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Brazil: HRT orders four helirigs for Solimoes basin

Sep 22, 2011

HRT Participacoes em Petroleo SA, Rio de Janeiro, has ordered four heliportable drilling rigs for its exploratory program in the Solimoes basin in Brazil.

Aldous Major North find warrants more drilling

Sep 22, 2011

A partnership led by Statoil Petroleum AS will consider further exploratory drilling to clarify the potential of the Aldous Major North structure in the North Sea off Norway.

India: Krishna-Godavari development drilling starts

Sep 21, 2011

Gujarat State Petroleum Corp. Ltd. has spudded the first development well in Deen Dayal West gas-condensate field on the KG-OSN-2001/3 block off eastern India, said Jubilant Energy NV, Amsterdam.

Continental Resources says natural gas well burning in Oklahoma

Sep 21, 2011

Continental Resources Inc. reported the Moseley 105H, a conventional natural gas well, caught on fire Sept. 19 at 10 p.m., and the safest solution is to allow the well to continue burning for several days. Wild Well Control is supervising a managed burn.

EU reprimands Turkey over threats to drilling offshore Cyprus

Sep 20, 2011

The European Union urged Turkey to refrain from continuing to make threats in a dispute with the Republic of Cyprus over offshore oil and gas exploratory drilling in the East Mediterranean basin.

ConocoPhillips, CNOOC agree on depressurization plan for Penglai 19-3 field

Sep 19, 2011

CNOOC Ltd. approved a fluid discharge and depressurization plan from operator ConocoPhillips China Inc. regarding oil spill response efforts in Penglai 19-3 oil field in Bohai Bay, and the plan was submitted to the State Oceanic Administration of China.

US drilling rig count gains 27 units

Sep 16, 2011

US crude oil and natural gas drilling rig activity gained 27 units this week, reaching a total of 1,985 working rigs. This week’s count is up by 324 units from the comparable period a year ago, Baker Hughes Inc. reported.

California Kreyenhagen, deeper exploration advance

Sep 15, 2011

Zodiac Exploration Inc., Calgary, has established in its 1-10 well in Kings County, Calif., the presence of several deeper targets that its technical team had identified on 3D seismic shot in 2009 and is preparing to plug back and drill a horizontal leg into the Upper Kreyenhagen formation.

Report cites decisions, multiple causes for Macondo well blowout, oil spill

Sep 14, 2011

A final report into the April 2010 Macondo deepwater well blowout and resulting massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana identified a number of causes for the blowout, concluding that a central cause was failure of a cement barrier in the production casing string.

Indonesia: Hess joins Niko on West Papua block

Sep 12, 2011

Hess Corp., New York, will take a farmout from Niko Resources Ltd., Calgary, to earn a 42.5% working interest in the Kofiau production sharing contract in the Salawati area of West Papua, Indonesia, subject to government approval.

Apache to explore Panhandle Canyon Wash oil

Sep 12, 2011

Apache Corp. is planning a 235 sq mile 3D seismic survey in a lightly drilled area of the northern Texas Panhandle to explore for oil in the Pennsylvanian Canyon Wash formation.

ConocoPhillips completes shutdown after Bohai Bay oil spill

Sep 12, 2011

ConocoPhillips China has completed a temporary shutdown of oil and natural gas production at Penglai 19-3 field in Bohai Bay as ordered by China's State Oceanic Administration (SOA) while ConocoPhillips and its partner, China National Offshore Oil Corp., develop and submit a compliance plan to SOA.

Statoil signs contract for West Hercules deepwater semi

Sep 9, 2011

Statoil signed a contract with North Atlantic Norway Ltd., a company in the Seadrill Group, to hire the West Hercules deepwater semisubmersible for exploration and production drilling internationally and on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Liberia deepwater well finds oily basin, no reservoir

Sep 8, 2011

African Petroleum Corp. Ltd. said its Apalis-1 deepwater wildcat off Liberia confirmed the critical components of a working hydrocarbon system but found no commercial quality reservoir.

ConocoPhillips sets up oil spill fund for Bohai Bay field

Sep 7, 2011

ConocoPhillips plans to establish a fund related to June oil spills at Penglai 19-3 field in Bohai Bay, saying the fund will be designed to address ConocoPhillips’s responsibilities in accordance with relevant laws of China and to benefit the general environment in Bohai Bay (OGJ Online, Sept. 6, 2010).

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