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Zambia awards exploration licenses for 11 blocks

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:30:50 GMT

November 19,2009 --

Zambia is set to award exploration licenses for 11 oil and gas blocks in the northwest, east, and west of the country, according to Maxwell Mwale, minister of mines and mineral development.

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Ivanhoe Energy to acquire stake in PSA in central Mongolia

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:00:20 GMT

November 18,2009 --

Ivanhoe Energy Inc. said its Asian subsidiary plans to acquire interest in a production-sharing agreement (PSA) held by PanAsian Petroleum Inc., which holds exploration and production rights to a large block in central Mongolia.

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Devon to accelerate Haynesville shale drilling

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:45:40 GMT

November 18,2009 --

Devon Energy Corp. plans to accelerate drilling in its southern Haynesville shale play based upon results from a well in San Augustine County, Tex.

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Petrobras extends Marimba to the north

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:15:10 GMT

November 17,2009 --

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) says it has extended Marimba oil field to the north in the Campos basin off Brazil.

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Appraisal well completed in Bo Rang B field in Thailand

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:20:50 GMT

November 17,2009 --

Carnarvon Petroleum Ltd., Perth, and its joint venture partner Pan Orient Energy Corp., Calgary, completed testing the BR-3D1 appraisal well in Bo Rang B oil field in Thailand and declared the field commercial.

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BP confirms westward Kaskida extension

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:41:00 GMT

November 16,2009 --

BP PLC has confirmed a westward extension of deepwater Kaskida field in the Lower Tertiary trend of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Shorter lease terms proposed for central gulf sale

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:35:40 GMT

November 13,2009 --

The US Minerals Management Service’s next Central Gulf of Mexico lease sale on Mar. 17, 2010, will include a shorter initial lease term for blocks in 400-1,600 m of water, US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Nov. 13.

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New well pegs Tupi area reserves at 5-8 billion boe

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:30:40 GMT

November 13,2009 --

Petroleo Brazileiro SA (Petrobras) reported that a new well drilled in the Tupi area of the Santos basin off Brazil further confirms reserves estimates of 5-8 billion boe of light oil and natural gas.

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Buried seismic array due in Sanish field

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:20:50 GMT

November 12,2009 --

Whiting Oil & Gas Corp., Denver, let a contract to MicroSeismic Inc., Houston, for a buried array microseismic monitoring program in Sanish oil and gas field in the North Dakota portion of the Williston basin.

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Egypt

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:05:10 GMT

November 11,2009 --

The first development well in BP PLC-operated NS377 oil field on the Shadwan Development Lease in Egypt’s Gulf of Suez cut 144 m of gross oil column in the Miocene Kareem formation.

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French Guiana

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:41:00 GMT

November 11,2009 --

Shell Exploration & Production France SAS acquired a 33% interest from Tullow Oil PLC in an exploration license off French Guiana, and Tullow said it expects to farm out more of its interest by the end of 2009.

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GeoResources Bakken participation growing

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:01:00 GMT

November 11,2009 --

GeoResources Inc., Houston, said the pace of activity in the Williston basin Bakken/Three Forks play is increasing in its joint venture with Slawson Exploration Co., private Wichita-based operator.

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Nicaragua

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:20:10 GMT

November 11,2009 --

Norwood Resources Ltd., Vancouver, BC, drilled a sidetrack hole at the planned total depth of 7,000 ft at the San Bartolo-1X exploration well in western Nicaragua’s Sandino basin.

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New Zealand's Maari-Manaia tops 100 million bbl

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:51:00 GMT

November 11,2009 --

Estimated ultimate recovery of more than 100 million bbl of oil has been confirmed for OMV AG-operated Maari field and adjacent Manaia field in the offshore portion of New Zealand’s Taranaki basin, two of the field’s partners said.

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New Zealand

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:50:40 GMT

November 11,2009 --

Kea Petroleum Ltd., private New Zealand operator, has been awarded the PEP 51339 exploration permit just north of Auckland in the lightly explored Northland basin.

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Reliance reports Cambay oil discovery

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:50 GMT

November 10,2009 --

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.”

