Middle East research program in carbonate reservoirs begins
A joint research collaboration has been launched that will focus on further understanding carbonate reservoirs, which constitute the vast majority of hydrocarbon reservoirs across the Middle East, and CO2 storage.
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Black Sea Ayazli field flows first gas
Stratic Energy has begun gas production from its Ayazli gas field in the Black Sea offshore Turkey.
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Survey off Malta on schedule
A seismic survey offshore Malta in blocks 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Area 4 is on schedule to begin this month. Mediterranean Oil & Gas Plc. says Seabird Exploration's Geo Mariner will conduct the week-long survey.
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Dragon reviews Cheleken reserves
Dragon Oil will start subsurface reservoir modeling this summer on its Cheleken Contract Area producing fields offshore Turkmenistan.
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Seismic study set for offshore Malta
Mediterranean Oil & Gas Plc. has awarded a seismic acquisition program in Area 4 offshore Malta to Seabird Exploration. The M/V Geo Mariner is expected to arrive in Malta later this month.
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Leni plans Mediterranean survey
Leni Gas & Oil has agreed with Malta Oil to farm into 20% of four blocks between Maltese and Libyan waters.
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Petrobras contracts seismic work off Libya
Petrobras has commissioned Wavefield Inseis to conduct a 3D seismic survey in the Mediterranean Ocean off Libya starting in 1Q 2007.
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Malta acreage propsective for oil
Mediterranean Oil and Gas seeking partners to co-finance drilling of prospects offshore Malta
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PetroMed gets offshore Israel permit
PetroMed, Plc., has received approval from the Israel Ministry of National Infrastructures begin exploration in the shallow water prospects offshore Haifa in northern Israel. The exploratory rights cover more than 3,500 sq km.
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4C seismic technology makes mark in Caspian Sea
Since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Caspian Sea and the surroun-ding region's huge reserves have made the region the focus of international attention.
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Middle East still holds frontier potential
The offshore area of Oman is dominated by the Sohar basin, which is a Creta-ceous-Tertiary deepwater basin confined between the Omani continental shelf and the Makran Accretionary Prism, with its associated thrust belt.
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Mauritania drilling campaign indicates emerging deepwater province
Woodside's Chinguetti discovery off Mauritania last year may trigger a bout of deepwater drilling off North West Africa. Representatives from the oil companies concerned (mainly Australian) outlined their view of progress to date at IBC's West & Central Africa oil and gas conference in London last fall.
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EQUIPMENT/ENGINEERING: Higher signal-to-noise ratio yields higher resolution for high-density 3D
Due to the high fold and dense spatial sampling HD3D technology improves many of the necessary steps in data processing.
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MIDEAST/CASPIAN SEA: World's largest 2D survey heightens interest in Persian Gulf
Persian Carpet spans 110,000 km
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Global E&P Briefs
Iran's Continental Shelf Oil Company said continental shelf output will reach 700,000 b/d of oil by March 2001 and 1.1 million b/d by 2003.
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Iran's best Caspian Sea prospects are in deepwater, and rigs are scarce
Oil seeps, large traps, 14,000 sq km basin
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Role of 3-D seismic in exploration turnaround
Amoco discovery in Trinidad [13,584 bytes] Amoco replaced 60% of the hydrocarbons it produced in 1992 and 179% in 1996. [6,700 bytes] Exploration finding costs have dropped and resources found have increased during this period. [8,058 bytes] Prospects are ranked by size, factored by risk and net interest. Top prospects are drilled, and the business unit's ability to accurately predict resources found is the basis for individuals' year-end bonuses. [3,501 bytes]
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EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Ionian, Aegean Sea prospects enhanced by new petroleum legislation
Primos North in relation to existing Primos Facilites. Greece is set to issue a new Hydrocarbons Law in an attempt to revitalize exploration and production activity. Since the early 1980s this has been somewhat patchy, and focused mainly on Greece's only producing offshore oilfield, Prinos.
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SEISMIC EXPLORATION Seismic surveyors tackle tough transition zones, congestion
Dev George Managing Editor International 3D Seamless Cover The rapid development of new seismic acquisition technology is not limited to the glamorous environs of deepwater prospects and trendy subsalt plays. Rather, there are equally exciting innovations occurring nearshore in shallow water and transition zones. Innovations such as ocean bottom cable, digital bay cable, digital telemetry, dual-sensor acquisition and processing, and in-field quality control.
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