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09/06/2006 -- Ghana
The government awarded Tullow Oil PLC, London, operated interests in the Shallow-water and Deepwater Tano blocks along the marine boundary with Ivory Coast.
09/06/2006 -- International group starts Saudi gas drilling
A joint venture of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Total SA, and Saudi Aramco has begun exploratory drilling for nonassociated gas and condensate in the southern part of Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter.
09/06/2006 -- Talisman sees 1-2 tcf from 'outer foothills'
Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, said it could be producing a net 200 MMcfd of gas by 2010 from a large play in the outer foothills of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.
09/06/2006 -- Whiting joins Central Utah hingeline play
Whiting Petroleum Corp., Denver, acquired from an unnamed private independent oil company a 15% working interest in 170,000 leased acres in the Central Utah hingeline play for an undisclosed sum.
09/05/2006 -- On-time but low-volume Cepu start-up seen
ExxonMobil Corp. hopes to start output from Indonesia's Cepu crude oil and natural gas project by the planned date of 2008, but a company official said initial volumes will be small due to development problems (OGJ, June 12, 2006, Newsletter).
09/05/2006 -- Big volumes seen in Gulf of Mexico Lower Tertiary play
Rising confidence in discovering and producing oil and gas from deep Lower Tertiary formations in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico could make a large but costly impact on the country's reserves, Devon Energy Corp. said Tuesday.
09/01/2006 -- ConocoPhillips group reports North Sea strike
A group led by ConocoPhillips hopes for development approval next year of a large gas-condensate discovery in the Central UK North Sea.
09/01/2006 -- Sipetrol group has oil finds in Egypt
A group led by Sipetrol International SA, Santiago, has completed Ferdaus-5, the third of three wells in Ferdaus field, and has made a new pool discovery with the wildcat Rayan-1X in Egypt's western desert.
09/01/2006 -- Cavendish development pipeline contract let
RWE Dea UK Development Ltd. awarded Technip Offshore UK Ltd. a contract to lay a 48-km export pipeline from Cavendish gas field in the UK North Sea's Southern Gas basin.
08/31/2006 -- BP makes Gulf of Mexico oil strike
Devon Energy Corp. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. reported an oil discovery in the Kaskida well operated by BP Exploration & Production Inc. on Keathley Canyon Block 292 in the Gulf of Mexico.
08/31/2006 -- Swift plans work program for acquired fields
Swift Energy Co., Houston, plans a development program on properties in southern Louisiana it has agreed to acquire from BP America Production Co.
08/30/2006 -- Loon, QAF sign PSA in eastern Brunei
Loon Energy Inc., Calgary, and QAF Brunei Sdn. Bhd. formally signed a production-sharing agreement covering Block L in and off eastern Brunei.
08/28/2006 -- Statoil resumes well program off Venezuela
Statoil ASA has begun drilling the Cocuina-2X well on Block 4 of the Plataforma Deltana area off Venezuela.
08/28/2006 -- Libya has third lease bidding round
Libya's National Oil Corp. (NOC) is soliciting international exploration and production companies to participate in the country's third lease bid round for certain E&P-sharing agreements (EPSA) covering various basins featured in the country's EPSA IV Round 2 (OGJ, Oct. 24, 2005, p. 42).
08/28/2006 -- PTTEP taps trace oil off Myanmar, seeks more
Thailand's PTT Exploration & Production PLC (PTTEP) reported its first oil discovery in Myanmar's gas-prone Gulf of Martaban, but said the find was not considered commercial.
08/25/2006 -- Myanmar
Total SA started production from Sein gas field in the Andaman Sea earlier this year.
08/25/2006 -- MMS issues 5-year plan, draft EIS for OCS
The US Minerals Management Service has released for comment a proposed plan for the 2007-12 Outer Continental Shelf leasing program and the associated draft environmental impact statement (DEIS).
08/24/2006 -- Serica to assess 3D data on blocks off Ireland
Serica Energy plc, London, plans to drill at least one exploration well on Blocks 27/4, 27/5 (partial block) and 27/9 off western Ireland if its analysis of existing 3D seismic data indicates the prospectivity of the license. Serica is processing about 300 sq km of 3D seismic data covering the license, which it received in the 2006 Irish Offshore Licensing Round.
08/24/2006 -- BP installs optical seismic in offshore well
Weatherford International Ltd. has completed what it calls "the world's first" offshore installation of a permanent in-well optical seismic system in BP Norway's G-24 injector well in Valhall oil field off Norway.
08/24/2006 -- Newfield awards contract for Chermingat platform
Newfield Peninsula Malaysia Inc. awarded a 40 million Ringgit Malaysia (RM) contract to Oilfab Sdn. Bhd., a subsidiary of Oilcorp Bhd. investment holding company, for engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of the Chermingat-A offshore platform jacket and topsides.

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