Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) today said that drilling results from the Liza-2 well, the second exploration well in the Stabroek block offshore Guyana, confirm a world-class discovery with a recoverable resource of between 800 million ...
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Japan Petroleum Exploration plans to start drilling Japan's first horizontal shale exploration well at its onshore Fukumezawa oil field in Akita prefecture in the northwest for about one month from May 22, a company official said Tuesday. ...
Shale gas regulations should be streamlined and the government should lend its weight to industry attempts at producing gas through hydraulic fracturing, the Economic Affairs Committee of the UK's upper house of parliament said. Launching ...
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US major Chevron expects to start up its Chuandongbei sour gas project onshore China in 2015, a further delay from its last target of late 2013, the company indicated in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission last week. The ...
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Tangiers Petroleum Limited (ASX: TPT; AIM:TPET) (Tangiers) advises that the government have formally indicated that no further extensions of time will be granted for its two remaining Australian exploration permits. Consequently, it is ...
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Crown Point Energy Inc. (TSX VENTURE:CWV) ("Crown Point" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has commenced drilling operations on a 1,800 to 2,000 meter (subsurface) exploration well located in the southern portion of the 100% ...
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Gulfsands Petroleum plc ("Gulfsands", the "Group" or the "Company" - AIM: GPX), the oil and gas production, exploration and development company with activities in Syria, Morocco, Tunisia, Colombia and the U.S.A. provides the following ...
Gulf Keystone, a leading independent E&P operator in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, today provides an operational and corporate update. Significant progress has been made since the Field Development Plan ("FDP") for the Shaikan field was ...
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Sound Oil, the European / Mediterranean focused upstream oil and gas company, announces that it has signed a Letter of Intent ("LOI") for the forthcoming well addressing the Nervesa discovery on the Carita permit in Northern Italy. As ...
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TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd. (TSX:TNP) (NYSE-MKT:TAT) (the "Company" or "TransAtlantic") today provided an operational update on its current drilling program. Operational Update TransAtlantic ended the fourth quarter of 2013 with ...
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Africa Hydrocarbons Inc. (TSX VENTURE:NFK) ("AHI" or the "Company") today provided the following operational update regarding the Company's BHN-1 exploration well on the Bouhajla Permit in northeastern Tunisia. As planned (and previously ...
Operator Statoil has together with PL272 partners made a gas discovery in the Askja West prospect and an oil discovery in the Askja East prospect in the North Sea. The exploration wells 30/11-9 S and 30/11-9 A, drilled by the drilling ...
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Bengal Energy Ltd. (TSX:BNG) ("Bengal" or the "Company") announces that Beach Energy Ltd. ("Beach") has completed drilling operations at Tangalooma-1, the first of two fully funded exploration wells to be drilled in Bengal's Tookoonooka ...
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Tullow Oil Norge AS, operator of production licence 551, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 31/3-4. The well was dry. The well was drilled approx. ten kilometres north of the Troll C facility in the North Sea. ...
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Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in the Atlantic margin, the North Sea and Norway, is pleased to announce the spudding of the Centrica operated ...