Nicaragua offshore oil exploration

Develop and execute country strategic road map for Equinor in Nicaragua Project Manager Business Development Solar Energy with the Ministry of Energy and the National Oil Company to sign 4 Concession Contracts and JOA offshore.

1 Dec 2019 Government will make new rounds of hydrocarbon exploration The US company received the concession of block 2 of the offshore basin of San Nicaragua, Belize, and Cuba have granted licenses to foreign oil companies  New Fortress will build a power plant in Nicaragua; AES Panamá has big solar with Venezuela; Barbados handed BHP Petroleum offshore exploration licenses; The Dominican Republic will make new hydrocarbon exploration rounds;  Keep our coasts permanently off-limits to oil and gas drilling. In 2016, President Obama permanently ended oil and gas leasing in parts of the Atlantic and Arctic  2 Mar 2020 N joint venture to explore and develop potential offshore oil and gas reserves, the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources said on Monday. "  The Joint Development of Offshore Oil and Gas in Relation to agreement is the penultimate agreement, another such agreement with Nicaragua remaining to. Develop and execute country strategic road map for Equinor in Nicaragua Project Manager Business Development Solar Energy with the Ministry of Energy and the National Oil Company to sign 4 Concession Contracts and JOA offshore.

offshore areas of Nicaragua and Honduras summarized below, there has been little work done since the drilling and seismic surveys carried out by oil 

Nicaragua's hydrocarbon activities have, until now, been conducted under a general resources law covering all extractive industries. Petroleum activity has been sporadic off both coasts with one main bout of exploration on the Caribbean shelf in the mid-1960s, during which 26 wells were drilled. The Nicaraguan Oil Company has signed a cooperation agreement with a Canadian company for exploration of oil and gas. Following the agreement signed between the company EastSiberian Plc , belonging to TMX Group in Canada and the National Oil Company of Nicaragua (Petronic) the Ministry of Energy and Mines has been approached in order to start negotiations for the subsequent signing of concession contracts. The federal government has approved the proposal of a new offshore exploration drilling project set to begin in the Flemish Pass Basin — about 400 kilometres east of Newfoundland and Labrador. Since 1999, the Sable Offshore Energy Project (SOEP) is an ongoing initiative to conduct natural gas exploration along the Nova Scotian continental Shelf. This project produces over 14,000,000 m 3 of natural gas and 3,200 m 3 of liquid natural gas daily. [5]

In May 2015, Equinor was awarded four licences offshore the Nicaraguan Pacific results it has been decided to start preparations for drilling the Mango-1 well.

The Nicaraguan Canal (Spanish: Canal de Nicaragua), formally the Nicaraguan Canal and HKND Group performed a preliminary study phase of development to assess the (2 mi) offshore and 2 light buoys would mark the passage through Lake Nicaragua. An oil spill would have serious and lasting consequences. Infinity Energy Resources, Inc. is an independent energy company that focuses on oil and gas exploration offshore of Nicaragua in the Caribbean Sea. 29 Jul 2014 We profile territorial tensions over oil hot spots, from open during recent years with Nicaragua and Colombia granting oil exploration licences  Nicaragua t. The main g which para. Basin is e deep offshore oped over the su eath the southw Drilling in front of the westerly fault increases the change to  Oil drilling puts at risk not just the marine biodiversity that is dependent on the reef, but also the country's lucrative tourism industry which employs directly at least  13 May 2019 Discover new and exclusive opportunities offshore Nicaragua with the Geoex by Infinity Resources, with the exploration period coming to terms. good source rock potential with oil shows recorded within the basinal area. 27 Dec 2019 Nicaragua's national assembly approved a reform of the power industry state oil company Petronic, have a stake in four offshore exploration 

The federal government has approved the proposal of a new offshore exploration drilling project set to begin in the Flemish Pass Basin — about 400 kilometres east of Newfoundland and Labrador.

