McMoRan Exploration Co., New Orleans, said it has cleaned out the Davy Jones-1 wellbore on the Gulf of Mexico shelf offshore Louisiana to 28,630 ft, which will enable testing of all 165 ft of Wilcox sand perforations.

A group led by Petrodorado Energy Ltd., Calgary, will test a thick new sand-prone package at the Dorados-1X indicated discovery on the Talora block in Colombia’s Upper Magdalena Valley.

A group led by a unit of Lundin Petroleum AB has discovered Cretaceous oil in the northern North Sea 65 km northwest of Snorre field offshore Norway but said the thinness and uncertain distribution of the reservoir do not give basis for resource estimation at present.

A group led by Eni SPA has drilled a gas-condensate discovery in the Barents Sea offshore Norway that the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate judges to contain 175-250 bscf recoverable.

Falkland Oil & Gas Ltd. has spudded the Scotia exploratory well in the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic 315 km east-northeast of Stanley.

A group led by Eni SPA plans delineation drilling around a potentially commercial oil and gas-condensate discovery on the Offshore Cape Three Points block off Ghana.

Chevron Corp. said its Satyr-2 well in the Greater Gorgon area of the Carnarvon basin offshore Western Australia found 128 ft of net gas pay on the WA-374-P permit 75 miles northwest of Barrow Island.

Eni Pakistan Ltd. has made a gas discovery estimated at 300-400 bcf in place in the Kirthar fold belt in Pakistan 350 km north of Karachi.

A group led by General Exploration Partners Inc. has tested the Atrush-2 appraisal well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq at the combined rate of 42,212 b/d of oil limited by test equipment capacity.

Winstar Resources Ltd., Calgary, has completed field acquisition of 80 sq km of 3D seismic over its Moftinu natural gas discovery on the 765,000-acre Satu Mare concession in northwestern Romania along the borders with Hungary and Ukraine.

HRT Participacoes em Petroleo SA, Rio de Janeiro, said a subsidiary has drillstem tested a well in the Solimoes basin at a flow rate the company said is one of the best in onshore Brazil.

Lundin Petroleum AB, Stockholm, said its third gas discovery in the SB303 block offshore Sabah, Malaysia, makes four discoveries on the block that present an opportunity to evaluate gas cluster development potential.

The South African government lifted a moratorium on shale gas exploration in Karoo basin although the Petroleum Agency of South Africa indicated that regulatory details continue to be finalized, so it’s too soon to say when exploration permits might be granted.