India >> 1/17/2018 - India will begin the auction of 55 oil and gas exploration blocks from Thursday under new rules, the country’s first licensing round after eight years, as it seeks to unlock its vast hydrocarbon resou... |
Greece >> 1/17/2018 - Tenders for offshore oil and gas exploration and exploitation west and south of Greece have attracted “strong interest” from companies exploring in the Mediterranean, the head of Greece’s oil and gas ... |
Norway >> 1/16/2018 - Aker BP has been offered interests in 23 new production licenses in Norway, of which 14 as operator, through the Awards in pre-defined areas (APA 2017) licensing round. ... |
Norway >> 1/14/2018 - Norway’s Arctic region of Lofoten, Vesteraalen and Senja will remain off-limits to oil exploration at least until the next election for parliament, which is due in 2021, the government said. ... |
Italy >> 1/12/2018 - Prospex Oil and Gas Plc, the AIM quoted investment company, has been advised by the operator Po Valley Energy Limited ('PVE') that isochronal flow testing operations on a rig-less basis have commenced... |
Russia >> 1/12/2018 - Canadian company Zenith Energy, the dual listed international oil & gas production company operating the largest onshore oilfield in Azerbaijan, has entered into an exclusivity agreement for the acqui... |
Iraq >> 1/12/2018 - The Iraqi oil ministry said 26 companies have qualified to bid for oil and gas blocks in border areas. Five companies qualified recently to take part in the bidding round, alongside 21 others already ... |
Australia >> 1/11/2018 - Beach Energy has announced a new gas field discovery at Haselgrove-3 ST1 in the onshore Otway Basin, South Australia. Flow test results from the primary target Sawpit Sandstone indicate a high deliver... |
United States >> 1/11/2018 - BNK Petroleum has begun drilling the Glenn 16-2H well in the Company’s Tishomingo field with Power Rig #7. The Company has a 100% working interest in the Glenn 16-2H, which is located directly south o... |
Oman >> 1/10/2018 - The Ministry of Oil and Gas has awarded oil concession block 57 to Lebanon-based company Petroleb SAL. The ministry signed an exploration and production-sharing agreement with the Lebanese firm for de... |
Norway >> 1/4/2018 - An Oslo court approved Norway’s plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic on Thursday, dismissing a lawsuit by environmentalists who had said it violated people’s right to a healthy environment. ... |
United States >> 1/4/2018 - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced the next step for responsibly developing the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program (National OCS Program) for 2019-2024, whic... |
Indonesia >> 12/29/2017 - Indonesia received bids from several foreign companies for exploration in five oil and gas blocks in 2017, the deputy energy minister said, marking an uptick in interest for the resource-rich nation c... |
Russia >> 12/20/2017 - Rosneft has spudded the Maria-1 exploration well offshore in the Black Sea. Forecasted oil in place for Zapadno-Chernomorskaya licence area is estimated to exceed 570 million tons.
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United States >> 12/15/2017 - Otto Energy Limited provides the following update on the drilling of the ST 224 #1 exploration well, offshore Gulf of Mexico which has been drilled to a total measured depth of 10,900 feet (3,322 metr... |
Equatorial Guinea >> 12/11/2017 - ExxonMobil has struck oil with its Avestruz-1 well in Block EG-06, announced the Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons of Equatorial Guinea. The well was drilled in October 2017. The operator is now asse... |
Morocco >> 12/11/2017 - SDX Energy Inc, the North Africa focused oil and gas company, is pleased to announce that a gas discovery has been made at its KSR-16 development well on the Sebou permit in Morocco (SDX 75% Working I... |
China >> 12/10/2017 - China's CNOOC Limited has announced that the Company has recently made a mid-sized natural gas field discovery Bozhong 19-6 in Bohai Bay. Bozhong 19-6 trap is located in the southwest sag of Bozhong s... |
Mexico >> 12/8/2017 - Mexico’s oil regulator on Thursday canceled a tender for a joint venture with state oil firm Pemex in the deep water Maximino-Nobilis area, as no company expressed interest in the auction. ... |
Russia >> 12/8/2017 - Gazprom Neft has been supporting TV channel NTV in producing a documentary film “Oil: from Well to Pump — Myths and Realities”, with the company giving the channel’s film crew unprecedented access to ... |
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