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• 10/27/2011 -- Norway: Avaldsnes broadband 3D survey starting
  Lundin Petroleum AB has let a contract to CGGVeritas to shoot a 3D seismic survey over Avaldsnes field on the Norwegian Continental Shelf in the North Sea.
• 10/27/2011 -- Nexen group gets OK to develop Golden Eagle
  Nexen Petroleum UK Ltd., a subsidiary of Nexen Inc., has received regulatory approval to proceed with the $3.3 billion (Can.) Golden Eagle area oil and gas development in the North Sea.
• 10/27/2011 -- Eni hikes Mozambique find's potential to 7.5 tcf
  Eni SPA boosted its estimate of the potential of its Mamba South-1 discovery off Mozambique by 50% to 7.5 tcf of gas in place after deepening it through a separate pool with 90 m of gross pay.
• 10/27/2011 -- Italy: Eni starts Guendalina gas field production
  Eni SPA has started gas production from Guendalina gas field in the Adriatic off northeastern Italy.
• 10/27/2011 -- Nevada: Aussie firm takes Sevier thrust belt leases
  Titan Energy Ltd., Perth, formerly Westralian Gas & Power Ltd., has acquired 17,000 acres of prospective shale properties in Nevada at a Bureau of Land Management lease sale in Reno.
• 10/26/2011 -- Madagascar: Sapetro to buy Mozambique Channel stake
  South Atlantic Petroleum Ltd., Lagos, has reached agreement with Marex MC Inc., Houston, to purchase a 90% participating interest in the Belo Profond production sharing contract in the Mozambique Channel deepwater off Madagascar.
• 10/26/2011 -- Egypt: BP, Eni make central Nile Delta gas discovery
  BP Egypt and an Eni SPA affiliate have a gas discovery at the Salmon exploratory well on the North El Burg offshore concession in the central Nile Delta off Egypt.
• 10/26/2011 -- Alaska to offer 200,000 additional acres in December lease sale
  Alaska will include a significant amount of previously leased acreage in its North Slope oil and gas lease sale in December, the state’s Department of Natural Resources announced on Oct. 25.
• 10/25/2011 -- Statoil doubles estimate of Aldous discovery
  Norway's Statoil said part of its newly discovered Aldous Major South field in the North Sea is twice as large as first thought, raising its estimate as much as 3.3 billion boe.
• 10/25/2011 -- Italy: Wildcat to spud seeking onshore Pliocene gas
  The Apennine Energy SRL subsidiary of Sound Oil PLC is preparing to spud the Casa Tiberi-1 exploratory well at Falconara, Ancona, on the Montemarciano permit on central Italy’s Adriatic coast.