| Brazil >> 3/21/2016 - Petrobras informs that the Libra Consortium has concluded the drilling and the evaluation of the well 3-BRSA-1322-RJS (3-RJS-741), located in the block northwest area, in the Santos Basin pre-salt, co... |
| United Arab Emirates >> 3/20/2016 - The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), OMV, and Occidental Petroleum from the US have signed a contract over several undeveloped oil and gas fields in North-West Offshore Abu Dhabi including the ... |
| Bolivia >> 3/16/2016 - Project operations exploratory drilling, Lliquimuni Center X-1 led to the discovery of a presence of hydrocarbon volumes in non - commercial quantities. The technical information collected from underg... |
| Canada >> 3/11/2016 - The Canada - Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board announced the results of Call for Bids NS16-1. No successful bids were received. The parcels are no longer up for bid and remain as Crown land. ... |
| Brazil >> 3/8/2016 - Royal Dutch Shell will start in coming days a new exploration phase in the BC-10 project offshore the coast of Brazil, where it has already invested more than $1 billion, the company's chief executive... |
| United Kingdom >> 3/7/2016 - The Oil and Gas Authority has launched a competition linked to future exploration licensing rounds in order to stimulate further offshore oil and gas exploration activity in the United Kingdom Contine... |
| Uganda >> 3/2/2016 - Uganda has received seven bids for six oil exploration blocks offered in a licensing round and it plans to chose the winners and sign deals by the end of June, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Devel... |
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Egypt >> 2/26/2016 - Eni successfully drilled the "Nidoco North 1X" well, in the exploration prospect of "Nooros East", located in the Abu Madi West license, in the Nile Delta, Egypt. The new find start up is expected by ... |
| Mexico >> 2/26/2016 - Contract awards for Mexico's first-ever deep water oil auction covering ten potentially lucrative blocks will take place on Dec. 5, oil regulator CNH said, a tender that will test investor interest am... |
| China >> 2/25/2016 - China's CNOOC Ltd said tapped the country's first ultra-deepwater natural gas discovery in the northwestern part of the South China Sea. ... |
| Russia >> 2/25/2016 - LUKOIL has begun the first stage of exploration activities at the Vostochno-Taimyrsky license block in the Krasnoyarsk region ahead of time. This stage of exploration includes 2D seismic acquisition o... |
| China >> 2/25/2016 - China National Offshore Oil Company, or CNOOC, has issued a tender inviting foreign firms to bid for 18 blocks off China's northern, eastern and southern coast, according to a company statement. ... |
| Bulgaria >> 2/23/2016 - Bulgaria sealed a deal with Royal Dutch Shell to explore for oil and gas in an offshore block in the Black Sea in a bid to end its almost total dependence on Russian natural gas. ... |
| Pakistan >> 2/22/2016 - Jura Energy Corporation announced a potential gas discovery at the Aminah-1 exploration well in the Badin IV South block. ... |
| Bolivia >> 2/19/2016 - Repsol SA discovered 4 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of possible natural gas reserves in Bolivia that it will start tapping in 2019, the government and company said Friday - a finding that could boost the... |
| Kazakhstan >> 2/18/2016 - JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration Production (KMG EP) announces the results of exploration activities at the north-eastern flank of S. Nurzhanov field, Liman and Akkuduk blocks. ... |
| Brazil >> 2/17/2016 - Brazil's state-led oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA said that it and its partners found more oil in the Libra prospect in a well that helps confirm the extent of the giant offshore area. ... |
| Iraq >> 2/15/2016 - ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. reports updates to estimated reserves and contingent resources for the Atrush block as of December 31, 2015. The reserves and contingent resources estimates were provided by M... |
| Ireland >> 2/11/2016 - Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Mr. Joe McHugh, announced the offer of fourteen new Licensing Options in the Irish offshore, following the conclusi... |
| Indonesia >> 2/3/2016 - Cue Energy Resources has advised that the Naga Selatan-2 well (NS-2) has discovered oil and is currently being suspended to allow for future production testing. The well has safely reached TD at a de... |