Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:APC) today announced the Windjammer exploration well in the frontier Rovuma Basin offshore Mozambique has reached an intermediate casing point and encountered more than 480 net feet ...
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
ONGC Mittal Energy Ltd., the joint venture between India’s ONGC Videsh Ltd. and Mittal Investments, started exploration drilling in Nigeria’s deep-water Block 279. The venture plans to complete drilling by ...
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Chinese oil demand in December 2009 increased by 16.1% to 34.52 million tonnes or 8.16 million bpd compared with 29.74 million tonnes in December 2008, according to a new report.
The ...
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Odein Ajumogobia, minister of state for petroleum, on Monday said the target of producing four million barrels of crude oil per day in 2010 was realisable.
Ajumogobia spoke while inaugurating the ...
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Approximately 7.4 million acres to be explored in Turkish Black Sea
ExxonMobil and Petrobras to bring global deepwater experience to Black Sea
ExxonMobil and Petrobras will each hold a 25 percent interest ...
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
China has taken over from Saudi Arabia the lease of a giant crude oil storage facility in the Caribbean that gives Beijing unprecedented access to fuel and oil markets in ...
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Allied Energy and Eni, through its affiliate Nigerian Agip Exploration, have started up production from the Oyo oil field, located in the Niger Delta Deep offshore, about 75 kilometers off ...
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Accra, Dec. 7, GNA - The first phase of oil drilling in the Jubilee
Fields is expected to yield about 278 million barrels of oil, an official of
the Ghana National Petroleum ...
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
The South African Petroleum Authorities today confirmed Royal Dutch Shell plc as the successful bidder for exploration rights in the Orange Basin deep-water area, off the country’s west coast. Shell ...
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), is said to be discussing with the Federal Government to acquire some oil blocks, which are presently belong to the
multinational oil and gas companies. ...
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Nigeria: President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua yesterday said that the laying down of arms as a result of the general amnesty granted to all militants has restored peace in the Niger ...
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
US crude for November delivery rose $0.45 to $72.22 by 4am EDT. London Brent crude added $0.50 to $70.50.
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Nigeria's crude oil output is hovering between 1.6 and 1.7 ...
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Songa Venus has achieved operating efficiency of 100% during the month. The rig is currently operating for the ADA Consortium and CNOOC Australia offshore North West Australia.
Songa Mercur has achieved ...
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
US crude futures for November gained $0.03 to $66.87 a barrel by 06.40 GMT (2.40am EDT), after closing up $0.82 on Monday, reported Reuters.
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Unrest in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta is ...
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
The new license participating interests, which will be the same for both blocks, will be Eni Ghana Exploration and Production Limited 47.22% (and operator); VUGL 37.78%; and state company Ghana ...
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, the operator of the deepwater Venus-B1 exploration well in Sierra Leone, in which Tullow Oil plc (Tullow) is a 10% partner, today issued the following press release.
HOUSTON, ...
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
The Field, which is 100% owned and operated by Eni, will deliver gas to the Northern Territory's Power Water Corporation (PWC) for over a period of 25 years, with supply ...
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
LUKOIL has started the next development stage of Yu. Korchagin field in theCaspian Sea today.
The fixed offshore ice-resistant platform, the main production facility to be used for production drilling and ...
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Total announces that its 75.8% - owned affiliate, Total Exploration & Production Cameroon, has been awarded by the Ministry of Industry, Mining and Technological Development of Cameroon the Lungahe exploration ...
Monday, July 13th, 2009
TECHNIP AWARDED TWO MAJOR CONTRACTS FOR THE NEW JUBAIL EXPORT REFINERY IN SAUDI ARABIA
Technip has been awarded two major lump sum turnkey contracts by the Saudi Aramco Total Refining and ...
Monday, July 6th, 2009
Despite all the international difficulties for investments in new areas for oil exploration, the oil giant PETROBRAS, YPF and GALP formed a consortium to present E&P bids for two of ...
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) announces that the exploration well 06/94-TV-1X (Toung Vi-1X) offshore Vietnam has reached a target depth of 2,700 meters.
The primary target of the well was the ...
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
CGGVeritas has been awarded a major seismic reservoir characterization project by Total E&P Angola and their partners. The award is for the inversion of 4D seismic data covering the Dalia, ...
Monday, June 1st, 2009
Acergy S.A. (NASDAQ-GS: ACGY; Oslo Stock Exchange: ACY) announced today the award of a contract valued at approximately $190 million from
MOBIL Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPN), an affiliate of Exxon Mobil ...
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
)))))))))Light, sweet crude for July delivery was recently up 43 cents, or 0.7%, at $63.88 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude on the ICE Futures exchange ...
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
Total announces that, within the framework of the EGAS 2008 international bid round organized by the Egyptian authorities, it has been awarded a 90% participation in and the operatorship ...
Friday, May 15th, 2009
BP has announced that the Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (EGAS) has awarded the company two blocks in the 2008 International bid round on the Egyptian Offshore Nile Delta.
Block 2 ...
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 ...
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Total announces that the joint venture holding the Australian exploration permit WA-285-P (Total 24%, INPEX 76% operator) has decided to launch the Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) for the ...
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Successful exploration well in the offshore Sirte Basin
A natural flow rate of up to 1,264 bbl/d was achieved during the test
OMV strengthens its position in the North Africa core region
OMV ...
Sunday, April 19th, 2009
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company (TGS) has commenced acquisition on a new 3,500-kilometer multi-client 2D seismic survey in offshore Benin.
The Benin 2D program is an extension of the 10,000 kilometers of TGS ...
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 ...
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Songa Venus has achieved operating efficiency of 89% in March. The rig is operating for Shell Australia offshore North West Australia.
Songa Mercur has achieved operating efficiency of 96% in ...
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
StatoilHydro has awarded Aker Solutions an engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract at Heidrun. The object of the Heidrun Production Pipeline project is to facilitate increased gas capacity production. ...
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 ...