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Saskatchewan

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:55:50 GMT

November 10,2009 --

Texalta Petroleum Ltd., Calgary, is spudding its fourth horizontal well at Wordsworth, Sask, to evaluate the eastern end of the Mississippian Alida oil reservoir found at a 2006 discovery well.

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Nigeria-Sao Tome JDZ

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:30:30 GMT

November 9,2009 --

Addax Petroleum Corp. has spudded the Malanza-1X exploratory well in Block 4 of the Nigeria-Sao Tome Joint Development Zone in the Gulf of Guinea.

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Kenya

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:06:00 GMT

November 9,2009 --

CNOOC Ltd. has spudded the Bogal-1 exploration well on Block 9 in the Anza basin in northwestern Kenya.

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Texas-North

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:51:00 GMT

November 9,2009 --

Cohort Energy Co., a subsidiary of J-W Operating Co., Dallas, and Caithness Petroleum Ltd., London, hold a 60-40% interest in 20,319 acres in the oil window of the Barnett shale play in the Fort Worth basin of North Texas.

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UK

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:35:20 GMT

November 9,2009 --

Caithness Petroleum Ltd., private UK independent, said its UK subsidiary has identified two prospects on UK North Sea Block 23/26c awarded in the 25th round.

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Morocco

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:20:20 GMT

November 9,2009 --

A subsidiary of Caithness Petroleum Ltd., private UK independent, has been awarded a 1-year reconnaissance license named Taounate in Morocco.

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Gabon to launch 40-block licensing round

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:40:40 GMT

November 6,2009 --

Gabon will launch an oil licensing round for more than 40 blocks from two of its deepwater basins in May 2010, according to an official at CGGVeritas.

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EOG sees reserve hike in Barnett Combo play

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:05:30 GMT

November 6,2009 --

Improved horizontal completion techniques in the North Texas Barnett Combo play have led EOG Resources Inc. to estimate that ultimate recoveries in one area will be 80% higher than the company’s early 2008 estimates in the play.

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Louisiana

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:10:50 GMT

November 6,2009 --

Goodrich Petroleum Corp., Houston, gauged a peak 24-hr rate of 15.3 MMcfe/d from Jurassic Haynesville shale at its Plants 26H-1 well in De Soto Parish, La.

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Argentina

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:05:30 GMT

November 6,2009 --

Crown Point Ventures Ltd., Vancouver, BC, found gas in two zones in the Canadon Seco formation in El Valle oil and gas field in the Argentina’s southern San Jorge basin and plans to drill five to eight more wells in early 2010 subject to .......

Utah

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:40:50 GMT

November 6,2009 --

Questar Exploration & Production Co., Salt Lake City, is drilling a horizontal well to the H4 member of the Eocene Green River formation at 7,000 ft true vertical depth in Utah’s Uinta basin.

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Texas-East

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:25:40 GMT

November 6,2009 --

EOG Resources Inc. has expanded its acreage position in the Haynesville shale play to 153,000 net acres after adjusting for the expected exercise of third party preferential rights.

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California

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:15:20 GMT

November 6,2009 --

Royale Energy Inc., San Diego, said its Goddard 7-1 apparent new field discovery in the Sacramento basin stabilized at 2.45 MMcfd of gas on a restricted choke from an undisclosed formation.

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Texas-South

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:05:20 GMT

November 4,2009 --

El Paso Corp. said it has almost doubled its lease position to 112,000 net acres in the South Texas Cretaceous Eagle Ford shale gas-condensate play, where it plans to maintain a one-rig program.

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Pennsylvania

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:45:50 GMT

November 4,2009 --

Chief Oil & Gas LLC, private Dallas operator, said its position in the Marcellus shale gas play has grown to more than 560,000 acres and leasing continues in certain areas. The company has acreage in two states.

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Colombia

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:00:50 GMT

November 4,2009 --

La Cortez Energy Colombia Inc., Bogota, and Petroleos del Norte SA will explore and 126,845-acre Putumayo-4 block in Colombia’s Putumayo basin.

