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11/26/2003 -- Gas from tight sands, shales a growing share of US supply
Tight gas sand and gas shale are today among the most active new natural gas plays in the US.
11/26/2003 -- Canadian independent gets southern Egypt rift basin block
Egypt has selected Centurion Energy Corp., Calgary, as successful bidder for a 100% working interest in Block 2 in the Kom Ombo basin north of Aswan in southern Egypt.
11/25/2003 -- Southwestern Energy presses Arkoma basin development, exploration
Southwestern Energy Co., Houston, said it reached TD and logged apparent gas pay at an exploration well on the Ranger anticline west of Waveland gas field in the southeastern Arkoma basin.
11/24/2003 -- Remington Oil & Gas makes two Gulf of Mexico discoveries
Remington Oil & Gas Corp. has made two natural gas discoveries from productive sands in the Gulf of Mexico: on "Vermillion 61 and West Cameron 403.
11/21/2003 -- Reevaluation defines attractive areas in Peru's Ucayali-Ene basin
A project in Peru evaluated new play types in the Ucayali-Ene basin of Peru using a variety of methods and experience since 1990.
11/20/2003 -- Unocal finds natural gas on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula
Unocal Corp. Thursday reported making a natural gas discovery at its Happy Valley prospect about 7 miles southeast of Ninilchik on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula.
11/18/2003 -- Far East Energy spuds CBM well in China
Houston-based Far East Energy Corp. recently spudded its first coalbed methane exploration well under a 30-year production-sharing contract (PSC) in the Enhong-Laochang blocks in the Yunnan Province of southern China.
11/18/2003 -- US formulated oil field chemical products demand growing
Demand for formulated oil field chemicals in the US will grown by 6%/year through 2007 to $4.15 billion compared with a 2002 demand base of $3 billion. said Freedonia Group Inc., a Cleveland market research firm.
11/17/2003 -- Murphy Oil's Kikeh #4 well flow-test results off Malaysia deemed successful
Murphy Oil Corp's extended drill stem test on the deepwater Kikeh #4 well off Malaysia flowed on test for 15 days to an equipment-limited maximum rate of 10,200 b/d of oil. The well, in 4,460 ft of water, is 2.5 miles north of Kikeh field on a separate structural feature, both on Block K off Sabah (OGJ Online, Aug. 28, 2003).
11/17/2003 -- LEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENT-5: Enterprise-wide systems integration needed in ultradeepwater operations
Use of project life-cycle processes, systems engineering analyses, and feature-based design are all required for LEM to be successful.
11/14/2003 -- Anadarko makes deepwater discovery in eastern GOM
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and partners made a discovery on DeSoto Canyon Blocks 620 and 621 on the deepwater Spiderman-Amazon prospect in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
11/13/2003 -- Lodgepole reef discovery flows 1,800 b/d in North Dakota
Petrosearch Corp., Houston, said its Guidance Petrosearch LLC subsidiary made a Mississippian Lodgepole reef oil discovery at a re-entry well in Stark County, ND.
11/12/2003 -- Gazprom, partners to rehabilitate CAC pipeline; study awarded
A consortium led by Russia's state-controlled gas group OAO Gazprom plans to rehabilitate and upgrade the Central Asia-Center (CAC) natural gas pipeline system from Turkmenistan to Russia and Ukraine. The Russian company Zaburzhneftgazstroi and the Ukrainian company Frunze Alliance comprise the other partners in the consortium. The 10-year upgrade program will cost an estimated $1.3 billion, with $500 million to be expended before 2005.
11/11/2003 -- CNOOC, PNOC ink deal to explore for oil, gas in South China Sea
CNOOC Ltd. reported that its parent company, China National Offshore Oil Corp. has inked a letter of intent with PNOC Exploration Corp. to commence a joint oil and natural gas exploration and development program in the South China Sea.
11/07/2003 -- Fiscal Meta-Modeling—2
Meta-modeling system applied to Gulf's Na Kika field group
This is the second of two parts on the application of a meta-modeling approach to fiscal system analysis.
11/05/2003 -- MMS releases EA for GOM Lease Sale 190
The US Minerals Management Service (MMS), has released the environmental assessment (EA) for proposed Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Central Planning Area (CPA) Lease Sale 190, the second CPA lease sale scheduled in the 2002-07 OCS oil and gas leasing program.
11/05/2003 -- Harvest Natural unit to conduct field evaluation studies with PDVSA
Benton-Vinccler CA, the Venezuelan operating arm of Houston-based Harvest Natural Resources Inc., has signed an agreement with Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) to evaluate the productive capacity of PDVSA's Temblador and El Salto oil and gas fields in Eastern Venezuela.
11/05/2003 -- Apache's Qasr-2X appraisal well in Egypt's Western Desert confirms significant discovery
Apache Corp. said Wednesday its Egyptian Qasr-2X appraisal well confirmed the Qasr-1X discovery announced in July: "the most-significant gas discovery in the Western Desert in the last decade. It establishes [the area] as an important hydrocarbon province well into the 21st Century," Apache Pres. and CEO G. Steven Farris had said then (OGJ Online, July 8, 2003).
11/04/2003 -- Brazil to offer variety of areas in June 2004 exploration round
Brazil's National Petroleum Agency (ANP) plans to offer a variety of areas in its sixth annual exploration and production round—scheduled for June 2004—in order to attract more bidders.
11/04/2003 -- Plains unit breaks impasse on new development drilling off California
A Texas independent has won the right to undertake the first new oil field development drilling off California in more than a decade.

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