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Angle's scores another Wabamun gas success (2/8/2010) Angle Energy's second Wabamun gaswell in the Lone Pine Creek project area in Alberta, Canada has completed testing... Number of US active rigs up 6th consecutive week (2/8/2010) For the sixth straight week, drilling in the United States has increased as indicated by the number of rotary rigs actively drilling... Triangle acquires North Dakota Bakken Shale acreage (2/8/2010) Triangle Petroleum has acquired 4,000 net acres in the Bakken Shale play in Williams and McKenzie Counties, North Dakota... Songa Venus heading to Australia's Browse Basin (2/8/2010) Songa Offshore has received a letter of award from Shell Development for the employment of the semisubmersible drilling rig... Foster Wheeler wins PMC contract for Singapore LNG (2/8/2010) A Foster Wheeler Global Engineering & Construction Group subsidiary has been awarded a project management consultancy contract... WesternZagros' Kurdistan Iraq test well sees shows (2/8/2010) WesternZagros has drilled its exploration well Kurdamir-1 on the Kalar Bawanoor Block to a depth of 4,077 meters... Husky makes 3rd major South China Sea discovery (2/8/2010) The Husky Oil China subsidiary of Husky Energy has made its third significant gas discovery offshore China... Molopo adds new wells at Saskatchewan Bakken project (2/8/2010) Molopo Energy has drilled and logged three new vertical wells on its Saskatchewan, Canada Bakken Oil Project... Yokogawa joins Amec & JKC in FEED for Inpex Ichthys LNG project (2/8/2010) Yokogawa's Australian unit has been contracted to participate in the front-end engineering and design of the Ichthys Field... UNDP offers to head project to rehabilitate Niger Delta rebels (2/8/2010) The United Nations Development Program has offered to manage a US$5 million pilot project to rehabilitate former Niger Delta rebels... Petrobras revisiting Brazil's Reconcavo Basin exploration (2/8/2010) Brazil's petroleum industry regulator Agencia Nacional do Petroleo has authorized exploratory drilling onshore Brazil... Forest Gate options 50% interest in Utah acreage (2/8/2010) Forest Gate Energy has entered into an exclusive option agreement to acquire a 50% interest in 135,505 gross acres... ExxonMobil at TD in 1st Point Thomson producer (2/8/2010) ExxonMobil Production Company has drilled and cased the first development well at Alaska's North Slope Point Thomson project... Elixir acquiring France's largest onshore exploration block (2/8/2010) Elixir Petroleum has agreed to acquire the large Moselle Permit located in the East Paris Basin onshore northeastern France... NIOC chalks up 2 new field discoveries in Iran (2/8/2010) The National Iranian Oil Company has discovered a new gasfield and a new oilfield onshore Iran in Fars and Kermanshah Provinces... Fugro launches next generation ROV pilot training simulator (2/8/2010) Fugro General Robotics has launched a new version of its pilot training simulator for remotely operated subsea vehicles... Hyundai to build the Goliat FPSO for Eni (2/8/2010) Hyundai Heavy Industries has received the contract from Eni Norge to construct the FPSO for the Barents Sea Goliat Project... Ithaca proceeding with UK North Sea Athena Field (2/8/2010) The Athena Joint Venture Partners have established a project team to plan the development of the Athena Field in the UK North Sea... Niko acquiring Voyager Energy & its Trinidad interests (2/8/2010) Niko Resources has entered into an agreement with Voyager Energy to acquire the company and all of its assets... Anadarko awarded 5 blocks offshore Kenya (2/8/2010) Anadarko Petroleum has concluded an agreement with the National Oil Corporation of Kenya for five blocks in the Lamu Basin... Pluspetrol finds pay with Angola exploration well (2/8/2010) Operator Pluspetrol has reached total depth in its Castanha-1 exploration well drilled in Angola's Cabinda Onshore South Block... Range selling Ohio properties to EV Energy Partners (2/8/2010) Range Resources has agreed to sell EV Energy Partners its tight gas sand properties in Ohio for US$330 million... PGS testing towed streamer EM survey capability (2/8/2010) Petroleum Geo-Services has recently concluded North Sea tests in shallow water of towed electromagnetic data acquisition... Tethys' AKD01 Kazakhstan discovery flows 5,400 b/d (2/7/2010) Tethys Petroleum's initial test results from the upper zone of the AKD01 oil discovery in Kazakhstan has flowed at a restricted rate... Statoil scores extension to 3 Faroese licenses (2/7/2010) The Faroese Ministry of Trade & Industry has granted extensions to three licenses held by Statoil offshore the Faroe Islands... Egypt grants 2 development leases to Apache (2/7/2010) Egypt's Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmi said today Apache Corporation has been awarded two leases in Egypt's Western Desert... CGX seeking rig to drill Guyana exploration well (2/7/2010) CGX Energy is planning to drill an exploration well during the fourth quarter of this year on its Corentyne Block offshore Guyana... Petronas and UNOG awarded deepwater Myanmar blocks (2/7/2010) The Petronas Carigali unit of Petroliam Nasional and UNOG Singapore have been granted three deepwater blocks off Myanmar... Oilex seeking unpaid debt from cancelled West Kampar farmout (2/7/2010) Oilex is embroiled in a dispute with Indonesian operator Sumatera Persada Energi over US$4.1 million in funds that were not repaid... US Corps of Engineers denies NPRA permit to ConocoPhillips (2/7/2010) The US Army Corps of Engineers has refused to grant a permit that would allow access to the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska... CRC-Evans/Global Pipelines scores Deep Panuke project (2/7/2010) CRC-Evans/Global Pipelines has been contracted to provide pipeline services for the gasfield development off Nova Scotia... Niger Delta rebels claim pipeline attack but Shell denies it (2/7/2010) The Nigerian guerilla group Joint Revolutionary Council advised today it attacked and disabled a section of a major oil pipeline... NIOC to go it alone in $10 billion Kish gasfield development (2/7/2010) International sanctions against Iran have forced its National Iranian Oil Company to develop the Persian Gulf gasfield... For more headlines check each department in Site Navigation. From the Editor Antarctica must be off limits to oil forever Dev George Managing Editor The scramble to assert sovereignty over a territorial slice of Antarctica by those governments that currently have claims to it grew to a frenzy last year as each sought to establish its rights before the United Nations Commission on Limits of the Continental Shelf before the May 2009 deadline. They've all submitted their cases now for why they should have their sovereignty recognized and are awaiting a determination, but the case for disallowing all of their claims continues to be the strongest argument...continue reading Click here for prior editorials. Oil/Gas Prices & Analysis March futures tumble again as worries continue (2/5/2010) Record trading ended this week of falling per bbl prices in March crude oil futures at both the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) and the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) as traders continued their selloffs that began earlier in the week when the US dollar started its climb in value against the euro and a basket of other international currencies. Today's market activity was that and more...Go to latest O&G prices/analysis Feedback Click here to email your comments and suggestions on this site and any of its articles. Click here to read feedback comments. What's New New Book Review: Oil and Gas: A Practical Handbook Tools Glossary World Time Zones Measurement Conversions Currency Converter About This Site | Contributer's Guide | Newsfeed Services | 2010 Advertising Info | Contact Us ©Copyright 2001-2010, Oil and Gas International, all rights reserved. ISSN: 155-7440. 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