Petroleo Brasileiro SA , Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, found traces of oil and gas in an offshore well in the C-M-95 block of the c… By Karen Eeuwens (Bloomberg) Source: Bloomberg, October 19, 2011
Det norske oljeselskap ASA, operator of production licence 482, is about to complete drilling of wildcat well 6508/1-2. The well proved oil and gas. The well was drilled about ten kilometres south of the Norne field in the Norwegian Sea. The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Early Jurassic reservoir rocks (the [...]
The sidetrack of the recent gas discovery at the Broder Tuck prospect in Licence 12/06 offshore Denmark has confirmed additional hydrocarbon column whilst sample analyses from the initial exploration well have indicated a higher than expected condensate content. Bo Askvik, President and CEO at PA Resources, comments: “We are pleased to have confirmed additional hydrocarbons [...]
Noble Energy, Inc. announced today that it has ended drilling operations at the Leviathan #2 appraisal well location, offshore Israel. During the drilling process, the Company identified water flowing to the sea floor from the wellbore. The source is a water sand that flowed behind the surface casing. It has been monitored closely and [...]
Octanex N.L. has been advised by Eni Australia Limited, the Operator of the Galahad-1 well located in the outer Exmouth Plateau permit, WA-363-P, that at 07:00 hours WST (Western Standard Time) on Monday, 16 May 2011, the well had reached its total depth (TD) of 3448m MDRT (measured depth below rotary table). Operations over the [...]
OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A. (“OGX”) , the Brazilian oil and gas company responsible for the largest private sector exploratory campaign in Brazil, announced today that it has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the Albian section of 3-OGX-40D-RJS well and in the Albian-Cenomanian section of the well 3-OGX-41D-RJS, both appraisal wells from [...]
Octanex N.L. has been advised by Eni Australia Limited, the Operator of the Gawain-1 well located in the outer Exmouth Plateau permit, WA-362-P, that the well has reached its total depth (TD) of 3,963m MDRT (measured depth below rotary table). Since the last progress report of 11 April 2011, when the well was at [...]
Statoil, along with partners Eni Norway and Petoro, has made a significant oil discovery on the Skrugard prospect in the Barents Sea. The breakthrough discovery is one of the most important finds on the Norwegian continental shelf in the last decade. Statoil and its partners are in the process of concluding drilling operations on [...]
EnCore Oil plc announces that the Burgman side-track well 28/9-4z located on UKCS Central North Sea Block 28/9 has successfully encountered hydrocarbons in the targeted Lower Tay sandstone interval. The well was drilled directionally with a hole angle up to 64 degrees to a Total Depth of 5,237 feet Measured Depth (M.D.). Initial analysis indicates [...]
A OGX Petróleo e Gás Participações S.A. (“OGX”) , the Brazilian oil and gas company responsible for the largest private sector exploratory campaign in Brazil, announced that it has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the Albian- Cenomanian section of well 3-OGX-35D-RJS, an appraisal well of the Waikiki accumulation which was initially discovered through the [...]
