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Licensing & Concessions

(2/3/2012) Tullow & Uganda sign deals to conclude farm-down

(2/3/2012) Gulf Keystone's Algeria interest going to BG & Sonatrach

(2/2/2012) Buccaneer bumps up reserves with Alaska Cook Inlet buy

(2/2/2012) Shell selling 20% stake in Canadian shale to PetroChina

(2/2/2012) Nautical farming into First Oil Expro North Sea block

(2/1/2012) Senex ups stake in Cooper Basin permit & Orca Energy

(2/1/2012) Tethys in North Ustyurt Basin MOU with Uzbekneftegaz

(2/1/2012) UK launches 27th offshore licensing round

(1/30/2012) Ecopetrol farms into Repsol Peruvian Amazon block

(1/30/2012) Russia resolves '90s major oil company PSAs

(1/30/2012) Centrica increasing stake in North Sea Statfjord Field

(1/30/2012) Cove selling Tanzania interests to Wentworth Resources

(1/29/2012) ConocoPhillips signs for Colorado's Lowry Range lease

(1/27/2012) Bayfield backing out of Russia's Karalatsky License

(1/27/2012) New World to finalize Danish farmout agreement with Danica

(1/26/2012) Senergy selected to advance NSE North Sea assets

(1/26/2012) Quetzal selling Guatemala interests to SGS

(1/26/2012) Obama sets US Gulf lease sale for 20 June

(1/25/2012) CBM Asia set to acquire Kalimantan, Indonesia CBM block

(1/25/2012) Heritage takes home another Tanzania concession

(1/25/2012) Hemisphere farms into Alberta's Jenner area

(1/24/2012) EnQuest farming into Nautical's UK Kraken license

(1/24/2012) Bolivia nationalizes Pan American stake in Caipipendi Field

(1/24/2012) Vermilion acquires stake in 6 Total fields in France

(1/24/2012) Horizon farms into Eaglewood PNG permit

(1/23/2012) Midway sells 50% stake in Swan Hills' Beaverhill Lake JV

(1/23/2012) AWE pays Genting $39 million for 2 PSCs off Indonesia

(1/23/2012) GSPC granted extension to India Krishna Godavari Block

(1/23/2012) Statoil farms into Cairn block off West Greenland

(1/23/2012) East West finalizes farmout of Romania blocks

(1/23/2012) Camac granted 2 deepwater blocks off Gambia

(1/20/2012) Canada awards 4 Nova Scotia deepwater parcels to Shell

(1/20/2012) Sundance farms out Saskatchewan Lashburn lease

(1/19/2012) Petroperu to takeover 8 expiring Peru PSCs

(1/19/2012) Pemex calling for bids to explore mature fields

(1/19/2012) Petro Harvester adds Denbury oil properties

(1/18/2012) Exillon adds Timan-Pechora Sinatiyskoye Block

(1/18/2012) ShaMaran relinquishes 2 Kurd Iraq concessions

(1/18/2012) Junex farms into Schleicher County, Texas project

(1/18/2012) Bulgaria cancels Chevron shale gas exploration permit

(1/18/2012) Total's operating interest in DRC Block III made official

(1/18/2012) Shoal Point farms into NWEnergy's Newfoundland license

(1/17/2012) Norway offers 60 APA2011 licenses to 42 companies

(1/17/2012) Inpex wins 2 deepwater blocks offshore Sabah

(1/16/2012) Sonde gets extension to Joint Oil 7 November Block

(1/16/2012) Longford sells Kurd Iraq stake to Genel Energy

(1/16/2012) Kosmos granted Cameroon onshore concession

(1/16/2012) Shell picks up 2 Petronas PSCs for EOR projects

(1/16/2012) Neon farming out 2 blocks offshore Vietnam

(1/15/2012) Sudan puts 6 new blocks up for bid

(1/15/2012) UK North Sea Gamma Sub & Spaniards blocks unitized

(1/15/2012) South Sudan signs replacement contracts

(1/13/2012) PTTEP farms out stakes in 3 Makassar Strait blocks to Total

(1/12/2012) Torchlight farming into La Sal's Waller County, Texas acreage

(1/12/2012) Perenco farming out stakes in 5 Brazil offshore blocks

(1/12/2012) Statoil & Repsol farm into Chevron Orphan Basin acreage

(1/12/2012) Providence sub offered UK St George's Channel discovery

(1/12/2012) Cougar progressing Inner Mongolia coal gasification

(1/11/2012) Sierra Leone puts 9 blocks up for bid

(1/11/2012) SouthWest wins Ethiopia's Gambella PSA

(1/11/2012) Ivanhoe selling Sichuan China block to Shell

(1/10/2012) Far East Energy signs Yunnan CBM extension

(1/10/2012) Kenya extends Vanoil exploration period

(1/10/2012) Global assigns Peru Block 95 stake to Gran Tierra

(1/10/2012) TVI leaves Niger's Tenere Block to CNPC unit

(1/10/2012) Myanmar awards onshore oil and gas blocks

(1/9/2012) EnQuest takes Canamens stake in Kraken discovery

(1/9/2012) Geopetrol farms into Sonoro's Salah ad Din Block in Iraq

(1/9/2012) Egdon adding EnCore's interests in UK North Sea blocks

(1/9/2012) Marubeni buys into Texas Eagle Ford Shale

(1/8/2012) Candax buys PA's stakes in Tunisian concessions

(1/8/2012) Devon does $2.2 billion new venture deal with Sinopec

(1/8/2012) Statoil scores stakes in 5 Kwanza Basin blocks off Angola

(1/8/2012) Lebanon prepping to invite tenders for offshore gas exploration

(1/7/2012) Texon adds more Texas Eagle Ford acreage

(1/7/2012) Total awarded onshore & offshore Mauritania blocks

(12/14/2011) Endeavour cancels Marcellus Shale acquisition

(12/14/2011) Western US Gulf lease sale underway in New Orleans

(12/14/2011) Kosmos granted 2 concessions offshore Suriname

(12/14/2011) NZOG farming into offshore Tunisia concession

(12/14/2011) KazMunaiGas acquiring 10% of Karachaganak Project

(12/13/2011) Tethys bumps up Tajikistan Bokhtar PSC holding to 85%

(12/11/2011) Petrolia granted license for 3rd well on Quebec Haldimand Field

(12/11/2011) Magnum Hunter & Stone Energy in West Virginia JV

(12/11/2011) Carmen farms into Alberta's Hamburg acreage

(12/11/2011) Grid cuts stake in Kreyenhagen oil shale acreage

(12/11/2011) Sinopec expected to pay $20 billion for BG Brazil assets

(12/9/2011) Fortress buys Brazil's Alvorada Petroleo & shale assets

(12/9/2011) Centrica sub acquiring Encana's Carrot Creek gas assets

(12/8/2011) Toyota Tsusho buys into AWE's Bass Basin assets

(12/8/2011) Rosneft & PDVSA make Carabobo JV official

(12/8/2011) Circle Star picks up interest in Apache Texas acreage

(12/8/2011) Azabache revamps its 2 Argentine Neuquen concessions

(12/8/2011) KrisEnergy JV takes Indonesia's Tanjung Aru Block

(12/8/2011) Northern sells stake in Netherlands Vinkega gasfield

(12/8/2011) Petro Vista selling stake in Colombia's Morichito Block

(12/7/2011) Greenland lays out next licensing round in Greenland Sea

(12/7/2011) Decade-long dispute over Nigeria deepwater block resolved

(12/7/2011) Melrose sells SE Texas gas assets to Faulconer

(12/6/2011) Total buys GDF Suez's stake in UK Elgin/Franklin Fields

(12/6/2011) Watutatu farms into Dualex's Bouhajla Block in Tunisia

(12/6/2011) Kulczyk boosts stake in Brunei's Block L

(12/6/2011) Saratoga & McMoRan talking Long John Silver JV

(12/5/2011) Adira farming out stake in Yitzhak license off Israel

(12/5/2011) Sangres farming into UTE's El Triunfo Block

(12/5/2011) BNK awarded Germany's Weinbergen Concession

(12/4/2011) Storm adds British Columbia Mica area production

(12/2/2011) Providence converts Irish license option to SEL

(12/1/2011) Bass Strait Oil's permit off Victoria, Australia renewed

(12/1/2011) Solo Oil acquiring Argentina's Mina El Carmen Block

(12/1/2011) Eternal & American Eagle sell 75% stake in West Spyglass

(12/1/2011) Pancontinental files injunction against Maltese government

(12/1/2011) ATP sells stake in deepwater US Gulf Telemark property

(12/1/2011) Petromin awarded back-in rights to 9 PNG leases

(12/1/2011) Molopo adds West Texas Permian Basin acreage

(12/1/2011) Shell sells stakes in 2 blocks in Niger Delta

(11/30/2011) Americas Petrogas ups stake in Argentine block to 90%

(11/30/2011) Primera selling third interest in Trinidad's Moruga Block

(11/30/2011) TAMM & Cougar in multiphase oil sands farm-in

(11/30/2011) CNOOC joins Nexen in US Gulf deepwater exploration

(11/29/2011) EnQuest farms into Talisman's Kildrummy Field

(11/29/2011) Eni buys major stake in Australia's Evans Shoal gasfield

(11/29/2011) African Petroleum wins 2 blocks offshore Senegal

(11/29/2011) Rosneft paying PDVSA $1.2 billion for Orinoco heavy oil block

(11/29/2011) Inpex paying Nexen $700 million for BC shale gas lands

(11/28/2011) Trident farms out Otway Basin stake to Loyz Energy

(11/28/2011) Legacy terminates Wyoming gas property acquisition

(11/25/2011) Quattro acquiring Guatemala Peten Basin acreage

(11/25/2011) Rosneft nixed for Barents Sea licenses

(11/25/2011) Pemex picks 22 mature fields for 2012 offering

(11/25/2011) Sudapet loses South Sudan oil stakes by presidential decree

(11/25/2011) PNG offers Englewood Ubuntu discovery license

(11/25/2011) Blackdog farms into Alberta Buck Lake well

(11/25/2011) PetroMagdalena adds to Arrendajo asset

(11/24/2011) Lucas buys Nordic's rights to Texas leases

(11/24/2011) Kulczyk's Syria concession exploration period extended

(11/24/2011) Trapoil farms out Kew UK North Sea discovery

(11/23/2011) Colombia set to auction 113 blocks in 2012 Round

(11/23/2011) Salamander acquiring Chariot & Bangkanai stake

(11/22/2011) Porto lining up partners for Portugal unconventional E&P

(11/22/2011) Turkey's TPAO farming out Eastern Mediterranean blocks to Shell

(11/21/2011) Yemen replaces Nexen in Block 14 with government company

(11/21/2011) JV penned for Tanzania CBM development

(11/21/2011) Statoil optimizes Norwegian shelf assets with divestments

(11/21/2011) Sterling wins approval of Romanian Black Sea license term

(11/21/2011) ACOR adds leases in Queensland, Australia Surat Basin

(11/21/2011) Earthstone sells stake in Wattenberg Field acreage

(11/21/2011) Indonesia awards 4 regular bid & 11 direct bid licenses

(11/21/2011) Statoil granted large exploration license off eastern Indonesia

(11/18/2011) Australia awards 9 new offshore permits

(11/18/2011) UK Perth Field partners assume Maersk's stake

(11/18/2011) Stone buying BP's stakes in US Gulf Pompano blocks

(11/18/2011) Terrace takes stakes in Texas development projects

(11/18/2011) Statoil farms into Tullow's Block 47 off Suriname

(11/18/2011) Lundin boosts stake in Brynhild Field off Norway

(11/18/2011) Tethys signs MoU with Uzbekneftegaz for 2 fields

(11/17/2011) COPL sells operating interest in Liberia block to ExxonMobil

(11/17/2011) Far East Energy extends China PSC period

(11/17/2011) Shell exits Kurd Iraq project development negotiations

(11/17/2011) Paxton pays $5.7 million for share in US Gulf block

(11/17/2011) Cooper quits Romania farm-in to cut cost exposure

(11/16/2011) Alamo farms out UK Weald Basin blocks to Northdown

(11/16/2011) Statoil, Chevron & Repsol win Canada's Flemish Pass blocks

