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.

Total E&P Absheron has filed a notice of discovery and commerciality for the Absheron offshore block east of Shah Deniz field in the Caspian Sea offshore Azerbaijan.

A unit of ATP Oil & Gas Corp., Houston, said the Shimshon wildcat in the Mediterranean offshore Israel is a natural gas discovery in the Levant basin.

Aminex PLC plans seismic surveys and further drilling on the Ruvuma block onshore southern Tanzania after gauging a gas-condensate discovery at its Ntorya-1 well.

A group led by a unit of Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. Ltd. will plug and abandon a potentially commercial oil discovery in the frontier Buton basin off southeastern Sulawesi, Indonesia.

NCT Energy Group CA Colombia, operator of Llanos Block 27, has drilled an oil discovery at the Flami-1 exploratory well in the Llanos basin in Colombia.

Statoil ASA said it has confirmed that its 2009 Mizzen discovery in the Flemish Pass basin 500 km east of St. John’s, Newf., contains a resource of 100-200 million bbl of oil equivalent recoverable.

Statoil ASA and ExxonMobil Corp. have added a second large gas discovery offshore southern Tanzania and estimate the combined resource at as much as 9 tcf of gas in place.

Manitok Energy Inc., Calgary, has gauged its second new pool oil discovery at Stolberg in the Alberta foothills, where it is preparing to spud the seventh well in its current program.