08/28/2008
-- OMV begins Austrian gas production To boost Austria's energy supply, OMV AG has started natural gas production from Strasshof and Ebenthal fields in the Vienna basin.
08/28/2008
-- Sevan orders drilling equipment for deepwater rigs Sevan Marine has let a $240 million contract to Aker Solutions to provide two drilling equipment packages and possibly a third for deepwater drilling rigs that are under construction.
08/26/2008
-- Chevron to develop Hebron heavy oil off NE Canada Chevron Canada Ltd. and its coventurers have this summer finalized legal agreements with Newfoundland and Labrador to develop the Hebron heavy oil fields in the Maritimes off Eastern Canada.
08/26/2008
-- StatoilHydro makes Barents Sea gas find StatoilHydro AS discovered natural gas within the Arenaria prospect on Block 7224/6 in the Barents Sea but said it's too early to tell if the gas can be produced because it's from poor quality reservoir rocks of middle Triassic age.
08/26/2008
-- Oil found under Dagny field; gas at Snefrid South StatoilHydro has discovered oil and gas in two separate wells on the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS): oil under Dagny gas field, and gas in Snefrid South.
08/25/2008
-- Queensland bans oil shale projects for 2 years The Queensland government has placed a 2-year moratorium on oil shale projects, paralysing the proposed Queensland Energy Resources Ltd. (QER) project in the McFarlane deposit about 15 km south of Proserpine on the state's central east coast.
08/22/2008
-- Petroecuador seeks to develop Block 20 heavy oil Petroecuador's president said Ivanhoe Energy would begin work within 9 months towards the production of heavy crude oil from Pungarayacu heavy oil field on Block 20 in Ecuador's Oriente basin.
08/22/2008
-- Gassco lets seabed surveys contract Gassco AS has let a contract to Sweden's Marine Matteknikk AB to start seabed surveys in September for potential carbon dioxide pipelines.
08/21/2008
-- Dong makes oil find on Ipswich prospect Dong E&P Norge AS has discovered oil on the Ipswich prospect in the southern Norwegian North Sea about 290 km southwest of Stavanger.
08/21/2008
-- Swift presses South Louisiana exploration Swift Energy Co., Houston, is executing a strategic 3D based South Louisiana exploration program (OGJ, Sept. 24, 2007, p. 34).
08/21/2008
-- UK independents thrive in UK North Sea Small and midsized operators are benefiting the most from record oil and gas prices in the UK North Sea as they develop fields that were otherwise too costly in the past, according to Lloyds TSB Bank.
08/21/2008
-- Europe Gold Point Energy Corp., Vancouver, BC, let a contact to LO&G Consultants GMBH to study unconventional gas potential in several unspecified Central European basins.
08/21/2008
-- Conroe CO2 flood set as Tinsley responds Denbury Resources plans to pay $600 million or more to acquire giant Conroe field north of Houston where it intends to begin injecting CO2 within 5 years in a development project worth $750 million-1 billion.
08/20/2008
-- USGS estimates WSB's undiscovered oil, gas resources There are an estimated 3.66 billion bbl of undiscovered oil and 651 tcf of gas north of the Arctic Circle in Russia's West Siberian Basin Province, the USGS said in a recent report.
08/20/2008
-- Appalachian Marcellus, deeper zones eyed Zone Oil & Gas signed an exploration and geophysical JV deal with Penn Virginia to explore the Devonian Marcellus shale and Oriskany sandstone and Silurian Tuscarora sand in Pennsylvania.
08/20/2008
-- Stuart takes stake in Oliver field in Timor Sea Stuart Petroleum has acquired from the Albers Group a 50% stake in Oliver oil field in the Ashmore-Cartier region (AC/P33) of the Timor Sea.
08/19/2008
-- Bulgarian gas-condensate find indicated Direct Petroleum Exploration, a private Denver operator, is referring to an indicated gas-condensate discovery as "the highest pressure gas reservoir ever encountered in Bulgaria."
08/19/2008
-- Atlas Petroleum discovers oil with Tunisia well A group of companies led by Atlas Petroleum Worldwide Exploration will drill a sidetrack from the Ras El Besh 3 (REB3) well following an oil discovery on the Sfax permit off Tunisia.
