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08/18/2006 -- US drilling increases to new high
US drilling increased to a new high for this year, up by 34 rotary rigs to 1,762 working, said officials at Baker Hughes Inc.
08/15/2006 -- Total starts gas production off the Netherlands
Total SA's Dutch unit Total E&P Nederland has brought on stream L4G natural gas field off the Netherlands in the Dutch section of the North Sea, reported field partner Lundin Netherlands BV, the Dutch unit of Swedish oil firm Lundin Petroleum AB.
08/15/2006 -- Thailand, Cambodia still torn over gulf claims
Thailand and Cambodia have failed to resolve their disagreement about terms of production sharing from their overlapping territorial claims in the Gulf of Thailand.
08/15/2006 -- Aramco orders 16 deck modules for offshore fields
Saudi Aramco awarded a contract to subsidiaries of J. Ray McDermott SA to build and install 16 production deck modules (PDMs) for oil and gas fields off Saudi Arabia. Financial terms were not disclosed.
08/14/2006 -- Myanmar steps up gas production from Yetagun field
Myanmar has agreed to step up natural gas production from Yetagun field to increase supplies to neighboring Thailand, according to an official from the Ministry of Energy.
08/14/2006 -- BP to maintain half Prudhoe Bay field production
BP PLC said it will continue production from the Prudhoe Bay Western Operating Area (WOA), following review of WOA pipeline inspection data and after extensive consultations with state and federal regulators.
08/11/2006 -- Statoil drills Tornerose prospect appraisal well
Statoil ASA has begun drilling an appraisal well on the Tornerose prospect in the Barents Sea.
08/11/2006 -- Eni starts production from Allegheny South oil field
Italy's Eni SPA started oil production from Allegheny South field on Green Canyon Block 298 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The filed lies 260 km south of New Orleans.
08/11/2006 -- Prudhoe Bay Eastern Operation Area shut down
BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. has completed shutting in Prudhoe Bay's Eastern Operation Area. Prudhoe Bay field now is producing 120,000 b/d from the Western Operating Area.
08/11/2006 -- IEA: Production closures linger in Nigeria
While the possible loss of 400,000 b/d of crude oil supply from Prudhoe Bay field in Alaska captures attention and roils markets, a larger disruption continues in Nigeria.
08/10/2006 -- ConocoPhillips starts up Alpine satellite field
ConocoPhillips has started bringing wells on stream in the first Alpine satellite oil field, Fiord, which lies 5 miles north of Alpine on Alaska's North Slope.
08/10/2006 -- Goosander oil field starts flow off UK
Production has begun from Goosander oil field on Block 21/12 in the Greater Kittiwake Area of the UK North Sea.
08/09/2006 -- Flow restarted from deep Louisiana well
Sonoran Energy Inc., Phoenix, has restarted production from a deep, high-pressure, high-temperature well in the second phase of a Central Louisiana workover program.
08/08/2006 -- Petrobras to double spending, leases six rigs
Brazil's state-owned oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras ) expects to double exploration expenditures over the next 5 years compared with the past 5 years, said Petrobras Pres. José Sérgio Gabrielli. Exploration expenditures, he said, will increase to $7-8 billion/year through 2011, up from an average of $2.5-3 billion/year during the past 5 years, and he added that the focus of expenditures will be on Brazilian companies.
08/08/2006 -- Nigeria's East Area oil-gas project starts
An ExxonMobil Corp. subsidiary started gas reinjection at the East Area Additional Oil Recovery Project off Nigeria in late July.
08/08/2006 -- China disputes full production from gas field
China has not yet started full production from the disputed Chunxiao gas field in the East China Sea, according to a senior Japanese government official (OGJ Online, Aug. 7, 2006).
08/08/2006 -- WW Energy to lift gas flow in Montana areas
WW Energy Inc., a Farmington, NM, holding company, expects to raise production to 3.5 MMcfd of gas within 30 days from 450,000 leasehold acres it plans to acquire in three areas of northern Montana.
08/07/2006 -- Japan looking into China's Chunxiao gas field production
Japan's Vice-Minister for Economy, Trade, and Industry Takao Kitabata said Aug. 7 that his country will undertake a new inquiry into information that China has begun full-fledged production at Chunxiao natural gas field in the East China Sea.
08/07/2006 -- Dubai government to operate offshore fields
The international group that operates Dubai's mature offshore oil fields will relinquish its concession to the emirate's government next April.
08/07/2006 -- Esso adds fields as Chad's oil output sags
Chad's oil production averaged just above 170,000 b/d in 2005 as output ran below the planned initial 230,000 b/d level.

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