(11/16/2011) Sundance leases Moosomin First Nation lands

(11/15/2011) Brightoil acquires China's Tarim Basin Dina 1 gasfield

(11/15/2011) TAQA buying stakes in Premier assets from EnCore Oil

(11/15/2011) Egypt licensing to include abandoned Shell concession

(11/15/2011) Parkmead acquires stake in Platypus & Possum prospects

(11/15/2011) EnerJex adds to Black Oaks Project in Kansas

(11/15/2011) Iraq-Shell-Mitsubishi gas JV wins Iraqi cabinet approval

(11/14/2011) Kodiak adds 50,000 acres & 3,500 boe/d in Bakken Trend

(11/14/2011) Eaglewood sells ExxonMobil part of interest in PNG block

(11/11/2011) Sinopec taking 30% of Petrogal Brasil for $4.8 billion

(11/11/2011) ExxonMobil signs for 6 blocks in Kurd Iraq

(11/10/2011) US Gulf Lease Sale 218 set for 14 December

(11/10/2011) Sound adds Celtique stake in Italian permits

(11/9/2011) Iona Energy acquiring UK Staffa Field & block

(11/9/2011) Adino adds acreage in Texas' Fort Worth Basin

(11/9/2011) Leni adds acreage to its Icacos Lease in Trinidad

(11/8/2011) Azabache farming into Colombia's Antares Block

(11/8/2011) United American ups stake to 100% in Frio, Texas lease

(11/7/2011) BNK sub scores Spain's Sedano Concession

(11/6/2011) Mozambique sets yearend licensing round

(11/6/2011) Colombia okays Shell farm-in with Petroleos del Norte

(11/4/2011) Molopo wins renewal of producing Queensland tenement

(11/4/2011) Linn acquiring PXP Texas-Oklahoma properties for $600 million

(11/4/2011) Medco Energi sells stakes in Tunisia to OMV

(11/4/2011) Statoil buys Hess stake in Norway's Snohvit Field

(11/4/2011) Norway calls for block nominations for next round

(11/3/2011) Oracle to farm into Victoria, Australia offshore block

(11/3/2011) Two Utica Shale deals bringing Chesapeake $3.4 billion

(11/3/2011) Northern joins Whiting in North Dakota Bakken well

(11/3/2011) ExxonMobil backing out of Philippines Sulu Sea concession

(11/3/2011) Crimson adds Woodbine acreage in Texas

(11/3/2011) Sterling finalizes farmout of Cameroon block to Murphy

(11/3/2011) Encana selling Texas Barnett Shale properties for $975 million

(11/2/2011) Bulgaria offering another Black Sea block

(11/2/2011) Somaliland offering open acreage to operators

(11/2/2011) Concho acquiring West Texas Delaware Basin acreage

(11/2/2011) Serica pegged to win Namibia's Luderitz Blocks

(11/2/2011) Torchlight agrees to 50% farmout of Texas acreage

(11/1/2011) Underground Energy acquiring California oil & gas leases

(11/1/2011) Heritage awarded Tanzania's Rukwa PSA

(11/1/2011) Sasol & Origin JV acquiring 3 Botswana CBM blocks

(11/1/2011) Gran Tierra & CEPSA in Colombia farm-in swap

(10/31/2011) Norse selling New York Marcellus & Utica shale assets

(10/31/2011) $1.5 billion for ConocoPhillips Vietnam stakes

(10/31/2011) Tower & Wessex pick up another Saharawi block

(10/31/2011) TNK-BP signs farm-in pact for Brazilian Amazon blocks

(10/31/2011) Magnum & Nextraction modify Viking Oil farm-in agreement

(10/31/2011) Tullow to operate new PSC off Mauritania

(10/31/2011) Tanzania awards Aminex sub Nyuni offshore area

(10/28/2011) Zion granted year extension to Israeli onshore license

(10/28/2011) Simba Energy granted Mali production sharing contract

(10/28/2011) PXP farms out US Gulf stake to EIG Global

(10/28/2011) Gazprom & Wintershall swap Siberia & North Sea assets

(10/28/2011) Santos selling operating stake in Evans Shoal

(10/27/2011) Israel threatens to rescind exploration licenses

(10/26/2011) GeoMet waiting to close West Virginia & Alabama CBM properties

(10/26/2011) Petrobras backing out of Bolivia's Ingre Block

(10/26/2011) Paxton buys into producing lease in Bowie County, Texas

(10/25/2011) PGNiG doubles stake in Norwegian North Sea license

(10/25/2011) Border Petroleum receiving Loon River Cree Nation permit

(10/24/2011) MOL & Rohol-Aufsuchungs link for Inke license

(10/24/2011) Uganda parliament reversal: Tullow sale approval set

(10/24/2011) Frontier awarded onshore Namibia license

(10/24/2011) DNO acquires Fkirine Block in central Tunisia

(10/24/2011) Bering acquires Gohlke lease in South Texas

(10/24/2011) Empire & Key swap Western Australia assets

(10/23/2011) New Guinea Energy holding on to stakes in PNG block

(10/21/2011) Swift closes sale of 9 fields for some $53.5 million

(10/21/2011) Aurelian adds more interest in Poland's Cybinka & Torzym

(10/21/2011) Noreco sells stake in Zidane discovery to OMV

(10/21/2011) $16 billion CNPC North Pars development deal suspended

(10/20/2011) Bulgaria putting up Black Sea block for bid

(10/20/2011) Lucas sells stake in New Mexico leases to Nordic Oil

(10/20/2011) CNPC scores Afghan field development agreement

(10/20/2011) Lukoil operation of block offshore Vietnam approved

(10/20/2011) Finder farms out Western Australia stake to Mimi

(10/19/2011) Providence awarded Barryroe license off Ireland

(10/19/2011) TNK-BP granted operatorship of Vietnam block

(10/18/2011) San Leon & Antrim offered license options off Ireland

(10/17/2011) Methanex farming into Kea's New Zealand Mauku-1

(10/17/2011) GeoMet buying CBM assets in Alabama & West Virginia

(10/17/2011) Europa picks up 2 licenses in Ireland's Atlantic Margin

(10/17/2011) Providence awarded 4 license options off Ireland

(10/17/2011) Serica scores 6-block license offshore Ireland

(10/16/2011) Iran gives ex-Gazprom development contract to local company

(10/16/2011) Compton farms out Montana acreage to K2 America

(10/14/2011) Linc acquiring 13 ERG US Gulf oilfields

(10/14/2011) Iraq signs Akkas Field contract with Kogas

(10/14/2011) BP to be allowed to bid for new US Gulf leases

(10/14/2011) OVL takes stake in Kazakhstan's Satpayev Block

(10/14/2011) Fairfield selling UK Staffa Field and Block to Iona Energy

(10/14/2011) Petrovietnam opts to buy ConocoPhillips' Vietnam assets

(10/13/2011) Portal picks up Saskatchewan oil producing assets

(10/12/2011) Rockhopper farms into Desire's Falklands acreage

(10/12/2011) Namibia ups EnerGulf interest in offshore Block 1711

(10/12/2011) Vanoil extends Rwanda Kivu Graben agreement

(10/12/2011) Beach farms into 4 Australia Bonaparte Basin blocks

(10/12/2011) Buru lined up for 2 Australia Canning Basin permits

(10/12/2011) Maurel & Prom farms out Peru block to Pacific Rubiales

(10/11/2011) New World farming into 2 onshore Denmark licenses

(10/11/2011) Uganda parliament calls for halt in Tullow stake sale

(10/11/2011) Iraq pushes back 4th Licensing Round awards to March

(10/11/2011) Serica sells Indonesia holdings to Kris Energy

(10/10/2011) Sirius farms into Ororo marginal field in Nigeria

(10/10/2011) Bering increases acreage at Louisiana prospect

(10/10/2011) Dragon farms into Cooper's Bargou permit off Tunisia

(10/9/2011) Gazprom dropped from Iran's Azar Field development

(10/9/2011) Nigeria to offer marginal fields for bid before yearend

(10/7/2011) Gazprom & PDVSA to evaluate Gulf of Venezuela prospect

(10/7/2011) AER & Riverton in JV for Louisiana Bayou B Project

(10/7/2011) Gazprom granted giant Kovyktinskoye gas and condensate field

(10/6/2011) East West granted Morocco onshore concession

(10/6/2011) BreitBurn closes acquisition of Cabot acreage in Wyoming

(10/6/2011) Greece to hold licensing round in early 2012

(10/6/2011) Xtreme take a share of Husky's Handcock well

(10/5/2011) Gulfsands sells US Gulf assets

(10/5/2011) PSC signed for Block L15 offshore Kenya

(10/5/2011) ExxonMobil farming out stake in Brazil pre-salt block

(10/5/2011) Dominion farming out stake in Tanzania deepwater block

(10/4/2011) Obama administration upholding 2008 Chukchi Sea leases

(10/4/2011) Brazil's ANP says Anadarko selling Brazilian interests

(10/4/2011) Lochard looking for partners in UK North Sea Thunderball

(10/4/2011) BPMigas okays Cue farm-in into Indonesia's Mahakam Hilir

(10/4/2011) Eni to operate Indonesia's East Kalimantan North Ganal Block

(10/4/2011) Panhandle adding stake in Fayetteville Shale wells & acreage

(10/4/2011) ENAP granted former Noble-held block off Ecuador

(10/3/2011) Petrobras farms out 50% stake in Tanzania blocks to Shell

(10/3/2011) DONG upping stake in Denmark's South Arne Field

(10/3/2011) France cancels Total & Schuepbach exploration permits

(10/3/2011) Iceland launches 2nd licensing round

(10/3/2011) White Rose farming into Equatorial Guinea block

(10/3/2011) Leni acquires Trinidad's Goudron Field production contract

(10/2/2011) Connacher sells half its Halfway Creek stake for $26.8 million

(9/30/2011) Novatek granted 4 Yamal-Nenets licenses

(9/30/2011) Bridge buys into Nexen's Duart Field in UK North Sea

(9/30/2011) ConocoPhillips farms into Western Australia shale gas project

(9/30/2011) Carrizo & Avista form Utica Shale joint venture

(9/29/2011) Odebrecht & PDVSA in Zulia exploration JV

(9/29/2011) Sound Oil subsidiary receives onshore Sicily permit

(9/29/2011) Providence to sell its Nigeria OML113 stake to Jacka Resources

(9/29/2011) Nytex adds Mississippi Lime acreage in North Texas

(9/29/2011) Clontarf picks up 2 new blocks onshore Peru

(9/29/2011) Carrizo sells stake in Texas' Eagle Ford Shale to GAIL

(9/28/2011) Eni buying GdF Suez's stake in Elgin-Franklin JV

(9/28/2011) Kodiak adds more acreage in North Dakota's Williston Basin

(9/27/2011) SandRidge sells East Texas gas properties to NFR Energy

(9/27/2011) Edge farming into Edmonton oil sands project

(9/26/2011) Shoal Point buys CIVC's stakes in Newfoundland assets

(9/26/2011) Uganda president holding up Tullow stake sale

(9/26/2011) Consol sells Marcellus Shale royalty to Antero Resources

(9/25/2011) Vetra farms out stake in Colombia's Alea concession

(9/23/2011) Roc Oil sells offshore Mauritania interests to Tullow Oil

(9/22/2011) Turkey signs with Turkish Cyprus to start exploration

(9/22/2011) Egypt offering 15 blocks in its 2011 Bid Round

(9/22/2011) Roc Oil ups stake in Western Australia's Cliff Head block

(9/22/2011) TransAtlantic farms out Bulgaria stake to LNG Energy

(9/22/2011) Petrobras exits insufficient Western Australia concession

(9/22/2011) Indonesia awards 9 blocks in 1st bidding round of 2011

(9/21/2011) BLM putting up 283 tracts in Alaska NPR for bid

(9/21/2011) All signed Kurd PSCs in public domain for transparency

(9/21/2011) Total adds stake in 5 blocks offshore Kenya

(9/21/2011) Realm awarded shale gas concessions in Spain

(9/21/2011) Apache paying $1.75 billion for ExxonMobil North Sea assets

