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(MCG) is extending its multi- client 2D (MC2D) Barents

Super-Tie towards the east into the newly-opened

Barents Southeast, formerly a disputed zone between

Norway and Russia. The new lines will tie the exist- ing Barents Super-Tie in

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Surveys in the Barents South

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East. In addition, MCG and

Sevmorneftegeo? zika (SMNG) will reprocess 2D seismic data from the Russian side

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Barents Sea with key ? elds

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This survey will be around 3500 km and will be acquired

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Akademik Nemchinov.

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US sanctions

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Rosneft president

The US Department of the

Treasury issued sanctions repair and refurbishment was drilled using a semisub- against seven Russian govern- eight commitment wells in the package on the 61.87 x mersible to 4655m TD and ment of? cials and 17 entities

Kwanza basin, beginning drill- 51.21m rig included preload, encountered about 40m net pursuant to the Ukraine- ing in 2Q 2104.

void, bilge and diesel tank pay containing light 34° API related Executive Order

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Agadir Basin well steel repair with nearly 125 oil, in a 350m-thick interval 13661. Among those of? cials non-commercial tonnes of steel used to renew of thick sands. Total said it listed was OAO Rosneft

The FA-1 well in the Foum the inside of the tanks. The plans to drill another two President and Chairman of

Assaka block offshore Morocco yard also completed vari- offshore wells, in Blocks CI- the Management Board Igor has been plugged and aban- ous repair works on the rig’s and CI-516, by the end of the Sechin. Sanctions against doned after failing to ? nd accommodations. year. Total E&P Côte d’Ivoire individuals were designated commercial hydrocarbons. operates Block CI-514 with because those listed were seen

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Joint study

Operator Kosmos Energy said a 54% interest, alongside as being part of the Russian agreement signed the well was the ? rst in a series

CNR International (36%) and government’s “inner circle.”

RWE Dea and the State Oil PETROCI Holding (10%). BP holds 19.75% equity in designed to unlock the Agadir

Co. of Azerbaijan Republic Rosneft, and BP Group Chief basin and was drilled to test a

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Statoil exits (SOCAR) have signed a joint Executive Robert Dudley salt diapir play concept target-

Angola block study agreement to evaluate sits on Rosneft’s board as a ing the Cretaceous interval in

Statoil announced it will a combined structural-strati- the hydrocarbon prospectiv- non-executive director. He is divest its 5% participating graphic trap. Kosmos operates ity in an area south of the not a shareholding member. interest in ENI-operated block the Foum Assaka offshore

Absheron peninsula, south of According to a spokesperson 15/06 off Angola to Sonangol block.

Baku in the Caspian Sea. The for the US Department of the

EP for US$200 million. In study area is between Karadag Treasury, as a US citizen, he

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Drydocks completes addition to the ownership and Hamamdag and covers is not prohibited from dealing

NDC jackup repair in four producing assets, about 850sq km in shallow with Rosneft or from sitting

Statoil also holds participat- water less than 30m deep. Drydocks World has com- on the board.

pleted a major repair and ing interests in Blocks 22, 25

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Barents Super-Tie

TDW completes subsea refurbishment of National and 40 in Angola’s Kwanza extension pipeline intervention

Drilling Co.’s (NDC) jackup basin. As announced in April,

MultiClient Geophysical drilling rig Al Ittihad. The T.D. Williamson (TDW)

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