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10/29/2003 -- Mexican-Argentine consortium submits proposal to Pemex for Mision block
Pemex, Mexico's national oil and gas company, Wednesday reported that a Mexican-Argentine consortium has submitted a technical proposal for the Misión block in the Burgos Basin of northern Mexico.
10/29/2003 -- ChevronTexaco finds oil in Block OPL 249 off Nigeria, confirms Aparo field extension
ChevronTexaco Corp. affiliate Star Ultra Deep Petroleum Ltd. found oil on its Nigerian deepwater Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 249. Its Nsiko-1 wildcat well, drilled to 13,968 ft TD in 5,674 ft of water, discovered a substantial amount of net hydrocarbon pay in multiple zones, the company said.
10/28/2003 -- Mutineer-Exeter oil field development approved; FPSO awarded
Santos Ltd., operator of Mutineer-Exeter oil fields in the Carnarvon basin off Western Australia, gave Modec Inc. a letter of commencement Oct. 16 to begin development activities. Santos and its partners had received formal approval Oct. 14 to develop the fields.
10/24/2003 -- BHP finds more gas in Angostura field off Trinidad and Tobago
BHP Billiton Ltd. has made another gas discovery in its Angostura field off Trinidad's east coast. Trinidad and Tobago's Energy Minister Eric Williams made the announcement in an address to the Caribbean island's Parliament during debate on the 2003-04 budget.
10/23/2003 -- Sudan could support growth as non-OPEC oil exporter
Sudan could become an even more important oil producing and exporting country in the short-to-medium term.
10/23/2003 -- OMV Pakistan, partners receive Sindh Province exploration license
Pakistan issued a petroleum exploration license Wednesday to a joint venture of OMV Pakistan Exploration GMBH (operator), ENI Pakistan (M) Ltd.(formerly Lasmo (MP) Ltd.), and Pakistan Petroleum Ltd. to explore Block No. 2669-3 (Latif) covering an area of 1497.80 sq km in the Khairpur district of Sindh Province, Pakistan.
10/21/2003 -- Repsol earmarks $170 million for initial Burgos E&D
Repsol-YPF SA plans to invest $170 million for exploration and development in the next 3 years in Mexico's Burgos basin.
10/20/2003 -- Russians, Japanese agree to expedite study of Siberia-Pacific crude pipeline
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to speed up discussions among experts over the feasibility of laying an oil pipeline between Russia's eastern Siberian oil fields and its port of Nakhodka on the Pacific Coast.
10/17/2003 -- CNOOC makes oil find in South China Sea
Hong-Kong-based CNOOC Ltd. reported that its successful appraisal well, Weizhou (WZ) 11-1-2 in the Beibu Gulf of the Western South China Sea, confirmed commercial oil deposits in the area.
10/17/2003 -- BP predicts escalating TNK-BP production
BP PLC expects that its Russia investment will provide improving earnings and escalating production rates, adding that TNK-BP's production will be accretive even if the Brent crude oil price were to drop to $16/bbl.
10/17/2003 -- MMS issues final notice of eastern Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 189
The US Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service issued a Final Notice of Sale Wednesday for Eastern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Sale 189. The lease sale, which will be held Dec.10 in New Orleans, La., will include 138 unleased blocks covering 794,880 acres in the eastern GOM. The blocks are 100-196 miles offshore in water 1,600-3,425 m deep.
10/14/2003 -- Burullus taps Intec for Simian, Sienna, Sapphire development services off Egypt
Burullus Gas Co., has selected Intec Engineering (UK) Ltd., Woking, UK, to serve as an integral member of its Burullus Gas Project Management Team (PMT) providing engineering services during the development of deepwater Simian-Sienna and Sapphire gas fields off Egypt. Intec performed the front-end engineering design for Simian-Sienna, completing it in July 2002.
10/14/2003 -- Usan field partners report deepwater oil discovery off Nigeria
Partners in Usan field off Nigeria reported the drilling of an appraisal well that showed a "significant" extension of the field, which lies in oil prospecting license 222 off southeastern Nigeria.
10/14/2003 -- EOG plans five gas wells off Trinidad and Tobago
EOG Resources Inc. has embarked upon a five-well, $75 million exploration and development program that it hopes will identify additional gas reserves off Trinidad's east coast.
10/13/2003 -- ChevronTexaco makes oil discovery in deepwater GOM
ChevronTexaco Corp. reported a new deepwater Gulf of Mexico oil discovery at the Sturgis prospect on Atwater Valley Block 183 about 150 miles southeast of New Orleans.
10/13/2003 -- ExxonMobil Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline in service
The first 950,000 bbl of crude oil from the recently completed Chad-Cameroon oil pipeline was offloaded into a tanker Oct. 3 from a floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel in the Gulf of Guinea 7 mi. off Kribi, Cameroon and is being delivered to world markets.
10/13/2003 -- Enhancing seismic frequency bandwidth using VSPs-a case study
A new method for restoring high frequencies within the seismic bandwidth has been applied to a producing field in southern Alberta.
10/10/2003 -- Prospects brighten for E&D resumption in Canada's Yukon
Progress on several fronts may soon lead to the first drilling in Canada's Yukon in more than a decade.
10/09/2003 -- BHP makes second Exmouth oil discovery off Western Australia
Apache Corp., Houston, reported that the Crosby-1 well operated by its partner BHP Petroleum Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, has discovered oil in the Exmouth subbasin off Western Australia.
10/07/2003 -- Pakistan awards Balochistan exploration license to Pakistan Petroleum
Pakistan granted a petroleum exploration license Oct. 2 to Pakistan Petroleum Ltd. for Block No 2966-1 (Nushki) covering an area of 1780.76 sq km in the Chaghai, Mastang, Kalat, and Kharan districts of Balochistan province in western Pakistan. The block falls in prospectivity Zone-I.

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