(9/20/2011) CBM Asia scores 2 CBM blocks onshore Indonesia

(9/20/2011) Sterling farms out stake in Netherland North Sea holdings

(9/19/2011) Cougar farms out Trout, Alberta interest to Zentru

(9/19/2011) LGI doubling stake in Chilean upstream with 2nd GeoPark buy

(9/19/2011) Repsol farms into Irish frontier license Dunquin

(9/19/2011) Oyster Oil & Gas granted 4 blocks in Djibouti

(9/19/2011) Tap Oil sells Brunei Block M operating interest

(9/18/2011) China warns India to stay out of South China Sea blocks

(9/16/2011) Barra acquires stake in deepwater Santos Basin block

(9/16/2011) Eni selling 50% of its stake in Libyan field to Gazprom

(9/15/2011) Canacol farms out Colombia contract areas to Sintana

(9/15/2011) Magellan & Santos swap Australia Northern Territory assets

(9/15/2011) Total farms into 3 deepwater blocks off Indonesia

(9/15/2011) Gran Tierra farms into 2 blocks in Brazil's Camamu-Almada

(9/14/2011) Texas Oil & Minerals to redevelop Texas' Damon Mound Field

(9/14/2011) St Brendan's granted 3 blocks onshore Nova Scotia

(9/14/2011) Oil Optimization takes full interest in Thailand block

(9/14/2011) Legend acquires International Sovereign's Alberta & BC assets

(9/14/2011) Osage & partners add more Oklahoma Nemaha Ridge acreage

(9/14/2011) GeoPark farming into 3 Tierra del Fuego blocks

(9/13/2011) Oranje-Nassau acquires operating stake in Netherlands block

(9/13/2011) Aminex swapping Tanzania acreage stakes with Key Petroleum

(9/13/2011) Ascent wins extension of Netherlands North Sea licenses

(9/12/2011) Niko farms out stake in Kofiau Block to Hess

(9/12/2011) OGX acquires stake in onshore Brazil Parnaiba Basin block

(9/12/2011) Drillsearch farms out Queensland stakes to Real Energy

(9/9/2011) Magellan farms out Montana Bakken & Deep Rights to Vaalco

(9/9/2011) Western Australia puts up 9 permit areas for bid

(9/9/2011) Salamander farming into Mitsui-held Thai Gulf block

(9/9/2011) Uruguay opens Licensing Round II's 15 blocks to bid

(9/8/2011) Hess adding more Utica Shale acreage in Ohio

(9/8/2011) Rosneft sub wins approval to acquire Arctic assets

(9/8/2011) Tanzania's Ruvuma PSA altered under Aminex operation

(9/7/2011) Hess buys into Consol's Ohio Utica Shale acreage

(9/6/2011) India cancels two NELP VIII block awards as no-shows

(9/6/2011) PetroWorth farms into Pine Petroleum's Alberta acreage

(9/6/2011) Spectral acquiring 3 leases in Russia's Saratov Oblast

(9/6/2011) Encore ties down Texas & Wyoming acquisitions

(9/6/2011) CNPC wins 3 blocks in Afghanistan

(9/5/2011) Circle block extension to include 3D survey & a test well

(9/5/2011) Sino Gas extending China Linxing PSC exploration period

(9/4/2011) Donnybrook farms out stake in Alberta Prairie Creek asset

(9/2/2011) Gazprom Neft acquires Orenburg's Tsarichanskoye Field

(9/2/2011) Blackdog farming into Sylvan Lake, Alberta project

(9/2/2011) Myanmar receives 50 bids for 18 onshore blocks

(9/2/2011) Brazil withdrawing unawarded 2006 subsalt licenses

(9/2/2011) Salamander sells stakes off NW Java & SE Sumatra

(9/2/2011) Apache farms into TAG Oil New Zealand East Coast permits

(9/1/2011) Russia offering 5 blocks in Krasnodar, Orenburg & Adygeya

(9/1/2011) Delta sub awarded Valle de Lerma Block in Argentina

(8/31/2011) Shell to join Ukraine's shale gas exploration & production

(8/31/2011) ExxonMobil sells XTO US Gulf properties to Dynamic Offshore

(8/31/2011) Treaty picks up 3 Shackeford County, Texas leases

(8/31/2011) New Zealand switching to block offer rights allocation method

(8/31/2011) Silvermere taking third-ownership of Texas gasfield

(8/30/2011) Canoel wins 2 gas concessions onshore Italy

(8/30/2011) New BOEMRE tools to ease offshore permit process

(8/30/2011) Pacific Energy & partners acquire Paradox Basin assets

(8/30/2011) ExxonMobil farming into Argentine shale gas project

(8/29/2011) Cougar adds Alberta acreage in latest provincial sale

(8/29/2011) Samson granted new acreage in Wyoming's Hawk Springs area

(8/29/2011) Cooper sub farming into Zeta's Romania gasfield

(8/29/2011) Vast gets Niko financing for Qara Dagh Block

(8/28/2011) Iraqi Cabinet passes draft energy law

(8/28/2011) Maersk picks up stake in HKN & Kurd Iraq license

(8/28/2011) Ithaca adds non-operated interest in UK North Sea Cook Field

(8/26/2011) Novatek as sole bidder to receive 4 Yamal licenses

(8/25/2011) PetroMagdalena farming out stake in Colombia concession

(8/25/2011) Petrom relinquishes 25% of Romanian blocks to be extended

(8/25/2011) PNG okays added stake in PPL268 for Talisman Energy

(8/25/2011) TAQA farming into UK North Sea block with Antrim

(8/25/2011) Encana divesting its Texas gas-producing assets

(8/24/2011) Queiroz Galvao picks up another Shell stake off Brazil

(8/24/2011) Sound Oil awarded Central Italy's Rapagnano Concession

(8/23/2011) Reliance relinquishes Oman deepwater block

(8/23/2011) Altima farms into northern Alberta Rainbow Lake acreage

(8/22/2011) Demerging from Questus, Green Star takes Texas properties

(8/22/2011) Pertamina takes over gas E&P in Indonesia's Cepu Block

(8/22/2011) Bering adds potential 1.3 million bbl Louisiana lease

(8/22/2011) Noreco selling stake in North Sea Flyndre discovery to Maersk

(8/19/2011) Roc farms down stake in Equatorial Guinea block

(8/19/2011) BOEMRE issues final enviro statement for Chukchi lease sale

(8/19/2011) Senex farms into Planet Gas permit in South Australia

(8/19/2011) 1st US Gulf lease sale since Deepwater Horizon set

(8/18/2011) Petrofac picked to develop 2 blocks in Tabasco, Mexico

(8/18/2011) Winstar farming out stake in Tunisian concession

(8/18/2011) ExxonMobil suing US Interior Dept to keep US Gulf leases

(8/18/2011) Origin farming into 2 blocks in Western Australia

(8/18/2011) Hutton farms into 4 ExxonMobil licenses in Poland

(8/18/2011) ERHC adds PSCs for 3 Chadian blocks

(8/18/2011) Noble partners Consol Energy in Marcellus Shale properties

(8/17/2011) Swift selling stakes in 9 fields in Louisiana, Texas & Alabama

(8/17/2011) Roc Oil & partners win Malaysia's Balai Cluster Fields contract

(8/16/2011) Total wins Lake Tanganyika North Block in Tanzania

(8/16/2011) Shell farms into OMV's Great South Basin permits

(8/16/2011) Admiral Bay & Bluebird quitting Pennsylvania project

(8/14/2011) Victoria acquires royalty interest in its Cameroon project

(8/12/2011) Itera & Zarubezhneft to develop Turkmen Caspian block

(8/12/2011) Otto augments interest in Philippines' Galoc Field

(8/12/2011) PGI buys Haskell County, Texas oil & gas field

(8/12/2011) ADX buys back Carnavale's stake in Tunisia prospect

(8/12/2011) Lexaria acquires producing oil assets in Mississippi

(8/12/2011) Denovo assuming Africa Oil stakes in Somalia projects

(8/11/2011) Loreto farming into Eagleford's Zavala County, Texas leases

(8/11/2011) Noreco selling stake in Danish North Sea field

(8/11/2011) Apex picks up block in Oman's Dhofar region

(8/10/2011) CNPC to be granted 3 new blocks in Sudan

(8/10/2011) Tap ups stake in operated Offshore Accra Block off Ghana

(8/10/2011) Real Energy farming into 4 Bow Energy Queensland permits

(8/9/2011) Synergy farms into DeClar stake in Wattenberg Field

(8/8/2011) Iraq qualifies 41 international companies to bid in next round

(8/8/2011) Chariot farms out Namibia stakes to BP & PGS

(8/7/2011) Canoel exiting Tunisia interests with Cygam

(8/7/2011) PetroTel granted Strait of Hormuz offshore block

(8/5/2011) BOEMRE releases SEIS for US Gulf Lease Sale 218

(8/5/2011) Magnum Hunter sub ups Williston Basin holdings

(8/4/2011) SandRidge sells stake in Oklahoma & Kansas play to Atinum

(8/4/2011) Gulf Shore farms into Saskatchewan Bakken acreage

(8/3/2011) Rialto awaiting approval of stake in Ghana's Accra Block

(8/3/2011) Exile acquiring stake in Oando Nigerian assets

(8/3/2011) Simba awarded Kenya's onshore Block 2A

(8/2/2011) WesternZagros & Talisman split Kalar-Bawanoor Block

(8/2/2011) Vietnam calls for bids on 9 offshore blocks

(8/2/2011) Black Raven buys into Colorado's Adena Field

(8/1/2011) Indonesia offering 8 CBM blocks for direct bidding

(8/1/2011) Gazprom Neft farms into 4 blocks in Cuban Gulf of Mexico

(8/1/2011) Egdon sells stake in UK Avington Field & License

(8/1/2011) Dominion awarded 2nd Lamu Basin block off Kenya

(7/31/2011) Pemex names bidders for Mexico oilfield operating contracts

(7/29/2011) Penn Virginia selling Hartshorne CBM & Woodford Shale assets

(7/29/2011) ConocoPhillips acquiring Colorado Niobrara acreage

(7/28/2011) GDF Suez acquires ExxonMobil's Njord Field stake

(7/28/2011) Samson closes 1st tranche of Montana Roosevelt acquisition

(7/28/2011) Total wins year extension to Madagascar license

(7/28/2011) WHL Energy buys Austin Seychelles farm-in option

(7/27/2011) Afren purchases stakes in 2 Kurd Iraq concessions

(7/27/2011) Cabot selling Wyoming Green River Basin assets

(7/27/2011) BreitBurn buys Wyoming producing oil & gas properties

(7/27/2011) Simba farming into Summa's Guinea concessions

(7/27/2011) Drillsearch & QGC form $130 million shale gas JV

(7/27/2011) Hess & Petroceltic pick up 2 Kurd Iraq concessions

(7/26/2011) Sinopec taking stake in Petronas field off Terengganu

(7/26/2011) Alexander First Nation Permit sold to Alberta JV

(7/25/2011) DONG buying out Noreco in Danish North Sea Siri Field

(7/25/2011) Gulf Shores farms into SE Saskatchewan acreage

(7/25/2011) BP awarded 2 deepwater blocks off Trinidad

(7/25/2011) India approves Reliance's $7.2 billion stake sale to BP

(7/25/2011) Afren ups stake in onshore Madagascar block

(7/25/2011) Leni farming into Advanced Oil's Trinidad leases

(7/22/2011) Liberia lines up 13 ultra deepwater blocks for auction

(7/21/2011) Mena takes majority stake in Egyptian deepwater block

(7/21/2011) Vanco farming into Oranto's offshore Sierra Leone block

(7/21/2011) Synergy sells some of its Colorado DJ-Basin acreage

(7/20/2011) TNK-BP farms into Brazil's Solimoes Basin blocks

(7/20/2011) American Petro-Hunter picks up added Oklahoma acreage

(7/20/2011) Lukoil farming into Oranto stake offshore Sierra Leone

(7/19/2011) Chevron sells Alaska Cook Inlet assets to Hilcorp

(7/19/2011) Linc terminates ERG Texas & Louisiana asset buy

(7/19/2011) Victoria ups stake in Cameroon's Logbaba Field

(7/18/2011) Gripen Gas awarded Swedish unconventional gas licenses

(7/18/2011) ADX Energy awarded exploration permit offshore Italy

