Exploration

Russian Federation

Russian Oil And Gas Discoveries Plunge To Five-Year Low

Russia’s oil and gas discoveries fell to the lowest in five years in the first half of 2021, after last year’s crisis resulted in steep cuts in capital expend…

Oil Exploration

Empyrean Gearing up to Drill ‘First Exciting Exploration Well in China’

Oil and gas company Empyrean Energy has made significant operational progress towards spudding the LH 17-2-1 exploration well at the Jade prospect on Block 29/1…

Oil Exploration

Equinor Makes Iits 6th Norwegian Oil Discovery of 2021

Equinor EQNR.OL has made an oil discovery estimated to hold up to 62 million barrels of crude off the coast of Norway.

Oil Field

Serica Announces Delay of Columbus Production Start-up

UK oil and gas company Serica Energy has confirmed the start-up of production at its Columbus field located in the Central North Sea will be delayed.

Oil Exploration

QatarEnergy Joins Forces with ExxonMobil for Exploration Offshore Canada

Qatar’s state-owned oil and gas company QatarEnergy has signed a farm-in agreement with ExxonMobil Canada for an exploration license offshore Canada.

Oil Exploration

QatarEnergy Signs Deal with ExxonMobil Canada on Farm-in Exploration License

QatarEnergy has signed a deal for a 40% stake in one of ExxonMobil’s major offshore explorations in Canada.

Shell’s Wetselaar Heads to Top Spot at Cepsa

Shell has reshuffled its exploration team as Maarten Wetselaar leaves the company to take the top spot at Cepsa.

Oil Exploration

4 Offshore Contracts Signed for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production; Investments will Total US$1.4 billion

The National Hydrocarbons Agency and Anadarko Colombia Company signed 4 contracts for the exploration and production of hydrocarbons in the Colombian Caribbean,…

Oil Exploration

DNO Makes Small North Sea Oil Find. Another Well Comes Up Dry

Oil and gas operator DNO has made a small oil discovery on the Gomez prospect in one of its operated licenses in the Norwegian part of the North Sea.

Oil Exploration

Indonesia Awards First Oil and Gas Blocks in Two Years

Indonesia has awarded oil and gas blocks to local upstream energy company Energi Mega Persada and Canada's Husky Energy Inc, a senior officialhas announced, in …

Oil Exploration

Shell Takes Operatorship in Blocks off South Africa

Impact Oil & Gas entered into the agreement with Shell for the farm-out of the South African exploration right back in November 2020.

Oil Exploration

Israel Stops Onshore Oil Exploration Permits

Israel will no longer issue onshore oil exploration permits, Energy Minister Karine Elharrar said this week

Energy Investment

Pakistan Invests $305 million to Explore for Oil in UAE’s Persian Gulf

The United Arab Emirates awarded an oil concession to companies from Pakistan for the first time.

Oil Exploration

ADNOC Partners with Pakistani Companies for the First Time

As part of Abu Dhabi’s second competitive block bid round, ADNOC has signed a historic exploration concession agreement, awarding the exploration rights for Ab…

Natural Gas

Shell Unit Commits to Renewable-Powered Timi Gas Project Offshore Malaysia

The offshore wellhead project, developed with its partners Petronas Carigali and Brunei Energy Exploration, could see peak production of up to 50,000 barrels of…