Exploration, Drilling and New Finds - Page 2

Tangiers Petroleum identifies oil play at Bonaparte Basin
Thursday, April 05, 2012 Tangiers Petroleum has identified 14 leads confirming significant oil potential in the Milligans Fan oil play, in the sea off Northern...

ConocoPhillips starts drilling programme offshore Western Australia
Thursday, April 05, 2012 US-based energy firm ConocoPhillips has spud the first of five wells in the Greater Poseidon area, off the Western Australia...

Anadarko completes drilling programme off Mozambique
Wednesday, April 04, 2012 US oil and gas explorer Anadarko Petroleum has completed the drilling part of its planned appraisal programme, off the coast of...

Johan Sverdrup field owners sign pre-unit deal
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Owners of the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea have signed a pre-unit agreement, operator Statoil has...

Lundin Petroleum strikes oil at North Sea well
Monday, March 26, 2012 Swedish oil and gas company Lundin Petroleum has discovered a 54m gross oil column at its Johan Sverdrup appraisal well 16/2-11, in production licence 501 in the North...

Brenham Oil & Gas wins award for Equatorial Guinea exploration blocks
Monday, March 26, 2012 Brenham Oil & Gas said it has received a letter of award for a 15% participating interest in four offshore exploration blocks in Equatorial Guinea from the nation's...

Apache completes 3D seismic survey offshore Kenya
Friday, March 23, 2012 Apache Corp has completed the Nanaa 3D seismic survey covering an area of 1,400km² in block L8, off the coast of...

Expro sells connectors and measurements business to Siemens
Thursday, March 22, 2012 Expro International is to sell its connectors and measurements (C&M) business to Siemens for a total consideration of...

Petrobras finds oil in Santos Basin
Thursday, March 22, 2012 Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has discovered oil accumulation off the coast of Sao Paulo state in...

Bangladesh petroleum company eyes partnership for offshore bidding round
Monday, March 19, 2012 State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company (BAPEX) said it intends to partner with a reputed international oil company to participate in Bangladesh’s offshore bidding...

Kosmos Energy encounters oil at Enyenra Oil Field, offshore Ghana
Monday, March 19, 2012 Kosmos Energy has encountered light oil at its Enyenra-4A appraisal well in the Deepwater Tano Block, offshore...

Serica Energy to acquire 3D seismic survey offshore Namibia
Friday, March 16, 2012 Serica Energy has entered into an agreement with Polarcus Seismic for an extensive 3D seismic acquisition survey in Serica's Luderitz Basin Blocks, off the coast of...

Bayfield encounters oil and gas offshore Trinidad and Tobago
Thursday, March 15, 2012 UK-based Bayfield Energy has announced that the first exploration well to be tested in its Galeota licence, off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago, has been suspended as an oil and gas...

Anadarko Petroleum starts first oil production at Caesar Tonga development
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and co-owners Shell and Chevron have announced the first oil production at the Caesar/Tonga development in the Gulf of...

Anadarko recovers gas flows off Mozambique coast
Monday, March 12, 2012 US oil and gas explorer Anadarko Petroleum recovered gas flows of 90 to 100 million cubic feet a day during the first flow testing at the Barquentine-2 well, off the coast of...

Eni drills appraisal well in discovery off Norwegian coast
Thursday, March 08, 2012 Italy-based oil and gas company Eni has completed the drilling of an appraisal well in the Skrugard discovery in the Barents...

Petrobras starts oil production in Gulf of Mexico
Friday, March 02, 2012 Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras has started pumping oil from the first of two deep water oil fields in the US Gulf of...

Tap Oil begins drilling off Western Australia
Thursday, March 01, 2012 Tap Oil has started drilling works at the Tallaganda-1 exploration well in the Carnarvon Basin off the Western Australia...

Statoil confirms high-impact Brazilian oil discovery
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Statoil, in partnership with Repsol Sinopec and Petrobras, has made a significant high-impact oil discovery in the Pão de Açúcar area off the coast of...

Statoil and ExxonMobil discover Tanzania offshore gas
Friday, February 24, 2012 Norwegian oil firm Statoil, in collaboration with its project partner ExxonMobil, has made a large gas discovery off the coast of...