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Exploration & Discoveries

(8/31/2010) Repsol returning to Morocco for 2 offshore test wells

(8/31/2010) Valiant drilling Viola North exploration well in UK North Sea

(8/31/2010) Petro Matad drilling Mongolia's Davsan Tolgoi-2 test well

(8/31/2010) Reliance scores again in India's deepwater D3 Block

(8/30/2010) Noble prepping for deepwater Leviathan test well

(8/30/2010) Cladhan discovery looks to be a North Sea giant

(8/29/2010) Reliance readying for Cauvery deepwater exploration well

(8/27/2010) ONGC scores with onshore Tarapur test well

(8/27/2010) Drilling set for Tunisia's onshore Sud Remada Block

(8/27/2010) Sagres' Jamaica blocks estimated at 3 billion bbl

(8/27/2010) Advent gearing up to drill New South Wales' 1st offshore well

(8/27/2010) Shell concludes Gro gas discovery delineation

(8/27/2010) Kulczyk commits to 2nd pase of Brunei exploration program

(8/26/2010) Origin's Wolf-1 appraisal in Western Australia at TD

(8/26/2010) Buccaneer set to drill 3rd Lee County, Texas test well

(8/26/2010) Petroceltic drilling new test well onshore Tunisia

(8/26/2010) Statoil prepping for new well near Peregrino Field off Brazil

(8/26/2010) Gran Tierra's Moqueta-2 proves more pay, higher output

(8/26/2010) Wintershall banking on Norwegian North Sea with 5 discoveries

(8/26/2010) Kulczyk drilling 1st of 2 exploration wells in Brunei

(8/26/2010) Shell drilling test well off Brazil near giant Tupi Field

(8/25/2010) RWE Dea's Zidane-1 exploration well strikes oil off Norway

(8/25/2010) Sunwing starts drilling ops on Yixin-2 in Sichuan, China

(8/25/2010) Max drilling Karsak West exploration well in Kazakhstan

(8/25/2010) Leni prepping for extended test of northern Spain well

(8/25/2010) Beach begins shale gas drilling in South Australia

(8/25/2010) Hurricane spuds Whirlwind basement exploratory well

(8/24/2010) Cairn's 1st Greenland test well a dud

(8/24/2010) Stuart drilling Kerinna-2 test well in South Australia

(8/24/2010) DNO to drill test wells in Mozambique's Inhaminga Block

(8/23/2010) Cairn makes Krishna Godavari Basin discovery onshore India

(8/22/2010) Tap preparing to drill Craigow-1 in Australia's Bass Strait

(8/22/2010) Buru sidetracking Leander-1 due to stuck pipe

(8/20/2010) OGDCL makes gas discovery in Pakistan's Sindh Province

(8/20/2010) Cooper's South Madura test well a dud

(8/20/2010) Saiwan East-4 encounters oil-bearing layers in Oman

(8/19/2010) Petrobras makes oil discovery in Brazil's Campos Basin

(8/19/2010) El Paso at TD in Louisiana Shoats Creek well

(8/19/2010) CAMAC drilling 1st of 2 Zijinshan gaswells in China's Ordos Basin

(8/19/2010) Chinook strikes oil on Tunisia's Jenein Center Block

(8/19/2010) Statoil makes Norwegian North Sea find east of Gudrun

(8/18/2010) InterOil scores with onshore Peru discovery

(8/18/2010) Prime setting surface casing in Louisiana Turner Bayou well

(8/18/2010) Apache scores dual oil strikes onshore Egypt

(8/18/2010) PT Medco drilling 3 CBM wells in South Sumatra

(8/18/2010) Rockhopper's 2nd Falklands test well a dry hole

(8/17/2010) Alange scores discovery in Colombia's Carbonera Block

(8/17/2010) Afghanistan reports discovery of 1.8 billion bbl oilfield

(8/17/2010) Woodside does it again with another Carnarvon discovery

(8/17/2010) Serica prepping to drill 2 test wells off East Kalimantan

(8/17/2010) Anadarko makes oil discovery offshore Mozambique

(8/17/2010) Empire taps oil in Nevada's Cobble Cuesta

(8/17/2010) BG's QGC Walloon coal seam well cased for production

(8/17/2010) Kulczyk's KUB-Gas drilling Ukraine's Makeevskoye Block

(8/17/2010) Premier draws a duster with UK North Sea exploration well

(8/16/2010) Tuatara-1 off NZ's Taranaki Basin being plugged & abandoned

(8/16/2010) OGX estimates Parnaiba discovery in Brazil at 15 Tcf (update)

