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Egypt. The Nidoco NW2 Dir

NFW well, which sits 120km northeast of Alexandria, reached 3600m total depth. It encountered a 60m thick gas bearing sandstone interval of

Messianian age with excellent petrophysical properties, fur- ther of other gas layers in the overlying Pliocene section. Preliminary estimates show a potential 15 Bcm of

S gas in place, plus associated

G F I condensates. Eni will be focused on a

H fast-track exploitation of this potential to ? ll up the pro-

P cessing capacity of Abu Madi

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Gas Plant.

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Majors bet on Mozambique

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Three majors – Total, Eni, and ExxonMobil – are vying for the same block offshore

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Mozambique in its ? fth licens-

Q ing round. ExxonMobil, in

D partnership with Rosneft;

Eni, with partners Sasol and

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Statoil; and Total, have all separately applied for area

A5-A in the Angoche basin,

J K in the Upper Wealden forma- offshore northern Mozambique.

Israel approves Aje edges

Leviathan plan toward ? rst oil tions of the Lower Cretaceous, In total, some 15 areas were

The Israeli government The Aje 5 production well which was water wet, and in included in the round, within entered into an agreement was spud in late July, in the the Greensand, which found the offshore Rovuma, Angoche, with Noble Energy and the Aje ? eld offshore Nigeria in noncommercial quantities of and Zambezi areas, as well as

Delek Group to move forward the OML 133 license, in the gas. The well, in SEL 4/07, will onshore areas, together cover- with development plans for Dahomey basin.

be plugged and abandoned. ing 74,402sq km. Rosneft had

The two Phase I develop- the Leviathan ? eld in addi- already revealed its application

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Edvard Grieg ment wells, Aje 5 and Aje tion to Karish, Tanin and the led by ExxonMobil for area is on track 4, are being drilled using further development of Tamar.

A5-A/B in the Angoche basin

Lundin Petroleum’s Edvard Noble said the new frame-

Saipem’s Scarabeo 3 semisub- and Z5-C/D in the Zambezi

Grieg ? eld is on track for ? rst work announced in August mersible. Once Aje 5 is drilled,

Delta late last week. Eni has oil in 4Q 2015 despite the establishes a foundation for expected to be completed in also both applied for the A5-B topside modules installation competition, and ensures that

September, the Scarabeo 3 area.

delay earlier this year, which Israeli citizes pay a fair price will move on to re-enter and

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Salman resulted in the ? rm revising for natural gas. complete the Aje 4 well.

production ramps up down its full year production “The framework also

Peak gross production from guidance to 32,000 boe/d. promises a stable investment Crude oil production from the phase I development wells

Also, a successful appraisal climate that will enable the Salman oil ? eld, which Iran is expected to reach 11,000 well was drilled 2.4km from continued exploration and shares with the United Arab b/d using Rubicon Offshore the platform, to help delineate production of Israel’s offshore Emirates, in the Persian Gulf

International’s Front Puf? n the southeastern part of the resources. Noble Energy has increased.

FPSO, with ? rst oil targeted for ? eld to optimize the drain- welcomes the clarity this Abbas Rajab-Khani, of? cial

December 2015, said partner age strategy and test potential framework will bring.” in charge of the Iranian

MX Oil.

incremental resource. Leviathan, which is one Offshore Oil Co.’s operations

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The ? eld, with 185.8 MMboe Eni hits Egyptian gas of the largest discoveries in in Lavan region said that the gross reserves, is in Block 16/1 the past decade, sits in the Eni encountered gas at the production hike on Salman in the Norwegian sector of

Mediterranean Sea about Nooros exploration prospect came after the company took the North Sea and has a ? eld 130km off the coast of Israel at in the Abu Madi West license, steps for the development lifetime of about 30 years.

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