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11/14/2005 -- Petrobras drilling long-reach Serra well
Petrobras has begun drilling an oil well in Serra field in the northern state of Rio Grande do Norte that will have the largest ratio between vertical depth and horizontal reach of any well in Brazil.
11/11/2005 -- Petrobras lets Roncador field development contract
Brazil's state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA has awarded a consortium of Subsea 7 Inc. and Technip to supply and install the flexible lines that will connect 30 wells in the giant Roncador field in the Campos basin to the P-52 platform.
11/10/2005 -- Calvalley presses oil startup from Yemen's Block 9
Calvalley Petroleum Inc., Calgary, hopes to start oil production by yearend from at least 2 wells in Hiswah field on Malik Block 9 in the Sayun-Masila basin.
11/10/2005 -- ExxonMobil close to announcing Indonesian Block A winner
ExxonMobil Corp. will announce the winner of a tender to farm out its 50% share in Block A in Aceh, Indonesia, in first quarter 2006, according to a senior Indonesian official.
11/10/2005 -- Statoil awards subsea separation contract for Tordis field
Statoil ASA awarded a $100 million contract to FMC Technologies Inc., Houston, to provide the subsea separation boosting and injection system for Tordis oil field in the North Sea.
11/07/2005 -- PDO lets major contract for Harweel fields
Petroleum Development Oman has let an engineering, procurement, and commissioning contract to Petrofac Ltd., Woking, UK, for the second phase of an enhanced oil recovery project that is part of the development of the cluster of oil fields near Harweel in southern Oman (OGJ Online, Aug. 27, 2004).
11/07/2005 -- Development near for Pakistan's Rodho field
The Dewan Mushtaq Group of Pakistan plans to submit a commerciality declaration and development plan by the end of 2005 for Rodho gas-condensate field in the Middle Indus basin in Pakistan.
11/07/2005 -- Repsol YPF, partners make sixth oil discovery on Libyan block
Repsol YPF SA has made a sixth oil discovery in Libya on Block NC 186 in the Sahara Desert's Murzuk basin about 800 km south of Tripoli.
11/04/2005 -- Uinta, Wind River gas exploration buoys Barrett
Bill Barrett Corp., Denver, expressed encouragement at important gas well test results in the Rocky Mountain Uinta and Wind River basins.
11/04/2005 -- E. Tennessee, N. Alabama see rank exploration
Separate Appalachian operators are evaluating rank exploratory wells in little-drilled portions of eastern Tennessee and northeastern Alabama.
11/04/2005 -- Statoil assessing Gudrun development
Statoil AS has begun drilling to assess development of the 1975 Gudrun oil, gas, and condensate discovery in the Sleipner area of the Norwegian North Sea.
11/03/2005 -- Santos, ConocoPhillips get Timor Sea permit
Santos Ltd. reported the award of exploration permit NT/P69 for Timor Sea acreage adjacent to exploration permit NT/P61, which contains the recent Caldita-1 gas discovery (OGJ, Oct. 10, 2005, Newsletter).
11/03/2005 -- Brigham expands into Williston Bakken play
Brigham Exploration Co., Austin, acquired a 100% working interest in 46,000 acres in the Mississippian Middle Bakken formation in northwestern North Dakota and could spud its first well late this year.
11/03/2005 -- Talisman makes inner Moray Firth oil strike
Talisman Energy (UK) Ltd. has reported discovery of 20-50 million bbl of oil in place in the inner Moray Firth on Block 13/23b in the UK North Sea.
11/01/2005 -- Nigeria-Sao Tome JDA
A unit of Addax Petroleum NV, Geneva, replaced Noble Energy Inc., Houston, in the Block 4 consortium in the Sao Tome & Principe Joint Development Zone in the Gulf of Guinea.
11/01/2005 -- Contract let for Angel field subsea systems
Woodside Energy Ltd. has let a contract to FMC Technologies Inc. for subsea production systems for the planned Angel development project 80 miles off Australia's North West Shelf in 262 ft of water. The contract value was not disclosed.
11/01/2005 -- Indonesia seeks exploration of eastern area
The Indonesian government is drafting incentives aimed at attracting exploration to the country's eastern regions, according to a senior official.
11/01/2005 -- Western desert area gets Alamein dolomite oil find
IPR International Ltd., Irving, Tex., applied for a development lease for a Cretaceous Alamein dolomite oil discovery on the North Ras Qattara II concession in Egypt's western desert 125 miles west of Cairo.
10/27/2005 -- Total to spend $1.5 billion on Indonesian gas
Total SA of France plans to spend $1.5 billion on gas development in Indonesia, with a special focus on its offshore Sisi and Nubi fields.
10/27/2005 -- Eastern Putumayo basin oil development proposed
Appraisal and development is pending for a 1988 eastern Putumayo basin oil discovery in Colombia that could have as much as 38 million bbl recoverable.

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