(8/16/2010) Woodside strikes gas with Alaric-1 exploration well

(8/16/2010) Chevron scores again off Western Australia

(8/13/2010) Petrobras makes onshore Brazil oil & gas discovery

(8/13/2010) Nautical spuds Kraken appraisal in UK North Sea

(8/13/2010) Holloman pressing on with flooded Cooper Basin exploration

(8/13/2010) Caza's Bongo test well is Texas taps Cook Mountain pay sands

(8/12/2010) Rosneft scores dual discoveries on Yurubcheno-Tokhomskoye Field

(8/12/2010) KNOC makes Bazian Field discovery in northern Iraq

(8/12/2010) OGX sees gas in Brazil's onshore Parnaiba Basin well

(8/12/2010) Canadian Imperial to drill test well in western Newfoundland

(8/12/2010) Chevron makes frontier gas discovery off Western Australia

(8/11/2010) Extrem's Sarikiz-2 onshore Turkey suffers mechanical failure

(8/11/2010) BP postponing deepwater drilling offshore Libya

(8/11/2010) OGX scores again in Brazil's shallow water Campos Basin

(8/11/2010) Reliance resumes drilling KG Basin well off India

(8/10/2010) Roxi shooting seismic & drilling test wells in Kazakh concession

(8/10/2010) Repsol makes gas discovery in southeastern Bolivia

(8/10/2010) Pryme drilling Louisiana Turner Bayou Chalk well

(8/9/2010) Quetzal casing Canaguay-1 as a producer

(8/9/2010) Kallisto drilling 1st Alberta Crossfield well

(8/9/2010) Tuatara-1 drilling ahead with gas shows off NZ's Taranaki Basin

(8/9/2010) Equipment failure halts Kurd Iraq exploration well

(8/9/2010) TPAO ExxonMobil JV fails to find oil in Black Sea

(8/8/2010) Nord scores discovery in Brazil's Sergipe Basin

(8/8/2010) Without rig, Eni postpones Andaman ultra-deepwater well

(8/8/2010) Petrobras discovers gas with Amazon exploration well

(8/6/2010) Beach gets back to testing South Australia discovery

(8/6/2010) Wintershall finds oil in UK North Sea's Blakeney Prospect

(8/5/2010) PNG's Panakawa-1 test well being plugged & abandoned

(8/5/2010) Pemex pushing back Perdido area ultra-deep wells to 2011

(8/5/2010) Petrobras makes gas discovery in Brazil's Espirito Santo Basin

(8/5/2010) Leni gearing up to drill Hontomin well onshore northern Spain

(8/5/2010) Aus-Tex puts Texas exploration well on production

(8/4/2010) Salamander's Laotian exploration well a dry hole

(8/4/2010) South Bay's Alberta test well inconclusive

(8/3/2010) Central plugging & abandoning Ooraminna test well

(8/3/2010) Vaalco completes 2nd sidetrack to SE Etame-1 off Gabon

(8/3/2010) Osyka drilling Adam Prospect in Mississippi

(8/3/2010) Gran Tierra finds increased pay in Moqueta appraisal well

(8/3/2010) McMoRan's Blueberry Hill well taps potential 105-ft pay zone

(8/3/2010) Petroceltic's Tunisia test well being plugged & abandoned

(8/2/2010) Cuban Gulf of Mexico exploration set to start in 2011

(8/2/2010) AED drilling Indonesia's South Madura test well

(8/2/2010) Premier drilling Oates exploration well in North Sea

(8/1/2010) Bounty drilling test well in Australia's Sydney Basin

(8/1/2010) ExxonMobil prepping for 4th Sulu Sea exploration well

(7/30/2010) Oil Search's Yemen's exploration well at TD with oil shows

(7/30/2010) Petro Matad sees oil in Mongolian exploration well

(7/30/2010) Dana makes new oilfield discovery onshore Gulf of Suez

(7/30/2010) First exploration well in Colombia's Corcel Block a producer

(7/29/2010) Tanzania's Nyuni JV to drill test well in December

(7/29/2010) China Petroleum makes large gas discovery in Taiwan

(7/29/2010) Pan Orient scores with 2 onshore Thailand exploration wells

(7/29/2010) Stuart's Cooper Basin blocks' shale gas potential 38-60 Tcf

(7/28/2010) Melrose discovers more Black Sea gas off Bulgaria

