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December 13, 2013
HOUSTON (Bloomberg) -- Rigs targeting oil in the U.S. jumped the highest level in six months as horizontal drilling in Texas’s Permian and North Dakota’s Bakken formations surged.
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December 13, 2013
LONDON -- Tullow Oil said that the Tultule-1 wildcat well in the South Omo block onshore Ethiopia, has reached a total depth of 2,101 m and will be plugged and abandoned as a dry hole.
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December 12, 2013
MADRID, Spain -- Repsol and RWE Dea have spudded the first exploration well in license block Ta10 in Mauritania. The well is intended to provide information about the hydrocarbon potential of the license area.
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December 12, 2013
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- GeoPark Limited has announced the successful drilling and testing of the new Tigana 1 exploration well in the Llanos 34 block in the central Llanos basin in Colombia. GeoPark operates and has a 45% working interest in the Llanos 34 block.
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December 10, 2013
SAN FERNANDO, Trinidad -- Trinity, an independent E&P company focused on Trinidad and Tobago, has announced an oil discovery at its TGAL-1 exploration well within the Galeota license (Trinity 65% operated interest).
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December 06, 2013
OSLO, Norway -- AGR has been contracted to drill exploration wells in the North Sea’s Titan area.
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December 06, 2013
STAVANGER, Norway (Bloomberg) -- Statoil ASA, Norway’s state-owned oil producer, discovered as much as 3 trillion cubic feet of gas in a fifth find off Tanzania and is confident it will add more resources as it plans as many as 12 wells through 2015.
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December 06, 2013
ATYRAU (Bloomberg) -- Kazakhstan’s largest oilfield won’t resume production before early next year after partners in the Kashagan project inspect 180 km of pipelines. A full inspection of both oil and gas pipelines, each about 90 km long, will be done using a probe known as an intelligent pig before starting the field, North Caspian Operating Company, the field’s operator, said by e-mail.
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December 05, 2013
HOUSTON -- VAM USA, manufacturer of the VAM premium connection, announced that it is opening a new field service office in Pittsburgh, Penn.
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December 05, 2013
STAVANGER -- The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has granted Lundin Norway a drilling permit for well 16/1-18, cf. Section 8 of the Resource Management Regulations.
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December 04, 2013
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- SpotterRF has announced the integration of its Compact Surveillance Radar (CSR) by NMS Security in Alaskan oil fields. NMS Security selected SpotterRF radar to provide situational awareness to oilfield crews working in settings, where crews and equipment are vulnerable.
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December 03, 2013
STAVANGER, Norway -- The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has issued VNG Norge AS a drilling permit for well 6406/12-3 S.
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December 02, 2013
HOZATEL (Bloomberg) -- South Africa must pursue the potential for shale-gas drilling in the Karoo region because it may transform the country’s economy, President Jacob Zuma said. The government will decide whether to allow shale-gas exploration in the region early next year after consulting local communities, Zuma said in Hozatel, Northern Cape province.
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December 02, 2013
LONDON (Bloomberg) -- Statoil said oil discoveries off eastern Canada may signal potential crude finds off Morocco in northwest Africa because the regions could have similar geology.
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December 02, 2013
DALLAS -- Pioneer Natural Resources Company said that severe winter weather in Texas has significantly impacted the Company’s production and drilling operations in the Spraberry/Wolfcamp, Eagle Ford Shale and Barnett Shale Combo plays. The Spraberry/Wolfcamp area has been especially hard hit as heavy icing and low temperatures have resulted in extensive power outages, facilities freeze-ups, trucking curtailments and limited access to production and drilling facilities. An extensive recovery period is expected, and it is likely to be a few weeks before the full impact of this event can be determined.
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November 29, 2013
ROME (Bloomberg) -- Eni sees Mozambique, its planned base for African output, struggling to meet a 2018 deadline to build plants allowing the country to ship liquefied natural gas.
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November 29, 2013
NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- France blocked the transfer to Hess Corporation of seven exploration permits in the Paris Basin on the grounds that the oil company remains interested in shale-energy development despite a ban.
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November 27, 2013
HOUSTON -- Enteq Upstream PLC, a provider of systems and components for Measurement While Drilling (MWD) and directional drilling, has formed the Enteq Drilling division to integrate the technology and services of Extended Exploration Technology (XXT) and KM Services (KMS). Both companies were acquired by Enteq in 2012.
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November 26, 2013
ABERDEEN -- With its continued expansion, Deep Casing Tools has appointed Jason Henry and Magnus Wardle as V.P.s of business development and technology, respectively.
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November 25, 2013
STAVANGER -- Aker Solutions has agreed to sell its well-intervention services business area to EQT, a Swedish private equity fund, for an enterprise value of NOK 4 billion.
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November 25, 2013
HOUSTON – Bureau Veritas has awarded certification to Statoil for meeting the Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) protocols developed by the Center for Offshore Safety (COS), an enhanced set of requirements in the offshore oil and gas industry.
