| Namibia >> 1/28/2013 - Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd is pleased to announce that, through its wholly- owned subsidiary, it has signed three Joint Operating Agreements (“JOA’s” or the “Agreements”) with NAMCOR, the National P... |
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Saudi Arabia >> 1/28/2013 - Saudi Arabia will continue exploring for oil and natural gas, despite the transformation of the global energy industry caused by rising output of shale oil in North America, according to a senior Saud... |
| Kazakhstan >> 1/28/2013 - Max Petroleum Plc, an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on Kazakhstan, announces that it has completed drilling the TOLW-1 exploration well on the Tolegen West prospect on Block E... |
| Libya >> 1/27/2013 - BP said it was reconsidering plans to drill for oil in Libya due to heightened security fears following an attack by Islamist militants on a gas plant in neighbouring Algeria earlier this month. ... |
| Uganda >> 1/23/2013 - Uganda will auction 13 blocks for oil and gas exploration when the country's president signs a new bill governing the petroleum sector into law, its junior energy minister said.
The east African n... |
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Iran >> 1/23/2013 - Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi says huge oil and gas reserves have been discovered on the country’s northeastern and western borders with Turkmenistan and Iraq. ... |
| Vietnam >> 1/22/2013 - Neon Energy Limited is pleased to announce that the Company's farmout of Vietnamese exploration blocks 120 and 105-110/04 ('105') to Eni Vietnam B.V. ('Eni'), a wholly owned subsidiary of Eni SpA, has... |
| Colombia >> 1/22/2013 - Heavy Earth Resources, Inc, an oil and gas exploration and production company focused on Central and South America, announced it is preparing to commence its 2013-14 exploration and production work pl... |
| Iraq >> 1/20/2013 - Iraq said it has discovered deposits of crude equivalent to one billion barrels of oil after the first exploration work by state-owned firms in almost 30 years. ... |
| Uganda >> 1/18/2013 - Uganda-France's Total SA is set to retain a major oil license in the northern section of Uganda's oil-rich Lake Albertine Rift basin, after striking a new oil discovery following months of extensive d... |
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Malaysia >> 1/18/2013 - PETRONAS wishes to announce the discovery of oil and gas via the Adong Kecil West-1 well in Block SK333, onshore Sarawak. ... |
| Iraq >> 1/17/2013 - Oil Search reports that the Taza 1 ST1 well was at a depth of 3,238 metres and drilling ahead. ... |
| Colombia >> 1/14/2013 - The Sabanero block covers an area of 434 sqkm and it is located approximately at 250 km to the South East of Bogota in the heavy-oil prolific Llanos Basin at approx. 50 km northeast of Rubiales and Qu... |
| Brazil >> 1/11/2013 - Petrobras announces that its Executive Board has approved the creation of the Onshore Natural Gas Program (PRON-GAS), focused on the exploration, production and monetization of natural gas from the Br... |
| Egypt >> 1/11/2013 - TransGlobe Energy Corporation provides an operation update on South Mariut. All dollar values are expressed in United States dollars unless otherwise stated. ... |
| Iraq >> 1/10/2013 - Oil Search reports that the Taza 1 ST1 well was at a depth of 3,206 metres and weighting up the mud prior to drilling ahead towards the second primary objective, the Euphrates Formation. ... |
| Brazil >> 1/9/2013 - Petrobras announces that extension well 3-BRSA-1128-ESS, whose objective is to delineate the accumulation, has confirmed the presence of light oil and gas in sandstones reservoirs in the post-salt of ... |
| Israel >> 1/3/2013 - AGR (the Operator) reports as follows: The Well has reached a depth of 5 652 meters from sea level (including water depth of about 1 707 meters). Based on examinations performed during the drilling of... |
| Philippines >> 1/2/2013 - Gumamela-1 exploration well was drilling ahead at a depth of 880 metres (2,887 feet) within what is interpreted as the Cebu Limestone without any hydrocarbon shows. Minor thin intervals with interpret... |
| Egypt >> 12/30/2012 - Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East's first and largest regional private sector natural gas company, has announced that it has made two new onshore gas discoveries in the Nile Delta Basin of Egypt. Initial... |