20 Jun 2019 registration and qualification for oil and gas operations in Nicaragua. blocks of exploration on the Pacific offshore of Nicaragua, identified  Promising Oil and Gas Exploration Opportunities in the Caribbean acreage available for direct negotiation across Jamaica, Honduras, and Nicaragua. With fourteen blocks available on and offshore, a flexible contract and an attractive  6 Mar 2009 Currently with no oil production, Nicaragua is dependent on fuel imports. Despite this, the exploration agreement was stalled by, but ultimately  The Nicaraguan Canal (Spanish: Canal de Nicaragua), formally the Nicaraguan Canal and HKND Group performed a preliminary study phase of development to assess the (2 mi) offshore and 2 light buoys would mark the passage through Lake Nicaragua. An oil spill would have serious and lasting consequences. Infinity Energy Resources, Inc. is an independent energy company that focuses on oil and gas exploration offshore of Nicaragua in the Caribbean Sea. 29 Jul 2014 We profile territorial tensions over oil hot spots, from open during recent years with Nicaragua and Colombia granting oil exploration licences 

About 30 percent of the global oil production comes from offshore drilling. Activity take place in all different depths of water, allowing companies to reach a wide number of oil reservoirs. Offshore drilling in the 1950s generally began in shallow waters about 200 meters deep. In the 1990s, the drilling gradually got deeper and deeper as methods and technologies advanced.

27 Jun 2018 Location Oil & Gas. Offshore exploration underway in Nicaragua. The Polarcus Asima vessel has begun a 3D seismic campaign in the Sandino  In May 2015, Equinor was awarded four licences offshore the Nicaraguan Pacific results it has been decided to start preparations for drilling the Mango-1 well. oil exploration and Nicaragua in Central America. Nov 13 | Nicaragua: Possible Drilling of Second Well in the Caribbean Under Analysis seismic mapping, 'the presence of a fifth structure below our oil and gas concessions offshore.". 17 May 2019 Thomson said that the company has acquired the Nicaragua acreage ahead of a potential exploration drilling campaign in 2020. “The farm-in  16 Aug 2013 Government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo said the initial drilling, by Noble Energy, would take place about 168km (104 miles) offshore. The Old  29 May 2015 “Offshore the Nicaraguan Pacific is virtually untested and the awards of new acreage Statoil says it now enters in an early exploration phase and with a U.S. oil company Noble Energy has acquired a 40 percent share in 

Offshore blocks in Nicaragua / Image source: Cairn News of the farm-in was shared on Friday by Cairn’s Chief Executive Simon Thomson ahead of the company’s AGM. Thomson said: “Since our last reporting date, we have consolidated our position in Latin America and entered into a farm-in agreement with Equinor for a 35.1% non-operated interest in four exploration blocks offshore the Nicaragua Pacific…” Nicaragua signed a contract with U.S. company Infinity Energy Resources on Thursday to explore for oil off the country's Caribbean coast after overcoming legal objections from regional indigenous EDINBURGH, UK – Cairn Energy has agreed to farm into 35.1% of four exploration blocks offshore Nicaragua’s Pacific coast. Operator Equinor may start exploration drilling in 2020. Cairn sees this as potentially high-impact frontier acreage with a range of exploration play types. Located in a water depth of 1,220 feet, the well was drilled to a total depth of 10,415 feet. Mike Putnam, Vice President, Exploration and Geoscience, commented, "Paraiso-1 was the first deepwater well drilled offshore Nicaragua and tested a new frontier exploration concept for this region. Nicaragua is a Central American country located between Honduras and Costa Rica. It has no oil or gas reserves and is completely reliant on imports to meet its hydrocarbon demand. Although the first exploration well was drilled in 1930, the country is underexplored. The well is being drilled 168 kilometers offshore from the Nicaraguan Caribbean coastal town of Bluefields. The first well will be drilled to a depth of 3,358 meters and exploration will be conducted over the next three months. This is where Costa Rica comes in. Costa Rica, like Colombia, has its own claims.