After heavy spending on developing LNG export capacity Oceania companies focus on expansion and backfillAustralia is well positioned to maintain its role as an important supplier of the world’s energy needs, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region…
Australian oil and gas exploration and production company Carnarvon Petroleum has secured a Noble Tom Prosser jack-up drilling rig for two appraisal wells at the Dorado joint venture oil, gas and condensate discovery offshore Western Australia…
Quadrant Energy is lining up drilling the Phoenix South-3 well in the Roebuck Basin offshore Western Australia, using Transocean's Development Driller-1 semisubmersible rig. The rig is about to start its voyage to Western Australia…
Australian operator Northwest has signed a contract with ENSCO for use of the ENSCO 10 jackup to drill the Dorado-1 exploration well in exploration permit WA-437-P in the North West Shelf of Australia, according to partner Carnarvon Petroleum…
Carnarvon Petroleum has been awarded the shalow water AC/P62 permit in the Southern Vulcan Sub-basin, in the prospective Bonaparte Basin, on Western Australia’s North West Shelf. The large 1512sq km permit contains multiple attractive…
Finder Exploration has signed an agreement to farm-out 90% of its participating interest in exploration permit WA-520-P to Woodside Energy. The license is in the northern Carnarvon basin, offshore Australia’s North West Shelf, directly south of the Gorgon and Clio major gas fields…
Quadrant Energy is in the final stages of evaluating tenders for a semisubmersible to drill the Phoenix-3 South well offshore Western Australia in early 2018. Source: Carnarvon Petroleum The…
Carnarvon Petroleum and Northern Oil & Gas Australia (NOGA) have signed a pact enter a collaborative data sharing project spanning data in the Timor Sea, offshore Australia. Map of Carnarvon and NOGA's acreage…
The Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) of the government of Western Australia approved Carnarvon Petroleum’s application to suspend and extend the year three work commitments for the Cerberus project. Map of Cerberus…
Carnarvon Petroleum has increased its resource estimates by 32% at Quadrant Energy’s Phoenix South discovery offshore Western Australia, with hopes of reaching 1Tcf of gas and more than 100 MMbbl oil and condensate within an area. Phoenix…
US oil major Chevron has picked up a new exploration permit in a 'gas-rich' part of the Carnarvon Basin, offshore western Australia. Chevron paid US$2.3 million (A$3 million) for the cash bid permit WA-526-P, which will last six years…
Operations at the Phoenix South-2 well have been safely completed and the rig has now left the drilling location, said Carnarvon Petroleum. The well drilled an estimated 39m hydrocarbon-bearing zone between approximately 5176-5215m with…
Quadrant Energy's Phoenix South-2 well offshore the NorthWest Shelf of Australia on the Caley prospect has made a gas and condensate discovery, according to partner Carnarvon Petroleum. The well, in permit WA-435-P, drilled an estimated…
Quadrant Energy has spudded the Phoenix South-2 well within the WA-435-P exploration permit in the North West Shelf of Australia. Joint venture partner Carnarvon Petroleum said the well has been drilled down to approximately 1500m depth…
Quadrant Energy’s Phoenix South-2 (PS-2) well is expected to commence in the next seven days to appraise the Phoenix South-1 oil discovery in the Barret Sandstone and evaluate the deeper Caley Sandstone, akin to the Roc field, for gas and condensate…
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