A small oil discovery was made in production license 167 at the Utsira High in North Sea, by Equinor along with its respective partners Lundin and Spirit Energy. In the summer of 2019, an oil discovery was made in the Lille Prinsen Outer Wedge Well, located 1 km west of Lille Prinse Main. It is estimated that the discovery in the main reservoir contains between 5 and 25 million boe....Continue Reading

For a drilling job in the central North Sea, Fraser Well Management was hired by Corallian Energy as an operator for its Curlew-A. It is expected that FWM’s Aberdeen-based team to start the drilling of the well in the first half of 2020. Currently, the Ocean Endeavour by Gardline is conducting the site survey. Source: Energy VoiceContinue Reading

Notified by the UK Oil and Gas Authority, Australian-based Talon Petroleum has successfully joined a joint bid alongside with Netherlands-based partner ONE-Dyas. This was for a license over Block 1430b via the UK 31st Supplementary Offshore Licensing Round. The license contains the Thelma Prospect, a Burns Sandstone stratigraphic trap and a 29mmbo (gross best estimate) prospective resource, Louise Prospect, a Piper Fault Block target and which contains a 17mmbo (gross...Continue Reading

Aker BP, a Norwegian oil exploration & development company struck an oil column in the primary exploration target of 28 metres in sand layers at the wildcat well 25/2-21. (Liatårnet) The discovery made by Aker BP, operator of production license 442 in the North Sea had good reservoir quality. The 9th exploration well in production license 442, 25/2-21 well was awarded in APA 2006. Drilled 40km the north-east of the...Continue Reading

It is expected that Premier oil is to receive official clearance for the development of two North Sea oil fields in the next few months. This happened due to their strong performance in the area that helped generate USD180 million cash in the first half. The London-based company has achieved an increase in their average production in the UK, resulting up to 40% to 57,700 barrels of oil per day...Continue Reading