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Exploration & Discoveries

(5/11/2008) Tanzania & DRC to jointly take a look at Lake Tanganyika

(5/11/2008) Blue Energy confirms Queensland coal seam gas

(5/9/2008) Vaalco prepping for Gabon drilling program

(5/9/2008) Bridge confirms gas in North Sea Durango well

(5/9/2008) Arpaci appraisal well spudded onshore Turkey

(5/9/2008) Bow suspends Donga-4 Queensland test well

(5/8/2008) Indonesia's Citarum Block back on track

(5/8/2008) Marathon drilling under North Dakota's Lake Sakakawea

(5/8/2008) Sudan's Wan Machar well looks to be dry hole

(5/8/2008) StatoilHydro confirms gas & condensate on Alve Field

(5/7/2008) McMoRan sees hydrocarbons in deepened US Gulf well

(5/7/2008) Empire sub set to start Tasmania exploration

(5/7/2008) Banda sidetrack off Mauritania taps pay

(5/6/2008) Hess' South Phu Horm appraisal well non-commercial

(5/6/2008) Rift to start drilling Papua New Guinea's Puk Puk-1

(5/6/2008) PetroWorth to test deep shale gas prospects in New Brunswick

(5/6/2008) Arrow drilling India's Tatapani-Ramkola

(5/6/2008) New gas fault line found in Cooper Basin

(5/5/2008) Kosmos confirms Jubilee discovery off Ghana

(5/5/2008) RWE Dea makes 5th discovery in Libya's Sirte Basin

(5/5/2008) Petrobras testing April discovery at Bem-Te-Vi

(5/5/2008) Eni scores significant oil discovery offshore Angola

(5/2/2008) Gas2Grid prepping to drill onshore NZ Canterbury Basin

(5/2/2008) Noah Federal-1 in Nevada a dry hole

(5/2/2008) MOG sees significant oil shows in Adriatic appraisal well

(5/2/2008) St Mary planning 21 wells in North Dakota Bakken play

(5/1/2008) Ecopetrol scores with Tempranillo test well

(5/1/2008) Incremental & Otto chalk up 6th oil find in Turkey's Edirne

(5/1/2008) Sipetrol's Shahd SE-1 in Egypt flows 2,500 b/d

(5/1/2008) InterOil's Antelope gives up Elk discovery in PNG

(5/1/2008) Apache logs 43 ft pay in test well off Western Australia

(5/1/2008) Successful appraisal of Ofrima North discovery off Nigeria

(4/30/2008) Reliance drilling off India in Saurashtra Basin

(4/30/2008) Sidetrack off Mauritania sees oil & gas shows

(4/30/2008) StatoilHydro draws a dry hole with Yoda test well

(4/29/2008) Storm Ventures takes Tunisia's TT2 well to total depth

(4/29/2008) Heritage spuds Kingfisher-2 in Uganda

(4/29/2008) BG drilling Jordbaer exploration well off Norway

(4/29/2008) Petsec's Louisiana Moonshine well flows 3 million cf/d

(4/28/2008) Aminex spuds Northwest Tanan-1 in Egypt

(4/28/2008) Essential drilling onshore Australia Otway Basin well

(4/28/2008) Helis finds oil & gas in Louisiana's West Black Bay

(4/27/2008) Melrose's East Abu Khadra in Egypt flows 13 million cf/d

(4/25/2008) Newfield scores double discoveries in deepwater US Gulf

(4/25/2008) Toreador's Tik-1 test well in Hungary a dry hole

(4/24/2008) Nexen makes major gas discovery in British Columbia

(4/24/2008) RWE Dea discovers gas & condensate field in Egypt

(4/24/2008) Eni wins with Afrodite exploration well off Norway

(4/23/2008) Gazprom counters Rosneft plan to drill West Kamchatka

(4/23/2008) Banda NW appraisal well off Mauritania being sidetracked

(4/23/2008) StatoilHydro spuds Galtvort exploration well off Norway

(4/23/2008) Harriett JV drilling Marley test well off Western Australia

(4/23/2008) Coolangatta exploration well in Queensland a dud

(4/23/2008) Circulation loss shuts down Pan Orient well in Thailand

(4/23/2008) Gastar scores with 2 East Texas test wells, another drilling

(4/23/2008) Dana scores oil discovery at West Rinnes

(4/22/2008) Cuisinier test well spudded in Queensland, Australia

(4/22/2008) PGNiG drilling 2nd Polish exploration well at Kromolice North

(4/22/2008) Nippon Oil scores gas discovery in US Gulf

(4/22/2008) Reliance kicking off Gujarat-Saurashtra drilling

(4/21/2008) L&M to log New Zealand Westland well to decide final depth

(4/21/2008) Nexen drilling Blackbird south of North Sea Ettrick Field

(4/21/2008) Transworld's Gurame sidetrack to be plugged & abandoned

(4/21/2008) CNR's Anning test well in North Sea a dry hole

(4/21/2008) Report indicates oil seeps in Vangold Rwanda block

(4/20/2008) Stratic prepping to re-enter UK North Sea discovery

(4/18/2008) Eni appraisal of Timor Sea JDA discovery positive

(4/18/2008) Willaroo spud in New South Wales delayed 10 days

(4/18/2008) Noble appraising Benita discovery off Equatorial Guinea

(4/18/2008) Fifth gas discovery made in Turkey's Edirne Block

(4/18/2008) Apache's Speke South off Victoria, Australia a dry hole

(4/18/2008) Yuma's Louisiana Caviar wells find pay

(4/17/2008) Petro Tech sees billion-bbl field complex off Peru

(4/17/2008) Woodside wins with 2 Xena appraisals off Western Oz

(4/17/2008) Petrobras prepping to drill 2 more Carioca test wells

(4/17/2008) Brazil's Ibama gives go-ahead to drill off Bahia

(4/17/2008) NIOC makes large gasfield discovery in southern Iran

(4/16/2008) Maurel & Prom score with 2 Colombia test wells

(4/16/2008) Venture completes Barbarossa well in UK North Sea

(4/16/2008) Repsol-led JV pushes back offshore Cuba exploration to 2009

(4/16/2008) Aminex's Malak well in Egypt non-commercial

(4/16/2008) Noil Energy finds in North Sea Draupne Prospect

(4/15/2008) DST set for Tunisia's Teboursouk-1 test well

(4/15/2008) Anzon finds oil off Victoria, Australia with Basker well

(4/15/2008) Oilex plugging & abandoning Oman test well

(4/15/2008) GeoPark scores gasfield discovery in Chile

(4/15/2008) Maersk makes discovery in Danish North Sea

(4/14/2008) Petrobras' Carioca Field holds 33 billion bbl oil (update)

