23 March 2010
Award of Zuid-Friesland III Production Licence and Acquisitions of Interests
Northern announces that the Ministerie van Economische Zaken (“EZ”) has awarded the Zuid-Friesland III Production Licence to Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij BV (“NAM”), Total, Petro-Canada and Dyas. The licence is for a period of 25 years and covers 104.6 km² in the Province of Friesland, The Netherlands.
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11 January 2010
Tiendeveen-1 Exploration Well Prepared For Testing
Northern and its partners** announces that the Tiendeveen -1 exploration well has finished drilling and the completion string has been run in order to allow for future perforating, hydraulic fracturing and testing.
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7 January 2010
A further 307 BCF of gas brought into production
Northern and its partners announce the start of production from the Geesbrug gas field. This brings into production reserves independently assessed at 165 Proven plus 142 Probable billion cubic feet (“bcf”). Geesbrug is the second of four gas and two oil fields in the onshore development programme being undertaken by Northern and its partners. The gas from Geesbrug is being delivered via a dedicated pipeline to the NAM operated Coevorden-17 facilities.
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8 December 2009
Northern Completes Pipeline And Starts New Production From Gas Field
Northern and its partners are pleased to announce they have started gas production from the Grolloo gas field, the first of four gas and two oil fields planned for development onshore The Netherlands.
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22 October 2009
Northern Awarded New Licence with Gas Prospect
An exploration licence covering the Kerkwijk South gas prospect has been awarded to Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V. (“NPN”), a wholly owned Dutch subsidiary of Northern. The Engelen Exploration Licence (“Engelen”) covers 97km² in the West Netherlands Basin, an area where NPN already holds four other exploration and production licences (Andel III, Papekop, Utrecht and Waalwijk). The prospect has been mapped from existing seismic data and is on trend to the Kerkwijk gas discovery drilled in 1988.
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8 October 2009
Northern Discovers Gas At Tiendeveen
Gas has been discovered in the Tiendeveen -1 exploration well. The gas in the Permian Zechstein carbonates which had been identified as a secondary target in the well has been confirmed from wireline logs and drilling data.
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28 September 2009
Geesbrug – Another Fracturing Exceeding Expectations
Hydraulic fracturing in the Geesbrug-1 well of the Carboniferous Hardenberg and Permian Rotliegend formations in the Dutch Drenthe III licence area has been successfully completed.
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28 August 2009
Grolloo Gas Field Update
Gas flow and pressure build up measurements from test work at the Grolloo field have now been analysed. Northern can confirm an increased projected rate of production at 7.5 MMSCFD. Grolloo’s first production is scheduled in the fourth quarter of this year.
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14 August 2009
Tiendeveen drilling commences
Northern announces that its wholly owned subsidiary Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V ('NPN') has commenced drilling operations on the exploration well Tiendeveen in the Drenthe III licence on 12 August 2009.
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9 July 2009
Grolloo Gas Field Flow Test Encouraging
A maximum gas flow rate of 16 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD) has been measured by Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V. (NPN) at its Grolloo gas field in the Drenthe IV licence.
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19 June 2009
Grolloo Gas Field Testing Update
Northern Petroleum Plc (the “Company”) announces that in The Netherlands its wholly owned subsidiary Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V (“NPN”) has achieved success in hydraulically fracturing the main Carboniferous reservoir in the Grolloo gas field. The field is scheduled to be put on-stream in the fourth quarter of this year.
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4 June 2009
Netherlands Update
Northern Petroleum Plc announces that the Nieuwendijk well drilled by its wholly owned subsidiary Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V. (“Northern”) has reached a total depth of 2677 metres having penetrated the primary Bunter sandstone reservoirs. Encouragingly significant oil shows to surface and substantial drilling fluid losses occurred during the drilling of this section. These have been evaluated by electric logs and pressure tests, the results indicating the probability that the levels of oil saturations are not sufficient to warrant significant costs of testing.
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3 May 2009
Nieuwendijk Well Sets European Record
Casing While Drilling (CWD)
Northern’s wholly owned subsidiary: Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V. (NPN) has successfully used Casing While Drilling (CWD) technology for the first 780m (2,567 ft) section of the Nieuwendijk well.
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21 April 2009
Two Well Netherlands Drilling Programme Commences
Northern announces that its wholly owned subsidiary Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V (“NPN”) has commenced drilling operations on the exploration well Nieuwendijk-1 in the Andel III licence at 2300 on 20 April 2009 using a newly fabricated rig owned and operated by the Northern Dutch Drilling Company located in Drachten, The Netherlands.