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Texas-West

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:55:30 GMT

November 4,2009 --

Clayton Williams Energy Inc., Midland, Tex., plans to move one rig to Ward County, Tex., from Andrews County to start a multiwell drilling program in the Permian Bone Spring formation at about 11,000 ft.

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Utah

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:35:20 GMT

November 4,2009 --

Clayton Williams Energy Inc., Midland, Tex., plans to drill a third exploratory well in the last quarter of 2009 in the Central Utah thrust belt.

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Colorado

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:15:30 GMT

November 4,2009 --

Bill Barrett Corp., Denver, expects net production of 102 MMcfd of gas equivalent at its Gibson Gulch development in Colorado’s southeastern Piceance basin to rise to 107 MMcfe/d by the end of 2009.

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Colombia

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:10:40 GMT

November 4,2009 --

Emerald Energy PLC, a subsidiary of Sinochem Resourcse UK Ltd., has completed the Mirto-1 exploration well on the 9-million-acre Maranta block in Colombia’s Putumayo basin.

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UK

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:30:20 GMT

November 3,2009 --

OMV AG’s UK subsidiary has discovered gas and oil in the Tornado 204/13-1 deepwater well and sidetrack West of Shetlands in the Atlantic off the northern UK.

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India

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:05:30 GMT

November 3,2009 --

Reliance Industries Ltd. has spud the KGV-D3-R1 exploration well, third well on the D3 block in the Krishna-Godavari basin off eastern India.

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Barrett may give one Uinta shale another try

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:51:00 GMT

November 3,2009 --

Bill Barrett Corp., Denver, expensed as a dry hole in the quarter ended Sept. 30 its first horizontal well on the deep Hook shale gas prospect in eastern Utah.

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Oklahoma

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:50:30 GMT

November 3,2009 --

Apache Corp. plans to have four rigs drilling horizontal wells by the end of 2009 in a play for liquids-rich gas in Pennsylvanian Granite Wash in the Anadarko basin of western Oklahoma, where it will drill 20 wells in 2010.

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Montana

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:10:10 GMT

November 3,2009 --

Bill Barrett Corp., Denver, said it expensed four vertical wells in the quarter ended Sept. 30, 2009, at its Circus prospect in the Montana overthrust southeast of Helena.

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Talisman hikes Marcellus, Montney positions

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:55:20 GMT

November 3,2009 --

Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, said it has more than doubled its acreage position to a combined 350,000 acres in the Pennsylvania Marcellus and British Columbia Montney shales and is restructuring its North American operations into shale and co.......

Texas-Panhandle

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:16:00 GMT

November 3,2009 --

Forest Oil Corp., Denver, drilled and completed its second operated horizontal Granite Wash in the Greater Buffalo Wallow area of Hemphill County, Texas Panhandle.

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Madagascar

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:55:20 GMT

November 3,2009 --

Spectrum ASA, Oslo, will reprocess 6,000 line-km of seismic data off Madagascar under an agreement with state-owned OMNIS.

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Pennsylvania

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:45:20 GMT

November 3,2009 --

St. Mary Land & Exploration Co., Denver, is laying a temporary pipeline to test its first Marcellus shale gas well in Pennsylvania, where it holds 41,000 net acres in McKean and Potter counties.

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Eagle Ford shale McMullen joint venture forms

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:50:30 GMT

November 2,2009 --

Petrohawk Energy Corp. and Swift Energy Co. will jointly explore and develop 26,000 acres of Swift Energy’s acreage in McMullen County, Tex., prospective in the Cretaceous Eagle Ford shale.

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Israel

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:20:10 GMT

November 2,2009 --

Brownstone Ventures Inc., Toronto, signed letters of intent to earn a 15% participating interest in the Yitzhak and adjacent Gabriella licenses in shallow water off Israel from Adira Energy Corp., a unit of AMG Oil Ltd. of Ontario.

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Russia

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:30:20 GMT

November 2,2009 --

Premier Energy Corp., Dallas, signed a nonbinding letter of intent to acquire Russian companies that hold a 20-year exploration and exploitation license over South Chernushinskoye field in Russia’s Perm region.

