Recent Oil Discoveries News

Romanian Black Sea gets deepwater gas find

Feb 22, 2012 A deepwater wildcat in the western Black Sea off Romania has discovered an accumulation initially pegged at 1.5 to 3 trillion cu ft of gas whose commerciality isn’t assured, press reports said Wedn...

Liberia gets Turonian, Albian oil discovery

Feb 21, 2012

African Petroleum Corp. Ltd. said the Narina-1 well on its 100% owned LB-09 block offshore Liberia found 69 ft of net oil pay in the Turonian and 36 ft in the Albian.

Jupiter wildcat finds hydrocarbons off Sierra Leone

Feb 21, 2012

An Anadarko Petroleum Corp. group has encountered hydrocarbons at the Jupiter-1 exploratory well on Block SL-07B-11 offshore Sierra Leone.

Heidelberg confirmed, Anadarko eyes development

Feb 20, 2012 An appraisal well near the 2009 Heidelberg discovery in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico has confirmed the initial resource estimate of more than 200 million bbl of oil, said Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

Tanzania deepwater wildcat penetrates gas reservoir

Feb 17, 2012 Statoil and ExxonMobil have reported gas shows at a deepwater wildcat in the Mafia Deep subbasin offshore Tanzania which, if successful, will further cement the emerging vast gas prospectivity and ...

Talisman to deem Colombia's Akacias commercial

Feb 16, 2012 Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, said the 2010 Akacias-1 discovery on the Ecopetrol-operated CPO-9 heavy oil block in Colombia’s Llanos basin has produced more than 325,000 bbl of oil equivalent on l...

Apache Texas Panhandle Canyon Wash oil play grows

Feb 16, 2012 Apache Corp. has completed five of six initial vertical exploratory tests as oil producers in the Canyon Wash play in the northern Texas Panhandle and has leased or purchased 96,000 net acres in th...

Eni lifts Mozambique Ruvuma gas trove to 30 tcf

Feb 15, 2012 A group led by Italy’s Eni SPA has hiked its estimate of gas in place to 30 tcf in Area 4 off northern Mozambique after its Mamba North-1 discovery in early 2012 identified 7.5 tcf of gas in place.

Lower Magdalena gets gas-condensate discovery

Feb 15, 2012 Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., Toronto, said its Cotorra-1X well on the Guama block in Colombia’s Lower Magdalena basin is a gas-condensate discovery in low-permeability Miocene Porquero Medio sand...

Belize government pans word of oil discovery

Feb 14, 2012 The Belize Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment has refuted the claim of an oil discovery by Treaty Energy Corp., New Orleans, at Treaty’s San Juan-2 exploratory well in southern Belize.

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