Russia >> 7/21/2008 - Imperial announced the grant of a new long term production licence and further exploration successes at its Tomsk fields, Western Siberia, Russian Federation. The Ministry of Natural Resources has gra... |
Australia >> 7/20/2008 - Hess Corporation announced that the Briseis-1 exploration well on Australia's Northwest Shelf discovered natural gas in Jurassic and Triassic sandstones. The well encountered 151 feet (46 meters) of n... |
Libya >> 7/17/2008 - OMV signed agreements with Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) for blocks NC115 and NC186 in the Murzuq basin, onshore Libya, some 700 km south of Tripoli. Partners in NC115 are Repsol (40%) and To... |
Equatorial Guinea >> 7/15/2008 - New discoveries of oil and gas-condensate have been made during drilling operations at the Diega prospect in Block I offshore Equatorial Guinea. The oil and gas group PA Resources has a six percent pa... |
Tunisia >> 7/14/2008 - OMV Aktiengesellschaft announced the discovery and successful testing of condensate and gas in its Ahlem-1 exploration well in the Jenein Sud exploration permit in Southern Tunisia. This is the third ... |
Madagascar >> 7/9/2008 - Niko Resources announced the signing of a Heads of Agreement whereby it will farm-in to a production sharing contract (PSC) offshore Madagascar. Niko will become the operator of the Grand Prix PSC cur... |
Sri Lanka >> 7/7/2008 - The Government of Sri Lanka and Cairn India signed the Petroleum Resources agreement for the exploration licence to explore for oil and natural gas in the Mannar Basin. The signing took place in Colom... |
Nigeria >> 7/7/2008 - Addax Petroleum Corporation announced that the historic milestone of 200 million barrels of oil production from the Addax Petroleum operated Oil Mining Lease (“OML”) 123 offshore Nigeria has been achi... |
China >> 7/2/2008 - CNOOC Limited announced that leading by Wen 19-1, WenChang (Wen) oil fields have successfully run into trial production stage. Currently, through 7 wells the fields can produce approximately 14,000 ba... |
Kazakhstan >> 6/30/2008 - Tethys Petroleum Limited announced the commencement of shallow gas exploration well AKK15 in its Akkulka Exploration Block in Kazakhstan. The primary target of this well is gas in the Tasaran Sandston... |
Egypt >> 6/29/2008 - Dana Gas announced a discovery from a new oil zone in its Egyptian concessions, marking the first discovery in the company’s US$ 170 million drilling campaign for 2008. Drilling of the “Al Baraka-2” w... |
Kazakhstan >> 6/27/2008 - Caspian Holdings announced that it has received work programme approval for its Zhengeldy project in Kazakhstan from Zapkaznedra. This approval will enable the re-start of production at Zhengeldy. The... |
Uganda >> 6/24/2008 - Tullow Oil plc announced further success in Uganda’s Lake Albert Rift Basin with the Ngege-1 exploration well encountering both oil and gas. The well is the second in a continuous exploration campaign... |
Pakistan >> 6/23/2008 - Eni made a new on-shore gas discovery in Pakistan with the Saqib 1A well, located in the Mubarak exploration block, in the South Eastern province of Sindh. Eni holds a 38% stake in the Mubarak block. ... |
Libya >> 6/23/2008 - NOC signed five EPSA'S with Oxy Libya Oil & Gas and OMV. These EPSAs cover all blocks being operated by these companies and will take effect as of 1st December 2007. These Agreements which are based o... |
Libya >> 6/19/2008 - Petro-Canada signed six new exploration and production sharing agreements (EPSAs) with the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC). The commercial terms of the new agreements, including the signing bonu... |
Israel >> 6/19/2008 - TomCo announced the re-commencement of oil production at the Heletz Field in southern Israel, where TomCo acquired a 50% and a 25% interest in two licenses in April 2008. The Heletz Field, with an est... |
Malaysia >> 6/17/2008 - Newfield Exploration Company announced that the East Belumut/Chermingat fields in PM 323 recently commenced production and the Puteri field in PM 318 is expected to commence production later this week... |
Malaysia >> 6/17/2008 - Petronas awarded a Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for Block SK310 offshore Sarawak to Newfield Sarawak Malaysia Inc, Mitsubishi Corporation and Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd. Block SK310 is located in ... |
Brazil >> 6/13/2008 - Repsol announced the discovery of a new oil field in the deepwaters of the Santos Basin in Brazil. The new well called Guara is located in the BM-S-9 block, adjacent to Carioca, discovered at the end ... |
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