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South Africa shales, sandstones evaluation set

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:05:50 GMT

November 2,2009 --

Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd., Denver, plans to evaluate the natural gas content of fractured shales and sandstones of Permian age in the Karoo basin 120 miles northeast of Cape Town, South Africa.

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Iraq

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:40:50 GMT

November 2,2009 --

A group led by Niko Resources Inc., Calgary, plans to spud an exploratory well on the Qara Dagh dome in Iraqi Kurdistan in the first quarter of 2010.

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Kentucky

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:15:30 GMT

October 30,2009 --

The Kentucky Geological Survey at the University of Kentucky has completed scanning a data base of more than 590,000 records from Kentucky oil and gas drilling operations.

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Louisiana

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:36:00 GMT

October 30,2009 --

Axis Onshore LP, Dallas, set production casing at the Jack Allen-7 well on the West Catahoula Lake prospect in Catahoula Parish, La., after logs indicated 40 ft of net oil pay in multiple Middle Wilcox Trend sands. TD is 4,400 ft.

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British Columbia

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:20:10 GMT

October 30,2009 --

Husky Energy Inc., Calgary, gauged encouraging flow rates at two vertical exploratory wells in Northeast British Columbia’s Montney and Doig shales and plans to drill its first horizontal well there in 2010.

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SEC rules might have meant US oil reserves hike

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:20:00 GMT

October 30,2009 --

Proved US crude oil reserves fell by more than 10% in 2008, but there would likely have been a smaller drop or perhaps even an increase under new Securities and Exchange Commission rules.

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New Mexico

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:45:30 GMT

October 30,2009 --

The Cave Pool Unit in the Eddy County portion of New Mexico’s giant Grayburg-Jackson field could be redeveloped under an agreement between Doral Energy Corp., Midland, Tex., and Blugrass Energy Inc.

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Shales due look in New Zealand's East Coast basin

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:15:50 GMT

October 29,2009 --

Trans-Orient Petroleum Ltd., Vancouver, BC, plans to deepen to 5,250 ft the Boar Hill-1 wildcat it has drilled to 1,600 ft in New Zealand’s nonproducing East Coast basin.

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Thailand's PTTEP buys stake in Oiliver field in Timor Sea

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:41:00 GMT

October 29,2009 --

Thailand’s PTT Exploration & Production PLC (PTTEP) has acquired a 50% stake in the undeveloped Oliver oil field in the Timor Sea from Stuart Petroleum Ltd., Adelaide, for $7.5 million.

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IOCs looking into Tullow's Ugandan acreage

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:31:00 GMT

October 29,2009 --

A spokesman for Tullow Oil PLC said ExxonMobil Corp. is one of 10 international oil companies apparently interested in acquiring a stake in Tullow’s acreage in Uganda.

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Ohio

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:10:20 GMT

October 29,2009 --

Magnum Hunter Resources Corp., Houston, signed a definitive agreement to acquire Triad Energy Corp., private Reno, Ohio, oil and gas concern, out of bankruptcy for $81 million.

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BP to ply tight sands gas of Jordan's Risha

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:20:40 GMT

October 28,2009 --

BP PLC plans to join Jordan’s state-owned National Petroleum Co. (NPC) to exploit the onshore Risha concession in northeasternmost Jordan.

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SEG: Group to research low frequency seismic

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:15:20 GMT

October 26,2009 --

Five multinational oil and gas exploration and development companies have joined a 3-year project to research low frequency seismic technologies for hydrocarbon reservoir detection and characterization.

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Quebec

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:00:40 GMT

October 23,2009 --

Petrolia, Quebec City, Que., set production casing to TD of 1,200 m at the Haldimand-2 confirmation well in Quebec’s Gaspe region.

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Uruguay

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:55:10 GMT

October 23,2009 --

Uruguay’s Ancap accepted the bids it received in July 2009 for two blocks in the Punta del Este basin in the country’s first licensing round.

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Tennessee

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:05:40 GMT

October 23,2009 --

Cheyenne Resources Corp., Bakersfield, Calif., plans to repressure a Mississippian Fort Payne limestone reservoir in Tennessee using air injection.

