| Norway >> 2/14/2008 - Aker Kvaerner has acquired a majority shareholding in the Norwegian company First Interactive AS. The agreement includes an option to buy the remaining shares. First Interactive and the Aker Kvaerner ... |
| Morocco >> 2/13/2008 - Circle Oil plc announced the successful completion of the 3D seismic acquisition programme in the Sebou and Gaddari areas of its concession in the Rharb Basin Morocco. A total of 145 square kilometres... |
| Philippines >> 1/18/2008 - Nido Petroleum provided an update on the progress of the Company’s seismic acquisition campaign currently underway offshore NW Palawan Basin, The Philippines. The seismic campaign extends over SC54, S... |
| Tanzania >> 1/14/2008 - Dominion is currently undertaking a 2D-seismic survey on part of its Tanzania Production Sharing Agreement (‘PSA ‘) areas. In November, Dominion’s contractor Upstream Petroleum Services Ltd. began acq... |
| Pakistan >> 12/20/2007 - SCAN Geophysical ASA confirms additional 1250 Km 2D work offshore Pakistan received by BP/GEMS, increasing the total work program to around 11,250 Km. “We are pleased that BP/GEMS chose to award us th... |
| Algeria >> 12/13/2007 - Gulf Keystone announced the following operational update in respect of the Hassi Ba Hammou Perimeter ("HBH Permit") licence, which covers 18,380 km2 in the Allal Dome of Central Algeria. Hassi Ba Hamm... |
| Uganda >> 12/7/2007 - Tower Resources plc announce the commencement of an approximately 300 kilometer 2-D seismic exploration programme in Exploration Area 5 (“EA 5”) in Uganda. The seismic will be shot by IMC Geophysics I... |
| Norway >> 11/27/2007 - Wavefield Inseis ASA has been issued a Letter of Intent (LOI) by BG Group plc (BG) to award a 3D seismic contract for Block 6302/6, located in BG's Tulipan West licence (PL 388) in the Norwegian Sea.<... |
| Iraq >> 11/7/2007 - Gulf Keystone Petroleum Limited has signed a Production Sharing Contract with the Kurdistan Regional Government for the exploration, development and production of hydrocarbon resources in the Shaikan ... |
| Syria >> 11/5/2007 - Gulfsands Petroleum announced that the Company has commenced with the 3D seismic programmes over the Khurbet East Field as well as an exploration area to the south of the field. The Company has commen... |
| Pakistan >> 10/18/2007 - SCAN Geophysical announced that the company is remobilising its seismic vessel, M/V Geo Searcher, to re-commence a previously-suspended 2D project offshore Pakistan for BP. The original 9,500 Km 2D pr... |
| Madagascar >> 10/17/2007 - Candax Energy is pleased to announce that exploration activity on Block 1101, onshore Madagascar has commenced and the geological fieldwork over the focus area has been completed with very encouraging... |
| Uzbekistan >> 10/12/2007 - 2D-seismic operations have started in the Uzbekistan sector of the Aral Sea within the framework of implementation of the Aral project PSA. The PSA was signed in Tashkent on August 30, 2006 by the Gov... |
| Thailand >> 10/2/2007 - PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited or PTTEP plans to begin seismic surveys in the recently acquired Blocks L21/48, L28/48 and L29/48 in the northeastern part of Thailand early next ... |
| Russia >> 10/1/2007 - Volga Gas announced that it has completed the acquisition of 20km2 of 3-D seismic over the Vostochny-Makarovskoye licence area and has spudded Vostochny-Makarovskoye Well £1 ('VM £1'). On September 25... |
| Syria >> 9/24/2007 - Gulfsands Petroleum plc announced that a second appraisal well at Khurbet East ("KHE-3"), Syria, is scheduled to commence drilling in November of 2007. Additionally, a 3D seismic survey is scheduled t... |
| Libya >> 9/19/2007 - Verenex Energy Inc. provided an update of its seismic and drilling operations in Libya. The Company continues to make excellent progress with its exploration program in Area 47 and is on track to achi... |
| Israel >> 9/17/2007 - Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. has signed an agreement with the Geophysical Institute of Israel to conduct one of the largest and most comprehensive geophysical surveys on-shore in Israel of the past two decade... |
| Namibia >> 9/5/2007 - Tower Resources and its wholly-owned subsidiary Neptune Petroleum (Namibia) Limited have completed a 2D seismic acquisition programme and have agreed farm out terms with a third party. Both events ma... |
| Uganda >> 8/28/2007 - Tower Resources and its wholly-owned subsidiary Neptune Petroleum (Uganda) Limited have reached agreement with Orca Exploration Group Inc. Orca will have an option to fund 83.33% of the expected cost... |
