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08/01/2007 -- PDVSA, Cupet to explore off Cuba
Petroleos de Venezuela SA said it will explore off Cuba with Cupet, the Cuban national oil company.
08/01/2007 -- Australia awards 11 offshore exploration permits
Total E&P Australia, Samson International (Australia) Pty. Ltd., and CNOOC Australia E&P are among companies acquiring 6-year exploration permits in Australia's latest licensing round. The permits can be renewed twice for periods of 5 years.
08/01/2007 -- Dominion acquires exploration license in Uganda
Dominion Petroleum Ltd. has signed a production-sharing agreement (PSA) with Uganda to explore Block 4B in southwestern Uganda. The 2,021 sq km block is on the border contiguous with the Democratic Republic of Congo. Block 4B lies southeast of Lake Edward in the Eastern Rift Valley in the same sedimentary basin as Lake Albert.
07/30/2007 -- Texas-West Central
Giant Petroleum Inc., Irving, Tex., and Hilltex Operating Co. have completed three of 20 wells they plan in Shackelford and Throckmorton counties, Tex.
07/30/2007 -- Gulfsands to fast-track Khubert East discovery
Gulfsands Petroleum PLC said it intends to move rapidly to commercialize its Khurbert East discovery after it achieved a successful open-hole drillstem test of the first appraisal well on Block 26 in northeastern Syria.
07/30/2007 -- Brunei, Total unit to spud well off Borneo
The government of Brunei and Total E&P Borneo are preparing to spud the MLJ2-06 well 50 km off the island of Borneo.
07/30/2007 -- WoodMac: 2007 lease sales forecast at $1 billion
Edinburgh consultant Wood Mackenzie Ltd. forecasts that proceeds from this year's Gulf of Mexico lease sales 204 and 205, based on past total winning bids, could reach $1 billion.
07/30/2007 -- Aurelian plans seismic work in Poland
Aurelian Oil & Gas PLC plans to carry out seismic work over the next 3 years, including 3D, on three blocks it acquired under Poland's latest licensing round.
07/27/2007 -- West Texas Marfa basin well encounters oil
A private Dallas area independent plans to perforate and test next week an exploratory well that encountered oil 35 miles south of Alpine, Tex., in the nonproducing Marfa basin.
07/27/2007 -- Petrolifera tests shallow Neuquen oil pool
Petrolifera Petroleum Ltd., Calgary, tested light oil from the shallow Cretaceous Centenario formation for the first time on its 100% owned Puesto Morales/Rinconada Concession in Argentina's Neuquen basin.
07/27/2007 -- Afren, Excel to develop field off Nigeria
Afren PLC, London, has entered an agreement with Excel Exploration & Production Co. Ltd. of Nigeria to develop Eremor oil field in the Niger Delta.
07/27/2007 -- Pemex, BP sign deepwater agreement
Mexico's state-run Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and BP PLC July 24 signed three technical-scientific cooperation agreements aimed at boosting exploration in deep waters.
07/26/2007 -- Thailand receives bids for 21 exploration blocks
Thailand's Department of Mineral Fuels (DMF) received responses from 28 international firms seeking 21 blocks in the country's 20th petroleum concession licensing round.
07/25/2007 -- Statoil temporarily plugs Snovhit appraisal well
Operator Statoil AS has temporarily plugged appraisal well 7120/6-2 in Snovhit field in the Barents Sea.
07/25/2007 -- ONGC firms up plans to explore Contai block
After a lull of more than a year, India's state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) has firmed up plans to resume exploration at Contai in West Bengal.
07/25/2007 -- India's Cauvery has first deepwater find
Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, made the first deepwater hydrocarbon discovery in the Cauvery basin off southeastern India at the company's first well in the basin.
07/24/2007 -- Interest rises in New Zealand's East Coast basin
Exploratory drilling will be increased late next year in the onshore portions of New Zealand's East Coast basin as Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd. begins its drilling program on its acreage there.
07/23/2007 -- Tullow Oil finds gas in Uganda
Tullow Oil PLC reported the Nzizi-2 appraisal well, on Block 2 in Uganda's Lake Albert Rift basin, has tested 14 MMscfd of natural gas.
07/23/2007 -- Essar strikes oil again in Gujarat block
Essar Oil Ltd. struck oil in its Mehsana onshore production block CB-ON-3 in Gujarat, its second find this year after its strike in March.
07/23/2007 -- SK Energy wins Trujillo basin Block Z-46 off Peru
South Korea's SK Energy said it has won a bid to develop Block Z-46 in the Trujillo basin off Peru, which company officials called "very promising."

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