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Exploration Development 2004 P
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03/19/2004 -- Slovenia
Loon Energy Inc., Calgary, heads a group that plans to exploit gas pays below 2,000 m in Petisovci-Dolina field in eastern Slovenia. -
03/16/2004 -- Statoil spuds appraisal well in Alve
Statoil ASA spudded an appraisal well Sunday in Alve field, a small gas and condensate find near Norne field in the Norwegian Sea. -
03/16/2004 -- Sipetrol-led consortium makes oil discovery in Egypt's Western Desert
Sipetrol International SA, Santiago, operator for a three-company group, has made another oil discovery on the North Bahariya concession in Egypt's Western Desert. -
03/16/2004 -- Seismic weight drop quest leads to improved data, costs, footprint
Geophysical field tests that began with helicopters that dropped weights led to a ground based seismic source system that generates as good or better data than dynamite and leaves a far smaller footprint. -
03/12/2004 -- Sakhalin II awards Yokogawa upstream measurement, control facilities contract
Sakhalin Energy Investment Co. Ltd.—a consortium of Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Mitsui & Co. Ltd., and Mitsubishi Corp.—and Sumitomo Corp. have awarded contracts to Yokogawa Electric Corp., Tokyo, to supply the complete upstream measurement and control instrumentation for the Sakhalin II crude oil and natural gas development project in the Sakhalin Island region of Russia's Far East. -
03/11/2004 -- Todd details 2003 Karewa gas find in Taranaki offshore
An early 2003 offshore gas discovery in the northern Taranaki graben has the potential to recover 60-150 bcf of gas, said Todd Petroleum Mining Co. Ltd., Wellington, NZ. -
03/08/2004 -- Bolivia, Argentina plan $2 billion pipeline, gas production project
Argentina and Bolivia expect to sign a final natural gas sales agreement April 13, solidifying plans for construction of the proposed $2 billion Gasoducto del Noreste Argentino (GNA) pipeline and gas production project. -
03/08/2004 -- CanArgo plans underbalanced horizontal drilling in Georgia Republic
CanArgo Energy Corp., London, said it will bring underbalanced drilling equipment to aid in its horizontal development and exploration programs in the Kura basin of former Soviet Georgia. -
03/05/2004 -- FEED contract awarded for Casino gas field off Victoria
Santos Ltd. has awarded a contract to Australia's Worley Ltd. for front-end engineering and design (FEED) associated with the $200 million development of Casino gas field off western Victoria. Santos expects the FEED studies to be completed and regulatory approvals in hand by yearend. -
03/05/2004 -- Porosity and permeability effects in Texas Gulf Coast reservoirs
Porosity and permeability data for 132 US Gulf Coast oil reservoirs are studied for relationships to each other and to other reservoir and fluid properties. -
03/05/2004 -- Oxy to renew Peruvian exploration program on Block 64
Occidental Exploradora del Peru Ltda., a unit of Occidental Petroleum Corp., is preparing to begin exploration work on Block 64 in the Marañon basin after reaching an agreement with a sector of Ashuar Osham communities in the area. -
03/05/2004 -- MMS: Record number of rigs now drilling in Gulf of Mexico's ultradeep water
A record number of drilling rigs—currently a total of 12—are drilling for oil and gas in the ultradeep waters (5,000 ft or deeper) of the Gulf of Mexico, according to the US Minerals Management Service Director Johnnie Burton. -
03/04/2004 -- Talisman chalks up more horizontal Black River success in western New York
The Appalachian basin operating unit of Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, revealed two more high volume Ordovician Black River gas completions in western New York and an active horizontal drilling program in the area in 2004. -
03/02/2004 -- ExxonMobil strikes more oil in deepwater Block 15 off Angola
ExxonMobil Corp. unit Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Ltd., operator of Block 15 off Angola, has made the 17th oil strike on the block, with the Bavuca-1 well. -
02/27/2004 -- Exploration opportunities abound in many of world's remote basins
Operators are exploring some of the world's more remote sedimentary basins. -
02/25/2004 -- Kashagan development plan approved; Phase I under way
Kazmunaygaz (KMG), the petroleum authority for Kazakhstan, and the North Caspian Sea production-sharing agreement consortium have approved development plans for the world-class Kashagan oil field in the northeastern Caspian Sea. -
02/24/2004 -- Cabot Oil & Gas reports finds in Wyoming, Gulf of Mexico
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., Houston, has reported recent discoveries in the Cyclone Rim prospect in Wyoming and in the Gulf of Mexico. -
02/23/2004 -- Marathon, partners to submit plan, purchase FPSO for Alvheim development
Marathon Oil Corp. unit Marathon Petroleum Norge AS and its Alvheim project partners plan to submit to the Norwegian regulatory authorities in early March an impact assessment for Alvheim development and a plan of development and operation by midyear. -
02/20/2004 -- How to use petrophysical data to determine deep prospectivity
Petrophysical data can be used to determine the drilling depth level of commerciality along the US Gulf Coast, and the principle can be adopted for other areas of the world. -
02/20/2004 -- Statoil awards Kristin M&M contract
Statoil ASA has awarded an 80 million kroner modifications and maintenance contract to Norway's Aker Reinertsen for work to be carried out on Kristin field in the Norwegian Sea.
