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05/15/2006 -- Production due from field off Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov has signed a decree authorizing his country's ministry of oil and gas to make an agreement with Petronas Carigali (Turkmenistan) Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia) for production from Dyarbekir oil field 50 km off Turkmenistan.
05/12/2006 -- Offshore work pushes up US drilling
An increase in offshore drilling triggered a small boost in total US activity with 1,627 rigs working, Baker Hughes Inc. reported May 12.
05/12/2006 -- Bangladesh's Bangora gas find starts up
A group led by Tullow Oil PLC, Dublin, started gas production on May 9 from Bangora field on Block 9 southeast of Dhaka.
05/11/2006 -- Talisman starts new Monkman deep gas well
Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, has begun production from another deep gas well in the prolific Monkman area of northeastern British Columbia. It also recently tested gas at strong rates from two Triassic wells there.
05/10/2006 -- PetroCanada shuts in Terra Nova production
Petro-Canada has shut in production at the Terra Nova oil field 350 km off Newfoundland and Labrador due to a mechanical failure of the gear box on the starboard main power generator.
05/10/2006 -- Southwestern marks Fayetteville progress
Southwestern Energy Co., Houston, said it produced 1.8 bcf of gas from the eastern Arkoma basin Mississippian Fayetteville shale play in 2005 and booked 101 bcf of proved reserves.
05/09/2006 -- Louisiana's Delhi field due EOR project
Two independents estimate they might recover 39 to 54 million bbl of oil from Delhi field in northeastern Louisiana in a carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery project that could cost $200 million or more.
05/08/2006 -- Shah Deniz platform installed in Caspian
BP PLC, operator of Shah Deniz natural gas and condensate field in the Caspian Sea off Azerbaijan, has completed installation of the production platform and associated pipelines 100 km south of Baku.
05/08/2006 -- US drilling activity increases again
US drilling continued to increase with 1,625 rotary rigs working, 17 more than the previous week and up from 1,324 during the same period a year ago, Baker Hughes Inc. reported May 5.
05/08/2006 -- Syncrude's third-phase expansion on stream
Canadian Oil Sands Trust said all third-phase expansion units came on stream at Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s oil sands plant in Fort McMurray, Alta., on May 6.
05/04/2006 -- Shortages delay start-up of Thai gas field
Shortages of materials and supplies will delay start-up of Arthit gas field in the Gulf of Thailand, says PTT Exploration & Production PLC (PTTEP), the operator.
05/03/2006 -- OTC: Russia relying on offshore for future production
Sakhalin Island currently is the oil and gas growth engine for Russia, which will rely on offshore regions for new production after 2010, according to an OTC speaker.
05/03/2006 -- New flow starts from gas field off China
CNOOC Ltd. started second-phase production from Dong Fang (DF) 1-1 natural gas field in Bei Bu Gulf in the western South China Sea off China.
05/02/2006 -- Erha oil and gas field on stream off Nigeria
ExxonMobil Corp. unit Esso Exploration & Production Nigeria Ltd. has started production from deepwater Erha oil and gas field off Nigeria.
05/02/2006 -- Perth basin gets first offshore oil flow
The offshore Perth basin of Western Australia is producing oil for the first time ever following start-up of Cliff Head field by a group operated by Roc Oil Co. Ltd., Sydney.
05/02/2006 -- Reserves lifted for East African gas field
Wells in Songo Songo gas field off eastern Tanzania showed a pressure decline of less than 2% in 2005, and analysis permitted a reserves increase despite no new drilling.
05/02/2006 -- Chevron lets Tahiti control system contract
Chevron USA Inc. has let a contract to Mustang Engineering for design and procurement of the integrated control safety system for the Tahiti deepwater facilities.
05/02/2006 -- Enbridge to expand crude oil pipeline systems
Enbridge Energy Partners LP, Houston, has approved a 30,000 b/d expansion of its North Dakota crude oil pipeline system.
05/01/2006 -- Imperial fracs three Block 77 wells in Siberia
Imperial Energy Corp. PLC, London, has fraced three of four wells on Block 77 in Snezhnaya oil field in the Tomsk region of Western Siberia.
05/01/2006 -- Lakes Oil mulls Gippsland basin tight gas farmins
China's Sinopec is negotiating a farmin to a Lakes Oil NI tight gas project in Victoria's onshore Gippsland basin and is sending a team from Bejing to visit the fields and evaluate field data.

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