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12/05/2006 -- ConocoPhillips, Santos test new Timor Sea well
A joint venture of ConocoPhillips and Santos Ltd. has confirmed the presence of natural gas in another field in the eastern Timor Sea during its aggressive search for reserves to feed a second LNG train at its Darwin liquefaction plant.
12/05/2006 -- South Australia
Oil production began Nov. 18 from Callawonga-1, which operator Beach Petroleum NL, Adelaide, describes as the most westerly achieved in the Cooper/Eromanga region.
12/04/2006 -- Gas flow up at Greater Natural Buttes, Utah
The giant Greater Natural Buttes area in the Uinta basin reached a milestone in September, averaging a gross 225 MMcfd of gas, said operator Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
12/04/2006 -- Namibia
Mitsui & Co. Ltd. acquired a 15% interest in two oil and gas exploration blocks off southernmost Namibia from operator BHP Billiton
12/04/2006 -- Salt origin without evaporation proposed
A group of authors led by a Statoil ASA specialist in marine geology has proposed an unconventional theory for the origin of salt that could have far reaching implications for oil and gas exploration.
12/04/2006 -- Murphy temporarily abandons Gulf of Mexico well
Murphy Oil Corp. has temporarily plugged and abandoned its Thunder Ridge exploration well on Mississippi Canyon Block 737 in the Gulf of Mexico.
12/01/2006 -- Shell, Plains E&P make oil find on Friesian prospect
Shell Offshore Inc. has made an oil discovery on its Friesian prospect on Green Canyon Block 599 in 3,800 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico, about 200 miles south of New Orleans.
11/30/2006 -- Ithaca plans second Athena appraisal well
Ithaca Energy Inc. plans to drill a second appraisal well during the second quarter of 2007 in its Athena oil project in the Outer Moray Firth off Scotland.
11/29/2006 -- Court order cancels Brazil's eighth licensing round
A federal judge in Brasila issued an injunction Nov. 27 suspending Brazil's eighth oil and gas licensing round. The round was scheduled for Nov. 28-29 (OGJ Online, Nov. 27, 2006).
11/29/2006 -- Statoil lets contract for Trestakk facilities study
Statoil ASA has let a contract to a unit of John Wood Group PLC to perform feasibility and conceptual studies for facilities modifications associated with the Trestakk subsea field development.
11/28/2006 -- Firm shoots seismic survey off Seychelles
PetroQuest International has acquired 2,500 line-km of seismic data off Seychelles in the East Africa island nation's first seismic work in 14 years.
11/27/2006 -- Brazil prepares for eighth oil, gas licensing round
Brazil has qualified 43 companies to bid in its eighth oil exploration and production licensing round scheduled for Nov. 28-29—11 of them for the first time—said Brazil National Petroleum and Biofuels Agency (ANP).
11/27/2006 -- Northern Territory
The government granted exploration permits 103 and 104 totaling 5.5 million acres in the nonproducing Georgina basin.
11/27/2006 -- Sinopec to develop Iran's Yadavaran oil field
Iran has invited China Petrochemical Corp (Sinopec) to finalize an agreement initiated in 2004 for development of Iran's Yadavaran oil field.
11/27/2006 -- DNO appraisal confirms Iraq oil field extension
DNO ASA reported that the Tawke-2 appraisal well tested 3,840 b/d of oil, confirming the western extension of Tawke oil field in northern Iraq.
11/27/2006 -- New Brunswick gas field deep test spuds
Corridor Resources Inc., Halifax, NS, spudded the F-58 deeper pool exploratory well on the northeast side of McCully gas field near Sussex, NB.
11/27/2006 -- Endeavour makes gas strike in UK North Sea
Endeavour International Corp., Houston, said its Columbus well in the UK North Sea encountered a gross gas column of at least 125 ft in the Palaeocene Forties formation.
11/22/2006 -- ExxonMobil advances Piceance tight gas work
ExxonMobil Gas & Power Marketing Co. has signed a 30-year agreement with Enterprise Products Partners LLC for gathering, compression, treating, and conditioning services for natural gas it is developing in tight sands of the Piceance basin of Colorado.
11/22/2006 -- MMS proposes to expand Lease Sale 205 acreage
The US Minerals Management Service proposes to expand the available acreage in Outer Continental Shelf Lease Sale 205, scheduled for September 2007. MMS will accept comments on this proposal through Dec. 29.
11/22/2006 -- Eni Goliat appraisal encounters deeper oil
Eni Norge AS has found deeper oil pay during appraisal drilling of its Goliat oil discovery on Production License 229 in the Barents Sea off Norway.

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