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• 02/11/2010 -- Venezuela awards Carabobo blocks to two consortia
  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered reassurances to international oil companies after state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) signed agreements with two consortia to develop oil fields in his country’s Orinoco belt.
• 10/19/2010 -- Another Jordan oil shale agreement nears signing
  Jordan Energy & Mining Ltd. is close to signing an agreement with Jordan for a 40-year commercial oil shale project, according to a presentation by Christopher Morgan of Jordan Energy and Mining at the Colorado School of Mines 30th Oil Shale Symposium, Golden, Colorado.
• 01/25/2010 -- Three companies submit oil sands EIAs to Alberta
  Korea National Oil Corp., Osum Oil Sands Corp., and Shell Canada Ltd. recently submitted to Alberta environment impact assessment reports concerning planned oil sands projects.
• 02/26/2010 -- Continental, American report progress in Bakken play
  Continental Resources Inc., Enid, Okla., and American Oil & Gas Inc., Denver, reported progress in Bakken operations in North Dakota and Montana.
• 03/30/2010 -- Air Products signs oil sands hydrogen supply contracts
  Air Products reported signing three customer supply contracts Mar. 30 for hydrogen from its Heartland Hydrogen Pipeline in Alberta.
• 05/25/2010 -- Bakken short horizontal yields generous flow
  American Oil & Gas Inc., Denver, tested rates of 2,178 b/d of oil and 3.7 MMcfd of natural gas from a 4,051-ft lateral in the Bakken formation at a development well in Dunn County, ND.
• 06/21/2010 -- DOE project tests combining carbon dioxide storage, CBM recovery
  A US Department of Energy regional partnership has begun field testing the potential for combining geologic carbon dioxide storage with enhanced coalbed methane recovery at an Alabama site, DOE’s Fossil Energy Office announced.
• 08/13/2010 -- Range posts Marcellus shale fracing disclosure
  Range Resources Corp. submitted its first voluntary hydraulic fracturing disclosure forms to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and has posted the information on its web site.
• 09/15/2010 -- Jackpine bitumen mine starts production
  The new Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP) Jackpine bitumen mine in northern Alberta has begun production operations.