(4/14/2008) Brooks Range strikes oil on Alaska North Slope

(4/14/2008) Lukoil spuds test well in Colombia's Condor Project

(4/14/2008) Empyrean confirms discovery at Texas' Sugarloaf Project

(4/14/2008) StatoilHydro makes large gas discovery in Norwegian Sea

(4/13/2008) First Jubilant well onshore India's Cauvery Basin a discovery

(4/13/2008) CNOOC sees oil & gas in Kenya test wells

(4/11/2008) StatoilHydro drilling 2 exploration wells & a sidetrack approved

(4/11/2008) Dong drilling southern North Sea wildcat

(4/11/2008) Tethys drilling Bukhara-Urals exploration well

(4/11/2008) Kappa spuds Arrinconada test well in Colombia

(4/11/2008) Austin finds more gas pay in Kentucky Park City Project

(4/10/2008) Arc drilling Yulleroo-2 in Western Australia's Canning Basin

(4/10/2008) Golden State seeking rig for Paradox Basin, Utah well

(4/10/2008) Sibir spuds Koltogorsky well in Western Siberia

(4/9/2008) Tullow planning offshore exploration in Uganda's Lake Albert

(4/9/2008) Petronas drilling Banda NW test off Mauritania

(4/8/2008) Sintezneftegaz drilling Namibia's Kunene-1

(4/8/2008) Essential drilling Ayrford test well in Otway Basin

(4/8/2008) Peroba test well wins Brazil enviro approval to drill

(4/8/2008) Genesis to drill exploration well on UK North Sea block

(4/8/2008) Petrovietnam scores discovery in Algerian desert

(4/8/2008) Apache scores dual discoveries off Western Australia

(4/7/2008) Joint venture formed for exploration in Sea of Marmara

(4/7/2008) Toreador spuds exploration well in central Hungary

(4/7/2008) First test wells set for Russia's Northern Caspian Lagansky Block

(4/7/2008) Gurame-1X encounters gas shows off Sumatra

(4/7/2008) Omega drilling Mugello exploration well onshore Colombia

(4/7/2008) Gavea drilling 2nd test well in Brazil's Sergipe Alagoas

(4/6/2008) Egypt's NPC confirms oil discovery at South Abu Zneima

(4/4/2008) March completes drilling Pica-1 exploration well in Chile

(4/4/2008) Pearl test well chalks up significant gas flow off East Java

(4/4/2008) BP comes up dry with Faroes well, suspends operations

(4/3/2008) Arc scores 40-meter pay zone in Yulleroo wildcat

(4/3/2008) Tests of Gengibre find off Brazil unclear whether viable

(4/3/2008) BP makes US Gulf oil discovery on Kodiak Prospect

(4/2/2008) Roc's Western Australia Dunsborough-2 a duster

(4/2/2008) Beach spudding Queensland's Currumbin-1 tonight

(4/2/2008) Zita-1 sidetrack underway onshore Tunisia

(4/2/2008) Tethys Kazakh test well flows over 13 million cf/d

(4/2/2008) Premier's Sparrow well in UK North Sea all wet

(4/2/2008) EPL scores 2nd discovery in Bay Marchand

(4/2/2008) Santos spuds Barrow test well off Western Australia

(4/1/2008) Forest finds significant gas in Canada's Utica Shale

(4/1/2008) Reliance strikes again in India's Krishna Godavari

(4/1/2008) Teton wins Colorado approval for Frenchman drilling

(3/31/2008) Matra wells targeting Hungarian & Russian prospects

(3/31/2008) Caza finds gas in Texas & New Mexico

(3/31/2008) EPL finds bypassed oil in heart of its East Bay Field

(3/30/2008) Petrobras scores another big subsalt discovery

(3/30/2008) Dana Gas drilling 19 new wells onshore Egypt

(3/28/2008) Kupe JV to drill Momoho exploration off New Zealand

(3/28/2008) Storm spuds Tunisia exploration well at Sud Remada

(3/28/2008) Cairn gets go-ahead to drill India's Ganga Valley

(3/28/2008) March at TD in northern Chile onshore test well

(3/28/2008) Roc encouraged by Western Oz Dunsborough appraisal

(3/28/2008) Remedy for Oman blowout appears to be a sidetrack

(3/27/2008) Awakino South to be drilled off NZ's Taranaki coast

(3/27/2008) Bordeaux & Savant drilling Alaska North Slope Kupcake well

(3/27/2008) First Edirne Gas Project well spudded in western Turkey

(3/27/2008) Apache prepping to spud Victoria Gippsland Basin test

(3/27/2008) Petsec plugging & abandoning US Gulf probe

(3/26/2008) Foothills' Grizzly Bear deep test well at TD

(3/26/2008) Gurame-1X spudded off northern Sumatra

(3/26/2008) Range & AOC nearing spud of 1st Puntland well

(3/26/2008) Chevron makes 6 Tcf gasfield discovery off Vietnam

(3/26/2008) Tullow to launch Uganda drilling program

(3/26/2008) Team partners find oil & gas in Kansas

(3/26/2008) 200 meters of pay in Volga's Vostochny-Makarovskoye-1

(3/25/2008) Khop-1 plugged & abandoned off Mauritania

(3/25/2008) Liner run to ease difficult drilling in US Gulf Pompano Project

(3/25/2008) Texas coastal exploration well Avoca-1 flows gas

(3/25/2008) MOG appraisal boosts Italian Adriatic well reserves

(3/25/2008) Sonatrach & StatoilHydro strike oil in Algeria's Hassi Mouina

(3/25/2008) Chesapeake's Haynesville Shale discovery may hold 20 Tcfe

(3/25/2008) Faroe Petroleum drilling Yoda Prospect off Norway

(3/25/2008) EnCore drilling North Sea Cobra appraisal well

(3/24/2008) Rosneft primed for Sakhalin 3 exploratory drilling

(3/24/2008) Kidan-6 exploration well underway in Saudi Empty Quarter

(3/24/2008) Solana spuds test well in Colombia's Guachiria Sur Block

(3/21/2008) Total nearing TD in Brunei's record depth exploration well

(3/21/2008) Reliance to drill 2 test wells offshore Gujarat, India

(3/21/2008) Blue Energy spuds 1st of 15 Queensland wells

(3/21/2008) Oil Search overcoming problems with 2 PNG test wells

(3/21/2008) Innamincka sees strong gas shows at Yarrow North

(3/20/2008) RMR technology set for West Kamchatka test wells

(3/20/2008) Aral spuds Baktygaryn exploration well onshore Kazakhstan

(3/19/2008) New Shoshoni finds gas in BC Sunrise Field well

(3/19/2008) Pearl's luck looking better in Indonesia's Lengo-1

(3/19/2008) Spartan Schwing gas wildcat in Louisiana a winner

(3/19/2008) Roc plugs & abandons China Beibu Gulf test well

(3/19/2008) MOL chalks up another discovery on Pakistan's Tal Block

(3/18/2008) Nido picks Gindara prospect to drill off Philippines

(3/18/2008) Oilex spuds 2nd of 3-well Oman exploration program

(3/18/2008) LLOG racks up 3 US Gulf deepwater discoveries

(3/18/2008) Essar Wildcat prepping to drill Krishna Godavari test well

(3/18/2008) UK North Sea Cladhan exploration well to be drilled

(3/18/2008) Hess' deepwater US Gulf Pony test well being sidetracked

(3/17/2008) Cairn strikes out with 2 Bangladesh wells, finds gas in 3rd

(3/17/2008) Range has oil & gas shows in Tunisia Teboursouk well

(3/17/2008) Aminex makes substantial gas discovery off Tanzania

(3/16/2008) Oil Search relocating PNG Cobra exploration well

(3/16/2008) Triple Diamond drilling Hoxbar test well in Oklahoma

(3/14/2008) White Nile drilling Wan Machar-1 in Sudan's Block 5B

(3/14/2008) Sterling scores an Austin Chalk gas discovery in Texas

(3/14/2008) Petsec finds gas pay in Louisiana Moonshine Project

(3/13/2008) Turkey's Koyunlu-2 being plugged & abandoned

(3/13/2008) Bayshore re-enters Texas Cooke Ranch discovery well

(3/13/2008) Yemen test well Qarn Qaymah-2 finds hydrocarbons

(3/12/2008) Canoro prepping for added wells in Assam

(3/12/2008) Victory to drill deep Strawn & Ellenburger gaswells

(3/12/2008) Solana says Primavera well in Colombia a discovery

(3/12/2008) MEO Australia confirms Heron-2 a discovery (update)