(7/28/2010) AWE drilling Tuatara exploration well off New Zealand

(7/28/2010) Tullow finds 40-meter oil reservoir in Uganda Ngiri-2 well

(7/28/2010) Delta's Donner well in East Texas reaches TD

(7/27/2010) Statoil gets enviro okay to drill Barents Sea prospect

(7/27/2010) GSPC's Cambay Basin discoveries in India declared commercial

(7/27/2010) Bow Energy drills 4 of 7 Queensland CSG exploration wells

(7/27/2010) CNOOC's Kenya exploration well inconclusive

(7/27/2010) Central at TD in Australia's Amadeus Basin test well

(7/26/2010) Hurricane completes production testing of find West of Shetlands

(7/26/2010) Maurel & Prom find heavy oil in Colombia's Sabanero Block

(7/26/2010) Alange drilling Andean foothills exploration well in Colombia

(7/26/2010) L&M to drill 2 Taranaki, NZ exploration wells

(7/26/2010) Eni drilling Anne Marie prospect off Faroe Islands

(7/26/2010) Tullow makes another deepwater discovery off Ghana

(7/25/2010) HOEC drilling 1st of 2 Assam-Arakan wells in India

(7/25/2010) BP gearing up to drill deepwater exploration wells off Libya

(7/25/2010) PNG Panakawa-1 finds primary target without hydrocarbons

(7/23/2010) Anadarko drilling deepwater wildcat off East Kalimantan

(7/23/2010) Cirrus sees gas shows in just completed Netherlands test well

(7/23/2010) Salamander P&As dry Vietnam exploration well

(7/22/2010) Parex to install pump on Kona-1 discovery to boost output

(7/22/2010) Wintershall achieves oil discovery in Norwegian Sea

(7/22/2010) OGX finds more oil in Santa Helena shallow water test well

(7/21/2010) Ocean Guardian returning to drill 2nd Rockhopper well off Falklands

(7/21/2010) Contango to put South Texas wildcat onstream in September

(7/21/2010) Mainland drilling Mississippi's Buena Vista Prospect

(7/21/2010) International Petroleum spuds Alakol test well in Kazakhstan

(7/21/2010) Dominion draws a duster with Uganda well

(7/21/2010) Apache set to drill Zola-1 exploration well off Western Australia

(7/20/2010) Lundin spuds Alvaldsnes exploration well off Norway

(7/20/2010) Americas Petrogas makes 5th discovery in Argentina

(7/20/2010) Talisman's appraisal confirms Grevling North Sea discovery

(7/20/2010) Second Peace River Project well spudded in BC

(7/20/2010) OGX finds oil in shallow water well off Brazil

(7/20/2010) Petroceltic drilling Oryx-1 exploration well in Tunisia

(7/19/2010) Zarubezhneft & NIS JV sets Serb exploration project

(7/19/2010) Gulf Keystone prepping to drill exploration well on Kurd block

(7/19/2010) Petrobras finds oil in Brazil's onshore Brejo Grande Field

(7/19/2010) AWE plugging & abandoning Kahu-1 off New Zealand

(7/19/2010) Rig contracted for deepwater drilling off Senegal & Guinea Bissau

(7/18/2010) Empire's Gingin West-1 find tests higher condensates

(7/18/2010) Origin spudding Wolf-1 in Western Australia's Perth Basin

(7/16/2010) Second exploration well spudded on Brunei's Block L

(7/16/2010) Vaalco's Southeast Etame-1 off Gabon has been sidetracked

(7/16/2010) Aminex & El Paso E&P link for Louisiana deep Wilcox exploration

(7/16/2010) OGDCL discovers gas near Khyber Pass

(7/16/2010) Strike scores with Epsilon CSG well in South Australia

(7/16/2010) OGX's Niteroi well off Brazil to be plugged & abandoned

(7/15/2010) Beach & Drillsearch drilling 5 exploration wells in South Australia

(7/15/2010) Bapex makes new gasfield discovery onshore Bangladesh

(7/15/2010) Pearl plugging & abandoning Liyun test well off Indonesia

(7/15/2010) OGX sees more oil in shallow water Campos Basin well

(7/15/2010) Bowleven spots hydrocarbon shows in Cameroon well

