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Bass swimming in onshore oil in Indonesia

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Australia’s Bass Oil Limited has announced a major upgrade to the prospectivity of its producing Tangai-Sukananti KSO, located in onshore Sumatra, Indonesia. Highlights of the upgrade, resulting from an independent review of the company’s stake in the KSO located in the prolific oil production province in southern Sumatra, include an additional 1.6 million barrels (0.893 million barrels net to Bass) of low-cost, unrisked, prospective oil resources, in two new near-field targets. As...

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Record breaking licence awards reflect the potential of Norway’s mature basins

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Record breaking licence awards reflect the potential of Norway’s mature basins GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, says the record breaking number of licences awarded in Norway’s latest award round illustrates the potential of the country’s mature basins. Analysis of Norway’s upstream oil and gas industry shows that the country currently has 887 licensed blocks, of which 529 blocks are in the shallow water terrain and 358 are in deepwater terrain, according to...

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Successful 2018 start for PESA WA Technical Series

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2018 promises to be an exciting year for the WA Branch Technical Series, with many thanks to our four sponsors; Spectrum (Platinum), CGG (Gold), Searcher Seismic (Gold) and DUG (Gold). At the commencement of the luncheon, WA Branch President Helen Debenham opened the first technical series of the year with the usual Branch introduction, with special thanks to our sponsors, before announcing all the new and exciting upcoming 2018 Branch events to an audience of over 70 people. Julian...

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Carnarvon’s Buffalo Project

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Perth based junior oil and gas company Carnarvon Petroleum has been working with seismic reprocessing firm, DownUnder Geosolutions to provide an update on Carnarvon's Buffalo project. Quality new seismic data has recently been received showing clear definition around the Elang formation, the producing reservoir in the Buffalo oil field. With this new data the reservoir in this region is clearly identifiable on seismic and has been reconciled with important well data within the oil...

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It’s official – wholesale gas prices fell in 2017

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A media report claiming east coast wholesale gas prices jumped 40 per cent last year is simply incorrect, APPEA said in a media release.

In fact, as the latest report to the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) confirmed just two weeks ago, wholesale gas prices fell by six per cent in 2017.

“The report found that wholesale prices fell in all eastern states in 2017,” said APPEA Chief Executive Dr Malcolm Roberts. 

“A newspaper article published (recently) confuses the wholesale...

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H2Oil & Gas delivers produced water treatment package for plant in Malaysia

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H2Oil & Gas, an Aquarion Group company, has completed a contract to design and supply equipment for a produced water treatment plant in Malaysia. The high pressure (117 bar) system reduces the oil in water content from 3000ppm down to <20ppm with an optimized process design that uses the existing gas in the system, eliminating the use of additional fuel gas used on standard Compact Flotation Units. This design, together with a carefully developed layout, produced a low weight compact skid...

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CGG GeoConsulting and Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica Announce First Reported Discovery of Live Oil Onshore Jamaica

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CGG GeoConsulting and the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) have announced the discovery of two independent live oil seeps from different parts of the island of Jamaica. This significant find marks the first documented occurrence of ‘live’, or flowing, oil from onshore Jamaica and will be of particular interest to oil explorationists focused on Central America and the Caribbean. The oil seeps were found during fieldwork for a recently completed multi-client Robertson Study (Red...

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Investment of $97bn on top ten offshore oil projects to add over 1.6 million barrels per day by 2025, says GlobalData

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Over $151.5bn in capital expenditure will be spent over the lifetime of the top ten offshore oil projects to produce 14.3 billion barrels of crude, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. These ten projects, selected from 236 upcoming offshore projects globally, will contribute incremental capacity of 1,613,319 barrels of oil per day to global supply by 2025. Johan Sverdrup in shallow water Norway is the largest with anticipated peak production at 600,512 barrels of...

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Top three Saudi oil fields to drive 59% of country’s oil production by 2021

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Analysis of Saudi Arabia’s crude oil production shows that over $79.6bn in capital expenditure (capex) would be spent by Saudi Arabia Oil Co on oil projects over the next four years, to ensure that country’s production remains around 11.2 million barrel per day (mmbd) in 2021. The company will have 17 fields producing in 2021, of which 13 are conventional oil fields and four are gas fields producing condensate, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. Saudi...

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New UK grants open for Australian fellows

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Brunel University in London will soon offer five short-term fellowships to Australian early career researchers, thanks to a new grant from Universities UK International’s (UUKi) Rutherford Fund. Funded by the UK government’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the new fellows will be tasked with researching resource efficient future cities, the environment, and health. The researchers will be selected from the University of New South Wales, Royal...

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