(3/12/2008) Roc Oil's Cabinda South Milho non-commercial but key

(3/12/2008) Clayton Williams sinks 2 East Texas Bossier sands wells

(3/12/2008) Montello spuds another Tennessee test well

(3/11/2008) Surgutneftegas discovers four new gas fields in Yakutia

(3/11/2008) Roc plugging & abandoning China exploration well

(3/11/2008) Ithaca drilling 3rd well in UK North Sea Athena Project

(3/11/2008) Blackwood-1 off NW Australia discovers gas

(3/11/2008) Omega drilling delayed Monza well in Colombia

(3/11/2008) Apache drilling Coelacanth test off Victoria, Australia

(3/11/2008) South Australia Murrippi exploration well a dud

(3/11/2008) StatoilHydro to drill Mizzen exploration well off Newfoundland

(3/11/2008) Addax boosts Nigeria discovery with appraisal well

(3/10/2008) Exall's Marten Mountain discovery tests 1,585 b/d

(3/10/2008) Norwood prepping to drill Maderas Negras test well

(3/10/2008) Pearl drilling Lengo exploration well off Indonesia

(3/10/2008) Eni strikes oil in Timor Sea Joint Development Area

(3/10/2008) White Nile scores a dry hole on Sudan's Nyal Prospect

(3/9/2008) Montello spuds Morgan County, Tennessee exploration well

(3/9/2008) Innamincka spuds Yarrow North-1

(3/9/2008) Energas to redrill Wyoming Finley well

(3/7/2008) ConocoPhillips gets Norwegian wildcat drilling permit

(3/7/2008) StatoilHydro discovery in Barents Sea Obesum prospect

(3/6/2008) Sipetrol spuds exploration well in Egypt's East Ras Qattara

(3/6/2008) StatoilHydro follows wildcat discovery with dry hole

(3/5/2008) Shoal Point drilling shore-to-sub-seafloor test well

(3/5/2008) Talisman confirms UK North Sea Cayley discovery

(3/5/2008) Petroneft drilling exploration well Korchegskaya-1 in Tomsk

(3/5/2008) Colombia-Venezuela border tension halts well test

(3/5/2008) Brooks Range reached TD in Alaska North Slope test well

(3/5/2008) Holloman drilling its first well in South Australia

(3/5/2008) Bow Valley's UK North Sea wildcat fizzles

(3/4/2008) OIL to resume Rajasthan Thar Desert exploration

(3/4/2008) Oilex prepping for 3rd DST on Oman's Sarha-1

(3/4/2008) MPRL enters exploration phase in Myanmar's A6 Block

(3/4/2008) Roc plugging & abandoning Frankland appraisal

(3/3/2008) Beach-Great Artesian Murrippi-1 sees oil shows

(3/3/2008) PetroQuest scores gas discovery at Pelican Point

(3/3/2008) AOC drills a duster in Egypt's Gulf of Suez

(2/29/2008) Eni preparing to drill off Indonesia's Lhokseumawe coast

(2/29/2008) Mediterranean Oil & Gas to spud appraisal off Italy

(2/29/2008) Venture drilling Barbarossa appraisal in UK North Sea

(2/28/2008) Salamander scores positive appraisal of Tutung discovery

(2/28/2008) Schlumberger completes Sun Cal Wyoming prospect analysis

(2/27/2008) Redcliffe scores new Wapiti oil discovery

(2/27/2008) ExxonMobil gets go-ahead to explore off Libya

(2/27/2008) Orion drilling Willaroo exploration well in New South Wales

(2/27/2008) UK North Sea Bugle discovery found commercial

(2/27/2008) Reliance does it again in India's Bay of Bengal

(2/26/2008) Buccaneer's 2nd US Gulf Pompano test spudded

(2/26/2008) Argentia finds oil in Argentina's Neuquen block

(2/25/2008) Oilex still testing Oman Sarha-1 to determine viability

(2/25/2008) UK North Sea Maria Prospect test well at TD

(2/25/2008) Khazar Oil gearing up to drill Caspian Sea exploration well

(2/25/2008) Tullow to redrill Uganda test well due to borehole instability

(2/25/2008) Aminex spuds Malak-1 in Egypt's onshore West Esh El Mallaha

(2/25/2008) Kosmos scores significant discovery off Ghana

(2/22/2008) Austin's Kentucky Park City well an oil & gas discovery

(2/21/2008) March penetrating volcanic tuff in Chile's Pica-1 well

(2/21/2008) Vector drilling test well in Oklahoma's Three Sands Project

(2/21/2008) Beach drilling Murrippi test well in South Australia

(2/21/2008) ConocoPhillips North Sea wildcat a dry hole

(2/20/2008) BG drilling Norway's North Sea Phi-North Prospect

(2/20/2008) Eni gas discovery reported on Norway's Afrodite Prospect

(2/20/2008) Canadian Superior spuds Bounty well off Trinidad

(2/20/2008) Nexus' Crux-4 appraisal proves field extension

(2/20/2008) Coelacanth-1 set to spud 1st week of March

(2/20/2008) Roc re-spuds China exploration well in Beibu Gulf

(2/20/2008) StatoilHydro makes oil discovery on Norway's M Prospect

(2/19/2008) Empire drilling exploration well in North Perth Basin

(2/19/2008) Frontera sees oil shows in Rep of Georgia Lloyd-1 sidetrack

(2/19/2008) Petrominerales taps oil in Colombia's Corcel-3

(2/19/2008) Petro Hunt plugging & abandoning South Louisiana well

(2/18/2008) Anadarko prepping to drill Brazil's pre-salt area

(2/18/2008) Fireball Creek test well spudded onshore New Zealand

(2/18/2008) Pearl finds Lisah-1 off East Java all wet

(2/18/2008) Sibir starts 2008 Koltogorsky exploration program

(2/18/2008) Hess drilling appraisal in northeastern Thailand

(2/18/2008) Range drilling Teboursouk exploration well onshore Tunisia

(2/18/2008) Samson spuds New Mexico Permian test well

(2/18/2008) Gavea & Eromanga see oil & gas in Brazil re-entry

(2/15/2008) Tanzania's Kiliwani-1 plugged, Kiliwani North-1 to spud

(2/15/2008) Extension of Lundin's Nemo Field off Norway confirmed

