| South Korea >> 5/24/2010 - Aminex PLC announces that its associated company Korex Ltd. has signed a Production Sharing Contract (“PSC”) with the Korea Oil Exploration Company (“KOEC”) for exploration rights in the Korean East S... |
| Brazil >> 5/24/2010 - OGX has identified gas and condensates in the Santonian section of well 1-OGX-11D-SPS, Natal prospect, located in the BM-S-59 block, in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin. OGX holds a 100% working... |
| Gabon >> 5/19/2010 - Tullow Oil plc announces that the Noix de Coco-1 well in Gabon has encountered wet gas but in poor quality reservoir sandstones. ... |
| Iraq >> 5/17/2010 - WesternZagros Resources Ltd. announces that, while attempting to stabilize the high-pressure hydrocarbon zone encountered at Kurdamir-1 as previously announced, the well has had to be shut in. Western... |
| Qatar >> 5/16/2010 - Qatar Petroleum (QP) on behalf of the Government of the State of Qatar has signed a new Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) with Shell and PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina) for Q... |
| Equatorial Guinea >> 5/12/2010 - Independent oil explorer Afex Global has signed a deal with the government of Equatorial Guinea to explore an offshore block and will expand in Gabon and Cameroon, the company's chairman said. ... |
| Iraq >> 5/7/2010 - WesternZagros Resources Ltd. is pleased to announce positive results of geochemical analysis from Kurdamir-1 oil samples. Weatherford Laboratories in Houston conducted an independent analysis of a ser... |
| Azerbaijan >> 5/6/2010 - SOCAR Complex Drilling Works Trust has launched the drilling of a new well from platform No 660 at “Darvin Bankasy” field. The project depth of the well No 653 drilled to Girmaki Suite makes1540 meter... |
| Iraq >> 5/6/2010 - Iraq's oil ministry has sent the final draft of a gas deal with Royal Dutch Shell to the cabinet for approval, Iraq's oil minister said. ... |
| Libya >> 5/3/2010 - Sonatrach International Petroleum, Exploration & Production (SIPEX- Sonatrach subsidiary) and the National Oil Corporation (Libya) announced a new oil discovery in Ghadames basin at well C1-65/02, loc... |
| Egypt >> 5/2/2010 - Kuwait Energy Company said that it struck oil in a field in Egypt's Western Desert. The privately held company said in a statement the find in East Ras Qattara field was its seventh in Egypt and fourt... |
| Yemen >> 4/30/2010 - Oil Search reports that as at 06:00 Yemen time (-7 hrs AEST) on 28 April the Al Meashar-1 well was in the process of being suspended as a potential future producer. During the week fishing operations ... |
| Iraq >> 4/29/2010 - ShaMaran Petroleum Corp. is pleased to announce its results for the year ended December 31, 2009 and provide an operational update on its activities in Kurdistan. ... |
| India >> 4/28/2010 - Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) announced it’s fourth oil discovery in exploratory block CB-ONN-2003/1 (CB 10 A&B) located onland in the Cambay Basin and awarded under NELP-V round of exploration bi... |
| Russia >> 4/23/2010 - OAO TATNEFT and the National Oil Corporation of Libya (Libyan National Oil Company - NOC) being partners under the Agreement for the exploration and production sharing (PSA) announce the receipt of th... |
| Syria >> 4/22/2010 - Gulfsands Petroleum plc, the oil and gas production, exploration and development company with activities in Syria, Iraq, and the U.S.A., provides the following update on the Company's operations at Bl... |
| Australia >> 4/22/2010 - Esso Australia Pty Ltd, an ExxonMobil Australia subsidiary, announced today that it has encountered oil and gas at the South East Remora-1 exploration wildcat well, the latest in a series of successfu... |
| Ghana >> 4/20/2010 - Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) announces that the Dahoma-1 exploration well in the West Cape Three Points licence encountered water bearing reservoirs. ... |
| Tunisia >> 4/19/2010 - MedOil, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cairn Energy PLC, has completed an exploration well offshore Tunisia in the Louza block. The M'Sela West 1 well reached a total depth of 2,555m in the Serdj format... |
| China >> 4/19/2010 - CNOOC Limited announced that the Company has successfully made an important new discovery – Penglai(PL)9-1 in the Eastern Bohai Bay. ... |