BP Trinidad & Tobago (BPTT) reported that it will conduct joint seismic surveys with BHP Billiton on its deepwater blocks off Trinidad and Tobago’s eastern coast.

Oil and gas producers will have another 60 days to comment on the US Bureau of Land Management’s latest proposed regulations for hydraulic fracturing operations on onshore public lands, US Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced.

A third prospect has been identified on Eni Vietnam BV-operated Block 120 offshore southeast of Da Nang, Vietnam, from 500 sq km of 3D seismic shot in mid-2012, said partner Neon Energy Ltd., Perth.

Petromanas Energy Inc., Calgary, has won Albanian government approval for three more exploratory well locations on Blocks 2-3 and has chosen not to enter the third exploration phase on Blocks A-B in Albania.

Statoil, citing resource and political uncertainties with the Johan Castberg oil development it operates in the Barents Sea offshore Norway, has recommended that the partners delay the investment decision.

Tecpetrol Colombia and PetroNova Inc., Calgary, have tested oil at a stepout from a 2012 oil discovery on the CPO-7 block in the Llanos basin in Colombia.

Global exploration and production spending is forecast to reach a record $678 billion this year, a 10% increase over last year, according to a recent global E&P spending update report from Barclays.

US oil and gas producers boosted exploration, development, and acquisition spending in 2012 despite a steep decline in aftertax profits driven largely by low natural gas prices, Ernst & Young reported June 4 in the latest issue of its US oil and gas reserves study.

A unit of DNO International ASA, Oslo, has taken a farmout on the Sfax Offshore exploration permit and the Ras El Besh concession in Tunisia from Atlas Petroleum Exploration Worldwide Inc. and Eurogas International Ltd.

Jubilant Energy NV said a subsidiary has submitted two notices of discovery to Indian authorities for the Lower and Middle Bhuban formations at its North Atharamura-1 well on Tripura Block AA-ONN-2002/1 in northeastern India.

A group led by a unit of HRT Participacoes em Petroleo SA, Rio de Janeiro, has spudded the Murombe-1 exploratory well on PEL 23 in the Walvis basin offshore Namibia.

KUB-Gas LLC, in which Cub Energy Inc., Houston, has a 30% effective ownership interest, has spudded the North Makeevskoye-3 exploratory well on its properties in eastern Ukraine.