(2/14/2008) Oil Search struggling with stuck pipe in PNG Paua well

(2/14/2008) Beach to drill South Australian exploration well at Murrippi

(2/14/2008) Buganviles exploration well in Colombia reaches TD

(2/14/2008) Sipetrol plugging & abandoning Egypt sidetrack

(2/13/2008) Egdon's SW France Grenade-3 exploration well a duster

(2/13/2008) Matra draws water in Hungary's Marcali test well

(2/13/2008) Petronas prepping to spud Khop-1 off Mauritania

(2/13/2008) Exploratory drilling resumes in Sudan's Block 5B

(2/13/2008) Reliance makes another gas discovery in India's Bengal Bay

(2/13/2008) Rift's Puk Puk PNG exploration well to spud

(2/12/2008) Brooks Range prepping to drill Alaska North Slope test well

(2/12/2008) Royale finds gas pay in California's Lonestar Field

(2/12/2008) Marathon's North Sea wildcat found all wet

(2/11/2008) Ithaca's UK North Sea Polly test well at TD

(2/11/2008) Apache drilling 3rd exploration well in Egypt's East Ras Budran

(2/11/2008) Odyssey scores with Mississippi Pelahatchie well

(2/11/2008) Husky drilling test well in Canada's Northwest Territories

(2/11/2008) Contango wins again with Mary Rose well off Louisiana

(2/11/2008) Aminex plugging & abandoning Tanzania well

(2/11/2008) PDO makes major oil find in southern Oman

(2/11/2008) UK North Sea Huntington appraisal finds 452-ft oil column

(2/10/2008) L&M prepping to drill Fireball Creek on NZ's South Island

(2/10/2008) MEO drilling Blackwood wildcat in Timor Sea

(2/9/2008) Grundy exploration well now drilling in Poland

(2/9/2008) Savant to drill Alaska Beaufort Sea Kupcake prospect

(2/9/2008) Reconcavo test well proves to be all wet

(2/8/2008) Roma spuds Paradise Downs-1 in Queensland's Surat Basin

(2/8/2008) Volga Gas' test well in Vostochny-Makarovskoye finds pay

(2/8/2008) Roc plugging & abandoning Lilac well off Western Australia

(2/8/2008) Lundin gets go-ahead for Caspian exploration well

(2/8/2008) Appraisal of Oselvar discovery points to development

(2/7/2008) Gazprom applies to explore 3 blocks in Sakhalin III

(2/7/2008) Texon finds gas-bearing sands onshore South Texas

(2/7/2008) Oil Search's plugging Egypt well, reworking PNG well

(2/6/2008) 3D set to drill 2 Bass Strait wells off Australia

(2/6/2008) Petsec drilling onshore Louisiana Moonshine Project

(2/6/2008) Arktikshelfneftegaz to drill Pechora Sea test well

(2/6/2008) US Gulf Terrebonne test well comes up dry

(2/5/2008) Chevron drilling appraisal of Nigeria's deepwater Aje prospect

(2/5/2008) Aurelian's Energia Zachod testing Poland's Trzek-1

(2/5/2008) Matra suspends Horvatkut well in Hungary's Inke Block

(2/5/2008) Aminex resumes drilling Kiliwani-1 in Tanzania

(2/5/2008) Pemberton gets go-ahead to drill Peace River Arch well

(2/4/2008) BP JV discovers oil in Egypt's Gulf of Suez

(2/4/2008) Ascent to drill appraisal well in Switzerland

(2/4/2008) Empire gets go-ahead to drill Moriary exploration well

(2/4/2008) Pacific Rubiales test well shows 27.7 milion cf/d

(2/4/2008) Coastal Energy scores Thai gasfield discovery

(2/4/2008) Texas' Padre Island prospect test well spudded

(2/4/2008) Roc drilling 2 test wells off Western Australia

(2/3/2008) Subsidence halts Oil Search PNG exploration well

(2/3/2008) Apache gearing up to drill farm-in test well off Australia

(2/3/2008) 11 Tcf gasfield discovered in Persian Gulf

(2/3/2008) EnCore to drill Cobra test well in UK North Sea

(2/3/2008) TPAO spuds exploration well in Aegean Sea

(2/1/2008) BP scores West of Shetland oil discovery

(2/1/2008) Shell's Vicksburg an ultra-deep US Gulf discovery

(2/1/2008) BP makes 15th discovery in Angola ultra-deepwater block

(1/31/2008) Chevron US Gulf Big Foot appraisal confirms pay zones

(1/31/2008) Trans-Orient kicking off drilling onshore New Zealand

(1/31/2008) Energas deepening Wyoming exploration well

(1/31/2008) Algeria's Hassi Ba Hamou appraisal well drilled

(1/31/2008) StatoilHydro's Norwegian Sea Gamma wildcat a discovery

(1/31/2008) BP makes major Nile Delta gas discovery at record depth

(1/30/2008) Seismic results expand FX 2008 test drilling in Poland

(1/30/2008) Re-entered Pompano well off Texas a producer

(1/30/2008) Foothills drilling California's Grizzly Bear Prospect

(1/30/2008) Key prepping to drill Italy's Borsano Block

(1/30/2008) Norway's PSA okays Stetind exploration well

(1/30/2008) Nova Scotia Windsor Basin wells show 80-109 bcf in place

(1/29/2008) Verenex Libya appraisal confirms large hydrocarbon trap

(1/29/2008) NW Crimean test well finds oil & gas

(1/29/2008) Eni proves added reserves in Norwegian Sea discovery

(1/29/2008) Roc scores a duster in China's Beibu Gulf probe

(1/28/2008) Petro Hunt sidetracks Louisiana Nottoway test well

(1/28/2008) Saskatchewan's Pasquia Hills high yield oil shale confirmed

(1/28/2008) Drilling to start on South Texas Frio-Vicksburg well

(1/28/2008) OPAB to test Sweden's Baltic Sea Dalders prospect

(1/28/2008) Sintezneftegaz gearing up to drill offshore Namibia

(1/28/2008) Second gas zone discovered in Victory well off Trinidad

(1/27/2008) Aminex prepping to spud West Esh El Mallahah well

(1/27/2008) Pan American makes major Argentine discovery

