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11/07/2006 -- Petrobras declares three areas commercial
Brazil's state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) declared that three new oil and gas exploration areas will be commercial by yearend.
11/06/2006 -- Total makes two discoveries in UK's Alwyn area
Total E&P UK PLC made two oil and gas discoveries in the Alwyn area in the UK North Sea, 160 km east of the Shetland Islands and 440 km northeast of Aberdeen.
11/06/2006 -- Eni, Sonangol sign PSA for block off Angola
Eni SPA has signed a production-sharing contract with Angola's state-owned Sonangol for the 2,984 sq km deepwater exploration Block 15/06, 350 km off Luanda.
11/06/2006 -- SPC, Pertamina sign joint E&P contract
Singapore Petroleum Company Ltd. (SPC) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesia state firm PT Pertamina for joint exploration and production projects valued at $1 billion.
11/06/2006 -- Shell starts BC-10 development off Brazil
Shell Exploration & Production Co. and partners have let the first contracts for development, involving subsea liquids-gas separation and pumping, of three deepwater heavy-oil fields on Block BC-10 off Brazil.
11/03/2006 -- Uzbekistan offers investment options to Japanese
Uzbekistan has offered Japanese companies participation in five investment projects connected with the country's oil and natural gas industry, according to first deputy CEO of the Uzbekneftegaz National Holding Shavkat Mazhitov.
11/03/2006 -- Marathon, Wentworth to drill East Texas wells
Wentworth Energy Inc., Palestine, Tex., has let a 3-year lease on a portion of its 27,557-acre mineral block in Freestone County, Tex., to Marathon Oil Co., with which it has signed a joint operating agreement.
11/02/2006 -- Talisman strikes oil off Trinidad and Tobago
Talisman Energy Inc. and its partners made an oil discovery with the Ruby-1 exploration well on Block 3(a) 30 miles off the northeast coast of Trinidad and Tobago.
11/02/2006 -- CNOOC, NIOC in talks to develop North Pars field
China National Offshore Oil Corp. is in talks with state-owned National Iranian Oil Co. to further develop a major offshore natural gas field, according to Chinese state media.
11/02/2006 -- Iran plans Azadegan tenders, Pars Phases 6-8
Tender documents for Iran's Azadegan development are expected to be ready by Dec. 15, said Gholamhoseyn Nowzari, National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) managing director, at an NIOC seminar in Tehran.
11/01/2006 -- Japex ups gas deliveries, eyes Sakhalin tunnels
Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. (Japex) plans to drill as many as eight additional natural gas wells in its Yufutsu gas field in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, where it already has eight wells in production.
11/01/2006 -- Chevron Nigeria broadens work scope for Tubu, Madu fields
Chevron Nigeria, operator of National Engineering & Technical Co. Ltd. has authorized two units of Foster Wheeler Ltd. to carry out further design engineering for the Tubu and Madu oil field developments in permit areas OML 52 and OML 85, respectively, off Nigeria.
10/31/2006 -- RWE Dea makes oil find in Libya
Germany's RWE Dea AG made an oil discovery with its A1-NC 193 well drilled in Libya's Sirte basin 500 km southeast of Tripoli.
10/31/2006 -- Paramount moves to supply Mackenzie gas
Paramount Resources Ltd., Calgary, took a farmout from Chevron Canada Ltd. and BP Canada Energy Co. on 1,019,000 acres and plans a major exploratory initiative in northwestern Canada.
10/31/2006 -- Texas-South
EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc., Calgary, spudded the Barclay 162-2 well in late September in Maverick County, the first of eight wells originally planned in 2006 to target the gas-prone, overpressured Cretaceous Pearsall shale.
10/31/2006 -- Aramco lets FEED contract for Manifa field
Saudi Aramco has let a front-end engineering and design (FEED) and project management services contract to two units of Foster Wheeler Ltd. for development of offshore Manifa oil and gas field.
10/30/2006 -- Petronas group to explore Timor Sea block
A consortium of Petronas, Korea Gas, Samsung, and LG International has received a production-sharing contract for Block 06-102 in the Timor Sea between East Timor and Australia.
10/30/2006 -- Grove gets license in Dutch North Sea
Grove Energy Ltd. has been awarded the Horizon West (P8a) Production License covering 26.17 sq km in the Dutch North Sea.
10/30/2006 -- Appraisal positive at Okwok off Nigeria
Appraisal drilling of Okwok marginal oil field off southeastern Nigeria has revealed "significant commercial potential" and raised the prospect that the field could go on production as soon as early 2008.
10/27/2006 -- MMS Beaufort Sea lease sale set for March
The US Minerals Management Service in Anchorage has scheduled March 2007 for its next oil and gas lease sale in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska's North Slope.

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