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17 Jun 19	Brazil: Petrobras clarifies on natural gas discovery in the Sergipe Basin Petrobras, regarding the news published in the media related to the discovery of natural gas in the Sergipe Basin, clarifies that, in recent years, six deepwater discoveries have been confirmed in the Sergipe Basin. The Company is conducting the Discovery Assessment Plan for these areas to evaluate the productive potential of its oil and natural gas accumulations, and a long-term test in the Farfan area is planned for this year.
17 Jun 19	GoM: Seadrill announces contract award for the West Capricorn Seadrill has secured a one well contract with Kosmos Energy Gulf of Mexico Operations for the West Capricorn in the US Gulf of Mexico.
17 Jun 19	Norway: OKEA announces successful completion of initial public offering OKEA has announced the successful completion of its initial public offering. The first day of trading in the Company's shares on Oslo Børs will be 18 June 2019.
17 Jun 19	Congo (Brazzaville): Anglo African Oil & Gas announces announces publication of independent report for Tilapia field Anglo African Oil & Gas has announced the publication of a report, commissioned from Havoc Partners, a team of geoscientists in Australia, to evaluate the results of the TLP-103C well in the Tilapia field in the Republic of the Congo.
17 Jun 19	Norway: Aker BP granted drilling permit for well 25/2-20 in PL 442 The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Aker BP a drilling permit for wildcat well 25/2-20 in production licence PL 442. The well will be drilled about 20 kms east of the Frigg field.
17 Jun 19	UK: Decipher Energy's Orlando field production lower than expected Atlantic Petroleum has announced initial field production results from the Orlando field, its interest in which was sold to Decipher Energy in April 2017 in return for deferred considerations from the sale proceeds of production from the field. Production from the Orlando field began at a lower rate than expected, with production over the first two months averaging approx. 4,500 BOPD, which is below the Licence Operator's target of 10,500 BOPD.
17 Jun 19	Australia: Cooper Energy completes repair and testing of the Sole subsea pipeline Cooper Energy has advised that the offshore activities to undertake the repair and testing of the Sole subsea pipeline have been completed.
17 Jun 19	Norway: Equinor drills dry well near the 7435/12-1 (Korpfjell) gas discovery in the Barents Sea - 7335/3-1 Equinor, operator of production licence PL 859, has completed the drilling of wildcat well 7335/3-1. The well, which was drilled about 8 kms southeast of the 7435/12-1 (Korpfjell) gas discovery in the Barents Sea, is being plugged and abandoned as a dry hole.
17 Jun 19	Colombia: Amerisur Resources Sol-1 well encounters potential net oil pay Amerisur Resources reports that logging operations on the Sol-1 exploration well on Block CPO5 are now complete. The well has encountered potential net oil pay and short term testing operations are now underway.
17 Jun 19	Norway: Equinor announces oil and gas discovery in the Norwegian Sea Equinor and its partners Ineos E&P and Faroe Petroleum have made an oil and gas discovery in exploration well 6507/3-13 Snadd Outer Outer/Black Vulture in PL 159B in the Norwegian Sea. The well had two different reservoir targets; an upper drilling target containing 2-12 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) of gas and a lower target with an estimated volume of 1-48 million barrels of recoverable oil equivalent.
17 Jun 19	Colombia: Amerisur Resources announces proposed disposal of 50 percent of Put-8 to Occidental Amerisur Resources has entered into a conditional agreement with Occidental Andina to dispose of a 50 percent interest in the Put-8 exploration licence in the Putumayo region of Colombia, for a cash consideration of USD 19.1 million.
17 Jun 19	UK: Union Jack Oil reports successful result at West Newton A-2 appraisal well JV partner Union Jack Oil has announced positive preliminary results in respect of the recently drilled West Newton A-2 conventional appraisal well, located within PEDL 183 and operated by Rathlin Energy (UK).
17 Jun 19	Ireland: Providence Resources announces update on Barryroe farm-out transaction Providence Resources has provided a commercial and operational update in relation to Standard Exploration Licence ('SEL') 1/11 which contains the Barryroe oil accumulation.
17 Jun 19	Norway: Dolphin Drilling awarded contract for Knarr field drilling Dolphin Drilling has signed a contract with Norske Shell for drilling at the Knarr field on the Norwegian continental shelf. The contract includes drilling of one well and two one well options.
17 Jun 19	Australia: Senex and Jemena agree AUD50 million infrastructure deal Senex Energy has agreed to sell its Roma North natural gas processing facility and pipeline to major energy infrastructure operator Jemena for $50 million and entered into a long-term gas tolling agreement.
17 Jun 19	Indonesia: INPEX signs HOA on Abadi LNG Project with Indonesian authorities INPEX has signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) with Indonesian authorities on behalf of the contractors with the endorsement of Shell Upstream Overseas on the basic principles regarding a revised Plan of Development (POD) for the Abadi LNG Project.
16 Jun 19	UK: Greenpeace activists try to board oil rig at sea Greenpeace activists have made another attempt to board a drilling rig being towed in the North Sea. The rig was heading for an oil field east of Aberdeen after protesters delayed its departure from the Cromarty Firth for six days last week.
16 Jun 19	Norway: Aker BP announces removal of Valhall QP topside as part of modernisation Aker BP reports that the original accommodation platform at Valhall (QP) in the southern part of the North Sea has been safely removed by the giant vessel Pioneering Spirit. This was the first of the original structures at Valhall to be removed as part of the modernization of the Valhall field centre.
16 Jun 19	Colombia: Parex Resources announces successful Andina Norte-1 well test in the Capachos Block Parex Resources has announced the testing of the Andina Norte-1 well in the Capachos Block, onshore Colombia. The well tested at an average 3406 bopd and 5.8 mmcfd from the Guadalupe and Une reservoirs.
16 Jun 19	Malaysia: Fugro seep hunting success offshore Malaysia Fugro has successfully completed the first of three Malaysian seep hunting and geochemical campaigns for the Provision of Surface Geochemical Survey for Domestic Waters for PETRONAS, Malaysia’s fully integrated oil and gas company.
14 Jun 19	UK: Maersk Innovator awarded one well extension for Buzzard field infill drilling Maersk Drilling has announced that CNOOC Petroleum Europe, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited, has exercised a one-well option for the Mærsk Innovator jack-up rig to continue drilling infill wells at the Buzzard field on the UK Continental Shelf.
14 Jun 19	Australia: 3D seismic further derisks Melbana's Beehive Prospect offshore Australia Melbana Energy has advised that preliminary interpretation of the newly acquired Beehive 3D Seismic Survey confirms some key technical characteristics of Beehive, further de-risking the prospect. Total and Santos have until 2 October, 2019 to exercise an option to farm-in and drill the first exploration well.
14 Jun 19	AGS signs a Global Master Service Agreement with a major international oil company Axxis Geo Solutions (AGS) has announced the signing of a Global Master Service Agreement covering marine services including Ocean Bottom Nodal Acquisition and other methods.
14 Jun 19	Mexican oil regulator cancels Oct auctions to pick Pemex partners Mexico’s oil regulator announced on Thursday the cancellation of October auctions to pick joint-venture partners in seven onshore areas for state oil company Pemex, which is struggling to reverse more than a decade of falling crude output.
13 Jun 19	Brazil: Petrobras closes the sale of TAG to ENGIE-led consortium Petrobras has closed the sale of 90 percent of its stake in the Transportadora Associada de Gas ('TAG') to the group comprising ENGIE and the Canadian fund Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec (CDPQ). The transaction closed with a total payment of 33.5 billion reais ($8.69 billion) to Petrobras.