(7/15/2010) Tullow's appraisal of Uganda discovery successful

(7/15/2010) First onshore DR Congo well in 30 years spudded

(7/14/2010) QGC taps down Pinelands-6, drilling Pinelands-8

(7/14/2010) Brazil's ANP starts new Libra appraisal well

(7/14/2010) Clayton Williams drills 2nd Eagle Ford Shale test well

(7/14/2010) UK North Sea Blackbird discovery successfully appraised

(7/13/2010) Petro Matad sees oil shows in Mongolia test well

(7/13/2010) Chevron finds further gas off Western Australia

(7/13/2010) Brazil's Franco discovery tests possible 50,000 b/d

(7/13/2010) Pacific Rubiales scores discovery in Colombia's CEP-6 Block

(7/13/2010) Santos scores oil discovery in Queensland's Naccowlah Block

(7/13/2010) Apache plugs & abandons Laurel-1 off Western Australia

(7/13/2010) AWE to spud Tuatara-1 off New Zealand in Tasman Bay

(7/12/2010) ADX drilling Lambouka-1 exploration well off Tunisia

(7/12/2010) FOGL's Falkland Toroa test well a duster

(7/12/2010) Sinopec scores oil & gas discovery offshore Nigeria

(7/12/2010) Eni makes major oil strike offshore Angola

(7/12/2010) ONGC completes 4 lackluster test wells off Gujarat

(7/12/2010) Repsol makes shallow water oil discovery off Brazil

(7/11/2010) Gazprom scores 3rd shallow water duster with Mahanadi well

(7/9/2010) Petrobras sees signs of oil onshore Sergipe Basin

(7/9/2010) Tap to spud Mawar-1 onshore Brunei in 10 days

(7/8/2010) Pearl drilling toward TD in Bulu exploration well off Indonesia

(7/8/2010) Shallow water US Gulf well looking good for McMoRan

(7/8/2010) Oil Search sees oil & gas in Yemen exploration well

(7/7/2010) Vegas' well in Egypt's Gulf of Suez Basin tests gas & oil

(7/7/2010) Western Cooper Wet Gas Project tests high levels of condensate

(7/7/2010) PGNiG selects drillsite for 1st well in Poland's Bieszczady Block

(7/7/2010) Beach taps significant gasflow in Australia's Cooper-Eromanga Basin

(7/7/2010) AKG Energy's Heintschel-1 flows 1.45 million cf/d

(7/7/2010) GdF Suez drills 6th successful Cygnus appraisal

(7/6/2010) GeoPark scores new gas discovery in Chile

(7/6/2010) ExxonMobil prepping to drill test well off Ireland

(7/6/2010) Chevron makes deepwater gas discovery off Western Australia

(7/5/2010) Iran discovers 24.72 Tcf Persian Gulf gasfield

(7/5/2010) JOGMEC to explore Uzbekistan's Surkhandarya & Navoi

(7/5/2010) EnCore finds major oil sands in Catcher SW sidetrack

(7/5/2010) FOGL's Falkland exploration well results delayed

(7/5/2010) Texas Wilcox well taps mostly water

(7/4/2010) ExxonMobil drilling 3rd South Sulu Sea exploration well

(7/4/2010) Argentina to commence South Atlantic oil exploration

(7/4/2010) Saudi King Abdullah orders suspension of oil exploration

(7/2/2010) Rockhopper's Falkland Sea Lion discovery medium grade oil

(7/1/2010) Petrobras makes onshore Brazil Espirito Santo discovery

(7/1/2010) Salamander spuds 2nd test well in Vietnam's Vinh Chau Graben

(7/1/2010) Amerisur upping activity in Colombia & Paraguay

(7/1/2010) Cairn drilling 1st exploration well off western Greenland

(6/30/2010) Aminex successfully tests Louisiana Shoats Creek well

(6/30/2010) Breitling drilling Trinity-1 exploration well in Oklahoma

(6/29/2010) South Korea launching gas hydrates project

(6/29/2010) AWE spuds Kahu-1 Exploration well off New Zealand

(6/29/2010) Peebs-8 appraisal penetrates Walloon Coal Measures

(6/29/2010) Strategic American drilling Koliba well in Victoria County, Texas

(6/29/2010) Castle confirms extension of Kansas wildcat find

(6/29/2010) Salamander Vinh Chau well all wet offshore Vietnam

