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Light oil exploration due in Kern County
Chevron USA Inc. and a group of Canadian companies plan to search an underexplored area of the San Joaquin basin in sprawling Kern County for 15-25° gravity oil.
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AWE to expand into oil exploration off Vietnam
Australian Worldwide Exploration has added Vietnam to the list of countries it operates in after signing a farmin agreement for offshore Block 06/94 in the South China Sea off Vietnam.
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Russia, Japan sign oil exploration agreements
Japan and Russia have agreed to jointly develop an oil field in Eastern Siberia, according to an announcement by state-owned Japan Oil, Gas & Metals National Corp.
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Reliance-Niko to invest $750 million in oil exploration
Reliance Industries Ltd., one of the largest and most diversified business conglomerates in India, has decided to invest 34.62 billion rupees ($750 million) in its consortium with Niko Resources Ltd. for exploration of the dozen oil blocks it was recently awarded. The consortium was awarded nine ...
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Advocates see large promise from ANWR oil exploration
Opening the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling could yield the largest oil field the industry has found in more than a generation, drilling supporters told a US House committee. Both the Congress and White House said they want to pass comprehensive energy legislation
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New Views of the Subsurface Play concepts of oil exploration in Yemen
Click here to enlarge image MOL Hungarian Oil Co. has conducted exploration in Yemen since 1996 and operated in two blocks: North Mukalla Block 48 and SE Al Maber Block 49 (Fig. 1). As a result of our technical work, a tectono-stratigraphic model has been developed, new geochemical investigations
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TEXAS' LIGHTLY DRILLED DALHART BASIN GETTING MORE OIL EXPLORATION
G. Alan Petzet Exploration Editor The Dalhart basin of the northwestern Texas Panhandle, the state's least drilled prospective area, is showing signs of another round of exploratory drilling. Horizon Oil & Gas Co., Dallas, opened ERT (Granite Wash) field in Potter County at 102 Bivins Ranch 9 miles
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Lone Pine adds Slave Point light oil acreage
Lone Pine Resources Inc., Calgary, is evaluating alternatives to fund a large light oil exploration prospect in the Devonian Slave Point formation at Hutch in northern Alberta. Lone Pine estimates horizontal development well costs …
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Studies predict oil upswing in deepwater GOM 2013, beyond
… Information Administration (EIA) and Wood Mackenzie Ltd. (OGJ Online, Oct. 15, 2012) predict a strong upswing in oil exploration and production in deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM) fields. These analyses use different assessment criteria but reach …
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MARKET WATCH: Gas price rises, but crude increase was 'underwhelming'
… indicators, analysts said. Natural gas climbed 2.6%, however, and corporate energy stocks improved with the SIG Oil Exploration & Production Index up 1.2% and the Oil Service Index gaining 1.3%. “Things are looking up in China too, with …
