Kulczyk Oil Ventures Inc., Calgary, said its AED Southeast Asia Ltd. subsidiary is rigging up to drill the Lukut Updip-1 well on the onshore portion of 1,123 sq km Block L in Brunei.

DNO International ASA, Oslo, has signed a production sharing contract covering Block SL18 onshore Somaliland.

Crimson Exploration Inc., Houston, said the second Woodbine oil well in its 2013 capital program came on line at 984 b/d of oil, 437 Mcfd of gas, and 86 b/d of natural gas liquids on a 26/64-in. choke.

Cairn Energy PLC has secured a long-term contract for the Transocean Cajun Express semisubmersible for a multicountry West African exploratory drilling campaign to begin in the second half of 2013.

WesternGeco has begun acquiring a multiclient broadband 3D seismic survey in the western Barents Sea offshore Norway.

Turkey’s General Directorate of Petroleum Affairs has awarded a 100% working interest in the Banarli License 5104 in the Thrace basin to Valeura Energy Inc., Calgary.

Lundin Petroleum AB, Stockholm, has spudded the 7/4-3 exploratory well on PL495 in the North Sea offshore Norway.

Statesman Resources Ltd., Vancouver, BC, as part of a rationalization of noncore assets, has sold Reichel gas field and related leases in Rush County, Kan., to an undisclosed buyer for $302,500.

Noble Energy Inc. has spudded the I-7 exploratory well on Block I offshore Equatorial Guinea, said 7.5% interest holder PA Resources AB, Stockholm.

CGG has begun shooting the 3-month first phase of the Steppingstone multiclient 3D seismic survey in the North Sea offshore central Norway.

A unit of Heritage Oil PLC will take a farmout from LNG Energy Ltd.’s Telemu No. 18 Ltd. subsidiary to earn an 80% interest in the PPL 319 and PRL 13 licenses in Papua New Guinea.

Reliance Industries Ltd., operator of the NEC-25 block in the Bengal basin offshore northeastern India, submitted the field development plan last week to the government of India.

Drilling resumed late last week in Kokopelli gas field in the Piceance basin with spudding of the Federal 6-7-15-27 directional well in Garfield County, Colo., said Dejour Energy Inc., Denver.

GeoPark Holdings Ltd. has drilled, completed, and placed on production oil development wells on two operated blocks in Colombia’s Llanos basin.