06/05/2007
-- Giddings gas flows in Montgomery County Southern Bay Operating said it holds enough acreage to support spudding a well every 60-90 days for 2-3 years for Austin chalk gas in the Grimes-Montgomery extension area of Giddings field on the Texas Gulf Coast.
06/04/2007
-- Rockhopper prepares EIA for Falklands licenses Rockhopper Exploration has contracted RPS Energy to carry out an EIA to gather information for drilling its Ernest and other prospects on licenses PL023 and PL024 off the Falkland Islands.
06/04/2007
-- Marathon drills Droshky appraisal well in Gulf of Mexico Marathon Oil Corp. has completed a successful appraisal of its Droshky discovery on Green Canyon Block 244 in the Gulf of Mexico 137 miles south-southwest of Venice, La.
06/04/2007
-- Inpex plans drilling off Japan in late June In the first large-scale gas exploration off Japan in 30 years, Inpex Holdings Inc.'s Tokyo unit, Teikoku Oil Co., in late June will begin drilling for natural gas some 20 km off the northern Ibaraki Prefecture of Japan's Kanto region.
06/04/2007
-- Iraq Taq Taq wells flow oil at high rates The TT-06 appraisal well in Taq Taq field the Kurdistan sector of northeastern Iraq has flowed oil at an aggregate rate of 18,900 b/d of 48° gravity oil at a low gas-oil ratio from three unstimulated Cretaceous-age formations.
05/30/2007
-- Europa Oil & Gas spuds Romanian wells Europa Oil & Gas (Holdings) PLC has spudded two wells in Romania: the Costisa-2 well and the Arbore-1 well.
05/30/2007
-- Rwanda The Ministry of State granted Vangold Resources Ltd., Vancouver, BC, the nonexclusive right to undertake an 18-month technical review of oil and gas potential on 7,208 sq km in northwestern Rwanda.
05/30/2007
-- BP signs $900 million Libyan exploration deal BP PLC and a Libyan partner will drill 17 exploratory wells under a $900 million contract with Libya's National Oil Co. (NOC).
05/29/2007
-- CNX to double New Albany gas play position CNX Gas Corp., Pittsburgh, will acquire by lease oil and gas acreage in western Kentucky, doubling its position in the Illinois basin's emerging Devonian New Albany shale gas play to nearly 140,000 acres.
05/25/2007
-- Polk County Austin chalk lateral gauged Meridian Resource Corp., Houston, said it is evaluating the merits of single lateral wells to develop Austin chalk oil and gas adjacent to Double A Wells Woodbine field in Polk County, southeast Texas.
05/23/2007
-- Falcon to develop Mako Trough in Hungary Timing remains uncertain, but Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd., Denver, plans to develop a vast basin-centered gas accumulation in southeastern Hungary, where it just announced an oil discovery.
05/23/2007
-- Nicaraguan exploration well noncommercial Norwood Resources Ltd., Calgary, was moving to test its first indicated discovery in the Sandino basin of western Nicaragua after it plugged its second well there as noncommercial.
05/23/2007
-- PTTEP's additional Gulf of Martaban wells show gas Thailand's PTT Exploration & Production PLC (PTTEP) said another two exploration wells drilled on Block M9 in Myanmar's Gulf of Martaban have both tested natural gas.
05/23/2007
-- MMS proposes Central Gulf Lease Sale 205 The US Minerals Management Service proposed an Oct. 3 lease sale in the newly configured Central Gulf of Mexico Planning Area.
05/23/2007
-- Barbados The Barbados Ministry of Energy and the Environment will launch a 2007 offshore licensing round with the offer of 20 blocks on the shelf and deepwater Northeast Caribbean Deformed Belt.
05/23/2007
-- Barnett play moves far south of Fort Worth Operators are finding apparently commercial volumes of gas in the Mississippian Barnett shale as far as 100 miles south of Fort Worth.
05/22/2007
-- OMV awarded exploration license off New Zealand OMV New Zealand has picked up exploration acreage off the west coast of New Zealand's North Island and will shoot a 2D seismic survey there early in 2008.
05/22/2007
-- BP makes another strike on Angola's Block 31 BP Exploration (Angola) Ltd. and Angola's Sonangol EP have made their fourteenth oil discovery on ultradeepwater Block 31 off Angola.
