PetroKamchatka PLC plans to take a farmout to earn interests over a 3-year period in the Prizalivnayam, Verkhnepitskaya, and Borschevskaya licenses on Sakhalin Island and in Eastern Siberia, Russia, under a non-arms length agreement with East Siberian Resources Ltd., Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

Total SA has signed a production sharing contract with the Kenya government for deepwater Block L22 in the Lamu basin offshore Kenya.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Southern California Edison will shoot a seismic survey later this year and in 2013 in the Gulf of Santa Catalina portion of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the presently idle San Onofre nuclear generating station between Oceanside and San Clemente, Calif.

Canada Energy Partners, Vancouver, BC, has acquired Hudson’s Hope Gas Ltd., the subsidiary of GeoMet Inc. that is 50% owner and operator of CEP’s Peace River coalbed methane project in Alberta.

GeoGlobal Resources Inc., Calgary, is preparing to spud the Myra-1 deepwater exploratory well offshore Israel using the Noble Homer Ferrington semisubmersible that has arrived on site.

Edison International SPA has taken a farmout from Falklands Oil & Gas Ltd. on licenses south and east of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.

International Petroleum Ltd., Perth, has spudded exploratory Well No. 4 at its Krasnoleninsky project in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Region of Western Siberia, Russia.

Arizona Oil & Gas Inc., private Bisbee, Ariz., operator, said its affiliates have acquired more than 150,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Cochise County where geologic work and remote sensing indicate a complex of major reef structures.

Rift Energy Corp., private Toronto operator, has signed a production sharing contract for Block L19 in the Lamu basin onshore Kenya.

Eni SPA has taken a farmouts from Neon Energy Ltd. and KrisEnergy and will become operator of an exploration program on two blocks in the Song Hong and Phu Kanh basins offshore Vietnam, subject to government approvals.

Gulfport Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, said two of its Utica shale wells represent the longest laterals and longest measured depth wells ever drilled in Ohio.

Exoma Energy Ltd., Brisbane, has spudded the second well of the Galilee Joint Venture’s 2012 exploration program.

Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has completed the GASRS 23-1 well that targeted Cretaceous Austin chalk in South Burr Ferry field, Vernon Parish, La.

PetroFrontier Corp., Calgary, said its Australian unit has earned a 50% working interest in EP 127 and EP 128 in Australia’s Northern Territory under an agreement with Baraka Energy & Resources Ltd., formerly Baraka Petroleum Ltd.