The Petrogas-operated A18-A5 gas well in the Dutch North Sea has been drilled and completed and is now on production. According to partner RockRose Energy, the well was targeting Pleistocene stacked marine sands (the Q3.2 and Q4 sand units). Hitherto, production from the…
The appraisal programme of the Zama discovery offshore Mexico began on the 29th November with the spudding of the Zama-2 appraisal well using the Ensco 8503 semi-submersible rig, Talos Energy Inc reported on the 3rd December. “We are excited to enter this phase of…
Apache Corporation has initiated production from its Garten development on Block 9/18a Area-W in the United Kingdom sector of the North Sea. The discovery well, which is located six kilometres south of the Beryl Alpha platform, was placed on production in late November, less than eight months…
Gas flaring in the Permian basin reached an all-time high in this year’s third quarter as the persistent rise in production collided with severe takeaway capacity challenges, according to Rystad Energy. Rystad estimates that gas flaring in the Permian averaged 407 MMcfd in the…
ExxonMobil has announced that it has made its tenth discovery offshore Guyana and increased its estimate of the discovered recoverable resource for the Stabroek Block to more than five billion oil-equivalent barrels. The resource estimate, up from the previous estimate of more than four billion…
Test phase successfully completed: Volkswagen has been testing the newly developed R33 BlueDiesel fuel at its in-house filling station in Wolfsburg since January 2018. The innovative fuel enables CO2 savings of at least 20 percent compared with conventional diesel thanks to the use of…
London-listed Ophir Energy has completed drill stem testing (DST) of the Paus Biru-1 exploration well in the Sampang PSC offshore Indonesia. The Sampang PSC is operated by Ophir Energy’s subsidiary Santos Sampang Pty Ltd with a 45% interest. The partners are Singapore Petroleum Sampang…
Tlou Energy, the ASX, AIM and BSE listed company focused on developing gas-to-power projects in southern Africa using coal bed methane (‘CBM’) natural gas from its field in Botswana, has provided an update on drilling operations at the Lesedi CBM Project. Key Points: Top-hole…
Canadian heavy crude strengthened the most since June after the Alberta government mandated production cuts across the province. Western Canadian Select’s discount to US benchmark West Texas Intermediate narrowed US$6 to US$23 a barrel as of 3:51 pm New York time, data compiled by…
The Polish and Danish gas transport operators Gaz-System and Energinet have committed to invest in the Baltic Pipe development. The project involves laying a pipeline spur from Norway across the southern North Sea to Denmark, and a further pipeline from eastern Denmark through the…
