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Exploration Development 2008 P

  • 07/28/2008 -- Coogee falls behind schedule with Montara in Timor Sea
    Coogee Resources is about 4 months behind schedule with its Montara oil development project in the Timor Sea. The project is now expected to come on stream by yearend.
  • 07/27/2008 -- US firms get Scotian shelf discovery blocks
    The CNSOPB awarded exploration blocks that contain the 1976 Penobscot light oil and 1972 Eagle gas discoveries on the Scotian shelf to privately held Ammonite and Catheart Energy.
  • 07/24/2008 -- Po Valley awarded Italian exploration license
    Po Valley Energy Ltd. has secured the Cadelbosco di Sopra exploration license in northern Italy covering 513 sq km.
  • 07/24/2008 -- Eni's Cassiopea gas tests off Sicily 'encouraging'
    Eni SPA has tested 190,000 cu m/day of natural gas from the deepwater Cassiopea 1 well, which lies in 560 m of water 22 km off Agrigento, Sicily.
  • 07/24/2008 -- Portugal
    A group led by Petrobras International Braspetro BV let a contract to SCAN Geophysical ASA, Oslo, to shoot more than 8,500 line-km of 2D seismic in the Atlantic off Portugal.
  • 07/24/2008 -- Marcellus play to grow fast, predicts Range
    Range Resources, using three rigs to drill 40 horizontal wells to Devonian Marcellus shale in the northern Appalachian basin this year, expects to phase in production to 30 MMcfd of gas in first quarter 2009.
  • 07/24/2008 -- Haynesville gas logged at Bethany-Longstreet
    A well in Bethany-Longstreet field in northwestern Louisiana has encountered gas in two Haynesville shale (Jurassic Lower Bossier) intervals, said Cubic Energy Inc., Dallas.
  • 07/23/2008 -- Hess has its second gas find in Carnarvon basin
    Hess Corp. has made a second discovery—this time with its Briseis-1 wildcat—on permit WA-309-P in the Carnarvon basin off Western Australia.
  • 07/23/2008 -- Key confirms Tanzanian find as commercial
    Key Petroleum Ltd.'s Kiliwani North-1 natural gas discovery in Tanzania has been declared a commercial development option.
  • 07/23/2008 -- China to ExxonMobil: pull out of Vietnam exploration deal
    China has warned ExxonMobil to pull out of an exploration deal off Vietnam, describing the project as a breach of Chinese security, according to a Hong Kong newspaper.
  • 07/23/2008 -- Eni plans Kitan field development in Timor Sea
    Eni Australia is preparing to develop the Kitan oil discovery in the Joint Petroleum Development Area (JPDA) of the Timor Sea.
  • 07/22/2008 -- Rift finds gas in Puk Puk-1 well in Papua New Guinea
    Rift Oil PLC has discovered 48.5 m of net natural gas pay in its Puk Puk-1 wildcat in the forelands onshore Papua New Guinea.
  • 07/21/2008 -- MMS schedules Lease Sale 207 for western gulf
    The US Minerals Management Service has scheduled the Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 207 for Aug. 20 in New Orleans.
  • 07/18/2008 -- StatoilHydro lets Aasgard subsea equipment contract
    StatoilHydro has contracted FMC Technologies, Inc. to manufacture and supply subsea equipment for its Aasgard oil and gas development in the Norwegian Sea.
  • 07/17/2008 -- StatoilHydro lets Norne subsea equipment contract
    StatoilHydro has let an $87 million contract to FMC Technologies to manufacture and supply subsea equipment for the operator's Norne field in the Norwegian Sea.
  • 07/17/2008 -- WoodMac to aid Pertamina name Natuna developers
    Indonesia's state-owned PT Pertamina will appoint Wood Mackenzie Consultants Ltd. to advise on choosing partners to develop the giant Natuna D-Alpha gas field.
  • 07/17/2008 -- Petroandina plans 3-year E&P program in Bolivia
    Petroandina—a company formed in August 2007 by Bolivia's state-owned Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) 60% and Venezuela's state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) 40%—plans to invest $883 million to finance oil and natural gas exploration and production in Bolivia.
  • 07/16/2008 -- Nova Scotia
    Forent Energy Ltd., Calgary, said it obtained rights to the 466,000-acre Beechhill Block in the Shubenacadie subbasin near Antigonish, NS, Canada (see map, OGJ, Aug. 5, 2002, p. 35).
  • 07/16/2008 -- Somalia
    Africa Oil Corp., Vancouver, BC, began shooting a seismic survey on July 9 on the Dharoor Valley Block in Puntland, northern Somalia.
  • 07/16/2008 -- Clastic zone producing at Paradox discovery
    The "O" clastic interval in the Pennsylvanian Hermosa Group produced 7,980 bbl of oil and flared 50.13 MMcf of gas in 30 days from late May to the end of June 2008 at the Greentown Federal 28-11 well in Utah's Paradox basin, said Delta Petroleum Corp., Denver.
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