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Putin touts Russia's oil reserves; seeks funding

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:05:20 GMT

August 24,2009 --

Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, on a visit to the town of Igarka in Krasnoyarsk Territory, boasted that the region will eventually provide more than 115 million tons/year of “additional oil and condensate” on reaching .......

Idaho oil, gas exploratory drilling planned

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:40:10 GMT

August 24,2009 --

Canadian companies plan to drill for oil and natural gas in Idaho’s Boise basin.

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Drilling set on Indonesia's first CBM tract

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:05:20 GMT

August 24,2009 --

A test well on Indonesia’s first coalbed methane exploration and development production-sharing contract is to spud by September.

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Egypt signs $2.3 billion oil, gas deals

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:05:40 GMT

August 20,2009 --

Egypt agreed to oil and gas exploration deals worth $2.3 billion covering the Eastern Desert, the Nile Delta, the Gulf of Suez, and northern Sinai.

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JKX brings Hajd�n�n�s field on stream

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:55:30 GMT

August 20,2009 --

JKX Oil & Gas PLC has started gas production from Hajdúnánás field in northeast Hungary a year after its initial discovery.

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Somalia-Kenya

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:31:00 GMT

August 20,2009 --

Raytec Metals Corp. took a farmout from Africa Oil Corp. that covers blocks in Somalia’s Puntland state and Kenya.

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Egypt

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:50:50 GMT

August 20,2009 --

Sea Dragon Energy Inc., Calgary, acquired a 10% working interest in the North West Gemsa development and exploration lease in Egypt’s Gulf of Suez onshore area from Premier Oil Overseas BV for $12.5 million.

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BLM seeks comments on proposed western Colorado project

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:25:30 GMT

August 19,2009 --

The US Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on an oil and natural gas development proposal on federal leases near Silt, Colo., BLM’s field office in Glenwood Springs announced.

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Western GOM lease sale attracts $115 million in high bids

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:05:50 GMT

August 19,2009 --

Apparent high bids totaling more than $115 million were offered for 162 tracts in the Western Gulf of Mexico during Lease Sale 210, reported the US Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service Aug. 19 in New Orleans.

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Louisiana

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:15:30 GMT

August 19,2009 --

MicroSeismic Inc., Houston, was awarded its fourth contract, by undisclosed clients, for 3D passive seismic imaging in the Jurassic Haynesville shale play, bringing total deployment to more than 100 sq miles of permanent, buried arrays that wil.......

Falcon to pursue large resource at Beetaloo

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:50:40 GMT

August 19,2009 --

Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd., Denver, plans to reenter, deepen, and test the Shenandoah-1 exploration well in the Beetaloo subbasin of Australia’s McArthur basin, where a resource evaluation has indicated large oil and gas potential.

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Bowleven plans appraisal wells in Cameroon

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:45:50 GMT

August 18,2009 --

Bowleven PLC plans to drill the IF-2 and IF-3 appraisal wells on IF field within the Etinde permit in Cameroon by second quarter 2010.

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Venoco to press Monterey shale work in 2010

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:10:50 GMT

August 18,2009 --

Denver independent Venoco Inc. sees 2010 as the year it begins to exploit California’s Miocene Monterey shale in earnest and believes more than 10 billion bbl of original oil in place exist on its onshore acreage.

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MMS changes proprietary term of some geophysical data

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:00:40 GMT

August 18,2009 --

The US Minerals Management Service published a final rule that enables producers to request extensions to the length of time the agency treats their data as proprietary.

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Hungary

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:50:40 GMT

August 18,2009 --

Hungarian Horizon Energy Ltd. has spud the Gorbehaza-1 well in the Nyirseg North permit in northeastern Hungary.

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Brazil

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:40:30 GMT

August 18,2009 --

Maersk Oil has spud the 1-MRK-2-SPS well in the Abacate-1 prospect in the BM-S-29 block in the Santos basin off Brazil.

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Louisiana

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:25:50 GMT

August 18,2009 --

TriDimension Energy LP, Dallas, operating as Axis Onshore LP, set production casing to test Trisler-1, ninth well drilled in the Four Rivers project in east-central Louisiana.

