| Mexico >> 6/8/2016 - The next bidding round in the opening of Mexico's oil sector will be called by the end of June and consist of 15 shallow water blocks for exploration and extraction in the Gulf of Mexico, Energy Minis... |
| Equatorial Guinea >> 6/6/2016 - Equatorial Guinea’s Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy (MMIE) launched the country’s latest oil and gas blocks licensing round, EG Ronda 2016, at the Africa Oil & Power conference. Companies are n... |
| Russia >> 6/2/2016 - AIM-listed PetroNeft Resources, an oil & gas exploration and production company, operating in the Tomsk Oblast, Russian Federation, and 50% owner and operator of Licences 61 and 67, has provided an up... |
| Gabon >> 6/1/2016 - Despite depressed oil prices, the Gabonese 11th deepwater licensing round has generated considerable interest from both International Oil Companies (IOC’s) and newcomers alike, encouraged by the succe... |
| Indonesia >> 5/30/2016 - JV partner AWE Limited has advised that the AAL-4X appraisal well, at the Santos-operated Northwest Natuna PSC, has reached Total Depth (TD) at 1246m Total Vertical Depth Sub Sea (TVDSS) and wireline ... |
| Thailand >> 5/30/2016 - Thailand's military government plans to put up for auction petroleum concessions held by Chevron Corp and PTT Exploration and Production Pcl , Energy Minister Anantaporn Kanjanarat said. Chevron's Tha... |
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Cyprus >> 5/26/2016 - Cyprus expects a third offshore natural gas licensing round in the eastern Mediterranean to be concluded early next year, despite opposition from Turkey, its energy minister said. ... |
| Equatorial Guinea >> 5/24/2016 - The Government of Equatorial Guinea will officially launch the country’s oil and gas licensing round, EG Ronda 2016, at the Africa Oil & Power conference, to be hosted June 6-7, 2016 at the Westin Hot... |
| India >> 5/24/2016 - Discovered Small Field Bidding Round – 2016 will be launched on 25th May, 2016 in New Delhi. The event will be presided over by Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum & Natural Gas Sh. Dharmendra Pradh... |
| Oman >> 5/24/2016 - DNO ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas operator, announced the Hayah-1 exploration well in Oman's onshore Block 36 failed to encounter hydrocarbons other than minor gas shows and will be plugged and aband... |
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Azerbaijan >> 5/24/2016 - SOCAR and BP signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly explore potential prospects in block D230 in the North Absheron Basin in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea. On this occasion, ... |
| Mozambique >> 5/20/2016 - In the presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Mozambique President Filipe Nyusi, CNPC Chairman Wang Yilin and Omar Mitha, Chairman of Mozambique's national oil and gas company ENH, signed a coop... |
| Russia >> 5/17/2016 - A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, took place at the Gazprom headquarters... |
| Falkland Islands >> 5/17/2016 - Rockhopper Exploration plc is delighted to announce the completion of an independent audit of the Contingent and Prospective Resources of its assets in licences PL032 and PL004 in the North Falkland B... |
| Kenya >> 5/14/2016 - Kenya has created an extra 17 new oil exploration blocks, bringing its total to 63 and aims to auction them in a licensing round in 2017, Kenyan newspapers quoted Ministry of Energy and Petroleum sayi... |
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Egypt >> 5/12/2016 - Egypt launched international bids for oil exploration in 11 blocks in the Western Desert and the Gulf of Suez, the petroleum ministry announced in a press release. ... |
| Tunisia >> 5/11/2016 - Further to the announcement of 21 April 2016 the Board of Independent Resources plc, the AIM listed oil and gas exploration and production company with activities in Tunisia, Egypt and Italy, provides... |
| Senegal >> 5/9/2016 - Kosmos Energy announced that its Teranga-1 exploration well offshore Senegal has made a significant gas discovery. ... |
| Oman >> 5/2/2016 - Drilling activities targeting Block 50 offshore Oman’s eastern seaboard have confirmed the presence of a ‘working petroleum system’ in the 17,000 sq km concession — a discovery that bodes well for off... |
| China >> 4/28/2016 - CNOOC Limited announced its key operational statistics for the first quarter of 2016. The company achieved total net production of 124.3 million barrels of oil equivalent ("BOE") for the first quarter... |