Harbour Energy (LON:HBR) and its partner Zarubezhneft have successfully completed their first appraisal well in the Tuna Block in the Natuna Sea offshore Indonesia despite reports that Chinese vessels had been meddling in the area.
One of the biggest oil discoveries in the North Sea in years may not be quite as big as hoped, Sweden’s Lundin Petroleum said yesterday.
At the end of last month, 10 E&A wells were active on the UKCS: five exploration wells - including one from platform facilities - and five appraisals.
Independent oil and gas explorer Trapoil is on the hunt for a partner to drill on the northern North Sea Inverewe prospect after Centrica opted out of the plans.
Irish oil explorer Providence Resources said today it could have more than one billion barrels of oil in place in its Barryroe field offshore Ireland.
UK North Sea activity has continued to increase with drilling, deal activity and new developments all up on last year, according to a new report out today.
Oil and gas explorer Providence Resources is due to start drilling off the coast of Ireland in the next two weeks.
OIL and gas explorer Providence Resources has said it is due to start drilling offshore the coast of Ireland in the next two weeks.
Oil and gas firm Endeavour International said today it remained focused on first production on two key North Sea assets.
Exploration and appraisal drilling in the UK North Sea has dropped to its lowest level since 2003, according to a report released yesterday.
SHELL, with Nexen, has made a major new oil strike in the deepwater sector of the eastern US Gulf of Mexico.
2010 has the makings of a reasonable year for exploration and appraisal drilling in north-west European waters, according to Ian Burdis, VP well management at AGR Petroleum.
TULLOW Oil said yesterday that appraisal drilling on the giant Jubilee oil field offshore Ghana had confirmed a southern extension of the field and encountered three reservoir zones.
Nexen said yesterday it had made the largest oil find in the UK North Sea since the giant Buzzard field was discovered in 2001.
AT LAST, Total has started appraisal drilling of its Norwegian sector Hild asset, which is located close to the UK-Norway median line and the French group's Alwyn fields complex.
Midway through 2009, the exploration and appraisal spud tally stands at 21 wells, with a further 16 sidetracks started.
When compared with 2008, the pace of activity in the UKCS remains subdued, with only eight mobile rigs currently active on exploration and appraisal drilling - the same as last month - of which two are drilling sidetracks.
A just published study commissioned by Rockhopper Exploration shows just how tantalisingly close the late-1990s exploration drilling campaign to the north of the Falkland Islands was, especially one of the two operated by Shell.
A long-overdue rationalisation among the smaller oil and gas firms in the North Sea is on the way, according to an industry expert.
TEN exploration and appraisal wells are currently active on the UKCS, although that count is 11 if Caithness's Middle Jurassic Lybster appraisal on block 11/24 of the Inner Moray Firth is included, being drilled from an onshore location. But just two wells were spudded in October, both in the Northern North Sea - Total's well 8/15-2 on the Palaeocene Sailor prospect, which is imminently to re-spud, and Sterling's well 210/29a-4 on the Middle Jurassic Cladhan prospect.
Oil and gas operator Oilexco has announced a "significant" discovery in UK waters.