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Exploration Development 2010 P

  • 01/05/2010 -- Devonian zones indicate oil in Gaspe, Quebec
    Petrolia, Rimouski, Que., reported light oil on drillstem tests in two formations of Devonian age at its Tar Point exploratory well on Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula.
  • 01/05/2010 -- Dana Gas makes ninth discovery in Nile Delta
    Dana Gas reported a natural gas discovery with its Orchid-1 well in the West Manzala concession of the Nile Delta.
  • 01/06/2010 -- British Columbia
    Yoho Resources Inc., Calgary, negotiated a pooling of interests with a large producing company to expand Yoho Resources’ land holdings to 22 sq miles from 10 sq miles at Two Rivers, BC, where the target is a Devonian Montney gas resource play.
  • 01/06/2010 -- New Brunswick shale gas play draws attention
    PetroWorth Resources Inc., Calgary, divested all interests in Alberta natural gas wells to concentrate activity in eastern Canada.
  • 01/07/2010 -- Gulf of Mexico
    TGS NOPEC Geophysical Co. began shooting the Justice wide azimuth 3D seismic project in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
  • 01/07/2010 -- Alberta
    Yoho Resources Inc., Calgary, secured 5,120 acres at 100% working interest strategically located on a new resource play focused on the Devonian Duvernay formation in the Kaybob area 150 miles northwest of Edmonton, Alta.
  • 01/07/2010 -- Lodgepole Scallion zone yields oil in North Dakota
    Continental Resources Inc., Enid, Okla., said an initial test of a horizontally drilled section of Scallion limestone in west-central North Dakota produced at an uneconomic 7-day rate of 65 b/d of oil and 37 Mcfd of associated gas and plans no further drilling at present.
  • 01/08/2010 -- Alberta
    Canadian Imperial Venture Corp., St. John’s, Newf., chose a contractor to shoot a 72-sq-mile geophysical survey on lands where CIVC and Batavia Energy Inc., Toronto, plan to conduct an unconventional shallow gas play in an undisclosed area of southern Alberta.
  • 01/08/2010 -- Texas-West
    CrownQuest Operating LLC, private Midland operator, and Lynden Energy Corp., Vancouver, BC, tied in the first Wolfberry well, spud a second, and expects to spud a third within a week in a five-county program in West Texas.
  • 01/08/2010 -- Turkey signs E&P agreement for South Pars field
    Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz and Iran's Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi recently signed a joint gas exploration and production agreement for Iran’s South Pars field.