| Ghana >> 7/5/2011 - Kosmos Energy will drill an additional well as part of its 2011 exploration campaign offshore the Republic of Ghana on the West Cape Three Points Block. The company has secured additional rig capacity... |
| Brazil >> 7/4/2011 - Petrobras announces another two oil and gas finds in the Espirito Santo basin, in the BM-ES-23 concession area, block ES-M-525, totaling three discoveries in this concession. At 115 km off the Espirit... |
| Brazil >> 7/1/2011 - OGX has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the Santonian section of 1-OGX-47-RJS well, in the BM-S-59 block, in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin. OGX holds a 100% working interest in thi... |
| Morocco >> 6/29/2011 - San Leon Energy plc, the AIM listed company focused on oil and gas exploration in Europe and North Africa announces its audited final results for the year ended 31 December 2010. ... |
| Senegal >> 6/28/2011 - Ophir Energy plc is pleased to announce that the drillship Maersk Deliverer has commenced drilling the Kora-1 well in the AGC Profond PSC. The PSC is administered by the “Agence Gestion de Cooperation... |
| Namibia >> 6/28/2011 - Chariot Oil & Gas Limited is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, Enigma Oil & Gas Exploration (Pty) Limited, has received formal approval from the Ministry of Mines and Energy in Nam... |
| Russia >> 6/27/2011 - Rosneft geologists have discovered a new high-yield oil deposit in the western part of the Sladkovsko-Morozovsky oil and gas region of the Slavyansko-Temryuksky license field in the Krasnodar Region. ... |
| Brazil >> 6/26/2011 - Repsol Sinopec and its partners Statoil and Petrobras have made a discovery of good quality oil in the 1-REPF-11A-RJS well, informally known as Gavea. The find in Gavea is the most significant made in... |
| Iraq >> 6/21/2011 - Heritage Oil Plc, an independent upstream exploration and production company, issues its Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 January 2011 to 17 May 2011, in accordance with reporting re... |
| Russia >> 6/18/2011 - Repsol and Alliance Oil Company have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a joint venture that will serve as a growth platform for both companies in the Russian Federation, the world's largest... |
| Kazakhstan >> 6/17/2011 - Spanish energy company Repsol will join KazMunaiGas (KMG) in exploring an oil block in western Kazakhstan and could offer the Kazakh state company a role in its international projects, KMG's head said... |
| Saudi Arabia >> 6/16/2011 - During 2010, Saudi Aramco discovered four new oil fields and one new gas field, increasing the total number of company discovered hydrocarbon fields to 112. The company also discovered six new oil res... |
| Egypt >> 6/16/2011 - Apache Corp has reported five new oil discoveries in its Faghur Basin play in the far southwest of Egypt's Western Desert oil and gas province. Apache also said that the AG-96 development well in the ... |
| Iraq >> 6/16/2011 - John Gerstenlauer, Gulf Keystone's Chief Operating Officer commented: "With three Gulf Keystone wells underway on the Shaikan and Sheikh Adi blocks, the second exploration well being drilled in partne... |
| Gabon >> 6/13/2011 - Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. announced that it has encountered oil in the wildcat well Dussafu Ruche Marin-1 (DRM-1) drilled in the Dussafu Marin PSC, in the offshore waters of Gabon, West Africa. ... |
| Egypt >> 6/13/2011 - TransGlobe Energy Corporation ("TransGlobe" or the "Company") is pleased to provide a mid-quarter production and operations update for the second quarter of 2011 and notice of participation in the 201... |
| Kazakhstan >> 6/13/2011 - Max Petroleum Plc, an oil and gas exploration and development company focused on Kazakhstan, is pleased to announce that it has commenced drilling the BOR-3 appraisal well in the Borkyldakty Field. Th... |
| Iraq >> 6/12/2011 - Jordan will start drilling at the Risha natural-gas deposit straddling the country’s border with Iraq by the end of the year, the official news agency Petra reported, citing Energy Minister Khalid Tou... |
| Tanzania >> 6/10/2011 - Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp., the East African nation’s state-owned oil company, received nine bids for oil and gas exploration in the Lake Tanganyika North region, it said. Companies that pla... |
| Brazil >> 6/9/2011 - Petrobras discovers a new oil accumulation in the Cretaceous reservoirs of the Espirito Santo Basin. The discovery resulted from the drilling of well informally known as Brigadeiro, at a 1,900 meter w... |