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Heritage Oil spuds Kingfisher-1 exploration well in Uganda
Uganda >> 8/17/2006 - Heritage Oil Corporation announced that it has commenced drilling the Kingfisher-1 exploration well in Block 3A, Uganda. As reported last month, the Kingfisher-1 vertical well will be the first in Blo...
Aerogravity & Aeromagnetic Survey Completed on Oman Block 49
Oman >> 8/17/2006 - Circle Oil plc is pleased to announce that Circle Oil Oman Ltd, its wholly-owned subsidiary and Fugro Aerosurveys, Johannasburg, S.A. have successfully completed a 4800 kilometre airborne survey of th...
Chevron Named Operator and Awarded 50 Percent Interest in Block
Australia >> 8/16/2006 - Chevron Corporation announced that its Australian subsidiary has successfully bid for the rights to a deepwater exploration permit with gas potential offshore Western Australia. Chevron Australia Pty ...
Oil Production by NICOC to Hit 190,000 BPD
Iran >> 8/16/2006 - By the end of the nation’s Fourth Five-Year Socioeconomic Development Plan, oil production by the National Iranian Central Oilfields Company (NICOC) is expected to hit 190,000 barrels per day (bpd).
Heritage Oil Provides Middle East Operational Update
Oman >> 8/14/2006 - Oman: Heritage oil announced that The West Bukha-2 appraisal/development well spudded on May 23. This well is targeting Cretaceous age carbonate reservoirs at a depth of around 4,100 m (13,450 ft). Th...
Centurion Acquire Additional Exploration Interests in the Sao Tome JDZ
Nigeria >> 8/11/2006 - Centurion announced the acquisition of an additional 2% working interest in Block 4 in the Sao Tome Joint Development Zone (JDZ). This will increase Centurion’s interest in the Block to a total of 9.5...
Petronas Wins Calub and Hilala Field Tender
Ethiopia >> 8/7/2006 - The Malaysian oil firm Petronas has won Ethiopia's ambitious Calub and Hilala gas field development tender, it was learned on Saturday. After evaluating the proposal presented by Petronas, the Ministr...
Tullow Awards 50% interest in Block 1/06 Offshore Angola
Angola >> 8/3/2006 - Formal notice has been received from Sonangol E.P., the National Oil Company of Angola, that Tullow Oil has been awarded a 50% operating interest in Block 1/06, a 3,800 sq km oil exploration concessio...
Centurion Announces New Gas Discovery in Egypt
Egypt >> 8/3/2006 - Centurion announced the results of new exploration and development wells drilled on its Egyptian Nile Delta acreage. The Luzi-1 exploration well (Centurion 50%, Shell 50%) has been drilled on the east...
Total Acquires Interest in Exploration Block Northeast of Java
Indonesia >> 8/2/2006 - Total has signed an agreement with Indonesia’s PT Easco East Sepanjang to farm into the offshore East Sepanjang block, northeast of Java, with a 49 % working interest. The Group also has the option of...
Melrose Provides Exploration and Development Activity in Egypt
Egypt >> 8/1/2006 - Melrose Resources plc gives the following update of exploration and development activity on the El Mansoura Concession located in the Nile Delta in Egypt. As previously announced, the West Khilala No....
First Oil Discovery in Libya’s Block NC 191
Libya >> 7/26/2006 - Total (operator, 100%) announces an oil discovery in Block NC 191 in southwestern Libya, around 800 kilometres south of Tripoli. This is the first find in the block, located in the southern Murzuq Bas...
Total Announces an Oil Discovery in Congo
Congo >> 7/25/2006 - Total (operator, 53.5%) announces an oil find in the Moho-Bilondo exploration permit, located around 80 kilometres offshore Congo, in water depths ranging from 600 to 900 metres.

Drilled to...
Enfield Project Produces First Oil
Australia >> 7/24/2006 - Production has begun from the Woodside-operated Enfield oil project off North West Cape, Western Australia. The hook-up, testing and commissioning of the floating production storage and offloading fa...
BP Awarded Three Pakistan Offshore Blocks
Pakistan >> 7/21/2006 - BP announced that it has been awarded three offshore blocks in Pakistan's offshore Indus Delta. At a signing ceremony at the Ministry of Petroleum, the company said BP will explore blocks U, V and W c...
OMV Announces Second Oil and Gas Discovery in Tunisia
Tunisia >> 7/19/2006 - OMV Aktiengesellschaft announced a discovery and successful testing of oil and gas in its Nawara 1 exploration well in the Jenein Sud Exploration Permit in Southern Tunisia.

This is the se...
PA Resources Spuds Production Well on the Didon
Tunisia >> 7/19/2006 - PA Resources has spudded the 5th well on the Didon Field in Tunisia. The Didon-5 well will be a 600 m long horizontal oil producer on the main compartment. The drilling campaign of the re-development ...
New Oil Pool Discovery PEL 113, Cooper / Eromanga Basin, SA
Australia >> 7/10/2006 - Stuart Petroleum Limited is pleased to advise Revenue #1 has discovered a new oil pool in the McKinlay Formation. Wireline logs have been run and indicate approximately two metres of oil pay in the Mc...
CNOOC Ltd Made A New Discovery LD6-2
China >> 7/10/2006 - CNOOC Limited announced that its wildcat Luda (LD) 6-2-1 drilled independently in Bohai Bay hit a new discovery LD 6-2. LD 6-2-1 is located in the Liaodong Bay, with a water depth of about 30 meters. ...
E&D Contract for Khorramabad Block to be Signed Soon
Iran >> 7/6/2006 - Deputy director of exploration department of the National Iranian Oil Company noted that a contract for simultaneous exploration and development of khorramabad block will be signed with Norway’s Compa...

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