BG Group is preparing to spud its sixth wildcat offshore southern Tanzania after reporting a fifth gas discovery at the Mzia-1 exploratory well on Block 1.

The Anadarko Petroleum Corp. group has added 7 to 20+ tcf of recoverable gas to its discovered trove offshore Mozambique at an exploratory success nearly 20 miles northwest of its Prosperidade complex.

Logs and drillstem test pressure data indicate two stratigraphically separate carbonate reservoir intervals with separate pressure systems and potentially separate or stacked hydrocarbon pay at the Tricertops-2 well in Papua New Guinea, said InterOil Corp., Houston.

Groups led by Statoil ASA plan to further explore the Barents Sea offshore Norway in the vicinity of the Skrugard and Havis discoveries while working toward a late 2018 production start for the Johann Sverdrup discovery in the North Sea west of Stavanger.

Tecpetrol Colombia has an oil discovery on the CPO-07 block in the Llanos basin in Colombia, said 20% working interest owner PetroNova Inc., Calgary.

Maurel & Prom, Paris, has plugged the Ziwani-1 wildcat on the Mnazi Bay concession onshore Tanzania after it tested natural gas from a Pliocene limestone, said partner Wentworth Resources Ltd., Dar es Salaam.

Multistage fracturing of the Vaca Muerta shale is expected to take place later this year in both the Coiron Amargo and Bajada del Palo concessions in Argentina, said Apco Oil & Gas International Inc., Tulsa, Okla.

Tullow Oil PLC said its Ngamia-1 exploratory well onshore Kenya has encountered a total of more than 100 m of oil pay over a gross oil-bearing interval of 650 m in multiple zones.

P1 Energy Corp., private Calgary independent, said it has an oil discovery on the LLA-32 block in Colombia’s Llanos basin.

The Leviathan-1 well has become the Levant basin’s deepest known penetration at a total depth of 21,400 ft, where Noble Energy Inc. halted drilling due to high pressure and mechanical limits of the wellbore design.

Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd. listed appraisal well results at its Shaikan field in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, including one well that recorded the deepest oil shows so far as indicated by both logs and core samples.

Neon Energy Ltd., Perth, is preparing to spud the Paloma Deep-2 well in Kern County, Calif., to evaluate the areal extent of the zones of interest encountered in Paloma Deep-1 and to further evaluate in an uncompromised wellbore the Lower Stevens/Fruitvale section that tested gas-condensate.

Aminex PLC said its Ndovu Resources Ltd. Subsidiary will test a Cretaceous sandstone interval at 2,660-85 m at the Ntorya-1 indicated gas discovery well in the Ruvuma basin onshore southern Tanzania.