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Corcel completes KON-16 survey data acquisition

Corcel plc has competed acquisition of survey data on block KON-16 in the Kwanza Basin, onshore Angola. PROSPECTIVITY Metatek Group began operations for the enhanced full tensor gradiometry survey (eFTG) in June. Following processing and interpretation of the data during Q4, the company will ascertain how to develop the prospectivity of the 1,000km2 block. The data […]

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Hartshead wins new North Sea licences

Hartshead Resources NL, which in April reduced its workforce, has won six new oil and gas licences covering 10 blocks in the southern North Sea. ACREAGE The Australian company has accepted three licences and is awaiting grant of a further three from the North Sea Transition Authority’s 33rd licensing round. Five licences consisting of nine […]

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Harbour completes Wintershall acquisition

Harbour Energy plc today completed its acquisition of the Wintershall Dea asset portfolio, comprising Wintershall Dea AG’s upstream assets. GLOBAL Harbour now produces 475,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with “significant” production in Norway, the UK, Argentina, North Africa and Germany. The company said it now had a 2P reserve base of c.1.5 billion […]

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Buchan first oil delayed pending emissions guide

Jersey Oil & Gas plc partner in the Buchan Horst project will “materially slow” activities while awaiting new government environmental guidance for oil and gas firms. LICENCE Operator NEO Energy and its owner HitecVision will wait for clarity “around the UK regulatory and fiscal framework so that the full impact can be assessed.” “This will […]

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Sunda applies for Philippines offshore licences

Sunda Energy plc has applied for two offshore licence areas in the Philippines containing “several material gas discoveries and significant upside potential”. STRATEGY The applications were made in a joint venture partnership with three other companies. If successful, the company expects to hold a 37.5% non-operated interest in any service contracts awarded. The applications were […]

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Beacon to reinstall rod pump at SCH-2 well

Beacon Energy plc plans to reinstall a rod pump to allow a stabilised flow rate at the Schwarzbach-2 sidetrack oil well in the Erfelden field, Hessen onshore Germany. FLOW RATE The company said that the electrical submersible pump (ESP) had been running at the lower limit of its operating range, at approximately 50 bopd – meaning […]