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Australia

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:56:00 GMT

August 18,2009 --

Exoma Energy Ltd., Perth, let a contract to MBA Consulting, Brisbane, in connection with its planned Galilee basin coalbed methane and shale gas project.

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Egypt

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:16:00 GMT

August 18,2009 --

Aminex PLC, Dublin, has spud the South Malak-1 well on the West Esh El Mallaha permit onshore Egypt’s Gulf of Suez.

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Washington

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:41:00 GMT

August 17,2009 --

Delta Petroleum Corp., Denver, began a completion attempt at the Gray 31-23 well sidetrack in the nonproducing Columbia River basin in Klickitat County, Wash., where it logged numerous highly porous and permeable overpressured gas-charged sands.......

Maramzai-1 well in Pakistan shows gas, condensate

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:11:00 GMT

August 17,2009 --

Hungary’s MOL Pakistan Oil & Gas Co. reported a discovery with the Maramzai-1 exploratory well on Tal Block in North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, saying it tested 12 MMcfd of natural gas and 430 b/d of condensate.

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Beach makes oil find in Eromanga basin

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:06:00 GMT

August 17,2009 --

Beach Petroleum NL, Adelaide, and its joint venture partner, Drillsearch Energy Ltd., Sydney, have made an oil discovery in permit PEL91 in the South Australian part of the Eromanga basin.

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Hungary

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:00:20 GMT

August 17,2009 --

A group led by Ascent Resources has spud the PEN-105 well in the Peneszlek area of northeastern Hungary, projected to 1,500 m.

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Eni to study oil, gas in Congo (former Zaire)

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:51:00 GMT

August 14,2009 --

Italy’s Eni SPA will investigate oil and gas development opportunities in the Cuvette basin and in the east of Congo (former Zaire) under an agreement signed with the government.

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Seismic-while-drilling technology advance hailed

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:50:30 GMT

August 14,2009 --

Technology International Inc. of Kingwood, Tex., has developed a breakthrough borehole imaging system that is nearly commercial, according to the US Department of Energy, which is sponsoring the project.

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Santos hits gas pay with Burnside well off W. Australia

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:30:30 GMT

August 13,2009 --

Santos Ltd., Adelaide, reported that its Burnside-1ST1 exploration well, drilled in permit WA-281-P in the Browse basin off Western Australia, found a 65-m gross natural gas column.

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Kyrgyzstan

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:45:20 GMT

August 13,2009 --

The South Petroleum Co. Kyrgyz joint venture is drilling the Huday Nazar SPC-1 exploration well on the Soh license in Kyrgyzstan, said participant Manas Petroleum, Baar, Switzerland.

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Utah

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:30:20 GMT

August 13,2009 --

Pioneer Oil & Gas, South Jordan, Utah, and industry partners are completing a large geophysical survey covering more than 720 sq miles over much of the company’s Central Utah thrust belt acreage.

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China

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:15:10 GMT

August 13,2009 --

CNOOC Ltd. said it drillstem tested the Qinhuangdao 35-4-3 well in the southern Shijiutuo uplift area of Bohai Bay at average rate of 1,700 b/d of oil and 400 Mcfd of gas on an 11.11-mm choke.

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Italy

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:05:30 GMT

August 13,2009 --

Short deliverability tests at Italy’s Sillaro gas field confirmed production capacity in one zone and gauged gas from a previously untested zone, said Po Valley Energy Ltd., Perth. Two more zones are to be tested.

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Kentucky

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:30:50 GMT

August 13,2009 --

Conquest Petroleum Inc., The Woodlands, Tex., is seeking financing to proceed with a Devonian New Albany shale drilling program in southwestern Kentucky.

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Texas-East

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:51:00 GMT

August 12,2009 --

Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, is drilling the Kardell-1 Jurassic Haynesville exploratory well in San Augustine County, Tex.

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Kansas

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:00:50 GMT

August 12,2009 --

DK True Energy Development Ltd. signed a letter agreement to earn up to an 85% working interest in southeast Kansas coalbed methane properties held by JayHawk Energy Inc., Post Falls, Idaho.

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Kentucky

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:35:30 GMT

August 12,2009 --

Kentucky USA Energy Inc., London, Ky., signed a gas gathering and treatment agreement with Seminole Energy Services LLC, Tulsa, regarding Kentucky USA’s Devonian New Albany shale gas output in the Illinois basin in western Kentucky.