(7/18/2011) Magellan agrees to Montana farmout to Vaalco Energy

(7/18/2011) SM Energy selling Marcellus Shale assets to Endeavour International

(7/18/2011) Santos acquiring Eastern Star Gas & its coal seam gas permits

(7/17/2011) Jupiter wins acreage extension to Kazakh concession

(7/17/2011) Ecuador offering up to $168 million for Petrobras assets

(7/17/2011) PetroLatina farming out stake in Colombian concession to Shell

(7/17/2011) Shell selling stake in Canada's Mackenzie Gas Project

(7/15/2011) Beach & Icon settle Queensland farm-in dispute

(7/15/2011) Crescent Point augments Beaverhill Lake acreage

(7/15/2011) Oilsands Quest conversion of Axe Lake permits approved

(7/15/2011) Realm farming out stakes in France's Paris Basin licenses

(7/15/2011) EOR adds Texas acreage across three counties

(7/14/2011) AGL sells stake in New Zealand block to NZEC

(7/14/2011) Pitkin Petroleum farming into Philippine block for 70% stake

(7/14/2011) Oklahoma's Nemaha Ridge Mississippian Prospect at 12,000 acres

(7/12/2011) Mirach & Pertamina to jointly operate Sumatra oilfield

(7/12/2011) Bill Barrett acquiring Denver-Julesburg Basin acreage

(7/11/2011) Elixir farming out stake in UK North Sea Tiger prospect

(7/11/2011) Alange farms out stakes in 2 Colombia assets

(7/10/2011) Westmont acquiring Marcellus gas leases in Pennsylvania

(7/10/2011) Syria offering 14 oil shale blocks for bid

(7/10/2011) Questerre adds to SW Saskatchewan Antler assets

(7/10/2011) Myanmar invites 18 companies to bid for 18 blocks

(7/8/2011) Bowleven granted extension to Cameroon Etinde Permit

(7/8/2011) Roc selling stake in Mozambique Channel block

(7/8/2011) Guardian adds southern Alberta Pekisko acreage

(7/8/2011) Australia awards 10 permits to 6 companies

(7/8/2011) Doxa joins Oklahoma's Mississippian oil play

(7/7/2011) Brenham buying Texas Permian Basin tract for $6 million

(7/7/2011) Repsol wins 3 offshore Tunisia concessions

(7/7/2011) Antrim farming out stake in UK North Sea license

(7/7/2011) China awards 2 of 4 shale blocks to local companies

(7/6/2011) OMV awarded New Zealand Taranaki Basin block

(7/6/2011) Kosmos being awarded Morocco's Foum Assaka Block

(7/6/2011) Six companies win Canada's Mackenzie Valley exploration rights

(7/6/2011) Pancontinental takes concession offshore Namibia

(7/5/2011) Det Norske sells stake in operated North Sea license

(7/5/2011) Shell sells stake in offshore Brazil block to local companies

(7/5/2011) Petroamerica farming out half its stake in Colombia block

(7/5/2011) Total acquires Esso Italiana stake in Gorgoglione Concession

(7/5/2011) Lynden & CrownRock lease a third of Mitchell Ranch Project

(7/4/2011) Mitsui farms into WestSide's Bowen Basin blocks

(7/4/2011) TAQA takes over 2 blocks & Otter Field from Total UK

(7/4/2011) Samson participating in Chesapeake wells in Wyoming

(7/4/2011) New World signs LOI for 2 onshore Danish licenses

(7/1/2011) Iona adds stake in UK Trent & Tyne blocks

(7/1/2011) Alaska gearing up for 14.7 million acre lease sale

(7/1/2011) Russian Shelf only open to top international companies

(7/1/2011) Jacka finalizing acquisition of Tanzania's Ruhuhu Block

(6/30/2011) Nova Scotia calls for bids on 8 deepwater parcels

(6/30/2011) ERHC picks up 3 blocks in Chad

(6/30/2011) Philippines to offer 15 blocks in 4th Round

(6/30/2011) Uruguay offering 15 blocks in September Round II

(6/30/2011) Pace purchases Serica Indonesia sub & assets

(6/30/2011) Participants combine UK North Sea blocks

(6/29/2011) Mitsui sub buying into SM Energy's Eagle Ford Shale assets

(6/29/2011) TransGlobe acquires operated interest in Egypt concession

(6/28/2011) MEO Australia acquires 100% stake in Indonesia's Seruway PSC

(6/28/2011) China holds 1st shale gas license auction

(6/28/2011) Texas Oil & Minerals adding Texas Wilcox acreage

(6/28/2011) Denbury adds Riley Ridge acreage & operatorship

(6/27/2011) President farming into Argentina's Puesto Guardian Block

(6/27/2011) EGPI Firecreek acquiring West Texas leases from Capco

(6/27/2011) MDU adds another 20,000 Bakken acres in Montana

(6/26/2011) Zarubezhneft to redevelop Cuba's Boca de Jaruco Field

(6/26/2011) Madagascar Tsimiroro dispute resolved

(6/24/2011) Donnybrook does deal with Cequence on Simonette license

(6/24/2011) Samson adds 90,000 acres in Fort Peck Indian Reservation

(6/24/2011) Rocksource sells US onshore producing fields

(6/24/2011) Zarubezhneft in line for Barents Sea Fedinskoye license

(6/24/2011) Dominion acquires operating interest off Malta

(6/23/2011) Sonde sells stake in Trinidad offshore block

(6/23/2011) Wyoming Spyglass Hill mega-unit approved by BLM

(6/23/2011) Apache picks up Alaska Cook Inlet leases

(6/22/2011) Connacher & AOS selling Alberta Halfway Creek leases

(6/22/2011) Encore & Vanguard pay $85 million for Texas Permian Basin assets

(6/22/2011) Novatek to receive 4 more Russian Arctic licenses

(6/21/2011) Ptarmigan grants CIOGC options on Newfoundland license

(6/21/2011) NNPC taking over operation of 4 Niger Delta blocks

(6/21/2011) Americas Petrogas adds Argentina's Huacalera Block to portfolio

(6/21/2011) Encana & PetroChina fail to reach agreement on Cutbank Ridge

(6/21/2011) Nostra Terra takes a share in Colorado's Verde Prospect

(6/20/2011) Premier pre-empts BP sale of Wytch Farm stake

(6/20/2011) Costa Rica nixes oil but open to gas E&P

(6/20/2011) Slawson-led JV boosts Oklahoma Nemaha Ridge acreage

(6/19/2011) KazMunaiGas gets 10% stake in Karachaganak gasfield

(6/19/2011) Iraq 4th Licensing Round held up by legal & technical issues

(6/17/2011) Anglo Canadian farms into Quatro Alberta acreage

(6/17/2011) Petrobras takes 50% stake in 2 blocks offshore Gabon

(6/17/2011) Delta sells remaining DJ Basin & Texas assets to Wapiti

(6/17/2011) Repsol joins KazMunaiGas in Rakushechnoye Sea project

(6/17/2011) Cross Border joins Big Star Wolfberry project in Texas

(6/16/2011) NPR-Alaska lease sale due before yearend

(6/16/2011) Energy XXI takes on operation of US Gulf West Delta fields

(6/16/2011) Linc Energy acquires majority stake in Alaska's Umiat Field

(6/16/2011) ConocoPhillips awarded 2 deepwater blocks off Bangladesh

(6/15/2011) AsherXino farming out stake in Nigeria offshore block

(6/15/2011) NZOG awarded Tunisia's offshore Diodore Concession

(6/14/2011) NIS acquiring stake in Falcon sub's Hungary Algo play

(6/14/2011) MEO awarded Bonaparte Basin exploration permit

(6/14/2011) BreitBurn buys producing Niobara acreage in Wyoming

(6/14/2011) Cue farming into Indonesia's Mahakam Hilir PSC

(6/14/2011) Egdon farms out stakes in UK licenses to Europa & Celtique

(6/13/2011) SM Energy divests part of Eagle Ford Shale holdings

(6/13/2011) Cooper terminates GB Energy farm-in

(6/13/2011) Rosneft looking to replace Chevron in Black Sea project

(6/13/2011) Colombia agrees to rescind award of block to C&C Energia

(6/13/2011) Hycarbex seeking partner to develop Pakistan's Yasin Block

(6/13/2011) Taqa Bratani farming into UK North Sea license

(6/13/2011) Goodrich acquires Tuscaloosa Marine Shale acreage

(6/13/2011) ATP adds 3 Mediterranean licenses off Israel

(6/12/2011) Cooperation agreement signed for Equatorial Guinea blocks

(6/12/2011) Hallador selling Bakken-Three Forks leases for $13.5 million

(6/12/2011) Black Elk adds 40 fields in US Gulf

(6/10/2011) Pemex preparing to offer offshore development contracts

(6/10/2011) Ireland receives 15 applications in Atlantic Margin round

(6/10/2011) DONG-led JV picks up Norway Barents Sea license

(6/10/2011) Andes Energia picks up Chubut, Argentine concession

(6/10/2011) ExxonMobil buys Phillips Resources & Marcellus Shale acreage

(6/10/2011) Rex Oil & Gas awarded Sharjah's eastern offshore area

(6/10/2011) Neon & KrisEnergy looking to farmout offshore Vietnam blocks

(6/10/2011) Santos farms into Western Australia Carnarvon Basin blocks

(6/10/2011) Alkane acquiring onshore UK gas concessions

(6/9/2011) Mitsui acquiring stake in Marathon's Polish shale blocks

(6/9/2011) Eagle farms out interest in East Texas Field wells

(6/8/2011) Americas Petrogas ups stakes in Argentine blocks to 90%

(6/8/2011) Statoil farms into Nexen's Kakuna in deepwater US Gulf

(6/8/2011) Roca farming into 2 Peru Ucayali Basin blocks

(6/8/2011) Noble farms into AGC Profond Block off Senegal & Guinea-Bissau

(6/7/2011) Sound Oil sub farms into Italy's Montemarciano Permit

(6/6/2011) Sudan offering Petronas blocks in east and west of country

(6/6/2011) Uganda bans Lake Albert coastal land transactions

(6/6/2011) Carrizo expands Eagle Ford Shale acreage & drilling

(6/6/2011) Linc buys Texas & Louisiana assets from ERG for $236 million

(6/5/2011) Rialto acquires remaining interest in Cote d'Ivoire block

(6/5/2011) TPAO-led consortia wins Iraq's Mansouriya & Siba Fields

(6/3/2011) Tap terminates Carnarvon Basin non-core assets sale

(6/3/2011) Lundin farms into Peninsular Malaysia concession

(6/2/2011) SM Energy selling non-core assets for $44 million

(6/2/2011) Strategic adds Alberta acreage in Crown Land Sale

(6/2/2011) BHP Billiton pre-empts Tap Oil sale to MIMI

(6/2/2011) Petronas pays $1.09 billion for Canadian shale gas assets

(6/2/2011) Petsec selling stake in China's Beibu Gulf block to Horizon Oil

(6/1/2011) Horizon adds to interest in operated PNG block

(6/1/2011) MOG wins 18-month Malta Area 4 extension

(6/1/2011) Apache pulls out of Corridor shale gas farm-in

(6/1/2011) Spring farming into Noreco Norwegian Barents Sea license

(6/1/2011) Santos' sale of stake in Evans Shoal cancelled

(6/1/2011) High Plains extends CBM agreement with J.M. Huber

(6/1/2011) Marathon acquires Texas Eagle Ford Shale assets for $3.5 billion

(5/31/2011) Vaalco buys 70% stake in Montana Middle Bakken play

(5/31/2011) Premier buys majority stake in UK West of Shetland block

(5/31/2011) EGL joins PSA for 2 northern France concessions

(5/31/2011) JX Nippon Oil & Gas farms into Salamander's Vietnam block

(5/30/2011) Total seeking extra year in Madagascar exploration phase

(5/30/2011) Longreach farming into Morocco's Sidi Moktar

(5/30/2011) Canacol farming into Colombia's Andaquies & Coati PSCs

(5/30/2011) Total farms into CNOOC-operated Qatar block

(5/29/2011) Chevron granted NE Bulgaria shale exploration block

(5/27/2011) Gazprom pulls out of Namibia's Kudu gasfield

(5/26/2011) Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan license near for RWE Dea