(1/25/2008) Small discovery made in Pakistan's Sindh Province

(1/25/2008) Cypress to P&A & re-drill Texas Rayburn Project well

(1/25/2008) Oil Search spuds PNG Cobra-1 this morning

(1/25/2008) Oilex to test Oman well with oil & gas shows

(1/24/2008) Apache scores big Egypt Western Desert discovery

(1/24/2008) Corridor farm-in Prince Edward Island well water wet

(1/24/2008) Pearl's Lisah-1 starts drilling in Indonesia

(1/23/2008) Alaska North Slope North Shore-1 a discovery

(1/23/2008) DPE drills Bulgaria's deepest exploration well

(1/23/2008) Petro-Canada makes UK North Sea oil discovery

(1/23/2008) Maersk's Danish exploration well Ebba-1X a dry hole

(1/22/2008) Caza scores with 2 Texas wells, strikes out in Louisiana

(1/22/2008) Tekoil spuds its 1st Newfoundland exploration well

(1/22/2008) Teton Energy tags 11 drillsites in Colorado's DJ Basin

(1/22/2008) Bow Valley's North Sea test well a small discovery

(1/22/2008) Oman's Sarha exploration well reaches TD

(1/21/2008) Petrobras scores big ultra-deepwater gasfield discovery off Brazil

(1/21/2008) Pluspetrol to complete new Peru Block 56 well

(1/21/2008) MEO's Heron-2 fails to find hydrocarbons in Darwin formation

(1/21/2008) Second Capricorn well in Argentina near completion

(1/21/2008) PetroVietnam scores oil & gas discovery in Algeria

(1/21/2008) Melrose finds gas in new Black Sea concession

(1/21/2008) Petrobras finds potential payzones in Gengibre well

(1/18/2008) Petronas to proceed with South Sudan exploration

(1/18/2008) Mechanical problems suspend PetroQuest Louisiana well

(1/18/2008) Rift prepping to spud Papua New Guinea test well

(1/18/2008) Regal finds no hydrocarbons in 2nd test of Romanian well

(1/17/2008) Second Argentine Capricorn exploration well at TD

(1/17/2008) PetroWorth pegs 4-well drilling program in New Brunswick

(1/17/2008) Clayton Williams unsuccessful in 2 Texas Bossier wells

(1/17/2008) Tobago deepwater discovery chalked up to Petro-Canada

(1/17/2008) Kerr-McGee to drill deepwater South China Sea test well

(1/17/2008) Pakistan's Khanpur-2 proves a producer

(1/17/2008) DNO sees oil in Kurdish Iraq exploration well

(1/17/2008) Melrose's West Zahira well in Egypt a probable gas discovery

(1/16/2008) New gas discovery offshore India's Andhra Pradesh

(1/16/2008) CDS drilling again in Paraguay's Chaco province

(1/16/2008) Roc drilling new exploration well in China's Beibu Gulf

(1/16/2008) Colombia Chicuaco exploration well drilling delayed

(1/15/2008) Pan-Orient's Thai Wichian Buri deep test all wet

(1/15/2008) Aladdin finds oil in Russia's West Uthinskoye

(1/15/2008) Oilex sees shows in Oman with 1st of 3 new exploration wells

(1/15/2008) Marathon to drill its first deep gas well in East Texas

(1/15/2008) ONGC makes 2nd deepwater gasfield discovery off India

(1/15/2008) Tethys finds new gasfield onshore Kazakhstan

(1/15/2008) Calvalley finds oil shows in onshore Yemen test well

(1/15/2008) Talisman makes 2nd Vietnam discovery in Cuu Long Basin

(1/14/2008) Ithaca begins drilling its North Sea Polly Prospect

(1/14/2008) Kappa drilling Acacia Este-1 in Colombia

(1/14/2008) Sterling abandons first of two Gabon test wells

(1/14/2008) Egdon appraisal well drilling in southwest France

(1/14/2008) Repsol discovers gas in Peru's Cuzco Province

(1/14/2008) Manantial-1R re-entry well to spud in Colombia's Talora Block

(1/14/2008) Canadian Superior achieves Trinidad gasfield discovery

(1/14/2008) McMoRan does it again at US Gulf South Marsh Island

(1/14/2008) StatoilHydro makes another North Sea find in Fram Field

(1/14/2008) Serica plugging & abandoning Java Sea Batara Indra North-1

(1/14/2008) Noble scores deepwater discovery off Equatorial Guinea

(1/13/2008) Brooks Range re-enters Alaska North Shore-1 well

(1/13/2008) Lakes drilling new onshore exploration well in Victoria

(1/11/2008) Oil & gas discovered in West Virginia Blue Jacket Project

(1/11/2008) Eastern Zambia soil samples encouraging exploration

(1/11/2008) Caspian Oil & Gas drilling 3rd Fergana Basin test well

(1/10/2008) Petrobras Caribbean test well off Colombia all wet

(1/10/2008) Ecopetrol makes discovery in Colombia's Platanillo Block

(1/10/2008) Manas' Albanian blocks said holding major reserves

(1/10/2008) Nexus running liner in preparation to test Crux-3 appraisal

(1/10/2008) March prepping to spud northern Chile test well

(1/9/2008) Prospects poor for Ascent's Anagni well onshore Italy

(1/9/2008) Tunisia's Zita-1 well to be sidetracked

(1/9/2008) RWE Dea's UK Tees exploration well all wet

(1/9/2008) Leed seeing success with US Gulf Eugene Island well

(1/9/2008) Salamander spuds appraisal of Tutung gas discovery

(1/9/2008) Index to complete Lavaca County Texas test well

(1/9/2008) Texas' Padre Island JV to drill Manzano Prospect

(1/8/2008) MEO Australia resumes testing Heron-2 in Timor Sea

(1/8/2008) Nordic picks drillsites for Saskatchewan Preeceville wells

(1/8/2008) Lundin draws dry hole with UK offshore well

(1/8/2008) Gulfsands Syrian discovery appraisal successful

(1/8/2008) Cairn plugging & abandoning exploration well off Bangladesh

(1/8/2008) Texas Gulf's El Fatso a flop

(1/8/2008) ExxonMobil's deepwater US Gulf Julia well a discovery