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Gulf Keystone finds oil in Iraq's Kurdish region

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:55:50 GMT

August 11,2009 --

Gulf Keystone Petroleum International Ltd. (GKP) reported its Shaikan-1 well in Iraq’s Kurdish region on Shaikan Block, 85 km northwest of Erbil, found oil in the Middle Jurassic Sargelu formation at a depth of 1,450-1,510 m.

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Eastern Saskatchewan shale gas hunt starting

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:30:50 GMT

August 11,2009 --

Hunt Oil Co., Dallas, and Nordic Oil & Gas Ltd., Winnipeg, Man., signed a strategic development agreement regarding gas exploration in east-central Saskatchewan.

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New Mexico

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:20:20 GMT

August 11,2009 --

The Crossroads-302 well in Crossroads Siluro-Devonian Unit in Lea County, NM, was reactivated July 30 and has averaged 130 b/d of oil since reactivation, said operator Enhanced Oil Resources Inc., Houston.

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Shell's plan for Beaufort Sea advances

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:15:40 GMT

August 11,2009 --

The US Minerals Management Service has received Shell Offshore Inc.’s plan to explore two Beaufort Sea leases and deemed it complete.

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Tajikistan

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:25:20 GMT

August 11,2009 --

Tajikistan granted the Tajik Northwest petroleum exploration license to Somon Oil, a 90% owned subsidiary of Manas Petroleum Corp., Baar, Switzerland.

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Chevron discovers oil and gas off Angola

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:20:20 GMT

August 8,2009 --

A consortium led by Chevron Corp. has made a significant oil and gas discovery on Block 0 off Angola.

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Shell gas find boosts Browse basin LNG plan

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:01:00 GMT

August 7,2009 --

Shell Australia has found gas close to its Prelude discovery on its 100%-owned permit WA-371-P in the Browse basin off northwest Western Australia.

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PT Pertamina still seeks partners for Natuna D-Alpha

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:16:00 GMT

August 6,2009 --

Indonesia’s state-owned PT Pertamina is in the process of selecting partners to develop the Natuna D-Alpha natural gas block in Riau Islands province.

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Global Energy awards seismic contract

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:30:50 GMT

August 6,2009 --

Global Energy Development PLC has contracted Compania Geofisica Latinoamericana SA (CGL) to shoot seismic over the Colombian Rio Verde contract.

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Tullow Oil discovers oil in Ngara-1 well

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:11:00 GMT

August 5,2009 --

Tullow Oil PLC will suspend the Ngara-1 exploration well as a future oil producer after finding over 8 m of net oil pay in the Butiaba region of Uganda’s Block 2.

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Development advances at East Siberian field

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:30:40 GMT

August 5,2009 --

Verkhnechonskneftegas (VCNG), an affiliate of TNK-BP, has let a contract to KBR for front-end engineering and design of a production facility at giant Verkhnechonskoye oil field in Eastern Siberia.

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Texas-East

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:16:00 GMT

August 5,2009 --

Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, said it has substantially derisked 74,000 of its 110,000 net acres in the Haynesville shale gas play in the greater Carthage, Tex., area and has identified about 800 drilling locations on the acreage.

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Turkmenistan

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:45:40 GMT

August 5,2009 --

Dragon Oil PLC tested the Lam 13/135 development well in the Caspian Sea off Turkmenistan at the combined rate of 1,320 b/d of oil. TD is 3,302 m.

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Santos awards FEED contract for upstream Gladstone LNG project

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:50:40 GMT

August 5,2009 --

Santos Ltd. let a front-end engineering design contract to Foster Wheeler to determine how it should extract and transport coal-seam gas for the upstream phase of its Gladstone LNG project in Queensland, Australia.

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Pennsylvania

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:05:40 GMT

August 5,2009 --

Ultra Petroleum Corp., Houston, started Pennsylvania Marcellus shale production in mid-July at a combined 13 MMcfd from two wells as the company opened a field office at Wellsboro in Tioga County.

