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• Mon Dec 12 08:18:00 CST 2011 -- North Slope, Beaufort Sea sales draw bidders
  Alaska sold 178 tracts on the North Slope and 78 tracts in the Beaufort Sea at the 2011 areawide lease sale on Dec. 7.
• Fri Dec 09 09:31:00 CST 2011 -- EPA releases draft findings from Pavillion, Wyo., groundwater probe
  The US Environmental Protection Agency reported that its investigation of groundwater in Pavillion, Wyo., found chemicals consistent with natural gas production and hydraulic fracturing fluids there.
• Thu Dec 08 13:06:00 CST 2011 -- BLM, Alaska report successful ANS lease sales
  The latest federal lease sale within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska generated about $3.5 million in bids for 17 tracts on 141,739 acres, the US Bureau of Land Management announced on Dec. 7.
• Thu Dec 08 10:52:00 CST 2011 -- Vanco group finds oil offshore eastern Ivory Coast
  A group led by Vanco Cote d’Ivoire Ltd. has a deepwater light oil discovery on Block CI-401 off eastern Ivory Coast.
• Thu Dec 08 10:23:00 CST 2011 -- Germany: BNK eyes fractured carbonates in Thuringia
  BNK Petroleum Inc., Camarillo, Calif., said it has been awarded a 535,000-acre concession in east-central Germany prospective for wet gas in fractured carbonates similar to the Austin chalk play on the US Gulf Coast.
• Thu Dec 08 09:41:00 CST 2011 -- Netherlands: Vermilion to buy Vinkega gas field stakes
  A unit of Vermilion Energy Trust, Calgary, will purchase the interests it didn’t own in its 2009 Vinkega discovery in the northern Netherlands.
• Wed Dec 07 13:07:00 CST 2011 -- State, industry criticize Virginia's absence from 5-year OCS plan
  US Sec. of the Interior Ken Salazar’s two stated reasons for keeping a sale off Virginia out of the proposed 2012-17 Outer Continental Shelf program—lack of infrastructure and possible interference with military activities—make no sense, one of the state’s top officials said.
• Wed Dec 07 13:02:00 CST 2011 -- Nexen, CNOOC form Gulf of Mexico joint venture
  Nexen Inc. formed a joint venture with China’s CNOOC Ltd. in the Gulf of Mexico, giving CNOOC a working interest in as many as six deepwater exploration wells.
• Tue Dec 06 12:43:00 CST 2011 -- India: ONGC has new-pool North Kadi strike
  State-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp. reports a new-pool discovery in North Kadi oil field in the onshore Cambay basin of western India.
• Tue Dec 06 12:38:00 CST 2011 -- ONGC to develop fields off western India
  Production is expected to begin in May 2014 from a cluster of oil and gas fields in the Mumbai High area offshore western India to be developed by state-owned Oil & Natural Gas Corp.