Wintershall AG has made a gas discovery off Qatar on the Block 4 North exploration and production sharing agreement area signed in November 2008.

Lundin Malaysia BV said its Ara-1 exploratory well offshore Peninsular Malaysia is a discovery that confirms extension of the new intrarift oil play across a large structural complex in northeastern PM308A below a major regional seal.

Paramount Resources Ltd., Calgary, has drilled and completed its first horizontal shale gas exploratory well at Patry in the Liard basin northwest of Fort Nelson in Northeast British Columbia and west of more prevalent Besa River shale exploration in the Horn River basin (OGJ Online, Aug. 20, 2012).

Condor Petroleum Inc., Calgary, plans to conduct 90-day production tests of multiple hydrocarbon intervals at its Kiyaktysai KN-E-201 oil discovery in the Zharkamys West 1 Territory in Kazakhstan once regulatory approvals are obtained.

Apache Corp. has completed an oil and gas-condensate discovery on the north flank of the Khalda Ridge producing complex in the Western Desert of Egypt, a country in which the company plans to drill 270 wells in 2013, including more than 60 exploratory wells.

Hess Corp. plans to submit appraisal plans for seven oil and gas-condensate discoveries on its operated Deepwater Tano/Cape Three Points block offshore Ghana to Ghanaian authorities by June 2, 2013.

A ConocoPhillips Co. unit has taken a farmout from a subsidiary of Canacol Energy Ltd., Calgary, to explore and potentially develop shale oil and conventional light oil on Canacol’s Santa Isabel E&P in Colombia’s Middle Magdalena basin.

A group led by Eni SPA has elevated the gas potential of the Mamba Complex in Area 4 offshore Mozambique to 75 tcf in place with drilling of the Coral-3 delineation well.

Bowleven PLC will set liner and conduct tests after its IM-5 well in Block MLHP-7 of the Etinde permit offshore Cameroon validated sufficient gas volumes to meet requirements of a planned onshore fertilizer plant.

Tullow Oil PLC has tested sweet, waxy 37° gravity crude from three good quality reservoir sand zones in the Auwerwer formation at the Twiga South-1 oil discovery on Block 13T in northwestern Kenya.

Natural oil flow from the Upper Cretaceous Vivian sandstone far exceeded expectations at the Bretana Norte exploratory well in Peru, and Gran Tierra Energy Inc., Calgary, will drill a horizontal leg in the same formation.

The discovery well of the newly found West Al Baraka field in southern Egypt’s Kom Ombo basin has averaged 120-250 b/d of light oil since being placed on extended test in December 2012, said Sea Dragon Energy Inc., Calgary.

Tullow Oil PLC and Africa Oil Corp. have tested a cumulative 2,351 b/d ofoil from two shallow sands at the Twiga South-1 discovery well on Block 13T in northwestern Kenya, the country’s “first potentially commercial flow rates achieved in Kenya.”

Jubilant Energy NV, Amsterdam, has spudded the North Atharamura-1 vertical well on the Tripura block in India as a follow-up to its 2012 Matabari-1 indicated gas discovery and to explore deeper formations.