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20 April 2009
Analyst & Press Site Visit
Northern Petroleum Plc announces that on Tuesday 21 April and Wednesday 22 April 2009, the Company will be hosting an Analyst and Press site visit to its operations in the Netherlands.
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17 April 2009
Ottoland Oil Flow Testing Completed
Post hydraulic reservoir fracturing flow testing has been completed on the Ottoland 1 side track during a 14 day period. Without artificial lift, the well flowed oil and water at improved rates to the July 2007 tests, proving the fracturing programme to be a success.
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7 April 2009
Field Development and Drilling Progress
Northern Petroleum Plc announces further progress towards bringing four gas fields and two oilfields into production as well as drilling two exploration wells in the Netherlands.
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12 March 2009
Netherlands Preproduction Activity Update
Northern announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V. (“NPN”) has commenced the second phase of downhole work programmes to prepare the five existing wells for production.
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21 January 2009
Dutch Test Results: 21.8 mmcfd is Double Expectation
Northern Petroleum Plc announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V., has now analysed the results of the hydraulic fracturing of the gas reservoirs at Wijk en Aalburg and Brakel. The results suggest that the planned combined initial production rates for later in 2009 could be more than doubled.
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19 January 2009
Site Construction Works Start on Two Exploration Wells
Northern Petroleum Plc announces that its wholly owned subsidiary Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V has commenced well site construction works at Tiendeveen which with Nieuwendijk forms a two well exploration drilling programme being carried out in The Netherlands during the first part of 2009.
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22 December 2008
Encouraging Gas Testing Operations
Northern Petroleum Plc announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V. has been flaring gas as part of a programme of well remediation work-overs followed by hydraulic fracturing of the reservoir formation to confirm and possibly improve gas production flow rates.
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4 December 2008
Operations Update – The Netherlands
Northern is pleased to provide shareholders with the following update on its operations in The Netherlands.
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21 October 2008
Completion of £10 million sale of interest in UGS Application
Northern Petroleum Plc, announces that it has received £7 million from Star Energy Group Plc. As a result the sale of its entire interests in the Waalwijk underground gas storage projects to Star, a subsidiary of Petronas International Corporation Limited, for a consideration of up to £10 million, has now become unconditional.
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9 October 2008
Preproduction Update
Northern Petroleum Plc announces that its wholly owned subsidiary, Northern Petroleum Nederland BV, (“Northern” or “the Company”) has contracted services for a well service programme commencing in early November to make subsurface preparations to five wells for full production.
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15 September 2008
Onshore Netherlands - 3 Well Rig Contract
Northern Petroleum Plc (AIM: NOP), announces that a three well rig contract has been signed to enable its wholly owned subsidiary Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V. (“NPN”) to proceed with the drilling of two exploration wells and one oil field development well in The Netherlands at any time over the next 12 months.
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14 July 2008
£10 million deal for sale of interest in Underground Gas Storage Application
Northern Petroleum Plc (AIM:NOP), an oil and gas production, development, exploration and asset trading company, announces the sale of its entire interests in the Waalwijk underground gas storage (“UGS”) projects to Star Energy Group Plc (“Star”), a subsidiary of Petronas International Corporation Limited, for a consideration of up to £10 million.
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2 April 2008
Operations Update
Following completion of the profitable sale of reserves, proprietary data and know-how to Dyas B.V. for a consideration of €41million whilst still achieving a 26.5% increase year on year in independently assessed proven and probable reserves to the level of 76.5 million barrels of oil equivalence, Northern has continued to develop its operations throughout Italy, The Netherlands and the UK, where as Operator it is planning eight appraisal and exploration wells and planning to develop eight oil and gas fields.
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30 July 2007
Transfer of Licences
Northern announces that the Ministerie van Economische Zaken (“the Ministry”) in the Netherlands has published its consent to the subdivision of the Drenthe licence held by Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V. (“NAM”).
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26 July 2007
Ottoland-1: Well Testing – Progress Statement
Northern announces that the first phase of testing on Ottoland has now been completed. Encouragingly the conclusion from the data is that the flow rates of up to 1447 bopd and 0.6 mmscf/d gas have been established from less than one half of the section interpreted as net pay in the 405 metre horizontal part of the well section.
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11 July 2007
Oil Flow Testing – Ottoland-1 (sidetrack): Progress Report
Northern announces that it has been undertaking a series of oil flow rate tests since July 6th. The tests have yielded oil at unstabilised flow rates measured in excess of 1000 bopd.