(5/26/2011) Wintershall bumps up stake in Norway discovery

(5/26/2011) CNOOC puts 19 blocks up for JV bidding

(5/26/2011) Explortex farming into Mesa's Texas Bridges lease

(5/26/2011) Tullow expands Ghana holding with EO interests

(5/25/2011) KrisEnergy stake in 2 Vietnam offshore blocks approved

(5/25/2011) East West farms out 4 Romania blocks to NIS

(5/25/2011) Lundin & Marathon farming into RWE Dea Norwegian Sea license

(5/24/2011) Solo taking direct stake in SW Ontario Ausable Field

(5/24/2011) Momentum acquiring assets in Texas' Fashing Field

(5/24/2011) Tullow acquiring 25 North Sea license stakes with Nuon buy

(5/24/2011) Noreco sells stakes in Brage & Hyme to Core Energy

(5/24/2011) Statoil farms into 3 Niko blocks offshore Indonesia

(5/23/2011) Philippines DOE on the road to tout 15 new blocks

(5/23/2011) Bangladesh set to issue 2 deepwater PSCs to ConocoPhillips

(5/20/2011) Total, Eni & Pan Orient pick up 3 Indonesia 2010 blocks

(5/20/2011) Indonesia offering 20 blocks in eastern archipelago

(5/20/2011) PetroKamchatka acquiring 6 licenses in Komi, Russia

(5/19/2011) COPL acquires block offshore Liberia from Peppercoast

(5/19/2011) Sinopec wins year extension on JDZ block exploration

(5/19/2011) BG gets stake in India deepwater block after 3 years

(5/18/2011) Jordan grants Al-Jafr concession to Zarubezhneft

(5/18/2011) ExxonMobil in standoff with Nigeria over licenses

(5/18/2011) Dominion makes Kenya Block L9 concession official

(5/18/2011) LOTOS offering farmout of interest in Polish Baltic blocks

(5/17/2011) BP selling UK Wytch Farm interest to Perenco

(5/17/2011) BG granted 2 exploration blocks offshore Kenya

(5/17/2011) Eni farming into MEO Australia's Heron & Blackwood discoveries

(5/17/2011) ConocoPhillips sells onshore Peru block to PetroVietnam

(5/17/2011) Enerplus sells Marcellus Shale assets for $575 million

(5/16/2011) Energy XXI selling non-core onshore Louisiana gas assets

(5/16/2011) Ithaca pre-empted in acquiring Maclure Field from Hess

(5/15/2011) Atlantic Petroleum buying Volantis Exploration

(5/15/2011) Obama to open Alaska & US Gulf to new leases

(5/15/2011) Octanex farms out New Zealand Taranaki block to OMV

(5/13/2011) Total farms into ExxonMobil CBM blocks in Poland

(5/13/2011) Holloman farming out South Australia permit stakes

(5/12/2011) Three parcels on offer offshore Newfoundland & Labrador

(5/12/2011) ConocoPhillips to sell offshore Vietnam holdings

(5/12/2011) Denbury farming into Grieve EOR Project in Wyoming

(5/12/2011) Bill Barrett adds Utah Uinta Basin producing acreage

(5/12/2011) Roxi cancels Kazakh BNG stake sale to Canamens

(5/12/2011) Andes Energia completes 6-block farm-in with YPF

(5/11/2011) Tunisia extends ADX permit for Chorbane Block

(5/11/2011) KazMunaiGas pulls out of Iraq field development negotiations

(5/11/2011) Brazil's ANP approves BP $3.2 billion buy of Devon blocks

(5/11/2011) BHP Billiton farming into block off Philippines Palawan Island

(5/10/2011) Azerbaijan ratifies BP-Socar Shafag-Asiman PSA

(5/10/2011) Turkey cancels 5 Aladdin Middle East licenses

(5/10/2011) Cooper relinquishes Java's South Madura Block

(5/10/2011) CNOOC pulls out of West Madura Block as Pertamina takes over

(5/10/2011) Fairfield farming out UK North Sea Crawford & Porter assets

(5/9/2011) Linn Energy buying Texas & Oklahoma oil & gas properties

(5/9/2011) Oranje-Nassau acquiring NAM stake in Netherlands license

(5/9/2011) Hardy not exercising option for added interest

(5/9/2011) Nautical augments stake in UK North Sea Kraken discovery

(5/9/2011) Kulczyk acquiring stake in Nigeria OML42

(5/9/2011) Victoria granted Cameroon development license

(5/5/2011) PSCs extended in Indonesia for 4 operators

(5/5/2011) Oranto scores Block 3 offshore Sao Tome & Principe

(5/5/2011) Hoang Long JOV wins Te Giac Den extension

(5/5/2011) Tanzania offering North Lake Tanganyika Block for bids

(5/5/2011) Bolivia gearing up for new license awards

(5/5/2011) Precision farms out 50% stake in Montana to Cavu

(5/5/2011) Anadarko farms down stake off Sierra Leone

(5/4/2011) Chevron buys Chief & Tug Hill Marcellus Shale acreage

(5/4/2011) MIMI buying into Western Australia Carnarvon Basin block

(5/3/2011) Petro Novus adding to interest in Armenia concession

(5/2/2011) Agri obtaining Syrian block with Triton acquisition

(5/2/2011) Hess farms into Falcon's Beetaloo Basin blocks off Australia

(5/2/2011) Dart & Mijnen launch Belgian CBM joint venture

(5/2/2011) Roc Oil selling rest of stake in Cabinda block to Pluspetrol

(5/1/2011) Arcland to acquire majority ownership of Russia's Kumskaya Neft

(5/1/2011) South Africa shale gas permits status quo until study concluded

(5/1/2011) Iran's Revolutionary Guard awarded giant gasfield projects

(4/29/2011) Lukoil takes operating interest in offshore Vietnam block

(4/29/2011) TransAtlantic buying Thrace Basin Natural Gas Turkiye

(4/29/2011) Brazil to put 174 licenses up for bid in September

(4/29/2011) BPMigas endorses Pertamina as West Madura Block operator

(4/28/2011) Shell & Maersk offer farmout of 60% stake in Danish project

(4/28/2011) Strike joining Texas Eagle Ford Shale JV

(4/28/2011) First Oil seeking farmout of UK North Sea Centurion find

(4/28/2011) Petroceltic sells stake in Algeria's Isarene Block to ENEL

(4/27/2011) Nexen acquiring stake in 10 Marathon Polish shale blocks

(4/27/2011) GSPC KG block in Bay of Bengal expanded

(4/27/2011) RWE Dea get 1st stake in Trinidad in partnership with Niko

(4/27/2011) Carrizo sells Barnett Shale properties for $104 million

(4/26/2011) Challenger farms into Ithaca Energy's North Sea Hurricane discovery

(4/26/2011) Six Chinese companies to bid in China's 1st shale gas auction

(4/26/2011) UnionTown farming into Wyoming's Darby Block

(4/26/2011) American Standard ups Bakken/Three Forks acreage

(4/26/2011) W&T Offshore paying $366 million for Texas Permian Basin acreage

(4/25/2011) Petronas agrees to unitize Malay-Thai border gasfields

(4/25/2011) Victory picks up stake in Texas' Alwan West gas prospect

(4/25/2011) Sagres scores extension on Jamaican blocks

(4/25/2011) Iraq launches 4th licensing round with 12 blocks on offer

(4/25/2011) Bering awaiting operator's license to drill Eagle Ford play

(4/25/2011) Mapna wins NIOC deal to develop Persian Gulf gasfield

(4/24/2011) Myanmar awards 2 onshore, 4 offshore concessions

(4/24/2011) Beach concludes buy into Egypt's Abu Sennan Block

(4/21/2011) Alberta Star farming into Alberta Blackfoot lands

(4/21/2011) South Africa nixes Shell shale gas fraccing ops in Karoo

(4/21/2011) Parex buying Remora stake in Colombia's Llanos blocks

(4/21/2011) Trap Oil farms into Summit's UK North Sea Orchid Prospect

(4/20/2011) Jones Energy acquiring Arkoma Basin Woodford Play acreage

(4/20/2011) Gazprom deal for half Eni's stake in Libya field on hold

(4/20/2011) Sagres acquiring 90% interest in 2 Colombia blocks

(4/20/2011) Range acquiring 3 blocks onshore Trinidad

(4/20/2011) Eni selling entire Ireland exploration portfolio

(4/20/2011) AED granted extension for Indonesia's Rombebai Block

(4/19/2011) Niko granted 3 new concessions offshore Trinidad

(4/19/2011) Austin adds 5,000-acre Texas Eagle Ford project

(4/18/2011) Alange acquires added interest in Colombia concession

(4/15/2011) Lukoil taking 25% of Bashneft's Trebsa & Titova license

(4/15/2011) Orlen awarded Hrubieszow Block in Poland's Lublin Region

(4/15/2011) Statoil takes lion's share at 21st Norwegian licensing round

(4/14/2011) BP & Rosneft extend share swap deadline

(4/14/2011) Tomsk, Russia's Muromskij-2 license goes to Petrogrand

(4/13/2011) Atlantic farming into Summit Petroleum's UK North Sea block

(4/13/2011) Eni farming into Cadogan's eastern Ukraine concessions

(4/13/2011) ONGC picking up 25% of Kazakhstan's Satpayev Block

(4/13/2011) Jacka joins Pancontinental for East Africa bidding

(4/13/2011) Tethys Oil farms into southern France license with Mouvoil

(4/12/2011) Aminex takes home license for Tanzania's Kiliwani North

(4/12/2011) Treaty acquiring producing leases in Texas' Shackelford Field

(4/12/2011) Faroe swaps Maria discovery stake for Norwegian assets

(4/12/2011) Reto Petroleum farming into Colombia's Fenix Block

(4/12/2011) Linc Energy wins bids for two Cooper Basin blocks

(4/12/2011) RAM Energy to drill 12 test wells in Oklahoma's Osage play

(4/12/2011) BNK sub wins Cantabria shale gas concession in Spain

(4/11/2011) Australia auctioning 29 areas in 2011 Offshore Acreage Release

(4/11/2011) KazMunaiGas acquires 4 new onshore Kazakh blocks

(4/11/2011) Tanzania pushes back deepwater round to next year

(4/11/2011) Tap Oil sells Carnarvon Basin assets to Hardie Energy

(4/11/2011) Osage adds more acreage to Oklahoma Nemaha Ridge lease

(4/10/2011) Trans-Asia acquiring interest in China's Shengli oilfield

(4/8/2011) Ecopetrol signs 8 E&P contracts from 2010 Round

(4/8/2011) Rebel NLC rejecting Russian & Chinese PSCs

(4/8/2011) Eagleford farming out stake in Zavala County, Texas lease

(4/8/2011) BP-Rosneft share swap halted for further hearings

(4/8/2011) Magnum Hunter buys West Virginia Marcellus assets

(4/7/2011) Rosneft picks up Naulskoye license in Nenets

(4/7/2011) Ecopetrol sharing 2 Caribbean exploration blocks with Repsol

(4/7/2011) Legacy pays $67 million for New Mexico Permian Basin property

(4/7/2011) Ophir farms into RAKGas' East Panda Block in Tanzania

(4/7/2011) Norwest expands Northern Perth Basin holdings

(4/7/2011) Mitsui exercises option to acquire Queensland CSG stakes

(4/6/2011) Marathon selling stake in Wyoming/Colorado Niobara shale to Marubeni

(4/6/2011) Energen adds to Texas Bone Spring & Avalon shale acreage

(4/5/2011) Dominion wins extension to Tanzania deepwater license

(4/5/2011) Antares acquires additional Texas Permian Basin acreage

(4/5/2011) Zeus farms out UK North Sea blocks to PGS

(4/5/2011) Northern transferring Italian permits west of Sicily to Shell

(4/4/2011) Shell's OML30 onshore Nigeria goes to Conoil

(4/4/2011) Ithaca swaps UK North Sea assets with Hess

(4/4/2011) Valiant farming into Summit's UK North Sea Orchid Prospect

(4/4/2011) Maersk takes stakes in Marathon Norway licenses

(4/4/2011) Premier Oil to operate UK North Sea Fyne field development

(4/1/2011) Centrica sub buys Alberta gas assets from Shell Canada

(4/1/2011) BP takes stakes in 4 CBM PSC's in Indonesia

(4/1/2011) Mexco adds acreage in Texas' Fuhrman-Mascho Field

(4/1/2011) Bowleven extends Vitol option on Cameroon permit

(4/1/2011) Shell, Total, & Eni selling Nigeria's Block to Eland & Starcrest

(4/1/2011) Providence sells Gulf of Mexico assets to Dynamic Offshore

(3/31/2011) Horizon wins new 5-year PNG license for PRL21

(3/31/2011) Pemex to auction up to 20 oilfield operating contracts

(3/31/2011) Pacific Rubiales takes 50% of M&P Colombia interests

(3/31/2011) PetroKamchatka to relinquish Icha license in Kamchatka

(3/31/2011) CGGVeritas providing data for Syria licensing round

(3/31/2011) Bankers takes over Albania's Patos-Marinza Block

(3/31/2011) BHP withdrawing from Falklands northern licenses

(3/30/2011) PTTEP withdraws from Egypt's Sidi Abd El Rahman Block

(3/30/2011) Paxton acquiring majority stake in US Gulf tract

(3/30/2011) Statoil joins KazMunaiGas in Caspian concession

(3/30/2011) CNOOC & Total conclude buy of stakes in Tullow Uganda blocks

(3/29/2011) American Petro-Hunter adds to North Oklahoma Project

(3/29/2011) India awards 17 blocks in last NELP licensing round

(3/28/2011) Portal farming into Saskatchewan Birdbear oil play

(3/28/2011) TransGlobe buys 100% stake in Egypt's West Bakr Block

(3/28/2011) UnionTown signing for Montana oil & gas acreage

(3/28/2011) Noreco farm-in to Danish North Sea license completed

(3/28/2011) C&C Energia paying $89 million for Ramshorn Colombia assets

(3/27/2011) Andes adds Argentina's Vega Grande Block to portfolio

(3/27/2011) Vermilion picks up Ireland's Corrib foreshore license

(3/25/2011) FAR takes a stake in Ophir concession off Senegal & Guinea Bissau

(3/25/2011) Samson selling Jonah & Lookout Wash assets in Wyoming

(3/25/2011) Andes Energia acquires Patagonia stake in 7 Argentine blocks

(3/25/2011) Azimuth Limited farming into Northern's Adriatic permits

(3/25/2011) Roc contract for Zhao Dong Block off China expanded

(3/24/2011) OMV farms into Octanex's New Zealand offshore Taranaki block

(3/24/2011) Farmout Queensland permits to CNOOC await Chinese approvals

(3/23/2011) Clayton Williams farming into Chesapeake Texas acreage

(3/23/2011) Lebanon preparing to launch offshore licensing round

(3/23/2011) Harvest Natural Resources sells Utah assets to Newfield

(3/23/2011) Fox to finance Camelot Colombia & Peru E&P

(3/23/2011) OGX picks up 5 exploration blocks in Colombia

(3/22/2011) Iraq preparing to offer 12 mostly gas blocks in November

(3/21/2011) Madagascar Oil declares force majeure on its PSCs

(3/21/2011) Indonesia awards 11 blocks from 2010's 2nd round

