Enhanced Oil Resources Inc., Houston, has permitted five horizontal 20-acre infill wells in its 4,800-acre Milnesand San Andres Unit in Roosevelt County, NM, where 40-acre development is estimated to have recovered 14% of original oil in place.

The US Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on a proposed waterflood program in the Jurassic Nugget formation and new oil and gas wells on public land in Fremont County, Wyo., 20 miles south of Sweetwater Station, BLM’s Lander, Wyo., field office said on Feb. 3.

ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. has award the first license for a patented steam injection system in use in the Cold Lake oil sands project in Alberta to Baker Hughes.

Petroecuador has awarded a joint venture led by Tecpetrol International SA an incremental production contract covering Libertador and Atacapi mature fields in northern Ecuador.

A rig is expected to arrive in February to drill development wells in Lagia oil field on the Sinai Peninsula side of Egypt’s Gulf of Suez in preparation for a cyclic steamflood pilot.

Statoil ASA has let a contract to Reservoir Exploration Technology ASA, Oslo, for an ocean bottom seismic survey over Kvitebjorn field in the North Sea off Norway.

San Leon Energy PLC said it has established connectivity between the two test wells in its Tarfaya oil shale project in coastal southern Morocco.

Tethys Oil AB, Stockholm, has agreed with Odin Energi AS to acquire interests in Lithuanian oil companies UAB Minijos Nafta and UAB LL Investicos.

Statoil said the Norwegian Continental Shelf, where it made the world’s largest 2011 oil discovery at Aldous, will remain the company’s backbone for years.

The US Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on Patriot Energy Resources LLC’s proposed Rough Draw Project 13 miles north of Gillette, Wyo., the agency’s Buffalo, Wyo., field office announced on Dec. 7.

Devon Energy Corp. received regulatory approval from the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment and Water to move forward with the $1.3 billion (Can.) Jackfish 3 steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) project, 15 km southeast of Conklin, Alta.

A unit of CNOOC Ltd. completed its $2.1 billion acquisition of Canadian oil sands producer OPTI Canada Inc., Calgary (OGJ Online, July 20, 2011).

Linc Energy Ltd., Brisbane, will soon start cyclic carbon dioxide injection into one of several fields in which it plans to implement enhanced oil recovery projects in the Powder River basin in Wyoming.

A unit of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP will buy carbon dioxide and helium holdings on the St. Johns dome in Arizona and New Mexico from Enhanced Oil Resources Inc., Houston, for $30 million.