Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, reported a Miocene oil discovery in the Cambay basin southwest of Ahmedabad, India, that Reliance said “is expected to open future potential within the block.”

A Chevron Australia group has made a gas discovery in the Carnarvon basin off Western Australia which is likely to boost reserves available to its Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects.

OMV AG made an oil and gas discovery with the Tornado exploration well, which reached a TVD of 2,743 m off the UK west of the Shetland Islands.

Tullow Oil PLC said its Mahogany-4 appraisal well, which was drilled in the West Cape Three Points license off Ghana, has intersected light oil columns in sandstone reservoirs, encountering 43 m of net hydrocarbon pay.

Italy’s Eni SPA said it has made a “world class” natural gas discovery after successfully drilling an exploration well in Perla field on the Cardon IV block in the Gulf of Venezuela.

An exploratory well in the southwestern Campos basin has cut an oil column of more than 100 m with about 40 m of highly porous and permeable sandy reservoirs, said OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA, Rio de Janeiro.

A BP PLC subsidiary said test results show its Tebe oil discovery on ultradeepwater Block 31 off Angola has the reservoir capacity to flow more than 5,000 b/d “under production conditions.”

Carnarvon Petroleum Pty. Ltd., Perth, and partner Pan Orient Energy Corp. made two oil discoveries in Thailand.

The 45 ft of net hydrocarbon pay cut by an Anadarko Petroleum Corp.-operated deepwater exploratory well off remote Sierra Leone was only part of a “tremendous amount” of reservoir-quality rock the well penetrated, company officials said.

A group led by DONG Energy AS is considering whether to drill a sidetrack to appraise a gas discovery on the Glenlivet license west of the Shetland Islands off the UK.

Repsol YPF SA confirmed earlier reports that it has made a giant natural gas discovery off Venezuela.

A group led by Armstrong Operating Inc., Dickinson, ND, gauged the Dickinson area’s first Mississippian Lodgepole oil discovery since the late 1990s and plans to drill at least one offset.

Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, has established more than 30 million bbl of recoverable oil worth a commercial development on 510,000-acre Block 16/05 east-southeast of Hong Kong in the Pearl River Mouth basin off China and sees several years of active drilling.

Flow tests, limited by equipment capacity, on the Guara presalt discovery well 1-SPS-55 (1-BRSA-594) drilled off Brazil produced at about 7,000 bo/d, according to Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras).

Lundin Petroleum AB found a gross 40 m oil-bearing column within a fractured basement on the Luno extension prospect in the Greater Luno Area of the Norwegian North Sea.