(1/8/2008) DONG scores encouraging appraisal of Oselvar discovery

(1/8/2008) Roc Oil drilling 4 exploration wells in China's Beibu Gulf

(12/14/2007) Aurelian production testing Polish discovery

(12/14/2007) Two exploration wells drilling in UK North Sea Huntington area

(12/14/2007) Chevron plugging & abandoning US Gulf deepwater well

(12/13/2007) BG drilling six wells on Algeria's Hassi Ba Hamou Block

(12/13/2007) Regal tests Romania gas discovery

(12/13/2007) Breton prepping to spud US Gulf shallow water gaswell

(12/13/2007) Schoenfield exploration well drilling in South Texas

(12/13/2007) NOil Energy drills a dry hole in Norwegian North Sea

(12/12/2007) Pryme finds gas in Louisiana's Turner Bayou 3D project

(12/12/2007) Last wells of year on Bengara II in East Kalimantan completed

(12/12/2007) Matra gearing up for further exploration of Hungary's Inke Block

(12/11/2007) Junex's Quebec probe fails to find hydrocarbons

(12/11/2007) Second test well drilling on Argentina's Capricorn Block

(12/10/2007) Texas deep Bondi prospect non-commercial so far

(12/10/2007) Fairfield suspends UK North Sea Crawford appraisal

(12/10/2007) Sonatrach reports 2 gas discoveries in SW Algeria

(12/10/2007) Nautical's North Sea Mermaid all wet

(12/10/2007) Nexus drilling third appraisal of Crux Field off Australia

(12/10/2007) Jubilant drilling new exploration well onshore Gujarat, India

(12/10/2007) Verenex achieves another oil discovery in Libya

(12/10/2007) Serica spudding first of 2 Biliton exploration wells in Java Sea

(12/10/2007) StatoilHydro draws a dry hole with Barents Sea well

(12/7/2007) Farm-in test well starts drilling on Louisiana prospect

(12/7/2007) Rockhopper prepping to drill Falklands exploration well

(12/7/2007) Repsol makes major gas discovery in Bolivia

(12/7/2007) Petrobras makes another light oil & gas discovery

(12/6/2007) BOT scores with Siberia's Mokrousovsky-1

(12/6/2007) Golden Gate redrills Louisiana discovery oil zone

(12/6/2007) Kodiak prepping to drill British Columbia's Lucy project

(12/6/2007) Nexen-led JV's US Gulf ultra deep well postponed

(12/6/2007) Excelsior kicks off Hangingstone oil sands operations

(12/5/2007) Geopark's Campo Leandro looks dry

(12/5/2007) Daybreak prepping to test 2 Tensas Farms wells in Louisiana

(12/5/2007) Aminex's Ndovu exploration well off Tanzania sees gas

(12/5/2007) South Sembakung discovery appraisals positive

(12/5/2007) Don Juan's 2nd exploration well Oralla North-1 finds pay

(12/4/2007) Petrolifera finds light oil in Argentina's Neuquen Basin

(12/4/2007) Anadarko's West Tonga a US Gulf deepwater discovery

(12/3/2007) Imperial sees oil in South Maiskaya test well

(12/3/2007) Cubic currently drilling 2 wells in Caddo, Louisiana

(12/3/2007) Cooper sees oil shows in East Java exploration well

(12/3/2007) Excellent results from Western Desert test well in Egypt

(12/3/2007) Beach finds new South Australia oilfield with Parsons well

(12/3/2007) Yet another deepwater discovery in Angola Block 32

(12/3/2007) Verenex scores 4th consecutive discovery in Libya

(11/30/2007) Tethys reaches TD with Akkulka-12 well onshore Kazakhstan

(11/30/2007) Drilling set to begin on Namibia deepwater exploration well

(11/30/2007) EPL draws a duster with US Gulf Eugene Island well

(11/30/2007) PetroChina & KNOC joint E&P to boost Daqing output

(11/30/2007) Drillmar resumes drilling St Gabriel well in Louisiana

(11/30/2007) StatoilHydro appraisal of Ragnarrock discovery positive

(11/29/2007) Carrizo drilling test well on University of Texas Arlington campus

(11/29/2007) Inpex spuds 3rd Abadi appraisal well in Timor Sea

(11/29/2007) ONGC makes new gas discovery in Rajasthan

(11/28/2007) PA Resources drilling Tunisia's Serraguia prospect

(11/28/2007) Ducroz test well in South Texas taps gas pay

(11/27/2007) Nautical spuds test of UK North Sea Mermaid Prospect

(11/27/2007) Roc prepping for 2 wells off Western Australia

(11/27/2007) Irvine tags Kansas drill targets for 2008

(11/27/2007) APCO plugging & abandoning Argentine well

(11/27/2007) Beach scores 4th discovery in South Australia's Cooper Basin

(11/26/2007) Entek plugs & abandons US Gulf High Island test well

(11/26/2007) Fairfield scores with UK North Sea Crawford Field appraisal

(11/25/2007) Minor oil shows in Argentina's Pena Azul well

(11/25/2007) Oil Search's Korobosea well in PNG all wet

(11/24/2007) CNOOC on discovery roll with 3 finds this quarter

(11/24/2007) Apache plugging & abandoning Egypt test well

(11/23/2007) Oljeprospektering petitions to drill in Baltic off Sweden

(11/23/2007) Tullow's Ngassa-1 in Uganda delayed by bad weather

(11/23/2007) Shell plugging & abandoning deepwater Pakistan well

(11/23/2007) Caspian spuds 2nd test well in Kyrgyz Fergana Basin

(11/23/2007) 2nd well spudded in Victoria, Australia Don Juan CBM project

(11/22/2007) Niko gives up on Cauvery test wells onshore India's Tamil Nadu

(11/22/2007) Bayou Bend plugging & abandoning US Gulf well

(11/22/2007) Aurelian spuds test well in Romania's Suceava Concession

(11/22/2007) Junex's St Lawrence Basin well non-commercial

(11/22/2007) Kerloch exploration well spudded in UK North Sea