(3/21/2011) Dominion awarded new deepwater exploration license off Kenya

(3/21/2011) KNOC farming in Texas Eagleford acreage with Anadarko

(3/20/2011) Green Rock joins New Standard in Lawford test well

(3/18/2011) Simba awaiting Liberia & Mali production sharing agreements

(3/17/2011) Buccaneer adds to Kenai Loop acreage in Cook Inlet

(3/17/2011) Algeria awards 2 exploration blocks to Sonatrach & Cepsa

(3/16/2011) Syria to award 4 of 8 onshore blocks on offer

(3/16/2011) Petroceltic transfers operation of Italian block to Eni

(3/15/2011) MoU signed between Tullow and the Government of Uganda

(3/15/2011) Blackbird farming into Bigstone well with Donnybrook

(3/15/2011) MEO accepts offer to farm into its Timor Sea Heron block

(3/14/2011) Chrysaor exercises option on Ireland's Spanish Point licenses

(3/14/2011) Det Norske farms out stake in Norwegian license to Centrica

(3/13/2011) KNOC granted E&P rights in Abu Dhabi oil sector

(3/11/2011) Central Petroleum terminating GSG farmout & JV

(3/11/2011) Mature areas off Norway offered in Awards in Predefined Areas

(3/11/2011) KazMunaiGas buys 50% stake in Kazakhstan's Fedorovskiy Block

(3/11/2011) Operating agreement set for Samuel Block off Israel

(3/10/2011) Vaalco picks up Granite Wash lease in Texas Panhandle

(3/10/2011) Bengal granted Queensland's Tookoonooka Block

(3/10/2011) Ireland okays' OMV transfer of Rockall to San Leon

(3/10/2011) Jordan grants PSC to Karak for El Lajjun oil shale project

(3/10/2011) Melrose granted Romanian Black Sea blocks

(3/9/2011) CGI & Sound Oil granted Italy's Colle Ginerstre Block

(3/9/2011) Congo approves revision to Azurite, Mer Profonde Sud PSC

(3/9/2011) Legend completes acquisition of North Dakota Bakken leases

(3/8/2011) GB Energy farms into Cooper Energy Cooper Basin permits

(3/8/2011) Tullow farms into Kenya's offshore Block L8

(3/8/2011) Total buying into DRC block with SacOil & DIG

(3/8/2011) Sterling & Valiant swap UK North Sea assets

(3/8/2011) Kea adds major stakes in South Australia & Queensland blocks

(3/8/2011) Det Norske takes 10% of Lundin Barents Sea license

(3/8/2011) BP not selling Algeria assets after all

(3/8/2011) Talisman sells Sasol 50% stake in Cypress A Montney Shale

(3/7/2011) Madagascar suspends licensing of offshore blocks

(3/7/2011) Uganda & Tullow capital gains tax standoff said resolved

(3/7/2011) Sequachee passes 3 Kentucky leases to Xun Energy

(3/7/2011) Repsol buys into Alaska North Slope exploration blocks

(3/6/2011) WHT acquiring East Texas & North Louisiana properties

(3/6/2011) Canamens backs out of increased stake in Kazakh license

(3/6/2011) Triangle acquires added Bakken & Three Forks acreage

(3/6/2011) New Zealand's Crown Minerals okays OMV permit expansions

(3/4/2011) Nautical farms into Northern Ireland onshore block

(3/4/2011) Turkmenistan nixes foreign investment in gasfields

(3/3/2011) Primary Petroleum picks up 45,000 acres in Montana land sale

(3/3/2011) Rio Grande Petroleum adds Texas Permian Basin acreage

(3/3/2011) Sasol adds 50% stake in Canada's Montney Shale

(3/3/2011) Jordan offering East Safawi Block for bid

(3/3/2011) Nova Scotia offering three onshore exploration blocks

(3/3/2011) EPL farming out US Gulf East Bay Field below 14,000 ft

(3/3/2011) Rodinia wins exploration rights to Woomera Prohibited Area

(3/2/2011) Transcorp farms out Nigeria onshore block

(3/2/2011) Bashneft wins Russia's Trebs & Titov field developments

(3/2/2011) Alaska Cook Inlet sale cancelled for lack of interest

(3/1/2011) Canacol picks up 3 new E&P contracts in Colombia

(3/1/2011) Blue extends Kogas farm-in option over Queensland blocks

(3/1/2011) Range sells Fort Worth Basin Barnett Shale properties

(3/1/2011) Gazprom acquires Kovyktinskoye gasfield for $773.2 million

(3/1/2011) Statoil farms out 50% stake in Faroe licenses to ExxonMobil

(3/1/2011) Escondido sells its Eagle Ford Shale assets in South Texas

(2/28/2011) Gazprom's Gulf of Venezuela blocks redrawn

(2/28/2011) PPG leases Marcellus Shale site to Gastar for development

(2/28/2011) Three buys expand Linn's Williston & Permian Basin holdings

(2/27/2011) CanTex adds 6,000-acre Big Canyon lease in Texas

(2/25/2011) Linc acquires 3 producing oilfields from Rancher

(2/25/2011) Northwest Natural farms into EnCana Wyoming gasfield

(2/24/2011) CNPC & KazMunaiGas JV to develop Kazakh gasfield

(2/24/2011) HRT acquiring UNX & its Namibia assets for $781 million

(2/24/2011) Lukoil & Vanco sign for Romanian Black Sea blocks

(2/24/2011) ATP to acquire 5 licenses offshore Israel

(2/23/2011) Petrobangla offers Gazprom right to drill ten wells

(2/23/2011) Second Wave farms out stake in Alberta's Judy Creek

(2/23/2011) Exile granted NE Zambia exploration license

(2/23/2011) Imperial farms into New Mexico's Sawyer Field

(2/23/2011) Roxi granted 2-year extension to Kazakh concession

(2/23/2011) BG-led JV offered Kenya's Blocks 10A & 10B

(2/22/2011) Westmont adds Marcellus Shale acreage in Pennsylvania

(2/22/2011) LOTOS gives up stake in Norwegian Sea production license

(2/22/2011) Syria to award 8 blocks by end of month

(2/22/2011) BP selling its stakes in operated UK fields

(2/22/2011) Po Valley awarded 2 new blocks onshore northern Italy

(2/22/2011) Petrobras farms into offshore Benin block for 50% stake

(2/22/2011) Chesapeake selling Fayetteville Shale properties to BHP

(2/18/2011) Drillsearch sells 3 Gippsland Basin permits to Larus Energy

(2/17/2011) Eni handing over half its stake in Libya's El-Feel Field

(2/17/2011) Eni & Cairn exiting Indian concessions

(2/17/2011) American Eagle & Big Sky farm into Montana Bakken acreage

(2/16/2011) PDVSA picks partners for Mariscal Sucre development

(2/16/2011) Apache farming into offshore Origin block in Kenya's Lamu Basin

(2/16/2011) Bering signs Texas exploration agreement with Glaux

(2/16/2011) Bridge sells UK North Sea subsidiary to Perenco

(2/16/2011) Camac buys remaining interest in 2 Nigeria blocks

(2/15/2011) Saturn granted Saskatchewan permit in Porcupine Hills

(2/14/2011) Enegi offered onshore Ireland license option

(2/14/2011) Ecopetrol takes over Shell stake in Colombia concession

(2/14/2011) 3P acquiring Tysagaz gas assets in Ukraine

(2/13/2011) OIL boosts stake in India's Mizoram Block to 85%

(2/13/2011) American Eagle & Big Sky buy into Montana's Bakken play

(2/13/2011) Shoal Point options stake in offshore Newfoundland block

(2/13/2011) Chevron adds 200,000 shale gas acres in Alberta

(2/11/2011) Dart granted extension to Vietnam Song Hong Basin block

(2/11/2011) Pan Orient ups stake in Indonesia PSCs

(2/10/2011) PetroChina paying $5.43 billion for Encana Cutbank Ridge stake

(2/10/2011) JOGMEC to fund Japex stake in Iraq's Garraf Field project

(2/10/2011) ExxonMobil farming out stake in 4 Poland shale blocks

(2/9/2011) Tiger takes 3 historic production properties in Kansas

(2/8/2011) Siberian giant Kovyktinskoye gasfield auction pushed back

(2/8/2011) Baghdad insists Kurd PSC be converted to service contracts

(2/7/2011) High Plains Gas acquires additional Powder River CBM assets

(2/7/2011) Tanzania reveals blocks in April licensing round

(2/7/2011) Chesapeake divesting Fayetteville Shale assets

(2/7/2011) Inpex acquires interest in 4 US Gulf deepwater blocks

(2/7/2011) LNG Energy adds stakes in 2 Polish concessions

(2/6/2011) Canoro to be granted India's Nagaland concession

(2/6/2011) Solimar to Commence Drilling at Guijarral Hills

(2/6/2011) Rosneft-BP Kara Sea development project to be joint venture

(2/4/2011) Aurelian refocuses on Romania's Carpathian Fold Belt

(2/4/2011) Odin Energi takes operation of Oman block from Tethys

(2/4/2011) Tanzania to launch 4th licensing round in April

(2/4/2011) Precision buys into Viola Lime producer in Oklahoma

(2/4/2011) TransAtlantic buys DPE's Bulgaria & Morocco interests

(2/4/2011) Aminex farming into Key's Tanzania Nyuni stake

(2/3/2011) Otto increases stake in 2 blocks offshore Philippines

(2/3/2011) Nextraction & Magnum acquiring Viking acreage in Provost Field

(2/3/2011) Albanian government approves San Leon Durresi license

(2/3/2011) Cosmo Oil sub scores 30-yr UAE concession extension

(2/2/2011) Uganda to license remaining 5 Albertine Rift Basin blocks

(2/2/2011) Ascent gets go-ahead to acquire EnQuest stake in Slovenia

(2/2/2011) Zambia awards Kafue Trough block to Frontier

(2/1/2011) Noreco awarded Danish North Sea block

(1/31/2011) Philippines DOG approves Shell farming into SC54B

(1/31/2011) Mitsubishi buys stakeholder in Indonesia's Senoro-Toili Field

(1/31/2011) Maersk buying Devon's stake in Angola block

(1/31/2011) ADX awarded Romania's Pannonian Basin Parta Block

(1/31/2011) CNOOC farming into Chesapeake's DJ & Powder River interests

(1/31/2011) Global acquiring Namibia & Mozambique Channel interests

(1/30/2011) Cairn confirmed operator of 2 more Greenland blocks

(1/30/2011) Gulf Shores adding Crown Point Saskatchewan acreage

(1/28/2011) Egdon acquiring Valhalla's onshore UK licenses

(1/27/2011) Petronas to award 4 marginal oilfields development projects

(1/27/2011) Approach adds 10,900 acres in Texas' Permian Basin

(1/27/2011) Regal sells stake in Egypt concession to Apache

(1/27/2011) Cairn granted 5 blocks in Spain's Gulf of Valencia

(1/26/2011) Eni granted operation of Angola Block 35

(1/26/2011) Halliburton farms into Samson's Wyoming Hawk Springs Project

(1/26/2011) Africa Oil farms out stakes in 2 more Kenya blocks to Tullow

(1/26/2011) Statoil scores stakes in 5 Angola pre-salt blocks

(1/25/2011) Bolivar buys Pacific Rubiales' stake in Colombia block

(1/25/2011) Panoro farms out stakes in 3 Brazil Santos Basin blocks

(1/25/2011) Cobalt awarded operation of Angola Block 20

(1/25/2011) KKR buys ConocoPhillips acreage in Barnett Shale play

(1/24/2011) Angola awards ultra-deepwater pre-salt blocks

(1/21/2011) American Eagle adds Synergy's Bakken & Three Forks interests

(1/21/2011) Imperial farms into Texas Nunnelly Project

(1/20/2011) China to auction 8 shale gas blocks to Chinese companies

(1/20/2011) Global Energy Development seeking Colombia partners

(1/20/2011) Doxa takes stake in Hurd's Texas County Line Prospect

(1/20/2011) Tap pre-empt stake sale of Western Australia block

(1/20/2011) China NEP acquiring Inner Mongolia's Durimu Field

(1/20/2011) Kogas buys stake in Canada Mackenzie Delta

(1/19/2011) Mainland obtains extensions on Mississippi Haynesville leases

(1/19/2011) JayHawk joins the throng at Bakken & Three Forks

(1/19/2011) Total looking to farmout stakes in France's Montelimar Permit

(1/19/2011) Magnum Hunter acquiring Williston Basin operator

(1/19/2011) Red Cloud picks up Cherokee Basin acreage in Oklahoma

(1/18/2011) Otto farms out stake in Philippines to Swan Oil & Gas

(1/18/2011) Norway hands out 50 new production licenses

(1/18/2011) Kuwait Energy acquires Pechora Energy & 2 Russian oilfields

(1/18/2011) Tunisia renews ADX Kerkouane exploration license

(1/18/2011) Timor Sea JV wins changes to PSC work program

(1/17/2011) Shell applies for 3 Karoo Basin licenses in South Africa

(1/17/2011) BP awarded 4 deepwater blocks off South Australia

(1/17/2011) Africa Oil extends Puntland, Somalia PSAs

(1/16/2011) Great Pacific adds northern Alberta acreage

(1/16/2011) Chevron pressing to extend Siak Block license in Sumatra

(1/14/2011) Niko farming out Indonesia East Bula & Seram stakes

(1/14/2011) BP & Rosneft in global alliance, will develop Kara Sea licenses

(1/14/2011) NWest Energy extends 1st period of Newfoundland licenses

(1/14/2011) Repsol joins Ecopetrol & Petrobras in offshore Colombia block

(1/14/2011) San Leon acquisition of 3 Polish blocks from Mazovia approved

(1/14/2011) Baytex adds more Alberta & Saskatchewan heavy oil acreage

(1/14/2011) Total & YPF pick up 4 Neuquen blocks in Argentina

(1/14/2011) Statoil & OMV swap stakes in Norwegian Barents Sea licenses

(1/13/2011) Iraq near launch of 4th bidding round

(1/13/2011) Russia to auction Lodochnoye oil field in 2nd quarter

(1/13/2011) EPL adding shallow water US Gulf assets

(1/13/2011) Faroe Petroleum acquiring stake in UK North Sea Perth Field

(1/13/2011) Abu Dhabi to grant Cosmo 30-year extension on offshore fields

(1/13/2011) Kulczyk sub scores new Ukraine concession near discovery

(1/13/2011) Titan adds 1,897 acres to Alberta acreage

(1/12/2011) Iraq to auction Nassiriya Field development contract

(1/12/2011) OMV pays San Leon to exit Ireland exploration license

(1/12/2011) XTO to sell stake in UK North Sea Platypus gas discovery

(1/11/2011) Seneca buys EOG Marcellus shale properties

(1/11/2011) Gazprom Neft & TNK-BP acquiring Russia's Yamal Messoyakha fields

(1/10/2011) EnerJex adds South Texas acreage to Black Sable buy

(1/10/2011) Red Emperor farms into Georgia Republic blocks

(1/10/2011) Savoy adding Texas Austin Chalk acreage

(1/9/2011) Crown Point acquires Argentine San Jorge Basin block

(1/9/2011) PA Resources awarded German offshore license

