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12/02/2004 -- Range Resources expands Appalachian basin position
Range Resources Corp., Fort Worth, said 100-150 new wells will be drilled in West Virginia and Virginia in 2005 on $219 million of Appalachian basin properties it is acquiring from a private seller.
11/29/2004 -- Explorers prepare to evaluate Taoudeni basin in Mali, Mauritania
As Mauritania looks toward becoming an oil producing country for the first time in early 2006, a host of exploration companies has lined up to explore the nonproducing Taoudeni basin in the heart of onshore Northwest Africa.
11/24/2004 -- ATP Oil & Gas begins Gomez development in Gulf of Mexico
ATP Oil & Gas Corp., Houston, reported that the Noble Therald Martin semisubmersible has been moved to location at the company's Gomez development area on Mississippi Canyon Block 711 in the Gulf of Mexico.
11/19/2004 -- MMS: Western GOM Sale 192 nets nearly $170 million in high bids
The US Minerals Management Service has accepted high bids totaling $169,928,999 on 346 tracts in the western Gulf of Mexico offered during Lease Sale 192.
11/18/2004 -- Woodside to investigate two potential oil, gas developments in northern Iraq
Australian Woodside Petroleum Ltd. signed a 2-year contract with Iraq's Oil Ministry giving the Perth-based company the right to investigate oil and natural gas development potential in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq.
11/16/2004 -- Nigeria invites investment by Chinese companies
The Nigerian government has invited Chinese companies to expand and strengthen their investments in Nigeria, reported OPEC News Agency.
11/15/2004 -- Viet Nam
Deadline is Nov. 30 to review data and register to bid in the 2004 licensing round covering the Phu Khanh basin.
11/15/2004 -- Pakistan grants exploration licenses to OGDC
Pakistan has granted an exploration license agreement for Block 2367-4 (Indus Delta-A) to Government Holdings (Pvt.) Ltd. and signed a production-sharing agreement with Oil & Gas Development Co. Ltd. (OGDC) for exploration activities offshore.
11/15/2004 -- Knowledge management and computational learning for lean energy management
Energy industries are using a range of new knowledge management techniques to improve the efficiencies of their operations.
11/15/2004 -- PanOcean test confirms viability of Tsiengui field in Gabon
Pan-Ocean Energy Corp. Ltd., St. Helier, Jersey, said a short-term production test of its onshore TST-2 appraisal well in Gabon confirmed the commercial viability of Tsiengui oil field.
11/10/2004 -- Lukoil begins drilling program on Egyptian shelf
Russia's Lukoil Overseas Holding Ltd. has begun a $6 million drilling program on the North-East Geisum Block in the Gulf of Suez off Egypt.
11/10/2004 -- Sonangol to withdraw Total's Block 3/80 license off Angola at yearend
Angola's national oil company Sonangol EP has notified Total SA said that the company's offshore development license for Block 3/80, northeast of Total's deepwater Block 17, will not be renewed when it expires at yearend.
11/09/2004 -- McMoRan, partners report Deep Tern discovery on Eugene Island Block 193
The joint venture of McMoRan Exploration Co., New Orleans, and Palace Exploration Co., New York, reported a discovery with its Deep Tern well on Eugene Island Block 193 in the Gulf of Mexico (OGJ Online, Oct. 19, 2004).
11/09/2004 -- Spinnaker, partners report Minuteman success in Gulf of Mexico
Spinnaker Exploration Co., Houston, operator of Eugene Island Block 213, drilled the Minuteman well to 20,432 ft TMD and encountered a laminated sand section at 19,780-20,230 ft, reported partner McMoRan Exploration Co.
11/09/2004 -- ENI group's second Hawa oil well producing 3,000 b/d
ENI SPA unit Agip Tunisia BV, operator of the Adam production concession in southern Tunisia, has drilled a successful appraisal well in the Hawa producing area, reported partner Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Dallas.
11/08/2004 -- Global trends study foresees no short-term liquids output shortfall
Global users have consumed 45% of the oil and 30% of the gas discovered by the end of 2003, says IHS Energy's 2004 report on world petroleum trends.
11/05/2004 -- Newfield announces North Sea dry hole, write-down
Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, announced that its wildcat well on the Cumbria Prospect in the UK North Sea was a dry hole.
11/05/2004 -- Amerada Hess unit lets contract for two TLPs off Equatorial Guinea
Amerada Hess Equatorial Guinea Inc. has awarded a contract to Modec International LLC, Houston, to design, engineer, procure materials, and construct hulls, topsides, mooring, drilling riser, and production riser systems for two tension leg platforms for Hess's Northern Block G development off Equatorial Guinea.
11/03/2004 -- Lukoil Overseas, Saudi Aramco plan seismic surveys in Saudi Arabia
Luksar Energy, a joint venture of OAO Lukoil Overseas Holding Ltd. and Saudi Aramco, hired WesternGeco, Houston, to conduct 2D and 3D seismic surveys on Contract Area A in the northern Rub al-Khali desert in Saudi Arabia.
11/03/2004 -- Talisman, Range tap Ordovician gas in northern Appalachian basin
Western New York's Finger Lakes region gathers more steam.

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