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• 02/01/2012 -- Tecpetrol has oil find on Llanos CPO-6 heavy oil block
  An oil discovery by Tecpetrol Colombia has been reported on the first of a nine-well exploratory well campaign on the CPO-6, CPO-7, and CPO-13 blocks in the Llanos basin of Colombia.
• 02/01/2012 -- Paraguay: Amerisur gets two blocks, third pending
  Amerisur Resources PLC, Cardiff, UK, said Paraguay authorities have approved two of three licenses the company had applied for in the Piriti and Pilar basins in western Paraguay.
• 02/03/2012 -- Uganda, Tullow sign agreements to complete farmout deal
  Uganda’s government and Tullow Oil PLC ended months of wrangling over potential tax issues by signing two new production-sharing agreements that will enable the Anglo-Irish firm to complete a $2.9 billion farmout deal with Total SA and China National Offshore Oil Co (CNOOC).
• 02/06/2012 -- Petrobras mulls new Solimoes production cluster
  Petroleo Brasileiro SA has gauged an oil and gas discovery on a 100% owned block in the Solimoes basin in Brazil’s Amazonas state.
• 02/06/2012 -- Jamaica: PCJ extends Sagres Energy offshore blocks
  Petroleum Corp. of Jamaica has extended production sharing agreements held by a subsidiary of Sagres Energy Inc., Calgary, on offshore blocks 9, 13, and 14.
• 02/06/2012 -- Ukraine: KUB-Gas to evaluate two zones at Makeevskoye
  KUB-Gas LLC has spudded the Makeevskoye-21 well in the Dnieper-Donets basin in northeastern Ukraine.
• 02/06/2012 -- Kansas: Mississippi Lime play 3D survey under way
  TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. has begun shooting a multiclient 3D survey in the Mississippi Lime horizontal oil play area in southeast of Dodge City south-central Kansas.
• 02/06/2012 -- Indonesia: Premier to test deeper gas zone at Anoa
  Premier Oil PLC said it has deepened the Anoa WL-5x development well on Natuna Sea Block A offshore Indonesia to a total depth of 11,012 ft to evaluate the potential of the Eocene-Oligocene Lama formation.
• 02/06/2012 -- Namibia: Owambo basin structural geology studied
  Frontier Resources International PLC, Houston, has begun early exploration efforts on Blocks 1717 and 1817 in the Owambo basin onshore northern Namibia.
• 02/07/2012 -- Noble group drills sixth Levant basin gas discovery
  Noble Energy Inc. said its Tanin gas discovery on the Alon A license offshore Israel contains a gross resource of .9-1.4 tcf of gas and derisks other prospects nearby.