Weekly Upstream Oil & Gas news round up

A selection of upstream oil and gas news stories from this week.

Schlumberger in Afghanistan oilfield equipment agreement

Bayat Energy and Schlumberger have signed an MoU for sale and lease of oilfield equipment in Afghanistan.

CEOs: North Sea key to European energy supply

Helge Lund, CEO of Statoil, and Rainer Seele, Chairman of Wintershall, comment on the importance of the North Sea for Europe's energy supply.

KrisEnergy contracts jack-up rig for Thai drilling campaign

Plans cost-efficient optimisation of drilling schedule for G10/48 and G6/48 in 2015.

New Cooper Basin search as government grants permits to Blue Energy

ATP 656P, 657P, 658P and 660P have been officially granted to the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Blue Energy (Qld).

Mubadala Petroleum confirms gas discoveries offshore Malaysia

Mubadala Petroleum has announced that drilling and testing has confirmed the Pegaga discovery offshore Malaysia as a substantial gas find.

Repsol makes Russia’s largest hydrocarbons discovery in two years

Repsol has made two new discoveries in the Russia’s Karabashsky blocks, in the West-Siberian Ouriyinskoye field.

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