(1/9/2011) Innamincka acquires 25% stakes in 4 Cooper Basin blocks

(12/17/2010) Hellenic selling stake in Egypt's West Obayed to Vegas

(12/17/2010) Petronas & Total join ExxonMobil & Pertamina in East Natuna

(12/17/2010) Primary farms out Montana's Saturn Prospect to Nextraction

(12/17/2010) Zambia passes out exploration licenses

(12/17/2010) Forest Oil earns majority stake in Quebec's North Richelieu Block

(12/17/2010) Total & Suncor link in $1.7 billion Alberta oil sands venture

(12/16/2010) Statoil buys Marathon interests in Norwegian assets

(12/16/2010) InterOil adds interest in PNG Elk & Antelope Fields

(12/15/2010) KNOC buying Hunt Oil's Canadian assets for $525 million

(12/15/2010) Valeura buying stake in Turkey's onshore Edirne Block

(12/14/2010) Ecosse Energy adds Indonesia's Manokwari PSC to portfolio

(12/14/2010) TAG granted New Zealand exploration permit off Taranaki

(12/14/2010) United Energy buying most of BP's Pakistan assets for $775 million

(12/13/2010) Target farming into South Texas Buffalo Project

(12/13/2010) Ecuador to pay Noble $80 million for relinquished Block 3

(12/13/2010) CAMAC acquiring Allied Energy stakes in Nigeria leases

(12/13/2010) Petronas & Murphy pick up stakes offshore Brunei

(12/13/2010) Gran Tierra farming into Peru's Maranon Basin block

(12/12/2010) Pemex moves a step closer to awarding licenses

(12/12/2010) High Plains Gas sells Powder River CBM gasfields

(12/12/2010) Kuwait Energy sells stake in Egypt Concession to East-West

(12/10/2010) Quad acquiring major stake in New Mexico Cave Pool properties

(12/10/2010) Eni takes on operation of 3 Polish Baltic Basin licenses

(12/10/2010) Wintershall offering stake in UK East Shetland license

(12/10/2010) Energen buys Texas Permian Basin Bone Spring acreage

(12/10/2010) Sinopec buys Occidental's Argentina assets for $2.45 billion

(12/9/2010) Four major Yamal fields set for licensing in 2011

(12/9/2010) MOG withdraws from Range-operated Tunisia concession

(12/9/2010) Shoal Point retains higher stake in Newfoundland block

(12/9/2010) PGNiG farms into FX's Warsaw South in Poland

(12/9/2010) Africa Oil in joint study of Ethiopia's Rift Valley Block

(12/8/2010) CNOOC pays $50 million for 50% of Exoma's Queensland blocks

(12/8/2010) Brazil's President Lula to veto royalty payments amendment

(12/8/2010) Husky signs with CNOOC for Liwan 3-1 deepwater development

(12/8/2010) BP exercises preferential rights to US Gulf blocks

(12/8/2010) Orca farming into Northern's Longastrino Permit in Italy

(12/7/2010) Legacy farms into southern Alberta Bakken acreage

(12/7/2010) Orlen & local partners set E&P projects across Ukraine

(12/7/2010) Cupet & Sonangol score stakes in Venezuela fields

(12/7/2010) Archer picks up 4 Matagorda Bay, Texas leases

(12/7/2010) Antrim acquires 50.1% interest in Argentina's Cerro de los Leones

(12/6/2010) OVL inches closer to stake in Kazakhstan concession

(12/6/2010) Indonesia awards three more oil and gas blocks

(12/6/2010) Faroe farms out West of Shetland license to Canadian Overseas

(12/6/2010) Dart signs for Indonesia CBM Block in South Sumatra

(12/5/2010) Brazil legislature passes presalt PSA to put Petrobras on top

(12/5/2010) Novatek-Gazprom Neft JV buys majority stake in Sever Energia

(12/5/2010) Mindoro PSC farm-in offered by PNOC

(12/5/2010) Sinopec picks up 18% stake in Makassar Strait deepwater blocks

(12/3/2010) Antero buys Bluestone & West Virginia gas producing properties

(12/3/2010) Provicence ups stake in Ireland's Barryroe discovery

(12/3/2010) Apco earns interest in Argentina's Neuquen Basin block

(12/3/2010) Indonesia offering 24 petroleum blocks & 12 CBM blocks

(12/2/2010) InterOil awarded acreage around Elk & Antelope Fields

(12/2/2010) Bashneft granted Russia's Trabsa & Titova License

(12/2/2010) Statoil wins stakes in 4 new licenses off Atlantic Canada

(12/1/2010) American Standard adds more Bakken acreage in North Dakota

(12/1/2010) US Interior backs off Atlantic & Eastern US Gulf leasing

(11/30/2010) Karoon ups stake in Western Oz Browse Basin permit

(11/29/2010) Chesapeake buys Antares' Texas Yellow Rose & Bluebonnet assets

(11/29/2010) Oasis pays $30 million for Montana Williston Basin lands

(11/29/2010) Shell offering to sell South Texas gasfields

(11/29/2010) Marathon farms into Denali Eagle Ford Shale leases

(11/29/2010) Black Hawk adds more acreage in Cowley County, Kansas

(11/29/2010) Husky buys ExxonMobil's Alberta & BC properties for $860 million

(11/29/2010) Africa Oil acquiring Centric Energy & Kenya's Block 10BA

(11/29/2010) High Plains adds Wyoming CBM properties

(11/28/2010) Verus farms into ADX's Chorbane Block onshore Tunisia

(11/28/2010) Qatar Petroleum calls for bids to explore its Block A

(11/28/2010) Maersk granted Greenland's Baffin Bay Block 9

(11/28/2010) Pre-emption waved in DEO acquisition of North Sea Perth assets

(11/28/2010) Sterling gets okay for 5 Netherlands North Sea blocks

(11/26/2010) Shell awarded 2 blocks offshore Greenland in Baffin Bay

(11/26/2010) BP granted Indonesia's onshore Papua North Arafura PSC

(11/26/2010) Total acquires stakes in 3 onshore Gabon blocks

(11/26/2010) Tullow unable to halt award of DRC blocks to rivals

(11/25/2010) Nexus pegs $34.3 million for Crux Field gas rights

(11/25/2010) Pemex sets date for 1st auction of operating contracts

(11/25/2010) Statoil hands over operation of Gjoa to GDF Suez

(11/24/2010) Santos farming into Octanex blocks to become operator

(11/24/2010) Ecuador signs new service contracts with 5 companies

(11/24/2010) Petrobras confirms rejection of Ecuador service contracts (update)

(11/23/2010) Sao Tome & Principe awards 7 Gulf of Guinea blocks

(11/23/2010) Endeavour adds more interest in North Sea Bacchus project

(11/23/2010) Egdon Resources completes buy of EnCore's French interests

(11/23/2010) PTTEP buys into Statoil's Kai Kos Dehseh oil sands

(11/23/2010) Hemisphere farms into Alberta Jenner project

(11/23/2010) Eni signs $8 billion deal with PDVSA for Junin 5 Block

(11/22/2010) Hess acquiring 167,000 acres of Baken oil shale area from TRZ

(11/22/2010) TransAmerica to explore Pessamit area of Quebec

(11/22/2010) Energy XXI paying $1.01 billion for US Gulf ExxonMobil assets

(11/22/2010) Apache farms into Oilex permit off Western Australia

(11/21/2010) Encana quitting Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale area

(11/21/2010) High Plains joins CEP in Powder River CBM operations

(11/21/2010) Petrobras & CNPC subs exiting Ecuador

(11/19/2010) Husky JVs win Jeanne d'Arc Basin blocks offshore Newfoundland

(11/19/2010) Bashneft a shoe-in for Trebsa and Titova license

(11/19/2010) Total takes operating interest in Malaysia deepwater block

(11/19/2010) Cloudbreak expands Saskatchewan Red River acreage

(11/19/2010) InfraStrata offered Northern Ireland exploration license

(11/18/2010) Indonesia awards 4 blocks in direct offers

(11/17/2010) Oil Search farming into 4 new PNG E&P licenses

(11/17/2010) American Standard adds Bakken acreage in North Dakota

(11/17/2010) Premier farming into Hess' North Red Sea block

(11/17/2010) Cooper buys Nabeul Block off Tunisia from Capricorn

(11/16/2010) Chesapeake & CNOOC close $1.08 billion Eagle Ford Shale deal

(11/16/2010) MEO acquires 100% interest in Timor Sea blocks

(11/15/2010) Gazprom Neft buys into Petronas stake in 4 Cuba blocks

(11/15/2010) Newfield buying Marcellus Shale acreage from EOG Resources

(11/15/2010) Santos shifts to further farm-in phases on Apollo's CSG permit

(11/15/2010) San Leon expands unconventional gas acreage in Poland

(11/15/2010) Williams pays $925 million for major North Dakota Bakken acreage

(11/14/2010) Ecuador threatens to expel oil companies without new contracts

(11/14/2010) Oilex & partners farmout Western Oz operating interest to Apache

(11/14/2010) Cue selling stake in Timor Sea concession

(11/14/2010) OGX ups stake to 100% in Brazil Santos Basin block

(11/14/2010) TPAO, Kogas & KazMunaiGas sign for Iraqi field projects

(11/12/2010) Norway's PSA consents to GdF Suez operating Gjoa platform

(11/12/2010) Rosneft sub acquires 3 blocks in Russia's Samara region

(11/12/2010) PA Resources looking to farmout Danish North Sea block

(11/11/2010) Rocksource agrees to sell US onshore producing gasfields

(11/11/2010) Providence grants Star Energy option on Ireland block

(11/11/2010) Salamander acquires Elnusa Bangkanai Energy & assets

(11/10/2010) Drilling of 2 Tullow wells on 2 Uganda blocks halted by tax dispute

(11/10/2010) Total selling stake in Cameroon subsidiary to Perenco

(11/10/2010) Gastar buys 59,000 Marcellus Shale acres in West Virginia

(11/10/2010) Cirrus granted Netherlands North Sea block, another to be awarded

(11/9/2010) Legacy purchasing Permian Basin properties from Concho

(11/8/2010) Pemex to award redevelopment contracts to private companies

(11/8/2010) Papua New Guinea refuses to extend PRL5 license

(11/8/2010) Suroco exercises option to acquire stake in Colombian block

(11/8/2010) Bonanza & Bluescape acquire AleAnna Energy

(11/7/2010) Gulf United joining SK in Colombia & Peru concessions

(11/6/2010) Kenya government okay's Centric farmout to Tullow

(11/6/2010) Cosmo quits Qatar's Persian Gulf Block 11

(11/5/2010) Trafigura buys BP's Botswana, Namibia, & Zambia assets

(11/5/2010) Caspian selling stake in Kazakhstan's Aral Petroleum

(11/4/2010) Chesapeake pays $859 million for half-million Appalachian acres

(11/4/2010) Apache completes buy of BP assets in Egypt's Western Desert

(11/4/2010) Murphy Oil moves into Kurdistan with Central Dohuk Block

(11/4/2010) Ascent completes sale of its stake Nyirseg Szatmar permits

(11/4/2010) Shell selling interest in 6 US Gulf fields to W&T Energy

(11/4/2010) Cirrus selling stake in Trinidad & Tobago concession

(11/4/2010) Santos buys Cairn interests in Bangladesh's Blocks 16

(11/3/2010) Ten companies pick up German onshore exploration licenses

(11/3/2010) Zodiac acquiring majority interest in San Joaquin Basin assets

(11/3/2010) PDC adds more acreage in Texas' Wolfberry trend

(11/3/2010) San Leon gets expansion of its Poland Baltic Basin concession

(11/2/2010) Georgia Republic offering 6 onshore blocks

(11/2/2010) High Plains Gas buying Spotted Horse asset

(11/2/2010) Andes Energia farms out Neuquen Basin blocks to YPF

(11/1/2010) Miller's Cook Inlet Energy wins 3-year Alaska license extension

(11/1/2010) RAM Energy sells Barnett Shale & Boonsville properties

(11/1/2010) Apache farms into Americas Petrogas Argentine shale gas block

(11/1/2010) KKR picks up southeast Texas oil & gas assets

(11/1/2010) Kosmos decides to keep its stake in Ghana's Jubilee Field

(11/1/2010) Energen pays $75 million for more Wolfberry acres

(11/1/2010) PT Medco & partners extend Indonesia Block A Aceh PSC

(11/1/2010) Sterling halts farm-in with Melrose in Romania

(11/1/2010) Mitsui farming into WestSide's Queenland CSG permits

(10/31/2010) Oman to award 5 of the 13 blocks currently up for bid

(10/29/2010) Woodside buys Hess' stake in Pluto LNG hub permit

(10/29/2010) Great Bear high bidder for 92% of Alaska's North Slope leases

(10/28/2010) Husky receives Madura Strait PSC extension

(10/27/2010) UK awards 144 licenses in 26th offshore round

(10/27/2010) China gearing up to auction 6 shale gas blocks

(10/27/2010) Petroamerica farming into Talisman Colombia assets

(10/27/2010) Sun River farms into Devon's Carthage Field in Texas

(10/27/2010) High Plains Gas secures Wyoming Powder River lease

(10/26/2010) Eni farming into 3 Atlantic Margin licenses

(10/26/2010) WHL Energy acquiring SEYCO Energy & its offshore acreage

(10/26/2010) EnerVest & EV Energy buy Barnett Shale properties from Talon

(10/26/2010) Saudi Arabia's South Rub al-Khali JV licenses extended to 2015

(10/26/2010) Northern Ireland offers Providence exploration license

(10/26/2010) Blugrass buying Permian Basin lease in West Texas

(10/25/2010) Berry buys West Texas Wolfberry acreage for $180 million

(10/25/2010) Kea Petroleum awarded block off New Zealand's Taranaki Basin

(10/25/2010) Nido farms out stake in Philippines block to Shell

(10/25/2010) BP selling its stakes in 4 US Gulf fields to Marubeni

(10/24/2010) PDVSA to invest $780 million in Iran's South Pars 12

(10/24/2010) Holloman to acquire up to 7 Queensland CSG permits

(10/22/2010) First Hydrocarbon Nigeria acquires Nigeria's OML26

(10/22/2010) Lebanon planning licensing round in early 2012

(10/22/2010) Park Place granted 11 blocks onshore Bulgaria

(10/22/2010) Total takes a 60% stake in Cote d'Ivoire offshore block

(10/21/2010) Eni wins 2 PSCs offshore Togo in the Dahomey Basin

(10/21/2010) Sun River buying Katy's operated East Texas properties

(10/21/2010) Apache farming into 2 Cue Energy blocks off Western Australia

(10/21/2010) CNOOC quitting 2 onshore Kenya blocks

(10/21/2010) International Petroleum acquires Irtysh-Neft & Krasnoleninskiy Blocks