(11/21/2007) Second well in Louisiana Raven Project underway

(11/21/2007) PetroVietnam sets Cuba exploration program

(11/21/2007) OMV's Moana-1 off New Zealand fails to find oil

(11/21/2007) Index drilling 2nd Fern Lake Prospect exploration well

(11/20/2007) Gulfsands spuds Khurbet East-3 in Syria

(11/20/2007) Majestic wildcat find oil in northern Montana

(11/20/2007) DNO makes 2nd Paleocene oil discovery off Norway

(11/19/2007) Another Petrolifera gas find in Argentina's Neuquen Basin

(11/19/2007) Sumatera Persada's Pendalian-3 taps 2 commercial zones

(11/19/2007) Petrominerales' Corcel-2 predicted to flow at 10,000 b/d

(11/19/2007) Aurelian's Trzek-1 in Poland taps 89-meter gas column

(11/19/2007) Pan Orient finds another oilfield in northern Thailand

(11/19/2007) Sterling scores successful appraisal of Breagh discovery

(11/18/2007) Drillmar prepping to re-enter & deepen Louisiana test well

(11/18/2007) PetroWorth Spuds Feenan-2 in New Brunswick

(11/18/2007) ExxonMobil gearing up for Great South Basin exploration

(11/18/2007) Marathon to drill Bjorn prospect in Norwegian North Sea

(11/16/2007) Arc drilling Valhalla-1 exploration well in Canning Basin

(11/16/2007) NOIL spuds Thorkildsen test well in Norwegian North Sea

(11/16/2007) Pakistan's OGDC achieves Sindh gas discovery

(11/16/2007) Kraken appraisal in UK North Sea finds oil sands

(11/16/2007) Aminex's Ndovu spuds Kiliwani-1 off Tanzania

(11/16/2007) Total makes ultra-deepwater discovery offshore Congo

(11/16/2007) Egdon drilling onshore UK Fraisthorpe Prospect

(11/15/2007) Terra drilling appraisal to NE British Columbia discovery

(11/15/2007) New find in Australia's Bass Strait set for test well

(11/15/2007) Stuart scores rig to drill Gippsland Basin farm-in well

(11/15/2007) InterOil spuds Elk-4 appraisal well in Papua New Guinea

(11/15/2007) StatoilHydro Bjork wildcat a duster

(11/14/2007) Primeline prepping to drill East China Sea prospects

(11/14/2007) Lundin finds oil in UK North Sea Scolty Prospect

(11/14/2007) Noble scores new discovery offshore Equatorial Guinea

(11/14/2007) BP makes major deep discovery in Caspian Sea's Shah Deniz

(11/12/2007) Brunei Shell makes major gas discovery off Brunei

(11/12/2007) Bow's CBM Taringa South-1 exploration well flows on test

(11/11/2007) New Mexico Cronos Fee-1 completed & onstream

(11/11/2007) Savant prepping to drill Alaska's Kupcake prospect

(11/9/2007) Cubic at TD in Louisiana deep Daniels 3 test well

(11/9/2007) Moana-1 spudded in offshore New Zealand Taranaki Basin

(11/9/2007) Adelaide completes testing of South Australia appraiser

(11/9/2007) Oil discovered with first well at Louisiana's Saline Point Project

(11/8/2007) Thai onshore Dong Mun appraisal well spudded

(11/8/2007) Texon drilling coastal Texas' Bondi prospect

(11/8/2007) Rosneft sub finds new oilfield in Russia's Krasnodar

(11/8/2007) Revus planning 12-16 North Sea exploration wells by 2009

(11/8/2007) Petrobras' Tupi discovery holds 5-8 billion bbl oil

(11/7/2007) Oil Search's PNG Arakubi exploration well finds water

(11/7/2007) Reliance scores another Bengal Bay gas find off India

(11/7/2007) Petrofac drilling appraisal of Don Southwest discovery

(11/6/2007) GSPC drills 2 more exploration wells on India's Tarapur Block

(11/6/2007) Aspen find 100 ft gas pay in California's Sacramento Valley

(11/6/2007) Matra makes discovery in Russia's Arkhangelovskoye

(11/6/2007) Stuart's Cleansweep finds oil shows in Poolowanna

(11/6/2007) Contango completes Louisiana state waters test well

(11/6/2007) UK Columbus discovery appraisal wells successful

(11/5/2007) El Paso scores double discoveries off Brazil

(11/5/2007) Loon spuds Revancha Sur test well in Colombia

(11/5/2007) Sterling's Breagh appraisal at TD with good gas shows

(11/5/2007) Saskatchewan discovery said to contain 1.34 billion bbl

(11/4/2007) StatoilHydro's Norwegian Sea wildcat a dry hole

(11/4/2007) European Gas gets estimate of Gardanne Project gas in place

(11/4/2007) Arc completing & testing Stokes Bay-1

(11/2/2007) Aurelian scores gas discovery in Romania's Cuejdiu area

(11/1/2007) TPAO's Bati Eskikale-1 finds Black Sea gas pay

(11/1/2007) StatoilHydro's Orca well offshore Venezuela a dry hole

(10/31/2007) Tri-Valley spuds initial Moffat Ranch gas test well

(10/31/2007) Coastal confirms gas in Montana's Starbuck East

(10/31/2007) Hoang Long plugging & abandoning VN-1X well

(10/31/2007) Beach spuds Sheringa South Australia exploration well

(10/31/2007) DNO's Nuzooh exploration well in Yemen fizzles

(10/30/2007) Victoria's Kazakh test well in Atyrau all wet

(10/30/2007) Majestic wildcat discovers gas in Northern Montana

(10/30/2007) Santos plugging & abandoning Mutineer-13 off Australia

(10/29/2007) Regal finds pay in Romania's Barlad Block

(10/29/2007) Pemex makes deepwater gasfield discovery

(10/29/2007) Namibia's Block 1711 gets enviro clearance

(10/29/2007) Saxon joining Tri-C to complete South Texas well

(10/26/2007) First of 2 Capricorn exploration wells spudded in Argentina

(10/26/2007) Murphy prepping for 2 deepwater test wells off Malaysia

(10/26/2007) Premier plugging & abandoning Assam test well

(10/25/2007) Jade-2x tests 26.7 million cf/d in Egypt's Western Desert

