Norway: MOL Norge drills dry well at Mandal High in the southern North Sea - 2/9-6 S
10 Feb 2021
PL 617, is concluding the drilling of wildcat well
2/9-6 S.
The well was drilled on the west side of the
Mandal High, about 9 km north of the Norwegian-Danish border and 280 kms southwest of Stavanger.
The objective of the well was to prove petroleum in Upper Jurassic reservoir rocks (the Mandal Formation).
The well encountered a sandstone layer with clay stone elements, about 250 metres thick, in the Mandal Formation. Approx. 140 metres of this was reservoir rocks with poor to moderate reservoir properties.
Traces of petroleum were registered in the upper part of the reservoir. The well is classified as dry.
UK: Advance Energy announces termination of Wessex Basin licences
10 Feb 2021
AIM-listed
Advance Energy, the energy company seeking growth through acquisition or farm-in to non-operated interests in discovered upstream projects, has announced that offshore
P1918 Colter & Colter South licence, and onshore
PEDL 330 and PEDL 345 licences (together the Wessex Basin Licences ) have terminated with effect from 31 January 2021. The licences were operated by
Corallian Energy.
The Company s wholly owned subsidiary
Resolute Oil & Gas (UK) held an 8% non-operated working interest in the
P1918 licence. The second term of the P1918 Licence expired on 31 January 2021 without being renewed.
Onshore PEDL 330 & 345 Licences
The Company s wholly owned subsidiary Resolute held an 8% non-operated interest in the
intoPIX SA: Fraunhofer IIS and IntoPIX Announce Joint Licensing Program for JPEG XS
The Fraunhofer-Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and the Belgian technology provider for compression solutions intoPIX S.A. today announce a worldwide patent licensing program for JPEG XS based software and hardware solutions. A JPEG XS license pool is currently being set up and expected to be fully rolled out by June 2021. The licensing program addresses the IPR conditions for use of JPEG XS in both cloud-based services and professional and consumer devices.
The use and integration of JPEG XS will position professional studio environments and broadcast systems for the future. intoPIX, provider and developer for compression and image processing solutions, and Fraunhofer IIS, developer for audio/video codecs for motion picture, broadcast and consumer applications, joined forces to make the JPEG XS technology available through a pooled licensing program.
Pending legislation would remove licensing requirements for several professions
Pending legislation would remove licensing requirements for several professions By Courtney Ann Jackson | February 9, 2021 at 10:44 PM CST - Updated February 10 at 10:21 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A bill pending at the State Capitol would do away with the license requirement for several professions. And one group is raising a red flag to say they believe the licensing should stay in place.
The goal of House Bill 1315 was presented in this way:
“Trying to shrink government, and some of the way we can do this by eliminating some of the commissions and boards that are out there that we feel like we’re impeding progress and getting jobs and allowing people to make a living in the state,” said Rep. Randy Boyd from the House floor.