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10/19/2004 -- Santos, partner make oil, gas discovery off East Java
Santos Ltd. has made an oil and natural gas discovery with its Jeruk 2 ST-2 well on the Sampang production-sharing contract area in the Madura Strait off East Java.
10/19/2004 -- Total, Tecpetrol gauge gas find in southeastern Bolivia
Total SA, Paris, and Tecpetrol SA, Buenos Aires, reported the first discovery on the Ipati Block in southeastern Bolivia.
10/15/2004 -- Casino gas field approvals, sales contracts kick start development off Victoria
The boards of Adelaide-based Santos Ltd., Australia Worldwide Exploration Ltd. (AWE), and Japan's Mitsui & Co. Ltd. approved the $200 million development of Casino natural gas field on VIC/P44 in the Otway basin off western Victoria.
10/15/2004 -- Harken Energy unit drilling Estero No. 5 well in Colombia
Dallas-based Harken Energy Corp. subsidiary Global Energy Development PLC has begun drilling the Estero No.5 development well in Palo Blanco field in Colombia's Llanos basin.
10/14/2004 -- Premier drills successful appraisal well off Indonesia
Premier Oil PLC reported the successful appraisal of Gajah Baru field on West Natuna Block A in the West Natuna Sea off Indonesia.
10/13/2004 -- Ivanhoe Energy to evaluate Iraq's Qaiyarah heavy-oil field
Ivanhoe Energy (Middle East) Inc., a unit of Ivanhoe Energy Inc., Vancouver, BC, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Iraq's Ministry of Oil to study the use of enhanced oil recovery techniques in Qaiyarah heavy-oil field in northern Iraq. The field's reservoirs contain a large proven accumulation of 17.1° oil at about 1,000 ft.
10/13/2004 -- Marathon approved to develop Alvheim fields off Norway
Norwegian regulatory authorities approved a Marathon Petroleum Norge AS development and operating plan for Kneler, Boa, and Kameleon fields in the Alvheim area of the Norwegian Sea.
10/13/2004 -- Newfield acquires stake in BP's North Sea West Sole area
Newfield Exploration Co. has agreed to explore and develop prospects in the BP Exploration Operating Co. Ltd.-operated West Sole field area in the North Sea's southern gas basin.
10/12/2004 -- ChevronTexaco hails Plataforma Deltana Block 2 gas results off Venezuela
ChevronTexaco Latin America Upstream Monday said its offshore Plataforma Deltana Loran 2X exploration well on Block 2 off Venezuela has encountered a significant amount of natural gas.
10/12/2004 -- ChevronTexaco unit makes oil discovery in Angola-Congo shared zone
Chevron Overseas Congo Ltd. and its eight partners reported a significant discovery with the Lianzi-1 exploration well within the 696-sq-km deepwater unitization zone, 14K/A-IMI, shared 50:50 between Angola and Congo.
10/12/2004 -- UK, Norway pact allows timely development of Boa, Playfair fields
The UK and Norway, as part of a 3-year-old cooperation initiative, have agreed on the regulation of two small cross-boundary fields in the North Sea, enabling Boa and Playfair fields to be developed more quickly.
10/06/2004 -- Petrobras has another heavy oil discovery in Espírito Santo basin
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has discovered 13° gravity oil on Block 21 in the onshore portion of the Espírito Santo basin with its directionally drilled well 3-CCS-2D-ES (Córrego Cedro Sul) in the municipality of São Matheus.
10/06/2004 -- El Paso declares Brazil's Lagosta field commercial
El Paso Oil & Gas in Brazil has declared commercial Lagosta natural gas field on BS-1 block in the Santos basin off São Paulo state.
10/06/2004 -- Brazil's Petrobras finds oil and gas in Argentina
Petrobras Energia SA, the Argentine unit of Brazil's state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), found a natural gas and oil field in southern Argentina's Santa Cruz province.
10/05/2004 -- East Timor
The government in Dili planned to award a contract for a nonexclusive seismic survey in the Timor Sea in advance of its first oil and gas exploration licensing round.
10/04/2004 -- Production set for Gulf of Thailand gas field
Unocal Thailand Ltd. has confirmed the commercial viability of South Gomin natural gas field on Block 13 in the Gulf of Thailand, following recent delineation drilling.
10/04/2004 -- Total reports oil discovery in western Usan field off Nigeria
A Total SA subsidiary, Elf Petroleum Nigeria Ltd., has extended western Usan field in Oil Prospecting License 222 off southeastern Nigeria.
10/04/2004 -- Petronas, PTTEP secure PSC for South China Sea block
Thailand's PTT Exploration & Production PLC (PTTEP) and Malaysia's state oil firm Petronas have secured an additional production-sharing contract for newly defined Block B-17-01 on the natural gas-rich Thai-Malay continental shelf in the South China Sea.
10/01/2004 -- Mapping subsurface fractures using their elastic nonlinear response
The seismic industry needs a new method to detect open natural fractures in subsurface rocks since fractures control the efficiency of producing hydrocarbons from more than half the world's reservoirs.
10/01/2004 -- Petrobras reports second recent discovery of light oil
Brazil's state-owned oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) Wednesday reported an onshore discovery of 42º gravity oil in the Recôncavo Baiano basin on BT-REC (Block)11 in Bahia state.

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