Page 5 - Upper Triassic News Today

01 Jun 2021 (Last Updated June 1st, 2021 11:07) Equinor Energy will drill well 6407/1-9 in production licence 939 using West Hercules drilling facility. Share Article The well will be drilled around 2km northeast of the 6407/1-5 S Maria appraisal well and 7km northwest of 6407/1-6 S Rodriguez. Credit: Colin. Equinor Energy has secured permission from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) to drill an exploration well in the North Sea. The compa...

Norway: Equinor drills dry well northwest of the 7324/8-1 (Wisting) oil discovery in the Barents Sea - 7322/6-1 S 01 Jun 2021 PL 722, has concluded the drilling of wildcat well 7322/6-1 S. 7324/8-1 (Wisting) oil discovery in the Barents Sea. The exploration target for the well was to prove petroleum in Middle and Upper Triassic reservoir rocks (the Snadd Formation), and in upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian reservoir rocks (the Ørn Formation). Well 7322/6-1 S encountered two sandstone inte...

BASE RESOURCES LIMITED - Kwale North and Bumamani Resources Estimates PR Newswire Key Points As part of the pre-feasibility study currently underway to assess the viability of mining the Kwale North Dune and Bumamani deposits, seeking to extend the mine life of Kwale Operations, additional drilling and mineralogy assessments have been conducted. The Kwale North Dune Mineral Resources estimate has increased by 13% to 194 million tonnes at an average HM grade of 1.5%, containing 2.9Mt HM, based o...

Pterosaurs were highly successful reptiles that lived between 210 and 65 million years ago. They were the first vertebrates to evolve powered flight, but their origin has remained an unresolved enigma in paleontology since the 19th century. With the help of pterosaur skulls and skeletons that were unearthed in North America, Brazil, Argentina, and Madagascar in recent years, a team of paleontologists has now demonstrated that flightless dinosaur precursors called lagerpetids (family Lagerpetida...