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Netherlands

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:56:00 GMT

October 23,2009 --

Netherlands awarded Northern Petroleum Nederland BV the 97-sq-km Engelen exploration license in the West Netherlands basin.

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India

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:15:20 GMT

October 23,2009 --

Reliance Industries Ltd. and Hardy Oil & Gas PLC plugged the first well in the D9 exploration license block KG-DWN-2001/1 in the Krishna-Godavari basin off India.

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Four Chesapeake shales set output marks

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:20:30 GMT

October 22,2009 --

Chesapeake Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, achieved record gross operated production from its four main US shale gas plays.

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Chile

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:00:30 GMT

October 22,2009 --

Apache Corp. plans to drill three wells on its onshore concessions in southern Chile’s Magallanes basin by the end of 2009.

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Firms to shoot 3D over Oman's Saiwan East

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:06:00 GMT

October 22,2009 --

A group led by Consolidated Contractors Energy Development (Oman) Ltd. (CCED) will shoot 3D seismic and use special test equipment to evaluate three heavy oil zones and a deeper light oil formation, all in late Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoi.......

India

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:35:50 GMT

October 22,2009 --

India provisionally awarded Bengal Energy International Inc., Calgary, rights to 340,000-acre Block CY-OSN-2009/1 in the southern Cauvery basin.

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Venezuela

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:50:40 GMT

October 21,2009 --

Harvest Natural Resources Inc., Houston, said its 32% owned Venezuelan affiliate Petrodelta SA reported increased reserves as of Aug. 31, 2009, mainly from the drilling of two appraisal wells in mostly undeveloped El Salto oil field in eastern .......

Texas-West

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:21:00 GMT

October 21,2009 --

Arena Resources Inc., Tulsa, finalized a contract with an undisclosed pipeline operator to transport about 95% of oil production from Fuhrman-Mascho field in Andrews County, Tex.

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Shale finds muddle Arctic development timing

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:35:20 GMT

October 20,2009 --

The timing of oil and natural gas development in the Arctic, estimated to hold 22% of the world’s undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources, has grown less predictable with massive discoveries of gas in the world’s shales.

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MMS conditionally approves Shell's Beaufort Sea exploration plan

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:50:50 GMT

October 20,2009 --

The US Minerals Management Service approved Shell Offshore Inc.’s exploration plan for two Beaufort Sea leases with stringent conditions, the US Department of the Interior agency said on Oct. 19.

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Quebec

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:00:40 GMT

October 20,2009 --

Altai Resources Inc., Toronto, let a contract for 40 line-km of 2D seismic on permits in Quebec’s St. Lawrence Lowlands.

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Chevron group has Carnarvon basin gas find

[No Value Specified] — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:10:50 GMT

October 19,2009 --

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.

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OMV makes discovery west of the Shetlands

[No Value Specified] — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:25:40 GMT

October 19,2009 --

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.

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Dana to buy stake in concession off Guinea

[No Value Specified] — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:20:40 GMT

October 19,2009 --

Dana Petroleum PLC is to gain a 23% interest in the Hyperdynamics concession off Guinea under an exclusive letter of intent (LOI) signed with Hyperdynamics Corp., Sugar Land, Tex.

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Colombia plans to auction 178 blocks

[No Value Specified] — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:15:40 GMT

October 19,2009 --

Colombia seeks to auction 178 oil exploration and production blocks with the goal of boosting oil output to 1 million b/d in 2015, according to a senior government official.

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Liberia

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:15:30 GMT

October 19,2009 --

TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. began shooting 2,000 sq km of 3D seismic in the Gulf of Guinea off Liberia.

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Mahogany-4 assesses lateral extent of Jubilee off Ghana

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:00:10 GMT

October 16,2009 --

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.

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Eni reports 'world-class' gas find off Venezuela

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:40:40 GMT

October 16,2009 --

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.

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Russia

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:35:50 GMT

October 16,2009 --

Lundin Petroleum AB, Stockholm, has spud the Petrovskaya-1 exploratory well on the Lagansky block in the northern Caspian Sea off Russia.

