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12/12/2005 -- New Brunswick field due link to M&NE gas line
The McCully gas field, where six wells underwent a battery of nine frac jobs in October and November, is now sufficiently productive to justify a connection to the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline system to New England, said the operator, Corridor Resources Inc., Halifax.
12/12/2005 -- ExxonMobil cites June accord in Cepu flap
ExxonMobil Oil Indonesia Inc. will fight state-owned PT Pertamina for operatorship of the Cepu Block, according to Pres.-Director Peter J. Coleman, who cited a memorandum of understanding signed in June.
12/12/2005 -- Seismic survey starts on Hassi Mouina block
A seismic survey is under way on the Hassi Mouina gas block in Algeria, reported Statoil ASA, the operator. Plans call for a wildcat to be spudded during 2006.
12/12/2005 -- Far East to spud second Chinese CBM well
Far East Energy Corp. this month plans to spud its second coalbed methane (CBM) horizontal well on the Shouyang Block in Shanxi Province, China.
12/09/2005 -- BG Group signs EPSAs for areas in Libya
BG Group PLC has signed three exploration and production-sharing agreements (EPSAs) for onshore Libyan Blocks 123 (1) and 123 (2), in the Sirte basin and onshore Area 171 (Blocks 1, 2, 3, and 4), in the Kufra basin (see map, OGJ, Oct. 24, 2005, p. 42).
12/09/2005 -- Transeuro to explore in Papua New Guinea
Transeuro Energy Corp., Vancouver, BC, opened an office in Port Moresby to support exploration and development of its four petroleum prospecting licenses in Papua New Guinea.
12/07/2005 -- Palo Duro shale gas drilling to pick up
Exploration in a Pennsylvanian Bend shale gas play may soon pick up in the lightly explored Palo Duro basin as operators reach readiness to drill acreage holdings, some of them quite large.
12/07/2005 -- MMS again proposes Cook Inlet Sale 199
The US Minerals Management Service again is soliciting indications of industry interest in Cook Inlet Sale 199, involving 2.5 million acres of federal land south of Kalgin Island 3-30 nautical miles off Alaska.
12/07/2005 -- BPZ Energy advances projects in NW Peru
BPZ Energy Inc., Houston, reported progress on projects in the Tumbes, Talara, and Lancones basins in northwestern Peru.
12/06/2005 -- Several zones yield oil at Neuquen find
Petrolifera Petroleum Ltd., a private Calgary independent, is producing oil from two formations at an apparently substantial discovery in Argentina's Neuquen basin.
12/06/2005 -- Devon signs contract for block off China
Devon Energy Corp. has signed a production-sharing contract with China National Offshore Oil Corp. for South China Sea deepwater Block 42/05, subject to Chinese government approval.
12/06/2005 -- Yemen Mayfair to plug Beta-1 test in Yemen
Oracle Energy Corp., Vancouver, BC, said it has been notified by operator Yemen Mayfair Petroleum Corp. (YMPC) that a drillstem test of the Beta-1 well on Block 22 in Yemen was concluded Dec. 4 with no hydrocarbons recovered.
12/06/2005 -- Petronas makes gas discovery off Sarawak
Malaysia's Petronas said development is possible of the Kanowit-1 natural gas discovery on Block SK306 off Sarawak.
12/06/2005 -- ExxonMobil signs EPSA for area off Libya
ExxonMobil Libya Ltd. has signed an exploration and production-sharing agreement (EPSA) with Libya's National Oil Corp. for the large offshore Cyrenaica basin Contract Area 44.
12/06/2005 -- Well off Mauritania encounters hydrocarbons
Dana Petroleum PLC unit Dana Petroleum (E&P) Ltd. reported that its Faucon-1 exploration well, being drilled on Block 1 off Mauritania, has encountered hydrocarbon-bearing sandstone in the main Cretaceous target horizon.
12/05/2005 -- Statoil gets ministry nod for Tyrihans work
Statoil ASA has received approval from the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for development of Tyrihans oil and gas field in the Norwegian Sea.
12/02/2005 -- Saipem to install six KMZ platforms for Pemex
Pemex Exploracion y Produccion has let contract to Saipem SPA for offshore transport and installation of six platforms in the Ku-Maloob-Zaap (KMZ) fields development project in the Bay of Campeche, 105 km northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, Mexico.
12/02/2005 -- Saipem gets contract for Marimba field work
Esso Exploration Angola (Block 15) Ltd. has let a lump-sum, turnkey contract to Saipem SPA for development of Marimba oil field in 4,230 ft of water off Angola.
12/02/2005 -- Shell to explore deep targets in Ukraine
Ukraine's national oil company Naftogaz Ukrainy and Shell Exploration & Production Co. signed a cooperation agreement covering deep exploration in the Dniepr-Donets basin.
12/02/2005 -- DNO spuds wildcat in far northern Iraq
DNO ASA, Oslo, has spudded a well in far northern Iraq under production sharing agreements signed with the Kurdistan regional government in June 2004.

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