Gulfport Energy Corp., Oklahoma City, expects delineation drilling in the May River area of northern Alberta by Grizzly Oil Sands ULC to lead to filing of applications for thermal recovery of bitumen.

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.

Liberia’s legislature has ratified the restated and amended production sharing contract covering offshore Block LB-13, said Canadian Overseas Petroleum Ltd., Calgary.

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

A panel of 31 experts has been formed to review the US Environmental Protection Agency’s hydraulic fracturing research, EPA’s independent Scientific Advisory Board announced on Mar. 25.

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.

HRT Walvis Petroleum (Pty.) Ltd., Rio de Janeiro, has spudded the Wingat-1 exploratory well on Block 2212A in the Walvis basin offshore Namibia.

India is considering ways to boost assessment of its oil and gas potential and is working to lower bureaucratic impediments to exploration and production.

Griffiths Energy International Inc., Calgary, has reported progress delineating Badila and Mangara oil fields in southwestern Chad and constructing facilities for oil export expected to begin later this year.

Forty US House members signed a Mar. 21 letter asking US President Barack Obama to urge his administration to complete an environmental impact statement (EIS) for a proposed seismic assessment of oil and gas resources on the US Atlantic Continental Shelf.

A group led by a Total SA subsidiary has approved investment in the Moho Nord oil development offshore Congo (Brazzaville), expecting production to begin in 2015 and reach 140,000 boe/d in 2017.

Anschutz Exploration Corp., Denver, will cease operations and withdraw from the Blackfeet Reservation in northern Montana after failing to discover enough resources to support further exploration or development investment.