| Vietnam >> 3/18/2010 - Salamander Energy plc, the Asia focussed independent oil and gas exploration and production company, announces that it has agreed to acquire a 50% interest in and operatorship of Block 101-100/04 from... |
| Angola >> 3/16/2010 - Angola could re-open a bidding round for oil exploration next year, Oil Minister Jose Botelho de Vasconcelos said in an interview in Vienna. ... |
| Kazakhstan >> 3/16/2010 - Jupiter Energy Limited advised that as at 9am Aktau time this morning (12 noon Western Australian time) the J-50 exploration well being drilled on Block 31 had reached 2867m. ... |
| Iraq >> 3/15/2010 - Gulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd provides an operational update on the preparations for its 2010 drilling campaign in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq ("Kurdistan"). ... |
| Gabon >> 3/12/2010 - Gabon, Africa's seventh largest oil producer, is offering 42 additional offshore deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil blocks for exploration, the government. ... |
| India >> 3/12/2010 - Bengal Energy Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Government of the State of Tamil Nadu has granted a formal Petroleum Exploration License on 234,000 acres in India’s Cauvery Basin to a consortium in... |
| Brazil >> 3/12/2010 - OGX has identified an oil-bearing interval in the Aptian section of well 1-OGX-6-RJS, located in the BM-C-41 block, in the shallow waters of the southern part of the Campos Basin. OGX holds a 100% wor... |
| Azerbaijan >> 3/9/2010 - The RWE Group expands its commitment in Azerbaijan. The company and the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) have signed a memorandum of understanding to draw up an agreement for th... |
| Kazakhstan >> 3/8/2010 - The Board of Jupiter Energy Limited believes it would be prudent to keep shareholders updated on progress on a more regular basis as it nears the J-50 well's primary objective. At 1200 hrs on 07 March... |
| Egypt >> 3/8/2010 - Egyptian oil and gas firm Tharwa has discovered oil in the Eastern Desert with a production level of 1,300 barrels per day, an official at the Petroleum Ministry said. ... |
| Egypt >> 3/7/2010 - Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East's first and largest regional private sector natural gas company, has announced two gas discoveries in the Nile Delta, Egypt. ... |
| Egypt >> 3/7/2010 - Privately held Kuwait Energy Co has found oil in a field in Egypt, the company said. A new well produced oil at an initial rate of 280 barrels per day, the company said in a statement. Kuwait Energy h... |
| Brazil >> 3/5/2010 - OGX has identified an oil-bearing interval in the Albian section of well 1-OGX-6-RJS, located in the BM-C-41 block, in the shallow waters of the southern part of the Campos Basin. OGX holds a 100% wor... |
| Syria >> 3/5/2010 - ONGC Videsh Ltd. and its partner IPR Mediterranean Exploration Ltd. have made significant new oilfield discoveries in Block-XXIV located in northeastern part of Syria. The discoveries of Rashid and Ab... |
| China >> 3/5/2010 - Primeline Energy Holdings Inc announced that Primeline has entered into a turnkey drilling contract for its step out exploration well in the vicinity of the LS36-1 field as part of its rolling develop... |
| Sao Tome and Principe >> 3/2/2010 - The National Petroleum Agency of Sao Tome and Principe, will launch the EEZ 1st license round at the APPEX conference in London on the 2nd of March 2010. The first license round will contain seven (7)... |
| Iran >> 3/2/2010 - Iran plans to hold tenders soon for eight new oil and gas blocks exploration blocks, an official was quoted as saying.
Mahmoud Mohadess, head of the exploration office at the National Iranian Oil Com... |
| Uganda >> 3/1/2010 - Neptune Petroleum (Uganda) Limited ("Neptune"), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Tower Resources plc, has completed operations on the Avivi-1 exploration well in Uganda Licence EA5. The well was plugged... |
| Algeria >> 2/27/2010 - Sonatrach announced three hydrocarbon discoveries in the basins of Berkine and Oued Mya. ... |
| Ghana >> 2/26/2010 - A consortium of three companies, LUKOIL Overseas (56.66%), US Vanco (28.34%) and Ghana National Petroleum Corporation, GNPC (15%), has discovered a significant hydrocarbon accumulation in the Dzata st... |