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Exploration Development 2007 P

  • 09/17/2007 -- Sobolevskoye oil field to produce by mid-2008
    Volga Gas PLC, which recently acquired the Urozhainoye-2 license in Russia, plans to bring the license area's Sobolevskoye oil field on stream by first-half 2008.
  • 09/14/2007 -- Kurdistan PSC awarded to Hunt, Impulse Energy
    The Kurdistan regional government, Hunt Oil, and Impulse Energy have signed a PSC covering petroleum exploration activities in the Duhok, Kurdistan area of Iraq.
  • 09/13/2007 -- Xerelete oil field in Brazil reported commercial
    Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has informed Brazil's National Petroleum Agency that the Xerelete heavy oil discovery in ultradeep water off Brazil is commercial.
  • 09/13/2007 -- PetroHungaria, MOL to redevelop Bajcsa gas field
    PetroHungaria will redevelop Bajcsa gas field in southwest Hungary with MOL by completing existing horizontal wells to enhance production and access gas from undepleted areas of the reservoirs.
  • 09/12/2007 -- Greek Cyprus receives bids for offshore licenses
    During 2006-08 Cyprus will have completed its first hydrocarbon prospectivity assessment off its coast to promote exploration, launched two licensing rounds, and granted exploration licenses for the first.
  • 09/12/2007 -- Petrobras finds oil in Carioca field off Brazil
    Petrobras has tested 2,900 b/d of 27° gravity oil from its exploration well in deepwater Carioca field on Block BM-S-9 in the Santos basin off Brazil.
  • 09/11/2007 -- Hydro to explore for heavy oil on UKCS
    Hydro has boosted its interest in heavy oil exploration on the UK Continental Shelf by agreeing to help finance exploration on the P-1207, P-1282 and P-1496 licenses in Quadrant 9.
  • 09/11/2007 -- Petronas, PNOC commence drilling off Mindoro
    Malaysia's Petronas Carigali Overseas Sdn. Bhd. and Philippines National Oil Co. began drilling Aug. 31 at the Kamaia-1 well off the Philippines' Mindoro Island.
  • 09/10/2007 -- Gas-condensate find tested west of Shetland
    Total SA gauged a gas-condensate discovery on Block 205/5a 100 km northwest of Sullom Voe west of the Shetland Islands.
  • 09/07/2007 -- Prince Edward Island well due frac, tests
    Operators have decided to stimulate and test an exploratory well on eastern Canada's central Prince Edward Island that cut 70 m of net gas-bearing sand in the Bradelle formation of Carboniferous age.
  • 09/07/2007 -- TransGlobe plans 30 wells for Egypt's West Gharib area
    TransGlobe Energy plans to drill more than 30 wells during the next 24 months in Egypt's West Gharib PSC after securing interests in eight development leases and existing facilities.
  • 09/06/2007 -- Iraq Taq Taq well tested at high oil rates
    The fourth appraisal-development well in Taq Taq field in northern Iraq's Kurdistan area flowed 48° gravity oil at a combined rate of 37,560 b/d from three reservoirs, said Addax Petroleum.
  • 09/06/2007 -- Libya prequalifies 56 firms in license round
    Libya's National Oil Co. has prequalified 35 operators and 21 investors out of the 70 firms or more that were said to have applied in its current gas licensing round.
  • 09/06/2007 -- Centurion Petroleum finds oil in southern Egypt
    Centurion Petroleum Corp. has discovered oil in southern Egypt with the Baraka-1 exploration well, the company reported on Sept. 4.
  • 09/05/2007 -- Imperial has two discoveries at Tomsk, Siberia
    Imperial Energy Corp. reported two discoveries on its interests at Tomsk in Western Siberia.
  • 09/05/2007 -- ConocoPhillips makes gas find with Harrison well
    Operator ConocoPhillips has discovered a 16-m gas column in the lower Ketch formation of its Harrison exploration well (44/19b-6) in the UK southern North Sea.
  • 09/05/2007 -- JKX tests gas well in Ukrainian field
    Appraisal well M162 in Molchanovskoye field in the Ukraine flowed an average 3.9 MMcfd of natural gas and 120 b/d of condensate, according to operator JKX Oil & Gas PLC.
  • 09/05/2007 -- Wyoming Baxter shale gas flows without frac
    Questar said it still has much to learn about the Cretaceous Baxter shale in the Vermillion subbasin in southwestern Wyoming after it began gas sales from a second horizontal well without treatment.
  • 09/04/2007 -- MMS issues final notice for central gulf lease sale
    The US MMS issued a final notice for central Gulf of Mexico OCS Lease Sale 205, which covers 28.5 million acres of submerged land in federal waters off Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
  • 09/04/2007 -- Petrobras to boost Amazon gas exploration
    Brazil's state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) plans to step up exploration for natural gas in the Amazon rainforest, according to a senior company official.