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• Wed Oct 05 10:01:00 CDT 2011 -- Missouri: Deerfield heavy oil projects suspended
  Gravis Oil Corp., Calgary, formerly MegaWest Energy Corp., elected to suspend operations at its Marmaton River and Grassy Creek thermal oil recovery projects in the Deerfield area of western Missouri.
• Wed Oct 05 09:09:00 CDT 2011 -- Anadarko group sees at least 10 tcf off Mozambique
  Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said its latest exploratory well off Mozambique found 140 net ft of gas pay in Miocene and Oligocene sand packages shallower than those in earlier wells and boosted its view of the resource potential of Offshore Area 1 to at least 10 tcf of gas.
• Tue Oct 04 09:25:00 CDT 2011 -- Brazil: OGX DSTs gas-condensate on Santos shelf
  OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA, Rio de Janeiro, gauged gas-condensate on a drillstem test in the Santonian section of the 1-OGX-11D-SPS well on the BM-S-59 block on the Santos basin shelf off Brazil.
• Mon Oct 03 10:04:00 CDT 2011 -- Chevron launches solar enhanced oil recovery project
  Chevron Technology Ventures launched a demonstration project at Coalinga field in Kern County, Calif., to test the viability of using solar energy to enhance heavy oil production. The project uses 7,644 mirrors to focus the sun’s energy onto a solar boiler on top of a 327-ft tower. The produced steam then is injected into wells at Coalinga.
• Mon Oct 03 07:53:00 CDT 2011 -- Tunisia: Oil indications found at Sidi Dhaher well
  ADX Energy Ltd., Sydney, set 9-5/8 in. casing at 1,295 m to test an interpreted 30-m oil column in Upper Cretaceous at the Sidi Dhaher-1 exploratory well on the 2,428 sq km Chorbane permit onshore Tunisia.
• Fri Sep 30 12:21:00 CDT 2011 -- Rig count falls slightly in US, rises in Canada
  US crude oil and natural gas drilling rig activity this week fell slightly, losing 1 unit to reach a total of 1,990 rigs working. This week’s count is up by 331 units from the comparable period a year ago, Baker Hughes Inc. reported.
• Fri Sep 30 10:32:00 CDT 2011 -- Apache to develop Balnaves oil field offshore W. Australia
  Apache Energy has finally committed to development of the Balnaves oil field offshore Western Australia.
• Thu Sep 29 11:21:00 CDT 2011 -- Total lets engineering contract for Hild, offshore Norway
  Total E&P Norge AS let a 215 million kroner contract to Aker Solutions for basic engineering to develop Hild field on Norwegian Sea production licenses 40 and 43.
• Thu Sep 29 07:59:00 CDT 2011 -- Italy: Sicily onshore heavy oil block awarded
  Sound Oil PLC said its Apennine Energy SRL subsidiary was awarded 100% interest and operatorship of the Costa Del Sole permit in a heavy oil area of southwestern Sicily, Italy.
• Wed Sep 28 10:59:00 CDT 2011 -- Statoil starts drilling on Gudrun platform offshore Norway
  The West Epsilon jack up rig on Sept. 6 started drilling wells on the 16 well-slot Gudrun steel jacket on Block 15/3 in the central Norwegian North Sea, production license P 025.