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Apache’s Latest Is A Gusher Apache’s WKAL-A-2X discovery tested 5,085 barrels of oil and 130 thousand cubic feet (Mcf) ... Date added: Monday February 01 2010 NIGERIA-Afren Claims Substantial Reserves Volumes Jump From 25Million (predrill) To 116Million Barrels After Thee Wells ... Date added: Monday February 01 2010 CAMEROON-It’s 300 Ft. Victoria Oil & Gas (VOG) reached a total depth of 8,920 feet in La-105 well, on the Logbagba ... Date added: Monday February 01 2010 GABON-M&P Flows Maurel et Prom flowed 3,000 BOPD on 40/64’’ choke tests in OMGW-1, a newfield wildcat... Date added: Monday February 01 2010 Morocco-Circle To Increase Gas Production Circle Oil has commenced extended test production on the KSR-8 well, the most promising of the 20... Date added: Monday February 01 2010 Aminex In A Long Drawn Drill on South Malak-1 South Malak-1 has proved to be a long, drawn out operation for operator Aminex. As of the time of... Date added: Monday February 01 2010 ALGERIA: Petroceltic Encounters Its “Most Prolific” Reservoir Irish minnow Petroceltic International, has reported its third gas discovery, since 2006, in the Isarene permit in Algeria. AT-1, located on the Ain T... Date added: Tuesday October 20 2009 Sierra Leone’s Discovery Is A Trickle, But… The hugely celebrated discovery of oil by the Venus B1 well, drilled by Anardako is a first in Sierra Leonean waters. But it is a pancake thin discove... Date added: Tuesday October 20 2009 EGYPT: Apache Puts W/ Desert Discovery on Stream Apache has put, on stream, its recent discovery in the Matruh Concession of Egypt’s Western Desert. Falcon-1x discovery, which tested 4,400 b... Date added: Tuesday October 20 2009 LIBYA: Oil India Commences Libyan Campaign India’s state hydrocarbon company Oil India Ltd (OIL) will start drilling in Libya from October 2009. The wells are to be drilled in locations o... Date added: Tuesday October 20 2009 KENYA: Africa Oil Evaluates Seismic Data In Block 10A, 10B Africa Oil Corporation is interpreting reprocessed vintage seismic data from Block 10A in Kenya The new data has provided a clearer image of vas... Date added: Tuesday October 20 2009 UGANDA: Dominion Estimates 400MMBbls in Area 4B Without a single well on the acreage, petroleum economists have arrived at an estimate of three hundred and seventy eight million barrels of crude oil... Date added: Thursday July 30 2009 NIGERIA: XOM Makes Progress in 3D (OBC) Coverage ExxonMobil has achieved 60% of the 1,890 sqkm carpet three dimensional (3D) seismic coverage it is carrying out in its Oil Mining Leases OMLs 67 and 7... Date added: Thursday July 30 2009 NIGERIA: NDPC, Sipec Confirm Kakaku Find Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), the operating arm of Nigeria’s state hydrocarbon company NNPC, has confirmed a significant discov... Date added: Tuesday July 07 2009 KENYA: Origin Proposes A Kenyan Shoot Origin Energy is evaluating the bids for a planned 3D seismic shoot in Licence Area L8 in the Lamu basin off Kenya.The Australia-listed operator is se... Date added: Tuesday July 07 2009 UGANDA: Kigogole Proves The Victoria Nile Delta Fairway Tullow Oil has encountered over 20 metres of net oil pay in two separate zones.in the Kigogole-3 exploration well, located in the Butiaba region... Date added: Tuesday July 07 2009 TUNISIA: PA Gets New Take Point Offshore Tunisia PA Resources has completed the drilling of a new production well at the Didon field offshore Tunisia.Didon 10 penetrated a 350 metre lo... Date added: Tuesday July 07 2009 SUDAN: White Nile Makes A Hit In Block 8 White Nile Petroleum Operating Co. or WNPOC, has discovered “significant” volume of dry, non-associated natural gas in Sudan’s onsho... Date added: Tuesday July 07 2009 EGYPT: Atwood Aurora Now On Duty In Nile Delta The Atwood Aurora has finally commenced work for the German operator, RWE Dea, in the North Idku concession in Egypt’s Nile Delta Basin. T... Date added: Thursday June 11 2009 CONGO: EnerGulf Puts Lotshi In Its Sights EnerGulf has signed a contract with CGE (China National Administration of Research Institute of Coal Geophysical Exploration) to conduct a two dimensi... Date added: Thursday June 11 2009 NIGERIA: Addax Puts Njaba On Hold Addax Petroleum is not about to appraise the Njaba discovery, anytime soon. The aggressive Swiss operator wanted to do a down dip sidetrack of Njaba 2... Date added: Thursday June 11 2009 ...Apache In Another Hat Trick in Western Desert Apache, the American independent, reported two new Jurassic oil and gas field discoveries in the Faghur Basin play in the extreme southwest part of Eg... Date added: Thursday June 11 2009 ALGERIA: Petroceltic Starts Isarene Drilling Campaign Petroceltic has commenced its seven well drilling programme on the Isarene permit in Algeria. The INE-2 well was spudded at 23.00 hours on May 1... Date added: Thursday June 11 2009 MORROCCO: Repsol Places Rabat Squarely On The Map If Repsol’s gas discovery at Anchois, in Morrocco’s Tanger-Laranche licence, is confirmed as the 100billion cubic... Date added: Thursday May 28 2009 LIBYA: Algerians Make A Libyan Discovery SIPEX, an operating subsidiary of Algeria’s state hydrocarbon company Sontatrach, has flowed 1,344Barrels of Oil Per Da... Date added: Thursday May 28 2009 EGYPT: Scarabeo 6 On Duty Till 2014 Saipem’s Scarabeo 6 will be working offshore Egypt in the next five years, it is official. The Italian contractor will ... Date added: Thursday May 28 2009 NIGERIA: For TOTAL, Things Are Slow At Ibewa Drilling was going on at snail pace in TOTAL’s Ibewa field, as of the time of going to press for this edition. The Fren... Date added: Thursday May 28 2009 TANZANIA: M&P In Hot Mafia Hole Maurel&Prom, the French independent, was going through ardous temperature and pressure conditions at a depth of 5,437 met... Date added: Thursday May 28 2009 SOMALIA: Somalia may see drilling in 2009 Africa Oil, the first operator to record seismic data in Somalia in 20 years, is excited about the results of the processing and is considering dr... Date added: Thursday May 07 2009 Egypt: Apache scores a hat-trick in the Western Desert U.S independent, Apache has reported three new field discoveries in Egypt’s Western Desert that tested a total of 80 million cubic feet (MMcf) o... Date added: Thursday May 07 2009 Algeria: Repsol hits three paydirt in Sahara Repsol has made three new gas finds in Algeria’s Sahara desert: One in the Reggane basin, where the company has already had a number of succ... Date added: Thursday May 07 2009 BGP slip-sweeps survey for Shell BGP Crew 0121 is performing the first slip-sweep 3D seismic survey contract for Shell in Libya. The slip-sweep technique is based on ... Date added: Thursday May 07 2009 Libya: Woodside makes small gain in the Ghadames Australian operator, Woodside Petroleum, has made a new oil discovery in the Ghadames Basin in Libya, according to the Libyan state hydrocarbon... Date added: Thursday May 07 2009 Past editions |
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