(10/25/2007) DONG appraising Norwegian North Sea discovery

(10/25/2007) Lundin's North Sea Luno discovery confirmed

(10/24/2007) Apache plugging & abandoning Maitland sidetrack

(10/24/2007) Nautical spuds Kraken test well in UK North Sea

(10/24/2007) India's Bengal Bay Block D6 offers up 8 more discoveries

(10/24/2007) Eni's last appraisal of Longhorn find taps significant pay

(10/23/2007) Coastal drilling test well on Montana's Valley County prospect

(10/23/2007) McMoRan successfully test US Gulf Flatrock discovery

(10/23/2007) Alaska North Central Slope winter drilling set

(10/23/2007) Sibir spuds 1st exploration well in Siberia's Khanty-Mansiysk

(10/23/2007) BP planning to drill Azerbaijan Inam Field in 2008

(10/23/2007) PNR makes 2 new Edwards Trend discoveries in South Texas

(10/23/2007) Solana scores positive tests on Colombia's Tres Curvas

(10/23/2007) Lundin finds light oil in Luno wildcat off Norway

(10/19/2007) Ithaca's UK North Sea Athena delineation well tests successful

(10/19/2007) Centric drilling exploration well in Russia's Azov-Kuban Basin

(10/19/2007) PetroWorth spuds Feenan-1 onshore New Brunswick

(10/19/2007) Canadian Superior Trinidad drilling halted to retrieve BOP

(10/18/2007) CanArgo plugging & abandoning Kumisi-1 well in Georgia

(10/18/2007) Texas Crude steering Texas well to Austin Chalk

(10/18/2007) East Africa Exploration kicks off Madagascar exporation program

(10/18/2007) Devon reveals major Arctic discovery off northern Canada

(10/18/2007) PNR makes 2 new discoveries on Tunisia's Jenein Nord Block

(10/18/2007) Oil Search with 2 new exploration wells in Papua New Guinea

(10/18/2007) Sipetrol drilling Raheek test well in Egypt's East Ras Qattara

(10/17/2007) Rosneft-Lukoil JV discovery in Sea of Azov

(10/17/2007) Regal spuds exploration well on Romania's Barlad Block

(10/17/2007) Lundin pushes back northern Caspian well to next year

(10/16/2007) Junex testing 1st well in Quebec's Baie-des-Chaleurs

(10/16/2007) Petro-Hunt spuds Louisiana Nottoway test well

(10/16/2007) Lucas completes Texas Hagen Ranch lateral well

(10/16/2007) Arawak achieves another Kazakh discovery

(10/16/2007) Tethys scores another gas find in Kazakhstan's Akkulka Block

(10/16/2007) Lundin acknowledges hydrocarbon shows in Luno test well

(10/16/2007) 3D Oil discovers new Bass Strait prospect off Australia

(10/16/2007) Eden drilling 2nd UK South Wales CBM gaswell

(10/16/2007) Texas' Outlar exploration well tests 1.6 million cf/d

(10/16/2007) AWE plugging & abandoning New Zealand test well

(10/15/2007) RWE-Dea scores 4th oil discovery onshore Libya

(10/15/2007) Continental-GeoPetro drilling Punga-1 onshore Kalimantan

(10/15/2007) MEO drilling Timor Sea Heron-2 to prove gas reserves

(10/15/2007) Forest tests 2nd Central Italy Monte Pallano well at 8 million cfe/d

(10/15/2007) Galli Coz-Tethys test well in Paris Basin finds gas pay

(10/12/2007) Universal Energy set to drill 2 Louisiana prospects next week

(10/12/2007) Ecopetrol completes Platanillo re-entry of Alea-1 well

(10/12/2007) Cambodia studying exploration in Tonle Sap Lake

(10/12/2007) Apache resumes testing sidetracked Maitland-2 appraisal

(10/11/2007) Harriet JV returns to targets 1 tcf Marley prospect off Western Australia

(10/11/2007) Horizon completes Texas New Waverly prospect test well

(10/11/2007) Santos' Queensland exploration well Burundi-1 a dud

(10/11/2007) AWE nearing TD off New Zealand with Kopuwai-1 well

(10/11/2007) Imperial finds promising oil deposits with Tomsk test well

(10/10/2007) Apache drilling another exploration well in Egypt

(10/10/2007) PetroChina makes new gas discovery in Xinjiang, China

(10/10/2007) Corridor's New Harmony-1 well at TD with gas shows

(10/10/2007) Melrose gets high encouraging results from 2 Egypt test wells

(10/10/2007) Total scores dual gas discoveries in Indonesia's Mahakam Block

(10/10/2007) Providence makes big strike offshore Ireland

(10/9/2007) Ithaca Athena appraisal well taps communicating pay

(10/9/2007) JKX's onshore Bulgaria test well a dry hole

(10/9/2007) Tullow plugging & abandoning offshore Ghana well

(10/8/2007) Cairn spuds Bay of Bengal gas exploration well off Bangladesh

(10/8/2007) Woollybutt appraisal spudded off Western Australia

(10/8/2007) UK North Sea Crawford Field appraisal well underway

(10/8/2007) Cygam plugging & abandoning Tunisia exploration well

(10/8/2007) BG Norwegian North Sea wildcat all wet

(10/5/2007) Calvalley redrilling basement in Malik-1 exploration well in Yemen

(10/5/2007) DNO gets go-ahead to drill prospect on UK-Norway border

(10/5/2007) Japex gearing up to drill offshore Philippines

(10/5/2007) Noble does it again with discovery in Cameroon

(10/4/2007) Mohave's Portuguese exploration program delayed by rig

(10/4/2007) Northern gets reserves estimate for Adriatic discovery

(10/4/2007) Noble scores significant discovery offshore Equatorial Guinea

(10/4/2007) Maurel & Prom abandoning Doungou-1 well in Congo

(10/3/2007) Sharon completes successful Texas Yegua Black Owl gaswell

(10/3/2007) TXCO joins EnCana in Texas Maverick Basin exploration

(10/3/2007) Stuart plugging & abandoning South Australia Patron-1