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Dana Petroleum plugs Tafejjart-1 well

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:40:50 GMT

August 5,2009 --

Dana Petroleum (E&P) Ltd. plugged the onshore Tafejjart-1 well (TAJ-1) in Morocco because it has not discovered commercial quantities of gas.

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Algeria

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:30:10 GMT

August 4,2009 --

Petroceltic International PLC said the AT-1 well on the Isarene block in Algeria’s Illizi basin went to TD 2,118 m and is being suspended for tests.

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Louisiana

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:50:20 GMT

August 3,2009 --

TriDimension Energy LP, Dallas, operating as Axis Onshore LP, set production casing at the second well in Honey Brake Lake field in Catahoula Parish, La.

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Gulf of Mexico

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:45:30 GMT

August 3,2009 --

TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. and WesternGeco will shoot the Liberty multiclient wide azimuth 3D seismic survey in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

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Australia

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:40:40 GMT

August 3,2009 --

A subsidiary of Japan Energy Corp. took a farmout from Oilex Ltd., Perth, to earn an interest in the Block JPDA 06-103 production sharing contract in the Timor Sea off northwestern Australia.

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Chesapeake sees sharp Haynesville output hike

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:45:40 GMT

August 3,2009 --

Chesapeake Energy Corp. expects to hike its Haynesville shale gas output to a gross operated 575 MMcfe/d at the end of 2009 and as much as 1.025 bcfe/d by the end of 2010.

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Chesapeake adds volume in Granite Wash plays

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:40:40 GMT

August 3,2009 --

The western Oklahoma Colony and Texas Panhandle Granite Wash oil and gas-condensate plays are delivering exceptional rates of return even in the current low commodity price environment, said Chesapeake Energy Corp.

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Gulf of Mexico

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:35:10 GMT

August 3,2009 --

TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. and WesternGeco will shoot the Liberty multiclient wide azimuth 3D seismic survey in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

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Apache builds Egypt Western Desert capacity

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:25:30 GMT

August 3,2009 --

Apache Corp. reported a string of oil and gas-condensate completions including a new field discovery on its concessions in Egypt’s Western Desert.

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North Dakota

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:10:50 GMT

July 31,2009 --

Northern Oil & Gas Inc., Wayzata, Minn., claimed its sixth consecutive quarterly increase in production as it sold 50,396 bbl of oil and 6.6 MMcf of gas in the quarter ended June 30.

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Alaska

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:40:50 GMT

July 31,2009 --

Rampart Energy Co., Denver, is drilling an exploratory test in interior Alaska’s Nenana basin.

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Tunisia

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:05:50 GMT

July 30,2009 --

AuDAX Resources Ltd., Perth, invited 15 drilling contractors to bid to drill the Sambuca prospect in the Sicily Channel off Tunisia in the first half of 2010 using a semisubmersible rig.

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Quebec

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:00:20 GMT

July 30,2009 --

Questerre Energy Corp. and Talisman Energy Canada plan to spud at least two horizontal wells later in 2009 to test Ordovician Utica shale in Quebec’s St. Lawrence Lowlands.

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Italy

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:20:50 GMT

July 30,2009 --

Cygam Energy Inc., Calgary, completed an environmental assessment for the proposed Elsa-2 exploration well to be drilled in the central Adriatic off Italy in late 2010 subject to rig availability.

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Petrolia to drill at Quebec's Haldimand oil area

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:15:10 GMT

July 30,2009 --

Petrolia, Rimouski, Que., has taken over as operator of the Haldimand project and plans to drill a second well by Dec. 31.

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Anadarko finds oil at Vito in deepwater gulf

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:30:30 GMT

July 30,2009 --

A group led by Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said the Vito exploration well cut more than 250 net ft of oil pay in subsalt Miocene sands and plans to drill two other prospects along trend in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.

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Court clarification lets MMS lease sales outside Alaska proceed

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:10:30 GMT

July 29,2009 --

A federal appeals court clarified its order vacating the current federal offshore oil and gas leasing program on July 28 by saying that the ruling applies only to the Alaska portion of the plan.

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ECA presses Pennsylvania Marcellus work

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:05:50 GMT

July 29,2009 --

Energy Corp. of America, a private Charleston, W.Va., operator, is developing gas production from Devonian Marcellus shale in Greene County in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania.

