Equinor Discovers Large Quantities of Oil, Gas in Swisher Prospect

• Wednesday, 30th September 2020
• by Editorial Team

Equinor and its license partners Petoro AS and Wellesley Petroleum AS have found 2-6 million standard cubic meters of oil equivalent of oil and gas in the Swisher prospect, according to a press release. Wells 35/11-24...

Neptune Makes New Hydrocarbon Discovery at North Sea

• Sunday, 5th July 2020
• by Fatma Ahmed

Neptune Energy has announced a new hydrocarbon discovery at the Dugong well (PL 882) in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, according to a press release issued by the company. The company declared that the operatio...

New Bahrain Oilfield to Produce 200,000 b/d

• Wednesday, 4th April 2018
• by Editorial Team

Bahrain expects to produce 200,000 b/d from its newly-discovered oilfield, according to the head of the financial and economic committee in Bahrain’s parliament, Abdulrahman Bu Ali, Reuters reported. Bu Ali adde...

Bahrain Discovers New Oil Field, Largest in its History

• Sunday, 1st April 2018
• by Editorial Team

Bahrain announced on April 1st the discovery of a new tight oil and deep gas field off the west coast of the kingdom; the discovery is thought to dwarf the country’s current reserves, Emirates News Agency report...

Iran Discovers New Gas Field

• Thursday, 25th May 2017
• by Editorial Team

Iran says it has discovered a new gas field close to the giant South Pars natural gas field, which it jointly shares with Qatar, Press TV reported. The field, called Sepand, has 1.5tcf of sweet gas, of which about 792...

Cairn Energy Discovers Oil Offshore Senegal

• Tuesday, 28th March 2017
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Cairn Energy, in partnership with the Australian independent FAR Ltd, announced late March the discovery of oil at the VR-1 well, located on offshore Senegal, Offshore Energy Today reported. As Natural Gas World infor...

Aminex Discovers Gas at Tanzania’s Ntorya-2 Well

• Tuesday, 14th March 2017
• by

Oil exploration and production company Aminex recently announced that, during the production testing on the recently drilled Tanzania’s Ntorya 2 well, no formation water was produced. The result lead the company...

Tullow Found Oil in Kenyan Well

• Tuesday, 17th January 2017
• by Editorial Team

Tullow Oil said it has made an oil discovery following exploration of the Erut-1 well in onshore Block 13T, northern Kenya, The Irish Times informed. Erut-1 was drilled to a depth of 1,318 meters and it cut a 25-meter...

ExxonMobil Finds More Oil Offshore Guyana

• Monday, 16th January 2017
• by Editorial Team

ExxonMobil Corp. announced in early January it had further established offshore Guyana as a significant exploration province with a new oil discovery and successful appraisal drilling at its Liza field, Rigzone inform...

Crude Oil Found in Nigeria’s Borno State

• Tuesday, 20th December 2016
• by Editorial Team

Borno State, in northeastern Nigeria, has joined the league of oil-producing areas in the country, with the discovery of crude oil after many months of exploration, Ecofin Agency informed. Ministry of Petroleum Resour...