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Valiant Petroleum has relinquished exploration licence no. 013 as of 13th January 2013. The licence was granted in 2005 to Geysir Petroleum and Atlantic Petroleum.
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Jarðfeingi has received an application for Licence for Exploration for and Production of Hydrocarbons

Jarðfeingi has received an application for Licence for Exploration for and Production of Hydrocarbons. This is the first application Jarðfeingi has received since it was possible to apply under the Open Door procedure. Others may also apply for this area or parts hereof
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Data from the Well 6004/8a-1 (Anne Marie) has been released

Data from Well 6004/8a-1 (the “Anne Marie Well”) which was drilled in 2010, is no longer confidential and can be obtained by contacting Jarðfeingi.
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ExxonMobil farms into Licence 016 in the Faroe Islands

Mr. Johan Dahl, Minister of Trade and Industry in the Faroe Islands, has in October 2012 given consent to the change of interest in Exploration and Production Licence 016, whereby ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Faroe Islands Limited acquires a 20% interest in the Licence from Statoil Faroes.
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Press Release 27 Nov 2012

Statoil well 6104/21-2 in Faroes temporarily suspended Jarðfeingi has accepted a request from Statoil to suspend the well 6104/21-2, Brugdan ll, until 2013.
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Proceedings of the 3rd FIEC available as e-book

Readers now have the possibility to buy the Proceedings of the 3rd FIEC from the new Faroese online e-book shop Vitra. Shortly the Proceedings of the 1st and 2nd FIEC will also be available on Vitra.
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Jarðfeingi represented in the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

Martin V. Heinesen, geologist at Jarðfeingi, has been elected to represent the Kingdom of Denmark in the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for a period of five years.
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Data from the Brugdan Well has been released

Jarðfeingi has released data from Well 6104/21-1 (the “Brugdan Well”) because the well is no longer confidential. The confidentiality period is normally 5 years.
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4th Faroe Islands Exploration Conference

Jarðfeingi is happy to welcome you to the fourth FIEC, which will be held in the Nordic House in Tórshavn on 1 and 2 May 2012. Again this year focus will be on the development and the challenges of hydrocarbon exploration in volcanic provinces.
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Licence 006 well spudded spring 2012

The partners of Licence 006 have announced that the exploration well Brugdan 2 will be spudded in the spring of 2012 rather than 3Q 2011.
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Pump to storage symposium

A symposium on pumped storage fluctuating renewable energy was held in the Nordic House, Tórshavn between the 28-29th September 2010 with 80 delegates from Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, China and Faroe Islands attending the conference. The presentations can be found here.
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Press Release

Exploration well 6004/8a-1 completed
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First Oil Expro Limited is a new licensee in Licence 005.

Mr Johan Dahl, Minister of Trade and Industry, has given consent to a 25% assignment of ENI's equity share to First Oil Expro Limited.
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Exploration drilling on the Anne-Marie prospect commenced

On Friday 23 July the drilling rig West Phoenix spudded an exploration well on the Anne-Marie prospect situated in Licence area 005. The operation is expected to continue for approximately 75 days. The Licence holders in Licence 005 are: ENI (operator), Dana Petroleum, OMV, Faroe Petroleum an
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Dana Petroleum new license holder in Exploration License 005

Mr Johan Dahl, Minister of Trade and Industry, has given consent to a 25% assignment of ENI's equity share to Dana Petroleum (E&P) Limited.
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Paper in Petroleum Geoscience

Jana Ólavsdóttir, Jarðfeingi, Lars Ole Boldreel, University of Copenhagen and Morten Sparre Andersen, GEUS, have recently published a paper in Petroleum Geoscience, 2010, Vol. 16, Issue. 2, pp. 91-103
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ENI Consent to drill exploration well on the Faroese shelf

April 15th Jarðfeingi (Faroese Earth and Energy Directorate) granted ENI as operator of License 005 consent to drill an exploration well in Exploration Licence 005.
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OMV (Faroe Islands) Exploration GmbH is a new license holder in Licence 005.

OMV (Faroe Islands) Exploration GmbH is a new license holder in Licence 005.
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Landslide susceptibility model

A model dealing with open-slope debris flows has been developed and published in article.
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Another Faroese exploration well

Mr. Johan Dahl, Minister of Trade and Industry of the Faroe Islands, has approved the extensions of the license periods for 3 hydrocarbon exploration licenses. Included in the agreement is a firm commitment for an exploration well.
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Press release from the Ministry of Trade and Industry

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Johan Dahl, has approved an extension of Faroese Exploration Licence no. 008.
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3rd Faroe Islands Exploration Conference 2009

The 3rd Faroe Islands Exploration Conference was held in the Nordic House, Tórshavn between the 15-16 th September 2009. The conference is dedicated to exploration on the Faroese Continental Shelf and 100 delegates from around the world attended the conference. For more information please visit:
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Revised Faroese Stratigraphy Published

An article revising the Faroese stratigraphy has now been published online.
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Request landslide report

As part of a research project on landslides, Jarðfeingi is investigating which weather conditions trigger landslides in the Faroe Islands. A large part of the work consists of comparing historic landslide events and local climate datasets. Thus, Jarðfeingi asks the Faroese people to report in facts
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