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Colombia

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:55:30 GMT

July 29,2009 --

Petrolifera Petroleum Ltd., Calgary, said the La Pinta-1 well on the Sierra Nevada license in Colombia’s Lower Magdalena basin sanded up shortly after flowing at the rate of 776 b/d of 44° gravity oil with limited associated gas.

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Colombia

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:15:10 GMT

July 28,2009 --

Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., Toronto, said it appears to have extended Rubiales heavy oil field in Colombia’s Llanos basin into the Quifa block to the southwest and plans to drill four more wells surrounding the field in 2009.

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Iraq

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:30:50 GMT

July 28,2009 --

Longford Energy Inc., Calgary, assumed from Forbes & Manhattan (Barbados) Inc. a 20% interest in the Chia Surkh production sharing contract area in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Sulaymaniya governorate.

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Italy

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:45:10 GMT

July 28,2009 --

Log analysis of the Sillaro-2 appraisal well in Italy’s Po basin confirmed the main pay zones in the Sillaro-1 discovery, suggested a number of previously untested pay zones, and highlight three possible attractive shallower targets, said.......

Indonesia

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:26:00 GMT

July 28,2009 --

Genting Oil Kasuri Pte. Ltd., an affiliate of Genting Oil & Gas Ltd., Jakarta, let a contract to CapRock Communications to supply satellite connectivity in support of seismic and drilling activity on the remote Kasuri block in West Papua, I.......

Utah

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:35:40 GMT

July 28,2009 --

Pacific Energy & Mining Co., Reno, Nev., signed a farmout agreement with Mar/Reg Oil Co. for the drilling of a horizontal leg in an existing well in Tin Cup Mesa oil field, San Juan County, Utah.

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Colombia

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:20:10 GMT

July 28,2009 --

Canacol Energy Ltd., Calgary, let a contract to Saxon Services de Panama to drill three wells at its operated Rancho Hermoso and Entrerios fields in Colombia’s Llanos basin starting in early August 2009.

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Papua New Guinea

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:41:00 GMT

July 28,2009 --

InterOil Corp. has spud the Antelope-2 appraisal well 2.2 miles south of the Antelope-1 discovery well in PPL 237 in Papua New Guinea.

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CNX Gas expands Marcellus shale position

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:40:50 GMT

July 28,2009 --

CNX Gas Corp., Pittsburgh, leased nearly 40,000 acres with Marcellus shale gas potential in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, bringing its total Marcellus position to 230,000 acres.

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China

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:25:20 GMT

July 28,2009 --

CNOOC Ltd. said the JinZhou 20-2N-1 discovery well in the Liaodong Bay portion of Bohai Gulf penetrated 33.4 m of oil pay zones.

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Companies sign PSC for block off Equitorial Guinea

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:56:00 GMT

July 27,2009 --

Starc Ltd. and Glencore Exploration Ltd. have signed a production-sharing agreement with Equatorial Guinea’s state oil firm GEPetrol for offshore Block EG-07.

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Mexico institute recommends upstream opening

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:25:20 GMT

July 27,2009 --

The Mexico Competitiveness Institute (IMCO) has called for dramatic policy steps to confront Mexico's decline in the world economy.

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MMS gulf region observes 20 years of unannounced oil spill drills

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:25:30 GMT

July 27,2009 --

The US Minerals Management Service is celebrating 20 years of unannounced oil spill response drills in the Gulf of Mexico.

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StatoilHydro assesses Peon development concept

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:10:20 GMT

July 24,2009 --

StatoilHydro estimates that the shallow-water Peon gas discovery in the Norwegian North Sea holds recoverable resources of 15-30 billion cu m after plugging and abandoning an appraisal well there.

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Cabot nails vertical Marcellus-Purcell interval

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:15:50 GMT

July 24,2009 --

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., Houston, is producing 39 MMcfd of Marcellus shale gas from seven horizontal and 20 vertical wells in northeastern Pennsylvania, where it notched a critical success with one of its latest vertical completions.

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Quality poor of giant gas find off Namibia

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:05:10 GMT

July 23,2009 --

Reservoir quality appears to be poor at an apparent giant gas-condensate discovery off northernmost Namibia.