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Shale gas potential draws explorers to Poland

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:55:20 GMT

October 16,2009 --

Rohol-Aufsuchungs AG, Vienna, and Sorgenia E&P SPA took farmouts from BNK Petroleum Inc., Calgary, to earn BNK’s 80% interest in and pursue shale gas on the Starogard, Slupsk, and Slawno oil and gas concessions in Poland.

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Tunisia

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:50:40 GMT

October 16,2009 --

DNO International ASA, Oslo, signed a letter of intent to participate in exploring the 2,428-sq-km Chorbane onshore permit in Tunisia, said AuDAX Resources Ltd., Perth.

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Alabama

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:20:40 GMT

October 16,2009 --

BNK Petroleum Inc., Calgary, plans to test four zones for commerciality at the first of a series of wells it plans to drill on the Alabama side of the Black Warrior basin.

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Colombia

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:50:50 GMT

October 15,2009 --

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., Toronto, said the Quifa-10 appraisal well on its Prospect H near Rubiales heavy oil field in Colombia found a 44-ft gross oil column in Carbonera basal sands topped at 2,889 ft measured depth.

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California

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:00:50 GMT

October 15,2009 --

Royale Energy Inc., San Diego, reported an apparent new field discovery in northern California’s Sacramento basin 1 mile north of Lone Star field.

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BLM seeks comment on Colorado gas project

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:50:40 GMT

October 15,2009 --

The US Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments until Nov. 13 on a proposed natural gas exploration and development project 6 miles northeast of Rifle, Colo.

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Tunisia

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:30:50 GMT

October 15,2009 --

Cygam Energy Inc., Calgary, said its Rigo Oil Co. Ltd. subsidiary signed an option and farmout with an undisclosed large US independent covering the 400,000-acre Bazma permit in .......

New Brunswick

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:40:10 GMT

October 15,2009 --

Corridor Resources Inc., Halifax, NS, is preparing to run two propane fracs in the upper part of the Frederick Brook formation at a well 4 km north of Elgin, NB, Canada.

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Greenland

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:56:00 GMT

October 14,2009 --

Cairn Energy PLC has agreed to sell Petronas International Corp. Ltd., (PICL) the overseas arm of Petroleum Nasional Bhd., a 10% interest in Cairn Energy's six operated blocks off western and southern Greenland.

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Peru

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:45:30 GMT

October 14,2009 --

CEPSA Peru SA started a 2D seismic shoot in 2.4 million acre Block 127 in Peru's Maranon basin.

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Vietnam

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:40:40 GMT

October 14,2009 --

A group led by Premier Oil PLC has completed shooting 1,100 sq km of 3D seismic over an oil and gas discovery and adjacent structures on Block 07/03 off Vietnam.

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Philippines

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:45:10 GMT

October 14,2009 --

Pitkin Petroleum PLC let a contract to BGP Inc. of China to shoot 200 line-km of 2D land seismic on SC 53 on Mindoro Island, Philippines.

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Newfield, Hess plan Marcellus joint venture

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:15:30 GMT

October 14,2009 --

Newfield Exploration Co. and Hess Corp. plan to start drilling in 2010 on a joint exploration venture to exploit gas in Devonian Marcellus shale in northeastern Pennsylvania.

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Peru

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:55:50 GMT

October 14,2009 --

Karoon Gas Australia Ltd. and Vietnam American Exploration Co. LLC (Vamex) let a contract for a 3D seismic survey on Block Z-38 in the Pacific off Peru to start in November.

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Nigeria

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:30:50 GMT

October 14,2009 --

Sky Petroleum Inc., Austin, plans to acquire interests in OPL 205 and OPL 905 in interior Nigeria's Anambra basin from private Russian firm Suntera Resources.

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Gulf of Mexico

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:40:20 GMT

October 13,2009 --

Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, plans to start production in early November from the Fastball discovery in Viosca Knoll Block 1003 in the Gulf of Mexico.

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ExxonMobil reportedly buying stake in Jubilee

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:15:10 GMT

October 12,2009 --

ExxonMobil Corp. reportedly has agreed to buy a stake in Jubilee oil field off Ghana from privately owned Kosmos Energy LLC, several media organizations have said.

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