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... |
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... |
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 ... |
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). |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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.... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 ... |
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... |
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. ... |
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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