Comprehensive postwell studies indicate oil in place of 1 billion to 1.6 billion bbl, as much as four times earlier estimates, in the Middle and Basal Wealden formations at the Barryroe discovery in the North Celtic Sea basin offshore Ireland, said Providence Resources PLC.

Chevron Australia has made its 14th discovery offshore Western Australia in 3 years with the drilling of its Pontus-1 wildcat in production licence WA-37-L. The well encountered a 30-m net natural gas pay zone.

E.On E&P and Sonatrach have made further oil and gas discoveries in the Rhourde Yacoub license area in the Berkine basin in eastern Algeria.

A group led by Hunt Oil Middle East has tested a combined flow rate of 13,584 b/d of oil from three zones at the deepened Simrit-2 well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq with nine more zones to be drillstem tested.

A group led by Deep Gulf Energy LP has made a deepwater oil discovery at Garden Banks Block 506 about 145 miles southeast of Galveston, Tex.

Rialto Energy Ltd., Perth, completed drillstem tests at Gazelle field on Block Ci-202 offshore Ivory Coast and estimated reservoir deliverability at 33 MMscfd with 4-1/2-in. production tubing.

Tullow Oil PLC said its Wawa-1 exploratory well on the Deepwater Tano license offshore Ghana has intersected oil and gas-condensate in a Turonian turbidite channel system.

McMoRan Exploration Co., New Orleans, has perforated 165 ft of Wilcox sands in the Davy Jones-1 ultradeep discovery well on the Gulf of Mexico shelf and is running tubing to conduct flow tests the week of July 30.

Crimson Exploration Inc., Houston, has summarized continued success in its East Texas Woodbine and Karnes County Eagle Ford programs and provided an operational update on its Liberty and Zavala County activity.

Brazil’s Petrobras has disclosed an offshore heavy oil discovery in the Espirito Santo basin 64 km southwest of Golfinho field.

GeoPark Holdings Ltd. said it participated in three discoveries in the Llanos basin in Colombia.

NCT Energy Group CA Colombia will apply for extended production test authority for the Flami-1 discovery well on the Llanos 27 block in Colombia, said partner Santa Maria Petroleum Inc., Toronto.

Tullow Oil PLC and Africa Oil Corp. have discovered more apparent thick oil pay at the Ngamia-1 wildcat in the South Lokichar basin in northern Kenya.

Statoil ASA said a high-pressure high-temperature gas-condensate discovery on its King Lear prospect in the southern part of the Norwegian North Sea has recoverable volumes of 70-200 million bbl of oil equivalent.