Australia’s Tap Oil Ltd. recently provided an update on its commercial relations with the Thai entrepreneur, Chatchai Yenbamroong, and his Northern Gulf Petroleum Holdings Ltd. (NGPH). As disclosed in Tap’s announcement on 14 April 2015…
Northern Petroleum announced that the environmental impact assessments (EIA) for its three remaining exploration permit applications in the southern Adriatic have been approved. These approvals are in addition to the two EIA approvals for exploration permit applications announced on 10 June 2015…
Italian regulators will allow London-based explorer Northern Petroleum to conduct 3D seismic data studies at two of its wholly-owned permit areas in the southern Adriatic Sea. The approval to conduct new seismic in permits F.R39.NP and F…
As part of an unusual mortality event investigation, a team of scientists has discovered that dead bottlenose dolphins stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico since the start of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have lung and adrenal lesions…
Spectrum entered into a cooperation agreement with Schlumberger to jointly acquire and process Spectrum's offshore Mexico Campeche-Yucatan 2D regional multi-client program. The cooperation agreement includes more than 44,000km of regional…
Russian licensing authority Rosnedra awarded Lundin Petroleum a production license for the Morskaya field in the northern Caspian Sea. The production license, in the Lagansky Block, will be valid until 2035 and covers about 50sq km. The Morskaya field…
KrisEnergy’s Thai campaign success continues at its Rossukon-3ST sidetrack well that encountered 148ft of oil and gas pay. Offshore Thailand map. From KrisEnergy. The final exploration…
KrisEnergy began drilling the Rossukon-3ST sidetrack well offshore Thailand. Image from KrisEnergy. Rossukon-3ST is located in the G6/48 license that covers 566sq km over the Karawake basin…
KrisEnergy encountered oil and gas pay at the Rossukon-3 exploration well in the Gulf of Thailand. Image from KrisEnergy. Rossukon-3 is located in the G6/48 contract area that covers 566sq km over the Karawake basin…
Most of the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico remains unexplored. Dan McConnell explores the geotechnical knowns and unknowns in the basin. Acquiring geotechnical data for platform foundation design in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche…
KrisEnergy began drilling the Rossukon-3 exploration well in G6/48 in the Gulf of Thailand using Shelf Drilling's Key Gibraltar jackup rig. Gulf of Thailand block map. From KrisEnergy. Rossukon…
KrisEnergy’s Gulf of Thailand campaign is getting off to a good start with an oil and gas discovery already made at its first exploration well, the Rossukon-2. The Key Gibraltar jackup. From Shelf Drilling…
Singapore-based KrisEnergy began its drilling campaign in the Gulf of Thailand. The Key Gibraltar. From Shelf Drilling. The campaign is starting at the Rossukon-2 exploration well…
Most of the Mexican side of the Gulf of Mexico remains unexplored. Dan McConnell explores the geotechnical knowns and unknowns in the basin. Acquiring geotechnical data for platform foundation design in Mexico’s Bay of Campeche Image from Fugro…
Mubadala Petroleum’s US$300 million Manora oil development is now producing from five wells in the northern Gulf of Thailand. The Atwood Orca jackup. From Atwood. The Manora oil field is located within the G1/48 concession…
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