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Total awarded exploration block off Cameroon

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:25:30 GMT

July 23,2009 --

Cameroon’s Ministry of Industry, Mining, and Technological Development has awarded Total Exploration & Production Cameroon, a 75.8% affiliate of Total SA, the Lungahe exploration block in the Rio del Rey basin off Cameroon.

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Oxy adds California gas-condensate giant

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:15:20 GMT

July 23,2009 --

Occidental Petroleum Corp. has drilled six wells in an apparent giant gas-condensate field in California’s San Joaquin basin that has an estimated 150-250 million boe recoverable.

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Newfield Anadarko Granite Wash gas flow grows

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:25:10 GMT

July 23,2009 --

Newfield Exploration Co., Houston, has built production from Pennsylvanian Granite Wash in the western Anadarko basin to 112 MMcfd of gas equivalent after starting a horizontal drilling program in late 2008.

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Court ruling leaves key oil fields to Sudanese government

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:35:50 GMT

July 22,2009 --

The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has readjusted the borders of Sudan’s oil-rich Abyei region, effectively awarding control of key oil facilities in the area to the Khartoum-based northern government.

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Louisiana

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:11:00 GMT

July 22,2009 --

Energy XXI (Bermuda) Ltd., Houston, gauged an oil and gas discovery in Vermilion Parish, La.

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Noble Energy to develop Aseng gas-condensate field

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:00:30 GMT

July 22,2009 --

Noble Energy Inc. will proceed with bringing its $1.3 billion Aseng oil and gas-condensate project onstream by mid-2012 after receiving approval from the company board, its partners, and the nation’s energy ministry.

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BLM selects specialists to evaluate deferred Utah leases

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:45:40 GMT

July 22,2009 --

The US Bureau of Land Management named a 12-member multidisciplinary team from three federal agencies to evaluate 77 deferred oil and gas lease parcels in southeastern Utah.

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Australia

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:25:10 GMT

July 22,2009 --

Mosaic Oil NL capped a four-well program in Queensland’s Surat-Bowen basin with completion of the Taylor-20 gas-condensate well.

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Ireland

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:10:20 GMT

July 22,2009 --

Ireland awarded Serica Energy PLC a frontier license covering 993 sq km in the underexplored Rockall trough off the west coast.

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Poland

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:45:30 GMT

July 20,2009 --

FX Energy Inc., Salt Lake City, began trucking compressed gas from the Grabowka-12 well in Poland, which is producing 740-925 Mcfd.

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CNOOC, Sinopec sign $1.3 billion deal for Angola block

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:25:10 GMT

July 20,2009 --

Marathon International Petroleum Angola Block 32 signed a $1.3 billion definitive agreement with CNOOC International and Sinopec International Petroleum E&P under which CNOOC and Sinopec will acquire Marathon’s undivided 20% participa.......

RWE Dea awarded concession in Turkmenistan

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:55:20 GMT

July 17,2009 --

RWE Dea AG will shoot 3D seismic and drill a shallow-water exploration well on Block 23 off Turkmenistan in the southeastern Caspian Sea.

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Quebec

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:30:40 GMT

July 17,2009 --

Canbriam Energy Inc., private Calgary company, has spud the Farnham-1 exploratory well in Quebec’s St. Lawrence Lowlands.

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BP reports results of Mad Dog South well in Gulf of Mexico

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:40:40 GMT

July 17,2009 --

BP PLC drilled a successful appraisal well in a previously untested southern segment of Mad Dog field in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Murphy Oil makes oil find off Congo (Brazzaville)

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:25:20 GMT

July 17,2009 --

Murphy Oil Corp. reported an oil discovery at the Turquoise Marine-1 prospect on the Mer Profonde Sud (MPS) block off Congo (Brazzaville).

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India

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:50:20 GMT

July 17,2009 --

Gujarat State Petroleum Corp. and GeoGlobal Resources Inc., Calgary, are starting development of Tarapur 1 oil field in western India’s Cambay basin.

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Louisiana

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:35:30 GMT

July 16,2009 --

Portrush Petroleum Corp., Vancouver, BC, signed an agreement with an undisclosed operator to develop a 1,200-acre prospect in Pointe Coupee Parish 30 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, La.

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