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Exploration Development 2011 P

  • Wed Nov 09 08:05:00 CST 2011 -- Cretaceous light oil find off Liberia noncommercial
    The Montserrado-1 exploratory well off Liberia is a noncommercial light oil discovery that established a working hydrocarbon system in the Liberian basin.
  • Wed Nov 09 07:53:00 CST 2011 -- Ethiopia-Kenya: Tullow updates drilling schedule
    Tullow Oil PLC said full tensor gravity gradiometry surveys have been completed across all Kenyan and Ethiopian blocks.
  • Wed Nov 09 07:34:00 CST 2011 -- French Guiana: Zaedyus sidetrack nearly down
    A group led by Tullow Oil PLC is nearly finished drilling a sidetrack to recover reservoir cores from its Zaedyus deepwater discovery off French Guiana and expects to complete operations in mid-November.
  • Tue Nov 08 14:41:00 CST 2011 -- IAGC gives EM techniques clean environmental bill
    A study commissioned by the International Association of Geophysical Contractors has found electromagnetic techniques used in the marine environment to have “no potential for significant effects on animal groups such as fish, seabirds, sea turtles, and marine mammals.”
  • Tue Nov 08 11:12:00 CST 2011 -- Argentina: Vaca Muerta vertical evaluation planned
    Crown Point Ventures Ltd., Calgary, said it will evaluate the Vaca Muerta shale in vertical wellbores as part of its 2012 drilling program in the Neuquen basin in Argentina.
  • Tue Nov 08 09:30:00 CST 2011 -- Repsol sees 927 million boe in Vaca Muerta so far
    Repsol YPF said it has identified the existence of a recoverable 927 million bbl of oil equivalent, 80% oil, in Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Vaca Muerta shale on about 3.5% of its 12,000 sq km holdings in the Neuquen basin in Argentina.
  • Mon Nov 07 15:39:00 CST 2011 -- Israel's offshore gas reserves poised to rise
    Israel’s reserves of natural gas, now under development in the country’s Mediterranean offshore, are poised to rise substantially in the near future, according to a senior government official.
  • Mon Nov 07 11:02:00 CST 2011 -- Nigeria: Total has oil discovery on OML 102
    A unit of Total SA has tested light oil at high rates in a discovery in the southeastern corner of Oil Mining Lease 102 offshore Nigeria.
  • Mon Nov 07 10:57:00 CST 2011 -- India: ONGC tests gas off northeast coast
    Oil & Natural Gas Corp. of India reported a deepwater natural gas discovery on NELP Block NEC-DWN-2002/2 offshore northeastern India near earlier discoveries (OGJ Online, July 25, 2007).
  • Fri Nov 04 15:23:00 CDT 2011 -- California: Kreyenhagen 2,647-ft lateral drilled
    Zodiac Exploration Inc., Calgary, plans to apply a multistage frac to the Kreyenhagen formation in California’s San Joaquin basin in the third week in November, subject to equipment availability.
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