(10/21/2010) Norse brings Stryker into New York Herkimer project

(10/21/2010) Strategic American farms out Texas prospect to Chinn Exploration

(10/20/2010) Marathon adds stakes in Kurd Iraq PSCs

(10/20/2010) Finder farms out majority stake off Western Australia to Apache

(10/20/2010) Kodiak picks up North Dakota Williston Basin acreage

(10/20/2010) Three JVs win Iraq's 3 gasfield contracts

(10/19/2010) Oil Basins buys Tap Oil's stake in Cyrano oil discovery

(10/18/2010) Sun Cal expands leasehold in California's San Joaquin Valley

(10/18/2010) Pacific Rubiales farms into Guatemala concession

(10/17/2010) Tullow withdraws from Assam, India onshore concession

(10/17/2010) Alaska Beaufort Sea, North Slope & Foothills lease sale

(10/17/2010) Simba Energy converting onshore Liberia license

(10/16/2010) Gold Oil farming out stake in onshore Peru block

(10/16/2010) Itochu buys into Wyoming's Niobrara oil shale project

(10/16/2010) Comet Ridge bumps up stake in NSW coal seam gas basin

(10/15/2010) TNK-BP buying BP's stakes in 3 Venezuelan JVs

(10/15/2010) Inpex officially exits Iran's Azadegan development project

(10/15/2010) India launches 9th licensing round

(10/15/2010) Arctic Hunter farms into Alberta Star Saskatchewan project

(10/15/2010) Concho adds assets in New Mexico Permian Basin

(10/14/2010) Kremlin divvies up Kara & Barents Sea blocks

(10/14/2010) Colombia's ANH reverses Llanos Basin block award

(10/14/2010) Peru grants gas blocks to Sinochem, Repsol, & Ecopetrol

(10/14/2010) Crown Point takes half ownership of Neuquen block

(10/14/2010) Tap acquisition of Northern Gulf stake brings Thai Gulf assets

(10/14/2010) Chevron to sell all of its Alaska Cook Inlet interests

(10/13/2010) Gabon delays offshore licensing to await guarantees

(10/13/2010) Canadian Overseas farming into UK North Sea prospect

(10/13/2010) Iraq qualified 13 companies to bid for 3 gasfields

(10/13/2010) Cove gets go-ahead to acquire stake in 5 blocks off Kenya

(10/13/2010) Kremlin limit of bidders for fields angers Russian oil companies

(10/13/2010) Petrominerales bumps up holding in Peru block

(10/13/2010) CAMAC buys out Allied interest in offshore Nigeria blocks

(10/12/2010) Venezuela approves CNPC Junin 4 JV in Orinoco Belt

(10/12/2010) Global Energy granted extension to drill Rio Verde producer

(10/12/2010) Denbury selling Haynesville & East Texas assets

(10/12/2010) Total farms out Bolivia stakes to Gazprom

(10/12/2010) Perupetro receives bids for 14 blocks in 2010 round

(10/11/2010) Icon Energy granted new Queensland shale gas tenement

(10/11/2010) Todd & ExxonMobil exit New Zealand's Great South Basin

(10/11/2010) ConocoPhillips awarded 2 deepwater Bangladesh blocks

(10/11/2010) CNOOC paying $1.08 billion for Texas Eagle Ford stake

(10/11/2010) Lario picks up Bakken & Three Forks acreage in North Dakota

(10/11/2010) Statoil & Talisman form JV for Texas Eagle Ford Shale

(10/8/2010) Sumerton farming into Victoria, Australia tight gas fields

(10/8/2010) Magnum Hunter links for Texas Eagle Ford exploration

(10/7/2010) GeoResources & Ramshorn link for Eagle Ford project

(10/7/2010) Premier farming into Antrim's UK Central North Sea Fyne Block

(10/7/2010) Novus farms into added Saskatchewan acreage

(10/6/2010) BP & Socar to develop Azerbaijan's Shafag-Asiman gasfield

(10/6/2010) Ursa expands Bakken Shale acreage in Montana & North Dakota

(10/6/2010) Chevron granted Black Sea concession off Turkey

(10/6/2010) SouthWest acquiring Petronas interests in Ethiopia

(10/6/2010) Roc Oil selling equity in offshore Mauritania blocks

(10/6/2010) ExxonMobil selling a few shallow water US Gulf assets

(10/5/2010) FX brings POGC into Poland's Kutno Block operations

(10/5/2010) Noble threatens to take Israel to court if royalties doubled

(10/5/2010) Black Elk Energy acquires 27 US Gulf properties

(10/5/2010) Plains acquires 60,000 Eagle Ford acres in South Texas

(10/5/2010) RAK ups ownership of Ras Al Khaimah field to 100%

(10/5/2010) Rough Range granted Carnarvon production license

(10/4/2010) Itera & Zarubezhneft to jointly explore Turkmen blocks

(10/4/2010) Hansa acquires stake in North Sea Juliet development

(10/4/2010) Colombia's ANH rescinds Putumayo block award to Suroco

(10/4/2010) India kicking off NELP-IX licensing round

(10/4/2010) DNO granted another block in Yemen's Hadramout

(10/4/2010) Partners in Ireland's Hook Head swapping stake for well

(10/3/2010) Total completes buy into Canada's Fort Hills Oil Sands Project

(10/3/2010) Ridgewood/Riverstone venture investing in US Gulf projects

(10/3/2010) Big backout in Libya as Chevron, Oxy & Woodside quit licenses

(10/1/2010) Bowleven grants Vitol Etinde option for funding work program

(10/1/2010) Algeria touting 3rd round forecasts doubled exports in 3 years

(10/1/2010) Inpex completes sale of Indonesia Java Sea blocks to Pertamina

(10/1/2010) Rex closes sale of Marcellus Shale stake to Sumitomo

(10/1/2010) Hess becomes operator of US Gulf Tubular Bells Field

(10/1/2010) Sinopec taking 40% stake in Repsol Brasil for $7.1 billion

(9/30/2010) Gazprom granted Kara Sea's Chugoryakhinskoye Block

(9/30/2010) Inpex to withdraw from Iran's Azadegan Field development

(9/30/2010) ERHC wins extension to 1st JDZ exploration phase

(9/30/2010) Inpex gets go-ahead to buy stake in Indonesia's Sebuku Project

(9/30/2010) Eaglewood farming out up to 70% interest in PNG license

(9/29/2010) Noreco sells Oselvar and Enoch stakes to Marubeni

(9/29/2010) Russia to allow foreign companies to develop offshore fields

(9/29/2010) Candax's Chaal Permit onshore Tunisia annulled

(9/28/2010) Cairn awaiting Indian Space Center okay to drill

(9/28/2010) Equatorial Guinea awards 5 concessions, 2 to Gazprom

(9/28/2010) Sudan works with CNPC, Petronas to increase output

(9/28/2010) Tullow farming into Centric Energy's NW Kenya block

(9/28/2010) Rustamovskoye Field converted into a production license

(9/28/2010) BHP exiting southern Falkland blocks, FOGL takes 100%

(9/28/2010) Partners in Nemo discovery off Ireland farming out to Nautical

(9/24/2010) Icon takes Victoria, Australia Gippsland exploration permit

(9/24/2010) Daybreak acquires added stake in California's East Slopes Project

(9/23/2010) Ascent acquires further concessions in Hungary

(9/23/2010) Libya extends Hess offshore license by 5 years

(9/23/2010) El Paso takes big bite of Wolfcamp Shale at auction

(9/23/2010) Permian Basin oil plays push Texas lease sale to record

(9/23/2010) Gabon to launch 10th Licensing Round in October

(9/23/2010) Consortium set for Total-operated Brunei Block CA-1

(9/23/2010) Statoil acquires larger stake in UK Mariner Field license

(9/22/2010) JV applies for open acreage in Danish North Sea

(9/22/2010) Oilsands Quest to pursue sale of non-core assets

(9/22/2010) Sasol awarded exploration block onshore Mozambique

(9/22/2010) Gastar farms out US Marcellus Shale holdings to Atinum

(9/22/2010) Regal wins Barlad license extension in Romania

(9/22/2010) Petronas & Brunei to jointly develop Brunei block

(9/21/2010) Hardy sells Nigeria interests to Inergia Petroleum

(9/21/2010) Elko farms out full interest in 2 Netherlands blocks to Chevron

(9/21/2010) OMV acquiring all Petronas interests in Pakistan

(9/21/2010) ONGC only bidder for Russia's T&T Arctic giants - Rosneft not bidding

(9/21/2010) MEO looking for farm-in partners for Heron gas discovery

(9/20/2010) McMoRan acquiring all of PXP's shallow water US Gulf assets

(9/20/2010) Chevron acquiring stake in Turkish Black Sea block

(9/20/2010) Agora prequalified as licensee & picks up 2 Norwegian licenses

(9/20/2010) Gran Tierra takes stake in 3 ConocoPhillips blocks in Peru

(9/17/2010) Cooper farms out stake in Tunisia exploration block to Jacka

(9/17/2010) Shell to sell Statfjord equity to Centrica

(9/16/2010) 41 companies apply for Norway's APA 2010 licenses

(9/16/2010) Pertamina to operate Indonesia's West Madura Block

(9/15/2010) TAQA acquiring Total's stake in 2 North Sea blocks

(9/15/2010) TAG takes 100% ownership of New Zealand's Cardiff block

(9/15/2010) Denbury adds Riley Ridge units in Wyoming

(9/15/2010) Georox granted block in Trinidad's Gulf of Paria

(9/15/2010) OGX preparing for October sale of stakes in 7 Brazil blocks

(9/15/2010) MEO Australia gets okay of stake sale to Petrobras

(9/14/2010) Imperial agrees to buy Kentucky properties in receivership

(9/14/2010) Petro Caribbean farming out 2 Colombia Putumayo Basin blocks

(9/14/2010) Cadogan resolves Pirkovskoe & Zagoryanska license issues

(9/14/2010) GeoGlobal ups interest in India's KG Onshore Block

(9/14/2010) Adelaide fails to secure approval for sale of interest in ATP849P

(9/13/2010) Chevron & BP buy South China Sea block from Devon

(9/13/2010) Saratoga takes 3 Louisiana Breton Sound state leases

(9/13/2010) Platform Resources transfers stake in Kenya blocks to Africa Oil

(9/10/2010) Murphy leases prospective property from Alberta First Nation

(9/10/2010) Transeuro to be 100% owner & operator of BC's Beaver River Field

(9/10/2010) Brazil to sell stake in offshore Franco discovery area

(9/10/2010) BP to resume sale of stake in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay Field

(9/9/2010) Trinidad closes bids for 5 shallow water blocks

(9/9/2010) Spring sells Norwegian North Sea assets to Talisman

(9/9/2010) Primary Petroleum ups acreage in Bakken Fairway

(9/9/2010) Shell to sell stake in 4 Brazil offshore blocks

(9/9/2010) Det Norske sells stake in Norway's Dovregubben license

(9/8/2010) Suncor to sell non-core Petro-Canada UK North Sea assets

(9/8/2010) Chevron receives 3 deepwater blocks offshore Liberia

(9/8/2010) Endeavour sells its interest in UK North Sea Cignus Field

(9/8/2010) Bowood acquiring Alberta First Nation E&P rights

(9/8/2010) BLM awards 5 blocks in Alaska NPR land sale

(9/8/2010) Mountain Hawk takes major stake in Marathon CBM field

(9/8/2010) Three tracts in Canada's Jeanne d'Arc Basin up for bid

(9/7/2010) Eni Australia farming out stake in Timor Leste blocks

(9/7/2010) Whiting picks up Montana Williston Basin acreage

(9/7/2010) Cooper RWE JW score 6 contiguous Polish blocks

(9/7/2010) NZOG farming out New Zealand Kaupokonui Prospect

(9/7/2010) Linn Energy pays $352.2 million for Permian Basin properties

(9/7/2010) Drillsearch picks up stakes in 4 South Australia wet gas finds

(9/7/2010) CNOOC does PSC amendment with Chevron, BP & Devon

(9/6/2010) Mena farming into Kulczyk's Syria Block 9

(9/6/2010) Lundin sells stake in Indonesia's Kepala Burung Block

(9/3/2010) OMV sells Russian assets to CorSarNeft

(9/3/2010) Yemen to offer 15 offshore oil blocks in coming round

(9/3/2010) Pacific Rubiales farms out added stake in Colombian block

(9/2/2010) Algeria offering 24 blocks for bids in 3rd licensing round

(9/2/2010) Australia excises 2 Bight Basin leases from bidding

(9/2/2010) Alrosa & Zarubezhneft exiting Angola acreage

(9/2/2010) Tullow farms into 5 Africa Oil blocks in Kenya & Ethiopia

(9/1/2010) Husky adds 65 million cf/d Alberta gas properties

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