Farm-in Agreement

Cairn, San Leon, Genel increase footprint in Morocco On the same week, Cairn Energy (Cairn) announced to sign a Farm-in Agreement for offshore exploration and production while San Leon Energy (San Leon) extended its oil shale onshore acreage, both in Morocco. These moves reflects the potential of resources and the momentum taken by Morocco in […]

$600 million for new Bapetco exploration campaign Badr Petroleum Company (Bapetco) is a joint venture established in Egypt between Shell and the national oil company (NOC) Egypt General Petroleum Company (EGPC). Bapetco’s main activity is to explore and develop oil and gas fields. Through its upstream activities, Bapetco is involved in the Badr el Din, North […]

Total to join other Majors ExxonMobil and Chevron in the northeast Iraqi province The French major Total and US Marathon Oil Company (Marathon) signed a Farm-in Agreement to develop two blocks in the Kurdistan region, northeast Iraq, see map below (Source: Dr. M. Izady at The Gulf/2000 Project – SIPA – COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY) Kurdistan is one […]

Definition Farm-in-Agreement is a contract signed between two companies, the Farmor and the Farmee, where the Farmor is the owner of the acreage and the Farmee is willing to perform the drilling and exploration in the acreage of the Farmor. The Farm-in-Agreement is very similar to the Farm-out-Agreement in the way that in both cases it […]

Statoil and PetroFrontier signed deal on Southern Georgina Basin  Statoil ASA (Statoil) from Norway and PetroFrontier Corp. (PetroFrontier) from Canada have signed a binding “Farm-in Agreement” to farm into shale gas PetroFrontier’s four exploration permits (EPs) and two exploration permit applications (EPAs) in the Southern Georgina Basin, Northern Territory, Australia. In this Farm-in-Agreement, Statoil will be the Farmor […]