06/28/2007
-- BP terminal work to lift gas recovery off UK BP PLC expects to increase gas recovery by 30% from West Sole and Amethyst fields in the southern UK North Sea by boosting compression in a reconfiguration of onshore terminals.
06/28/2007
-- Hess to halt drilling of deepwater gulf Pony-2 well Hess Corp. plans to interrupt drilling of its Pony-2 well on Green Canyon Block 468 in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico for a required rig inspection.
06/27/2007
-- US, Canadian unconventional gas helping fulfill demand The trends of declining gas well productivity and reserves-to-well ratios are expected to continue through 2015 across all 50 gas basins in the US and Canada, CERA and IHS reported.
06/27/2007
-- Ivanhoe completes Athabasca bitumen test Ivanhoe Energy Inc. completed an Athabasca bitumen test run at its commercial demonstration plant in Bakersfield, Calif., using HTL, the company's proprietary heavy oil upgrading technology.
06/27/2007
-- SembCorp Marine units win two jack up contracts SembCorp Marine Ltd. subsidiary PPL Shipyard has received a $190 million contract to build a jack up drilling rig for Offshore Group Corp., the third rig ordered by the company.
06/26/2007
-- Denbury to buy more manufactured CO2 for EOR Denbury Resources Inc. agreed to buy carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery from Rentech Inc.'s proposed synthetic fuels plant to be built in Natchez, Miss.
06/25/2007
-- Heavy oil production starts at Chetopa field MegaWest Energy Corp., Calgary, has begun oil production at its demonstration project in Chetopa field, a nonconventional oil development covering 392 acres in Labette County in southeastern Kansas.
06/25/2007
-- Keppel FELS wins two rig contracts Keppel FELS Ltd., a subsidiary of Singapore's Keppel Corp. Ltd., has won two rig contracts amounting to $534 million.
06/22/2007
-- US drilling activity slips lower US drilling activity continued to bobble, down by 2 rotary rigs this week to 1,771 rigs working, compared with 1,669 in the same period a year ago, said Baker Hughes Inc. June 22.
06/22/2007
-- Minke gas field in North Sea begins production Gaz de France Britain, operator of Minke field in the southern UK North Sea, has begun gas production from a single well subsea development in the field.
06/21/2007
-- Rancher plans CO2 EOR in Wyoming fields Rancher Energy Corp. has selected two contractors to implement the front-end engineering and design of an enhanced oil recovery project using carbon dioxide injection in Powder River basin fields in Wyoming.
06/19/2007
-- Petrobank initiates third well pair at Whitesands Petrobank Energy & Resources Ltd., Calgary, has begun air injection into its third well pair in the Whitesands pilot project in the oil sands region of Alberta.
06/19/2007
-- Eni declares force majeure in Nigeria following attacks Italy's Eni SPA June 19 said it declared force majeure 2 days ago at its Nigerian Ogobinbiri oil flow station after an attack by a group of militants.
06/15/2007
-- Heritage begins oil production from Siberian field Heritage Oil Corp. has begun oil production from one well at its Zapadno Chumpasskoye field in Western Siberia. Russian federal and local authorities have approved a pilot development project for the field that includes the drilling of more than 50 wells.
06/14/2007
-- Complex Tangguh partnership spat triggers lawsuit Talisman Energy Inc. will challenge CNOOC Ltd. in a Texas court over the Chinese firm's 17% stake in the $5 billion Tangguh project, which is expected to begin commercial LNG production in 2008-09.
06/12/2007
-- Nigeria's May production lowest since 2003 Violence pulled Nigerian oil production in May to its lowest level since early 2003, according to the International Energy Agency's June Oil Market Report.
06/12/2007
-- Oil from Jidong field off China to serve domestic market Anticipated production from Nanpu block in China's Jidong field will likely go to the country's domestic market, according to a Western oil company executive.
06/11/2007
-- Mubarek infill well spudded off Sharjah Sky Petroleum Inc., Austin, Tex., said drilling has started on the K2-ST3 sidetrack in Mubarek oil field operated by Crescent Petroleum Co. International Ltd. off Sharjah.
06/11/2007
-- Oman resumes oil exports, operations following cyclone Oman lost more than $200 million in the first 3 days of its oil exports' suspension due to Tropical Cyclone Gonu, an Omani official said on June 11.
