Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Makes 9th New Gas Discovery
Dana Gas PJSC, the Middle East's first and largest regional private sector natural gas company, has announced that it has successfully achieved its end of year ...
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) today announced an additional natural gas discovery in the Greater Gorgon area’s Carnarvon Basin, Australia’s premier offshore hydrocarbon zone.
The Achilles-1 exploration well, located approximately 100 miles (160 ...
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Total announces that its affiliate, Total E&P UK Limited (Total E&P UK), has entered into agreements with Mobil North Sea LLC, Marathon Oil U.K., Ltd. and Anadarko North Sea Holding ...
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Heritage Oil Plc (TSX:HOC)(LSE:HOIL), an independent upstream exploration and production company, announces the completion of testing the Miran West-1 discovery in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Highlights
- Testing has been completed ...
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:OXY) announced today that it has made a significant discovery of oil and gas reserves in Kern County, California.
Occidental believes there are between 150 million and 250 ...
Friday, July 17th, 2009
EL DORADO, Arkansas, July 17, 2009 – Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR) announced an oil discovery at the Turquoise Marine-1 prospect located in the Mer Profonde Sud (MPS) block, offshore Republic ...
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Kassel / Stavanger. Wintershall Holding AG is pleased to announce a discovery at the Grosbeak prospect in production licence 378 in the
Norwegian North Sea. The well proved both oil and ...
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Total announces the discovery of a significant gas condensate field in the Niscota block of the Andes foothills, 300 kilometres north east of Bogota, Colombia. Total owns a 50% interest ...
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
More oil and gas have been discovered by StatoilHydro with an exploration well drilled about 35 kilometres east of Gudrun in the North Sea and roughly 30 kilometres south of ...
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
SAN RAMON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 7, 2009-- Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) today confirmed a discovery within the Moho-Bilondo license in the Republic of the Congo.
The Moho Nord Marine-4 well, in which Chevron ...
Monday, April 6th, 2009
Dana Gas, the Middle East's first and largest regional private sector natural gas company, is pleased to announce that it had started its first production from the recent gas & ...
Monday, April 6th, 2009
The Jangkrik discovery, drilled in 400 meter water depth, represents a significant success in Eni's exploration efforts in the Kutei Basin and further confirms the high potential of its portfolio ...
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) on Monday, announced that a significant new oil and gas discovery has been made in the offshore Tano Basin.
GNPC and its partners, Tullow Oil, ...
Monday, March 9th, 2009
Company Marks Fourth Consecutive Find on Ghanaian Acreage
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kosmos Energy announces today that the Tweneboa-1 well has discovered a light hydrocarbon accumulation in the Tano Basin offshore the Republic of ...
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Sonangol, Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola and BP Exploration (Angola) Limited today announced the Leda oil discovery in ultra-deepwater Block 31, offshore Angola. This is the seventeenth discovery made ...
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
In advance of the planned Mangala development drilling, the first exploration well in the 2008/09 exploration programme has been successful with the completion of the Raageshwari East 1/1Z well. The ...
Monday, November 3rd, 2008
Total announces a significant gas and condensate discovery in Block B offshore Brunei, in a water depth of 62 metres, around 50 kilometres from the coast.
Total operates the block with ...
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Apache Corporation (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) reported today that the WKAL-C-1X discovery on the West Kalabsha concession established the westernmost production in Egypt's Western Desert. The well flowed 4,746 barrels of ...
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
(Rio de Janeiro, September 24 2008) – PETRÓLEO BRASILEIRO S/A - PETROBRAS, [Bovespa: PETR3/PETR4, NYSE: PBR/PBRA, Latibex: XPBR/XPBRA, BCBA: APBR/APBRA], a Brazilian international energy company, announces that the consortium formed ...
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
BG Group today announced a material new oil discovery in the pre-salt Santos Basin, offshore Brazil. The exploration well, known as Iara, discovered 30 degrees API light crude oil within ...
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Oil has been discovered in the South Tor Pod exploration well in Denmark, where Noreco owns a 6.56% share.
The South Tor Pod well discovered oil bearing chalks. The discovery is ...
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
JKX Oil & Gas plc (“JKX”) announces a gas discovery in the Hajdúnánás -1 exploration well in Hungary’s Pannonian Basin.
The well was drilled to a total depth of 1,166m and ...
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Eni makes new significant gas discovery offshore Sicily
Gas reserves associated with the discovery are estimated at approximately 16 billion cubic meters
San Donato Milanese (MI), 22 July 2008 - Eni has ...
Monday, July 21st, 2008
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2008--Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) announced today that the Briseis-1 exploration well on Australia's Northwest Shelf discovered natural gas in Jurassic and Triassic sandstones. The well encountered ...
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The well was successfully tested and flowed at 25 million standard cubic feet of gas per day with 60 barrels of condensate per day
San Donato Milanese (Milan), 23 June 2008 ...
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Hess Announces Glencoe-1 Natural Gas Discovery in Australia
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hess Corporation (NYSE: HES) announced today that the Glencoe-1 exploration well on Australia's Northwest Shelf discovered natural gas in Upper ...
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Kitan has recently been discovered by the successful exploration activity performed by Eni through the well Kitan-1. Following the discovery, Eni also drilled the well Kitan-2 which was completed on ...
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Total announces that it has made a new gas and condensate discovery in the Alwyn Area of the Northern North Sea, close to the Jura field that recently came ...
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Total announces today a significant discovery of gas and condensates on Block B, offshore Brunei, in a water depth of 62 metres, approximately 50 kilometres from the coast.
Total, with a ...
Friday, May 9th, 2008
RWE Dea continues its exploration success with a fifth discovery in the Sirte Basin. Following three oil discoveries in Concession NC193 and one in Concession NC195 since late 2006, a ...
Monday, May 5th, 2008
Eni: new significant oil discovery offshore Angola
During production tests, the well produced excellent quality oil (29 API degrees) in greater quantities than expected.
San Donato Milanese (Milan), 5 May 2008 - ...
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
The well is located in the offshore licence PL293, at a water depth of 373 metres in the Norwegian North Sea, some 165 km West of Bergen.
San Donato Milanese (Milan), ...
Monday, April 21st, 2008
April 18, 2008 - Vancouver, BC - Vangold Resources Ltd. (“Vangold”) announces that it has received a report, Oil Slicks /Seeps Survey in Lake Kivu, which completes the first phase ...
Monday, April 14th, 2008
StatoilHydro has made a large gas discovery in the Natalia prospect in the Norwegian Sea. According to preliminary calculations the discovery could contain around 1.5 billion cubic metres of recoverable ...
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Operator StatoilHydro and partner Sonatrach have completed the drilling and testing of exploration well number four in the Hassi Mouina license, in the Sahara desert in Algeria.
The partners have proven ...
