Neptune Energy has announced an oil discovery at the Schwegenheim exploration well in the Rhine Valley, Germany.
Neptune Energy has announced an oil discovery at the Schwegenheim exploration well in the Rhine Valley, Germany. A well drilled to a depth of 2600 m encountered two oil-bearing layers.
MOL has drilled two wells 8 km northwest of the Balder and Ringhorne fields in the central part of the North Sea and about 200 km west of Stavanger. Preliminary estimates place the size of the oil and gas discovery in the Skagerrak Formation between 2 and 11 million Sm3 of recoverable oil equivalent.
A Total-led consortium has discovered oil in the Central North Sea offshore UK, about 40 km south of the Elgin-Franklin field and 170 km east of Aberdeen. The well was drilled in a water depth of about 80 m and encountered 64 m net pay of lean gas and condensate and high-quality light oil, in Upper Jurassic and Triassic sandstone reservoirs.
Capricorn Norge has been granted a drilling permit in production licence PL 880 about 8 km west of the Vega field in the North Sea.
Equinor has been granted a drilling permit in production licence PL 089 just southwest of the Snorre field.
Petrobras has found oil in the Uirapuru block, Santos Basin pre-salt. The well is located about 200 km off the coast of the city of Santos, at a water depth of 1995 m. The discovery is in porous reservoirs in the exploratory prospect, known as Araucária.
Equinor, Progress and Repsol have found oil in the US Gulf of Mexico after the Monument exploration well encountered approx. 60 m of net oil pay with good reservoir characteristics in Paleogene sandstone. The well was drilled to a total depth of 10,164 m.
Aker BP has found oil in the Norwegian Sea about 50 km southwest of the Skarv field and 210 km west of Brønnøysund. Well 6506/5-1 S encountered a total gas column of about 15 m in the Lysing Formation, of which 10 m of sandstones are of very good reservoir quality. Preliminary estimates are between 1.0 and 2.4 billion standard cubic metres (Sm3) of recoverable gas.
Petro-Victory Energy has discovered oil in Block ES-T-487 in the Espírito Santo Basin, Brazil. The Vida exploration well was drilled to a depth of 1890 m in the onshore portion of the Espírito Santo Basin, Brazil. The well encountered 49 m of net oil pay.
Wintershall has made an oil discovery at the Bergknapp prospect in the Norwegian Sea, close to the Maria field. The well encountered an oil column of at least 60 m in the Garn Formation and an oil column of 120 m in the Tilje Formation, with reservoir qualities ranging from poor to good. Estimates put the discovery at between 26 and 97 million boe.
Petrobras has encountered oil in an exploration well on the Sudoeste de Tartaruga Verde block in the Campos Basin. The Natator well was drilled 130 km from the city of Macaé (RJ) in water depths of 1080 m. Oil was discovered in carbonate reservoirs in the post-salt section.