(6/28/2010) Dominion sees 1.1 billion bbl oil or 7 Tcf gas in Tanzania block

(6/28/2010) Reliance scores 7th oil discovery in India's Cambay Basin

(6/28/2010) Sino Gas frac of Shanxi gas find successful

(6/28/2010) OGX's Pero finds more shallow water oil offshore Brazil

(6/28/2010) Catcher East sidetrack in UK North Sea finds oil

(6/28/2010) AKG's Joann-1 at TD with good hydrocarbon shows

(6/28/2010) Gran Tierra confirms oil discovery in Colombia

(6/27/2010) AED gets good wireline results from Brunei exploration well

(6/27/2010) Aurelian's Suceava well in Romania tests 2.68 million cf/d

(6/25/2010) Dana's Monkwell gas discovery too small

(6/25/2010) Kea opts to drill a sidetrack to Beluga-1 in New Zealand

(6/25/2010) Afren completes Ebok Deep exploration well off Nigeria

(6/25/2010) BG's southern North Sea wildcat proves a duster

(6/24/2010) Mainland preparing to spud Mississippi exploration well

(6/24/2010) Dana scores in Egypt with 2 new discoveries

(6/24/2010) Total-Conoil JV scores with Agge discovery off Nigeria

(6/24/2010) AWE suspends Tui SW-2 as future gas injector well

(6/24/2010) Tap prepping to drill onshore Brunei exploration well

(6/24/2010) Kalegran taps into major pay in Iraq's Kurd region

(6/24/2010) New well confirms the light oil potential in Tupi

(6/23/2010) Sinopec scores gas find in China's Chongqing area

(6/23/2010) Beach prepping for 2 test wells in South Australia's Cooper Basin

(6/23/2010) East Kalimantan gas discovery appraisal taps 80 meters pay

(6/23/2010) INA & MOL discover gas on Croatia-Hungary border

(6/23/2010) Petrobras makes Albacora Leste pre-salt oil discovery

(6/22/2010) Kea prepping for flowtesting of Beluga-1 test well

(6/22/2010) Buru's Central Petroleum finds shallow gas in Ooraminna-2

(6/22/2010) Buru's Fairwell fails to find hydrocarbons in Western Oz block

(6/22/2010) Dominion drilling 1st well in Uganda's Lake Edward Basin

(6/21/2010) NIOC discovers 2.19 Tcf gas in Toos Field

(6/21/2010) Exillon adds two more wells to Western Siberia fields

(6/21/2010) Caza spuds Bongo test well in South Texas

(6/21/2010) Aurelian's Voitinel-1 in Romania flows 10,000 cf/d

(6/18/2010) Pearl Oil drilling Liyun-1 in Indonesia's East Java Basin

(6/18/2010) Aus-Tex drilling Yolanda Villarreal-1 in Texas' Austin Chalk

(6/17/2010) Strike strikes out with Texas' Pathfinder test well

(6/17/2010) OGX confirms liquid hydrocarbons in Natal prospect off Brazil

(6/17/2010) Valiant's 2nd Tybalt well tests 5,400 b/d & 4 million cf/d

(6/17/2010) Oil Search drilling follow-up test well onshore Yemen

(6/17/2010) EnCore sidetracking Catcher discovery in UK North Sea

(6/17/2010) Evaluation of Namibia's Kunene-1 well underway

(6/17/2010) RWE Dea drilling Norwegian Sea exploration well

(6/17/2010) Blue Energy at TD in 2 Queensland coal seam gas wells

(6/16/2010) Uzbekistan Aral Block JV discovers gas with 1st well

(6/16/2010) Hydrocarbons seen in Parex test well in Colombia's Llanos

(6/16/2010) Agayra gasfield discovered onshore Turkmenistan

(6/16/2010) Cairn receives approval to drill 2 of 4 wells off Greenland

(6/16/2010) Kea sees hydrocarbons in onshore Taranaki NZ well

(6/16/2010) OMV scores gas-condensate discovery in Tunisia

(6/16/2010) VAALCO makes oil discovery offshore Gabon

(6/15/2010) RWE Dea's Airidh well fails to find targeted potential gas

(6/15/2010) Global plugging & abandoning Rio Verde well in Colombia

(6/15/2010) Apache's prime Bath target fails, 2nd target finds oil

(6/15/2010) Max drills 2nd duster in Kazakhstan's Block E

(6/15/2010) Sunwing drilling Zitong-1 in China's Sichuan Province

