nigeria

The Erha North Phase 2 project is a deepwater subsea development operated by ExxonMobil's subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Ltd.

GeoPark Strikes Oil Onshore Colombia

The Jacana Field is located southwest of the Tigana oil field, following the same fault trend, and appears to be a combination structural-stratigraphic trap, GeoPark said.

Eni’s Zohr Discovery Could End Egyptian Gas Imports

The discovery well, Zohr 1X NFW, was drilled to a total depth of about 4,131 m and hit 630 m (2,067 ft) of hydrocarbon pay.

Eni Discovers Supergiant Gas Field Offshore Egypt

Zohr 1X NFW was drilled to a total depth of about 4,131 m (13,553 ft)) and hit 630 m (2,067 ft) of hydrocarbon column in a carbonate sequence of Miocene age with excellent reservoir characteristics (more than 400 m of net pay), Eni said in a news release.

Buru Makes Oil Find In Western Australia

Wireline logs indicate a gross oil-bearing interval of about 23 meters at the top of the Ungani Dolomite section in the well, Buru Energy said.