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Exploration Development 2008 P
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08/08/2008 -- Inpex finds gas with Mimia-1 Browse basin wildcat
Japanese company Inpex Australia and its partner Total E&P Australia have found a 72-m gas column in their Mimia-1 wildcat drilled in Browse basin permit WA-344-P off northwest Western Australia. -
08/07/2008 -- Orca drops Uganda Block 5 drilling plans
Orca Exploration Group decided not to drill a well onshore on Exploration Area 5 in northern Uganda after determining that the risks were too high to justify the costs. -
08/07/2008 -- Maverick fracs unlock Pearsall shale gas
Cretaceous Pearsall shale flowed gas at the rate of 3.5 MMcfd with 2,500 b/d of frac fluid after a five-stage frac job at a well in the Maverick basin, said TXCO Resources. -
08/06/2008 -- StatoilHydro lets seismic survey contracts
StatoilHydro has contracted PGS Geophysical, CGG Veritas, and Wavefield Inseis to carry out seismic surveys in 2009 on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, the Faroes, and Ireland in contracts worth 1.2 billion kroner. -
08/06/2008 -- StatoilHydro discovers gas in Hassi Mouina license
StatoilHydro and Sonatrach have discovered natural gas within exploration well TNKW-1 on the Hassi Mouina license in Algeria's Sahara Desert. -
08/06/2008 -- Low-quality pay could hike Pinedale reserves
The placing on production of low-quality pay zones at giant Pinedale gas-condensate field in northwest Wyoming could increase the original gas in place estimate, said Ultra Petroleum. -
08/05/2008 -- Encore Acquisition drills its first Sanish well
Encore Acquisition Co. recently completed its first well in the Sanish formation of the Bakken shale in the Williston basin. -
08/04/2008 -- Maurel & Prom discovers oil in Gabon
Maurel & Prom has tested 5,510 b/d of oil from the Omko exploration well that was drilled 6 km east of Onal field in Gabon. -
08/04/2008 -- Petrobras to begin Tupi pilot production in 2009
Petrobras plans to start oil production from its giant Tupi field in the Santos basin off Rio de Janeiro state in March 2009, the company's chief executive told reporters Aug. 1 in London. -
08/01/2008 -- Equitable reports progress with Kentucky Berea gas play
Equitable Resources Inc., Pittsburgh, said it has had encouraging results from early drilling for gas in Lower Mississippian Berea sandstone mostly in Kentucky and plans to have spud 25-30 Berea wells in 2008. -
08/01/2008 -- 3D Oil considering development of West Seahorse
3D Oil is considering a possible tie-in to existing ExxonMobil-operated infrastructure in the Bass Strait as a way of developing its small West Seahorse oil field on permit Vic/P57. -
08/01/2008 -- Lundin finds oil, gas on Torphins prospect in UK North Sea
Lundin Petroleum AB discovered oil and natural gas in the Torphins prospect in the central UK North Sea. -
07/31/2008 -- Success spreads on Libyan Ghadames block
A discovery on northern Area 47 in the Ghadames basin in Libya has confirmed the potential of a new Silurian Lower Acacus play fairway on the northern part of the area. -
07/31/2008 -- Southwestern Energy's Fayetteville output nears 500 MMcfd
Southwestern Energy said its gross operated production from the Fayetteville shale play area in north-central Arkansas was 500 MMcfd of gas, including 12 MMcfd from 14 wells producing from conventional reservoirs. -
07/30/2008 -- Apache boosts Egypt western desert output
Apache Corp. said it has proved a Jurassic Safa formation oil play that could cover as much as 830 sq miles in Egypt's western desert, most of it on company-operated acreage. -
07/30/2008 -- Santos JV makes gas find with Netherby well off Victoria
Santos's offshore Otway basin joint venture has discovered 22 m of gas pay in primary reservoir target sands with its Netherby-1 wildcat drilled on permit Vic/P44 off Victoria. -
07/30/2008 -- Prince Edward Island
Corridor Resources Inc., Halifax, NS, and PetroWorth Resources Inc., Calgary, revised an agreement regarding gas exploration and licensing on Prince Edward Island off eastern Canada. -
07/29/2008 -- IOCs can start drilling in Chile in August, minister says
Chilean Mining Minister Santiago Gonzales said IOCs that won bids to explore for oil and gas in the southernmost regions of Chile can begin drilling in August. -
07/28/2008 -- Sonangol approves oil developments on Angola's Block 31
Angola's position as Africa's leading oil exporter is set to rise as new offshore deepwater discoveries on Block 31 are brought on stream by 2011. -
07/28/2008 -- Brazil to review rules for tenth lease auction
Brazilian Energy Minister Edison Lobao said his country will review rules for the 10th auction of oil exploration and development concessions in August.
