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10/04/2005 -- BG, Statoil win Libyan onshore licenses
BG Group and Statoil, bidding together and separately in Libya's recent licensing round, won exploration and production sharing agreements to several onshore areas.
10/03/2005 -- BG Tunisia to develop Hasdrubal field
BG Tunisia Ltd. let a contract to Petrofac Ltd., Woking, UK, for front-end engineering and design for development of Hasdrubal oil and condensate field off Tunisia.
10/03/2005 -- Repsol YPF group notches Libya Murzuk oil find
A group led by Repsol YPF SA discovered its fifth oil field on 4,300 sq km Block NC 186 in the Murzuk basin in the Sahara Desert 800 km south of Tripoli, Libya.
10/03/2005 -- Japanese operators to enter Libyan exploration
Libya's National Oil Co. (NOC) has awarded exploration rights through an international tender to five Japanese companies. They are the first oil concessions ever won in Libya by Japanese corporations.
09/29/2005 -- ConocoPhillips well taps gas off Australia
ConocoPhillips reported the Caldita-1 exploration well encountered natural gas in the NT/P 61 license in the Timor Sea off Australia's Northern Territory.
09/29/2005 -- Irish independent takes Panama Caribbean block
The Panama government awarded Circle Oil PLC, Limerick, Ireland, exploration rights to Block A covering 30,000 sq km in the Caribbean Sea off El Porvenir.
09/29/2005 -- Kurdistan, Heritage plan Iraq field study
The government of the autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with K Petroleum Co. (KPC) for field studies over an area adjacent to Taq Taq oil field in northeastern Iraq.
09/28/2005 -- Sonoran Energy to explore Azraq Block
Sonoran Energy Inc., London, has finalized the terms of a production-sharing agreement (PSA) with Jordan's state Natural Resources Authority for the exploration and development of the 11,250 sq km Azraq Block east of Amman.
09/27/2005 -- Statoil's Tulipan wildcat finds gas
Statoil ASA has discovered a small gas deposit in early Tertiary sandstones at 2,600 m in its Tulipan prospect in Production License 251 in the Norwegian Sea.
09/27/2005 -- Hardman cuts oil, gas pay in Tevet appraisal
Australia's Hardman Resources Ltd. said its Tevet-2 appraisal well off Mauritania cut "gas and oil-bearing sands" similar in thickness to those at its Tevet-1 discovery well (OGJ, Dec. 6, 2004, p. 42).
09/27/2005 -- Japan boosts surveillance in E. China Sea
Japan plans to step up surveillance of its disputed maritime border region in the East China Sea to prevent China from developing natural gas fields in the area.
09/26/2005 -- GDF gets contract to explore off Egypt
Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Co. let a production sharing contract to Gaz de France for a 100% stake in the 1,364 sq km West El Burullus exploration block in the Mediterranean Sea off Alexandria.
09/26/2005 -- S. Korea assessing N. Korean development
South Korea's government is seeking to jointly develop North Korean oil and natural gas resources and is currently evaluating their commercial potential.
09/21/2005 -- CanWest to drill Alberta oil sands prospect
CanWest Petroleum Corp., Calgary, plans to drill 12 exploratory holes this winter on the Eagle Nest Prospect in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta.
09/20/2005 -- Pertamina, ExxonMobil clarify Cepu stakes
Indonesia's state oil and gas company Pertamina and ExxonMobil Corp. signed a contract establishing joint ownership in Cepu oil field of east-central Java.
09/20/2005 -- Chevron, Gazprom win blocks off Venezuela
The Venezuelan Ministry of Energy and Mines has awarded licenses to local units of Chevron Corp. and OAO Gazprom for offshore exploration. The tracts are three of seven licenses offered in Venezuela's Stage A Rafael Urdaneta natural gas bid round in August.
09/15/2005 -- EnCana reports oil discovery off Brazil
EnCana Corp. has reported an oil discovery on Block BM-C-7 in the Campos basin, about 75 km off Brazil.
09/15/2005 -- Southwestern Energy to hike budget, add rigs
Southwestern Energy Co., Houston, budgeted a 13.6% hike in 2005 capital outlays to $499.5 million with implications mostly for its eastern Arkoma basin shale gas play.
09/13/2005 -- Hydrocarbons found in Miocene off India
The P1-A deepwater well on Block D6 in the Krishna-Godavari basin off eastern India became the first hydrocarbon discovery in the Miocene interval, said participant Niko Resources Ltd., Calgary.
09/09/2005 -- Petrobras, Statoil win block off Nigeria
The Nigerian government has awarded an offshore production license to Petróleo Brasileiro SA and Statoil ASA for deepwater OPL 315 off Nigeria.

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