10/08/2007
-- Pemex, Nexen sign collaboration agreement Mexico's Pemex and Canada's Nexen have signed a 5-year agreement for general collaboration in research, training, and oil and gas E&P, particularly in offshore deep water and in CBM.
10/08/2007
-- Tap Oil tests Woollybutt sidetrack Tap Oil Ltd. has intersected the target oil reservoir in the Woollybutt-4H development well on the Barrow subbasin in permit WA-25-L off Western Australia.
10/08/2007
-- Noble makes gas discovery off Cameroon Noble Energy Inc. has tested 31 MMcfd of gas and 330 b/d of condensate from the Miocene reservoir with its well on the PH-77 license off Cameroon.
10/05/2007
-- Jamaica's PCJ signs contracts for offshore blocks State-owned Petroleum Corp. of Jamaica has negotiated PSCs for four offshore blocks offered in the island's second licensing round that ended on July 16.
10/05/2007
-- Baraka farms into Colombia's La Punta oil field Baraka Petroleum acquired a stake in the La Punta oil field in eastern Colombia through an assignment agreement with Union Temporal Omega.
10/05/2007
-- Noble well cuts pay off Equatorial Guinea Noble Energy Inc. plans further drilling around another promising Benita appraisal well on Block I off Equatorial Guinea.
10/05/2007
-- GOM Lease Sale 205 attracts $2.9 billion in high bids More than $2.9 billion in apparent high bids were offered for 723 tracts in the central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 205, the US DOI's MMS agencey reported.
10/05/2007
-- Changes proposed to OCS pipeline rules The US Minerals Management Service is proposing revisions to its Outer Continental Shelf pipeline and pipeline right-of-way regulations.
10/03/2007
-- Peak assumes development of Nigeria's Bilabri oil field Peak Petroleum Industries Nigeria will take over the finance and development of Bilabri oil field off Nigeria after signing a settlement agreement with Equator Exploration.
10/03/2007
-- Antrim to explore new Argentine license Antrim Energy will shoot at least 50 sq km of 3D seismic survey during the first year of its exploration period for the Tres Nidos Sur block in Rio Negro Province in central Argentina.
10/03/2007
-- Pearsall gas flow to evoke Maverick drilling Drilling may increase in the next 3 years in the Maverick basin in Southwest Texas after a vertical exploratory well flowed 10 MMcfd of gas from Cretaceous Pearsall on a short drillstem test.
10/02/2007
-- US official warns of Kurdistan deal risks Hunt Oil Co. has come under pressure from the US government for its recent signing of an exploration and production agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq.
10/02/2007
-- Tullow logs third Kaiso-Tonya well in Uganda Tullow Oil, operator and 100% interest owner of Uganda's Block 2, has drilled and logged the final well in its three-well appraisal program in the Kaiso-Tonya area.
10/01/2007
-- Japex to expand operations in Libya Japex plans to expand its operations in Libya by launching test drilling on Blocks 176-4 and 40-3/4 and by training more Libyan engineers in Japan.
09/28/2007
-- Norwood to press exploration in Nicaragua Numerous opportunities may have gone unevaluated in Norwood Resources Ltd.'s initial two-well program in the remote Sandino basin in nonproducing Nicaragua, a consulting engineer's report indicated.
09/27/2007
-- Trinidad and Tobago seeks to increase gas output Trinidad and Tobago has approved new PSCs and is said to be considering licensing larger blocks in a bid to stimulate increased exploration and production.
