Salamander Energy PLC has suspended its North Kendang-1 exploratory well as a potential wet gas discovery on the South East Sangatta PSC in the North Kutei basin offshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Genel Energy PLC has gauged a high-flowing oil and gas discovery from which it plans to begin production within little more than a year in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

A Niobrara shale discovery well on production for 100 days in western Colorado’s Piceance basin has recovered more than 1 bcf of gas, the same volume as a typical well recovers from the Williams Fork formation in a 25-30-year life, said WPX Energy Inc., Tulsa.

Americas Petrogas Inc., Calgary, has reported an operated, vertical gas-condensate discovery in the Vaca Muerta shale on the Los Toldos I block in Argentina’s Neuquen basin.

A group led by Lundin Petroleum AB has made an oil discovery on the western flank of the Utsira high 15 km south of Edvard Grieg field in the Central North Sea offshore Norway.

BP Exploration Operating Co. has encountered gas-condensate in reservoirs of varying quality at the North Uist exploratory prospect on the Atlantic margin west of the Shetland Islands.

Petroleum Development Oman reported a giant gas-condensate discovery in the northern part of its concession area 40 km west of Saih Rawl field.

Newfield Exploration Co., which is exploring strategic alternatives for its assets offshore Malaysia and China, has gauged gas at a second pinnacle reef discovery on Block SK 310 offshore Sarawak, Malaysia, and estimates initial gas in place at 1.5 to 3 tcf, the largest conventional exploratory success in the company’s 25-year history.

New Zealand Energy Corp., Vancouver, BC, will install artificial lift equipment at its sixth oil discovery in the Taranaki basin on New Zealand’s North Island.

Colombia’s state Ecopetrol SA disclosed that its Venus-2 exploratory well in San Martin municipality of Meta Province had proved the presence of crude oil.

Two sidetracks confirmed the presence of oil-bearing sandstone of Late Jurassic age at Wintershall Noordzee BV’s Hibonite exploratory well in the Danish North Sea 337 km north of Den Helder, Netherlands.

A Chevron Corp. group has made an oil discovery at its Coronado prospect in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico Lower Tertiary Trend.

A BP PLC-led group has reported drillstem test rates as high as 5,600 b/d of oil from the Itaipu-1A presalt discovery well in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.