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Ghohta discovery

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Lundin Petroleum made an oil discovery on the Ghohta prospect in exploration 303km off São Paulo state in licence PL492 in the Barents 2158m water depth.

Sea. The well, 7120/1-3, 16/2-14. A 15m oil zone

H 35km northwest of Snøhvit 280km south of New was proven. The well was

Svale North oil feld, found a 75m oil col- Orleans, Louisiana. The well Statoil, with partners Petoro drilled to 1,948m TD below umn in Permian carbonates. was drilled to 9500m TD. AS and Eni Norge in PL128, mean sea level.

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B E K well 6608/10-15, Svale

Statoil strikes oil PDVSA, Chevron Croatian survey partners

Statoil has made a third oil North prospect, Norwegian Spectrum will acquire 2D discovery in the Flemish Venezuela and Trinidad and Sea, 9km northeast of seismic off Croatia ahead of

Pass basin, offshore Tobago announced that the Norne feld. The well was the country’s latest licens-

Newfoundland on the Bay Petróleos de Venezuela in drilled by the Songa Trym ing round, using Seabird du Nord prospect (EL1112), partnership with Chevron semisubmersible. Exploration to gather about about 500km northeast of St. will concentrate on the 12,000km of long-offset seis-

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John’s, Newfoundland. Loran-Manatee feld (10Tcf mic data. Acquisition will

Tolmount gas reserves), on Venezuela and E.ON made a gas discovery complete in 4Q 2013.

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W&T Offshore subsalt

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Tamar drilling

W&T Offshore, Inc. made a southern North Sea. The

F subsalt discovery in a deep- Tolmount discovery, 40km Drilling on the South West

QGEP discovery shelf, target beneath its Ship Queiroz Galvão Exploração off East Yorkshire, encoun- Tamar prospect, off Israel,

Shoal 349 Mahogany feld. e Produção S.A. (QGEP) tered a 200ft gas column in is due to start late Septem-

The SS 359 A-14 well is fled a Notice of Discovery the Leman sandstone and test ber. A budget of US$122 producing from the T-sand with ANP for well 1-QG-5A- fowed at a maximum stable million has been approved, (in excess of 17,200ft TVD), BAS, in block BM-J-2 in rate of 50MMcf/d. E.ON said excluding production tests. at an initial fow back rate of the Jequitinhonha Basin off reserves are up to 16Bcm. The best estimate of the 3,030bo/d and 5.6 Mcf/d of Brazil. undiscovered resources is

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Statoil oil discovery

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Exploration well 16/2-18S, of success.

Petrobras strikes oil

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Petrobras found oil in well located on Statoil-operated

Shell hits pay

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Shell found a 36m oil- 3-SPS-101 in the Carioca PL265 in the North Sea,

Egyptian gas bearing zone at its Yucatan Discovery Evaluation Plan was drilled west of Johan BP announced a deepwater

North-1 exploration well in area, block BM-S-9, Santos Sverdrup discovery, about gas discovery in the East

Walker Ridge 95/96/139/140 Basin pre-salt. The well, 9km west of well 16/2-6 and Nile Delta off Egypt. Gas and blocks, US Gulf of Mexico, Iguaçu Mirim, is located 3 km west of appraisal well condensate were found in

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