(6/14/2010) Petrobras finds new oil reserves in Brazil's Guriri Field

(6/14/2010) Stealth & ONGC evaluating shale, CBM & tight sand prospects

(6/14/2010) Niko sees gas shows in Iraqi Kurd region Qara Dagh-1 well

(6/13/2010) Oilex kicking off further Cambay Basin exploration

(6/13/2010) Arabian Oil wildcat scores in Libya's Ghadames Basin

(6/11/2010) Petsec plugging & abandoning US Gulf Main Pass well

(6/11/2010) Storm discovers uncommercial gas in Tunisia Gulf of Hammamet

(6/11/2010) Reliance makes 6th discovery in India's Cambay Basin

(6/10/2010) Sterling sees gas shows in Iraqi Kurd exploration well

(6/10/2010) Namibia block prospective resource put at 2.39 billion boe

(6/10/2010) Contango makes discovery at Eloise South

(6/10/2010) TPOC scores oil discovery in Libya's Murzuq Basin

(6/10/2010) AWE's Tui SW-2 encounters oil shows

(6/10/2010) Salamander spuds test well in Vietnam's Vinh Chau Graben

(6/9/2010) Bow drills 1st 3 wells in Queensland's Vermont CSG

(6/9/2010) BP North Sea wildcat a gasfield discovery

(6/9/2010) Mahogany-5 successfully appraises southeast Jubilee

(6/8/2010) Maersk confirms Chissonga production tests off Angola

(6/7/2010) Gran Tierra taps multiple payzones in Moqueta-1 well

(6/7/2010) Delta kicks off Salta, Argentina drilling program

(6/7/2010) Aurelian encounters gas in Romanian exploration well

(6/7/2010) Det Norske draws another duster with North Sea wildcat

(6/7/2010) Quetzal commences Canaguay-1 in Colombia's Llanos

(6/7/2010) Canbriam drilling St Barnabe-1 in Quebec's St Lawrence Lowlands

(6/4/2010) Rockhopper's Sea Lion discovery in Falklands viable

(6/4/2010) Petrobras makes new oil discovery in Marlim Field

(6/4/2010) New Guinea Energy to drill PNG Panakawa prospect

(6/3/2010) Centrica draws a duster with Norwegian Sea wildcat

(6/3/2010) Red Cloud logs show oil in Cherokee Basin wells

(6/3/2010) EnCore finds 90-ft oil pay column with Catcher exploration well

(6/2/2010) Max drilling Kyzylzhar prospect onshore Kazakhstan

(6/2/2010) Primeline DSTs prove East China Sea discovery

(6/2/2010) AED encounters potential pay in onshore Brunei test well

(6/1/2010) Vegas scores new discovery in Egypt's Western Desert

(6/1/2010) FOGL spuds Toroa test well in East Falkland Basin

(6/1/2010) AKG finds pay in Texas Wilcox drilling campaign

(6/1/2010) Oil Search plugging & abandoning PNG test well

(6/1/2010) Valiant sidetrack on Tybalt Field finds light oil pay

(5/31/2010) Husky appraisal of South China Sea discovery encouraging

(5/31/2010) PetroKamchatka abandoning Chernorechenskaya-1P well

(5/31/2010) Lundin to drill exploration well on Apollo structure

(5/31/2010) Texalta wins with 2 out of 3 Saskatchewan wells

(5/31/2010) Oil Search makes discovery in PNG's Korka-1

(5/31/2010) Tethys drilling appraisal on Tajik East Komsomolsk Field

(5/31/2010) Petrominerales completes 2 Colombia Llanos Basin production tests

(5/31/2010) 26 million cf/d from Kronos-1 well confirmed

(5/28/2010) RIL makes 5th oil discovery in block CB-ONN-2003/1

(5/28/2010) OIL drilling maiden test well on Rajasthan block

(5/27/2010) Obama suspends Arctic drilling at least to 2011

(5/27/2010) Oil Search drilling new test well in Yemen's Shabwa area

(5/27/2010) OGX finds more oil in Brazil's Campos Basin

(5/27/2010) Serica's East Irish Sea Conan fails to find hydrocarbons

(5/27/2010) Vegas at TD in Egypt's Al-Amir SE flank appraisal

(5/27/2010) Emerald drilling test well in Colombia's Maranta Block

(5/26/2010) Newfoundland's Parsons Pond well strikes gas

(5/26/2010) Cirrus draws a dud with well off Netherlands

