| New Zealand >> 4/29/2013 - Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges announced details of the Government’s second round to attract competing bids for oil and gas exploration permits. ... |
| Iraq >> 4/25/2013 - The Anglo-Turkish oil and gas independent, Genel Energy, announced that a second drill-stem test carried out on the Chia Surkh 10 well has confirmed the existence of an additional oil bearing section.... |
| Australia >> 4/23/2013 - Chevron Corporation announced further drilling success by its Australian subsidiary in the Exmouth Plateau area, located in the Carnarvon Basin. ... |
| Iran >> 4/22/2013 - Iran has discovered a huge hydrocarbon layer which contains large amounts of light crude oil and natural gas, National Iranian Oil Company director for exploration Hormoz Qalavand stated. ... |
| Colombia >> 4/22/2013 - Apco Oil and Gas International Inc. participated in the drilling of two exploration wells in Colombia's Llanos 32 block during the first quarter of 2013. Apco participates in the block with a 20 perce... |
| Australia >> 4/20/2013 - Cooper Energy Limited reports that Rincon North-1, an exploration well in PEL 92 on the western flank of the Cooper Basin, has been cased for future oil production from the McKinlay Formation and Namu... |
| Algeria >> 4/18/2013 - Mr. Tevin Vongvanich, President and CEO of PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited or PTTEP is pleased to announce that PTTEP and its partners, SONATRACH and CNOOC Limited, have successf... |
| Lebanon >> 4/18/2013 - Lebanon has selected 46 international oil companies to bid to explore for gas in its Mediterranean waters, Energy Minister Gebran Bassil said. ... |
| Colombia >> 4/17/2013 - Gran Tierra Energy Inc., a company focused on oil exploration and production in South America, provided updates for its production and exploration drilling in Colombia. ... |
| Australia >> 4/17/2013 - Cooper Energy Limited reports that the Rincon North-1 exploration well, in PEL 92 on the western flank of the Cooper Basin, will be cased and suspended for future completion as an oil production well.... |
| Russia >> 4/16/2013 - TNK-Uvat has discovered a new Severo-Keum oilfield in Uvat district of Tyumen region. Recoverable C1 and C2 reserves are estimated at 2.4 million tonnes. Commercial oil inflow was received in the expl... |
| Australia >> 4/15/2013 - Tap Oil Limited is pleased to advise that at 0630 hours (AWST) on 15 April 2013 the Ensco 104 rig commenced drilling the Taunton-5/5H well to appraise the Taunton oil field, located in the TL/2 produc... |
| Australia >> 4/11/2013 - Finder Exploration has announced that the Apache-operated Olympus-1 exploration well in Exploration Permit WA-450-P has discovered gas in two zones. The well was drilled to a total depth of 4,540 metr... |
| Oman >> 4/10/2013 - DNO International ASA, the Norwegian oil and gas company, announced that it is planning a two-well intervention programme in Block 8. ... |
| Iraq >> 4/10/2013 - Iraq has raised its estimated proven crude oil reserves to 150 billion barrels from 143 billion barrels; with more oil discovered in oil fields being upgraded by international oil companies and from a... |
| Falkland Islands >> 4/9/2013 - Argos Resources Limited, the Falkland Islands based exploration company focused on the North Falkland Basin, has received notification that the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has extended the secon... |
| Australia >> 4/4/2013 - Bengal Energy Ltd. is pleased to announce that Cuisinier 7, the first well in the 2013 Cuisinier appraisal drilling campaign on the Barta sub-block portion of Authority to Prospect (ATP) 752P in the C... |
| Lebanon >> 4/3/2013 - Rosneft and ExxonMobil agreed to bid jointly in a tender for offshore Lebanon oil and gas, Russia's state-owned company president, Igor Sechin, was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. ... |
| New Zealand >> 4/3/2013 - New Zealand Energy Corp. is pleased to announce that the Company has made its sixth oil discovery in the Taranaki Basin of New Zealand's North Island. ... |
| Yemen >> 4/3/2013 - A working meeting between Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, President of Yemen took place in Moscow. The parties addressed the prospec... |