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3 July 2007
Operations Update - Ottoland Well OTL-1ST2
Northern provides the following update on the activities associated with the re-entry drilling of the Ottoland discovery well...
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20 June 2007
Ottoland oil drilling successful
Northern is pleased to announce and that the Ottoland-1ST2 has successfully completed drilling operations.
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30 April 2007
Northern Awarded Utrecht Exploration Licence
Northern announces that Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V. (“NPN”), a wholly owned Dutch subsidiary, has been awarded the Utrecht Exploration Licence in the West Netherlands Basin, where other NPN licences, Papekop, Andel III and Waalwijk are located.
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26 April 2007
Northern commences the re-entry of Ottoland-1 well to drill a sidetrack designed to increase initial production rates
Northern announces that its Dutch subsidiary Northern Petroleum Nederland B.V. (“NPN”), has re-entered the Ottoland-1 well to drill a sidetrack using DrillTec’s Synergy #1 Rig. This is NPN’s first well in The Netherlands as the designated Operator.
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23 April 2007
Agreements with Dyas B.V.
Northern receiving €32 million and gas production in deals with Dyas B.V. involving partial transfer of certain Dutch licences. An International Strategic Alliance established.
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2 April 2007
Northern Petroleum to benefit from the partial sale of Potential 30 Bcf and 10 Bcf Waalwijk Underground Gas Storage Projects to Star Energy
Northern Petroleum Plc has entered into an agreement (“The Agreement”) to sell to Star Energy Group Plc (“Star”) half of Northern’s recently acquired interests in Underground Gas Storage Projects within the Waalwijk gas field (“The Field”) in The Netherlands near to the Zeebrugge Europe-UK gas inter-connector.
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30 March 2007
Award of Exploration Licence in The Netherlands and Drilling Operations Update
Northern Petroleum Plc, the oil and gas production, development and exploration company with core interests under its management in The Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom, announces a Netherlands licence award and provides a drilling operations update.
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27 March 2007
Acquisition of gas production through purchase of Waalwijk Licence interest
Northern Petroleum Plc (“Northern” or “the Company”), the oil and gas production, development and exploration company with core interests under its management in The Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom, is pleased to announce that subsidiaries of Northern have agreed to purchase from Wintershall Noordzee B.V. (“WINZ”) its gas producing and storage project interests in the Waalwijk Production Licence (“The Licence”) onshore The Netherlands, with an effective date of 1 January 2007.
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15 February 2007
Netherlands - Development Update
Northern Petroleum Plc, the oil and gas production, development and exploration company with core interests under its management in The Netherlands, Italy and the United Kingdom, announces updated development plans for six oil and gas fields in The Netherlands.
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17 January 2007
Netherlands drilling rig contract signed
Northern Petroleum Plc announces early drilling of a development sidetrack on the Ottoland oil field to increase initial production rates
Northern Petroleum Plc, through its Dutch subsidiary Northern Petroleum Nederlands B.V. (“Northern”), has signed a contract to secure a drilling rig from DrillTec GUT GmbH to drill an appraisal and development sidetrack on one of the six oil and gas field developments planned in The Netherlands, more than one year ahead of schedule.
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13 November 2006
Drilling report
Northern announces that the Steenwijk-1 exploration well onshore Netherlands drilled in partnership with the joint Shell and ExxonMobil subsidiary Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V., (“NAM”) has not encountered significant hydrocarbons in the Rotliegendes sandstone, the primary objective.
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24 October 2006
Commencement of Drilling in the Netherlands
Northern Petroleum Plc is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced on the first exploration well in The Netherlands in partnership with the joint Shell and ExxonMobil subsidiary Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V., ('NAM').
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20 October 2006
Northern Petroleum begins drilling in the Netherlands and leads partnership to additional Carboniferous targets
Northern Petroleum Plc is pleased to announce the first exploration well in The Netherlands in partnership with the joint Shell and ExxonMobil subsidiary Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V., (“NAM”).
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10 July 2006
Transfer of Andel Licence
Northern announces that the Ministerie van Economische Zaken (“the Ministry”) in the Netherlands has formally consented to the subdivision of the Andel II licence held by Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V. (“NAM”).
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9 June 2006
Papekop Award
NORTHERN AWARDED PRODUCTION LICENCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PAPEKOP OIL FIELD WITH RESERVES OF 11.4 MILLION BOE NET TO NORTHERN
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24 March 2006
Upgrade of Reserves in the Netherlands
Northern is delighted to announce the completion of a report commissioned by the Company last year to review five Netherlands oil and gas fields in which Northern has an interest.
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