Lundin Petroleum completes the Ørnen exploration well
Dec 31, 2015
Lundin Petroleum’s wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has completed the drilling and evaluation of exploration well 7130/4-1 on the Ørnen prospect.

Shell gets first gas flows from Corrib field in Ireland
Dec 31, 2015
Operator Shell has started gas production from the Corrib field off the northwest coast of Ireland. Statoil holds a 36.5% participating interest in the field. The Corrib gas field is located 83 kilometres off Ireland’s northwest coast in water depths of almost 350 metres. At peak annual production, the field is expected to produce around 260 MM scf/d of gas, which is 45,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d).

Lukoil exceeds one hundred million tonnes of oil in 2015
Dec 30, 2015
For the first time in the company's history, PJSC LUKOIL has as of stepped over the boundary of 100 million tonnes of produced oil annually.

Delphi Energy focuses on its Bigstone assets
Dec 30, 2015
Delphi Energy Corp. is now singularly focused on its Bigstone assets where it holds 139.5 gross sections (118.1 net) of Montney rights and 81.5 gross sections (60.0 net) of

88 Energy records oil shows at Icewine #1 well
Dec 30, 2015
88 Energy Limited says that Icewine#1 reached its planned Total Depth of 11,600' on 24th December at 0008 (AK time), having successfully achieved all of the primary

TAQA taps first oil from Cladhan field in North Sea
Dec 30, 2015
Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (TAQA) has got first oil from the new Cladhan field development in the UK North Sea. The field is developed as a subsea tie-back to the TAQA-operated Tern Alpha platform. Peter Jones, TAQA’s UK managing director, said: “Cladhan is the third field developed by TAQA and the largest to date. First oil therefore represents a significant milestone. Developing Cladhan as a tie-back to Tern underlines our commitment to invest in infrastructure and to maximise economic recovery in the North Sea.”

Petrobras completes two formation tests in Carcará area
Dec 29, 2015
Petrobras concluded two formation tests in the 3-SPS-105 well, confirming the high productivity of the pre-salt carbonate reservoirs. The 3-SPS-105 well, informally known as Carcará Norte, is located in the area of the Carcará Discovery Evaluation Plan (PAD), 4.6 km north of the discovery well (4-SPS-86B), in water depth of 2,070 meters and reached final depth of 6,338 meters, inside basaltic rocks.

Buru Energy continues drilling operations at Ungani Far West 1 well
Dec 28, 2015
Buru Energy Ltd. reported the following weekly update on drilling operations at the Ungani Far West 1 well in Western Australia as at 06:00 hrs, Dec. 24.

Mart Resources releases November 2015 production update
Dec 25, 2015
Mart Resources, Inc. and its co-venturers, Midwestern Oil and Gas Company Limited and SunTrust Oil Company Limited has declared that Umusadege field production during

InterOil Corporation commences drilling at Antelope-6
Dec 25, 2015
InterOil Corporation has been advised by Total E&P PNG Limited, operator of Petroleum Retention License 15 in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea, that it has begun drilling the Antelope-6 appraisal well. The well is designed to provide structural control and reservoir definition on the field's eastern flank. It has a proposed total depth of around 2,464 meters (8,084 feet) true vertical depth sub-sea and is located about 2km east-south-east of Antelope-3.

Empyrean Energy reports third quarter 2015 production from Sugarloaf AMI
Dec 24, 2015
Empyrean Energy declares the production figure from its flagship Sugarloaf AMI Project in the prolific Eagle Ford Shale, Texas, for the three month period

Lundin completes drilling and reclassifies 16/1-25 S well
Dec 24, 2015
Lundin Norway AS, operator of production licence 338 C, has completed the drilling of exploration well 16/1-25 S.

Fugro awarded survey services for deepwater development at Guyana oil discovery
Dec 24, 2015
Fugro has been awarded a contract by Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, an ExxonMobil affiliate, for survey services at a deepwater field development offshore Guyana. The contract provides for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) geophysical survey and an environmental baseline survey, along with shallow geohazard and geotechnical coring. The discovery of more than 295 feet of high quality, oil-bearing sandstone reservoirs in the Stabroek Block of the Liza Field represents a significant deepwater production find in the Guyana-Suriname basin.

Frontera upgrades gas potential from Greater Black Sea operations
Dec 24, 2015
Frontera Resources Corporation updates its operational work in the Greater Black Sea region of Eastern Europe.

Bowleven commences flowing hydrocarbons at Zingana well
Dec 23, 2015
Bowleven says that following the installation of testing equipment, the Zingana well has now commenced flowing hydrocarbons.

Oryx Petroleum resumes drilling at Demir Dagh
Dec 23, 2015
Oryx Petroleum Corporation Limited has resumed drilling activities at the Demir Dagh field in the Hawler licence area in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and has agreed with the

NPD grants drilling permit for well 7324/7-3 S in production licence 537
Dec 23, 2015
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has issued a drilling permit to OMV Norge AS for well 7324/7-3 S, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.

Lundin hits oil discovery in Rolvsnes prospect, offshore Norway
Dec 23, 2015
Lundin Petroleum’s wholly owned subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has completed the Rolvsnes exploration well 16/1-25 S as an oil discovery. The well is located in PL338C south of the Edvard Grieg field in the central North Sea sector of the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS).

Drilling permit for well 1/5-5 in production licence 618
Dec 22, 2015
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted a drilling permit to Total E&P Norge AS for well 1/5-5. Well 1/5-5 will be drilled from the Mærsk Gallant drilling

Misen Energy produces a total of 51.2 mmcm of natural gas in November 2015
Dec 22, 2015
During November 2015, the Joint Activity (JA) led by Misen Energy AB (publ) produced a total of 51.2 million cubic meters (mmcm) of natural gas, 2.0 thousand tons (ktons)

Transerv Energy achieves a sustained gas flow at Warro onshore field
Dec 22, 2015
Transerv Energy has achieved a sustained gas flow and a continuous flare from the Warro-6 well in WA during the initial cleanup phase of the well.

Oilex increases gas production at Cambay-77H well in India
Dec 22, 2015
Oilex Ltd says that since restarting production, the Cambay-77H initial average production rate for 10 days (IP10) was ~71.5boepd. Although demand for gas fluctuates on a regular

88 Energy continues drilling on Icewine #1
Dec 22, 2015
88 Energy Limited says that core was successfully acquired in the HRZ interval from 11,075' - 11,165' with a 96% recovery factor.

NPD grants drilling permit for well 7224/2-1 in production licence 611
Dec 22, 2015
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has granted Wintershall Norway AS a drilling permit for wellbore 7224/2-1, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management