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Exploration Development 2010 P

  • 01/14/2010 -- Pennsylvania
    Five operators submitted more than $128 million in bids for six tracts in five Pennsylvania state forests in the Marcellus shale gas play.
  • 01/20/2010 -- Pioneer beefs up Eagle Ford shale efforts
    Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Dallas, completed its second South Texas Eagle Ford shale well, formed an Eagle Ford asset team, and is pursuing a joint venture with bids expected in the second quarter.
  • 01/04/2010 -- North Dakota
    FieldPoint Petroleum Corp., Austin, acquired a lease of 440-800 gross acres at $155/acre with 16-20% royalty in Renville County, ND., on the north side of the North Dakota Bakken unconventional oil play.
  • 01/04/2010 -- Origin group makes oil find off Tasmania
    The Origin Energy Ltd. group has made a natural gas and oil discovery in its Rockhopper-1 wildcat in Bass basin permit T/18P off northern Tasmania.
  • 01/04/2010 -- Colombia
    Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., Toronto, said two of three appraisal wells in Colombia’s Rubiales field extended known production into new areas while two exploratory wells on the adjacent Quifa block found no hydrocarbons. Both are in the Llanos basin.
  • 01/04/2010 -- New Zealand
    An internal assessment indicates a best-estimate resource of 19.1 million stb of original oil in place on the Winchester exploration permit PEP 38748 in New Zealand’s onshore Taranaki basin.
  • 01/04/2010 -- Mississippi
    KFG Petroleum Corp., Natchez, Miss., plans to drill three exploratory wells in Fayette field, Jefferson County, Miss., in the first quarter of 2010, including a 10,000-ft test to Cretaceous Lower Tuscaloosa.
  • 01/04/2010 -- Iraq
    ShaMaran Petroleum Corp., formerly Bayou Bend Petroleum Ltd., let a contract to Gulf Geophysics FZCO, a subsidiary of Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting, Beijing, to shoot 800 line-km of 2D seismic on ShaMaran’s Pulkhana, Arbat, and K-42 blocks in Iraqi Kurdistan.
  • 01/05/2010 -- UK
    Premier Oil PLC took a farmout from Serica Energy PLC to earn a 50% interest in UK Central North Sea Block 22/19c.
  • 01/05/2010 -- British Columbia
    A 640-m horizontal leg drilled underbalanced in the underpressured Cretaceous Dunlevy formation at Buick Creek, BC, north of Dawson Creek, has flowed at a stable 2.9 MMcfd of gas at 5.6% drawdown, said Yoho Resources Inc., Calgary.