(5/26/2010) Petrolifera completes production tests on Colombia La Pinta-1X

(5/26/2010) Petrobras finds 2 new light oil reservoirs in Campos Basin

(5/26/2010) AusTex drilling step-out at its Lancaster Lease in Oklahoma

(5/26/2010) Apache scores big gas discovery in Egypt's Matruh Basin

(5/25/2010) BHP making gas exploration entry in South Africa

(5/25/2010) Apache drilling Bath-1 test well off Western Oz at sole risk

(5/25/2010) OGX finds major gas in 1st Santos Basin wildcat

(5/20/2010) Shell to take added precautions in Arctic exploratory drilling

(5/20/2010) Tethys drilling Dione exploration well in Kazakhstan

(5/20/2010) Fuchsia-1 spudded in Tunisia's Gulf of Hammamet

(5/20/2010) Petrolia & Corridor join to explore Anticosti Island

(5/20/2010) Cairn to drill 4 test wells off western Greenland

(5/20/2010) Melrose contracts GSP Jupiter jackup for Black Sea drilling

(5/20/2010) Reprocessed Sydney Basin offshore 2D shows prospects

(5/19/2010) Socar to resume drilling Umid-1 in Caspian

(5/19/2010) Rockhopper suspends Falkland Sea Lion well for testing

(5/19/2010) Gastar taps 138 ft of Bossier pay in East Texas

(5/19/2010) Archer kicks off 4-well Wolfberry program in West Texas

(5/19/2010) Maurel & Prom plugs & abandons Congo test well

(5/19/2010) Tullow appraisal confirms Uganda Nzizi gasfield

(5/19/2010) ConocoPhillips' Western Australia Kronos-1 tests 26 million cf/d

(5/18/2010) VAALCO drilling SE Etame exploration well off Gabon

(5/18/2010) Petrobras finds more oil in Brazil's Albacora Leste Field

(5/18/2010) Providence completes Ardmore heavy oil assessment off Ireland

(5/17/2010) Enegi finds Green Point Shale extending offshore Newfoundland

(5/17/2010) Gastem drilling St-Hyacinthe in Quebec St Lawrence Lowlands

(5/17/2010) Tethys' Kazakh appraisal of Doris discovery underway

(5/17/2010) EnCore drilling Catcher test well in UK North Sea

(5/17/2010) Greymouth sub makes Tierra del Fuego gas discovery

(5/17/2010) ANP makes another giant pre-salt oilfield discovery

(5/17/2010) RIL scores 2 major gas discoveries in Bengal Bay

(5/17/2010) Wintershall spuds Maria prospect in Norwegian Sea

(5/16/2010) Statoil's Flyndretind test well finds gas in Norwegian Sea

(5/16/2010) OGX taps pay with 2 shallow water wells off Brazil

(5/13/2010) BP putting off Tiber discovery appraisal for time being

(5/13/2010) Exillon scores with two West Siberia I Field wells

(5/13/2010) Aus-Tex prepping to drill North Carrizo test well

(5/13/2010) Hess taps down Glenloth-1, spudding Jeune-1 off Western Oz

(5/12/2010) ANP's Franco Brazil's 2nd largest pre-salt discovery

(5/12/2010) Niko drilling Kurd exploration well in Iraq's Zagris Fold

(5/12/2010) Det Norske confirms Storklakken discovery oil reserves

(5/12/2010) Talisman scores a duster with North Sea Optimus well

(5/11/2010) Shell discovers another Nautilus oil pool off Brazil

(5/11/2010) Corridor finds giant shale gas play in New Brunswick

(5/11/2010) Bridge and Paramax complete 5-well Idaho program

(5/11/2010) Petro Matad resuming Mongolia 3-well program

(5/11/2010) AWE abandons Tui SW-1, redrilling as Tui SW-2

(5/11/2010) Chevron drilling Canada's deepest offshore well

(5/11/2010) No oil found by CNOOC in northeastern Kenya well

(5/11/2010) Serica drilling Conan Prospect in the East Irish Sea

(5/11/2010) Xtract JV gets go-ahead for Kyrgyz exploration well

(5/11/2010) Noble to sidetrack Deep Blue deepwater discovery

(5/11/2010) Marathon's Flying Dutchman an ultra-deep discovery

(5/10/2010) Adelaide at TD in South Australia Otway Basin well

(5/10/2010) Det Norske to P&A Storkollen duster off Norway