The second well drilled to confirm the Tupi Northeast presalt oil discovery in the Santos basin offshore Brazil has identified an oil column more than 290 m thick in carbonate reservoirs, said Petroleo Brasileiro SA.

Eni Norge AS looks to a busy drilling year in the Barents Sea offshore northern Norway with a program that calls for several exploratory and development wells.

OMV AG has completed the K-30 exploratory well on the Kadanwari block in the Middle Indus basin in Pakistan.

A combine of Afren PLC and Amni International Petroleum Development Company Ltd. of Nigeria has tested a light oil discovery on OML 112 off southeastern Nigeria 45 km southeast of Port Harcourt.

A group led by Statoil ASA has confirmed its Skrugard oil and gas discovery in the Barents Sea, which will become the northernmost field development on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.

Premier Oil PLC reported a flow of 17 MMscfd of gas from fractured Eocene-Oligocene Lama sandstones in Anoa oil and gas field on Natuna Sea Block A offshore Indonesia.

PetroMagdalena Energy Corp., Toronto, reported an oil discovery on the 70% owned Cubiro block in Colombia’s Llanos basin at a structure on trend with Barranquero field to the north and the Tijereto Sur-1X exploratory well to the south.

Aminex PLC will run 7-in. liner to total depth and deepen an indicated gas discovery on the Ruvuma block in the Ruvuma basin onshore Tanzania.

Logs now show that Statoil ASA and ExxonMobil’s Zafarani indicated deepwater gas discovery in Block 2 offshore Tanzania is a “high impact discovery,” having proved as much as 5 tcf of gas in place, Statoil said.

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 Wednesday.

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.

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

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.

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 liquefied natural gas prospects along the East African margin.