
US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar exceeded his authority when he order 77 federal oil and gas leases in Utah withdrawn in early 2009, a federal court judge ruled on Sept. 1 in Salt Lake City.
....Husky Energy Inc. will acquire certain conventional west-central Alberta natural gas assets from Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, for $450 million.
....Russia’s oil companies will supply most of the oil needed for a joint refinery project between China National Petroleum Corp., 51%, and Russia's Rosneft, 49%, according to a senior Chinese government official.
....Malaysia’s Petronas Carigali Overseas Bhd. made an oil and natural gas discovery with its Ham Rong-2X well in the Ham Rong oil field off northern Vietnam, according to local media reports.
....Oil prices in the New York market recovered Sept. 1 from heavy losses a day earlier, lifted by better-than-expected macroeconomic data, analysts said.
....An oil and natural gas platform owned by Mariner Energy Inc. exploded in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay off Louisiana on Sept. 2, and 13 people went into the water, the US Coast Guard in New Orleans reported.
....The OGX Maranhao joint venture reported gas indications in two more Devonian intervals at an exploratory well in Brazil’s onshore Parnaiba basin.
....The federal onscene coordinator for the oil spill response is developing a comprehensive subsurface oil monitoring plan to help scientists from various institutions and agencies measure any oil remaining in the Gulf of Mexico following the deep.......
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Contract let for Abu Dhabi pipelines
September 2,2010 --
Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co. (Takreer) let a $623 million contract to GS Engineering & Construction Corp. for a pipeline project that will connect Abu Dhabi’s two refineries with various terminals in the emirate.
....A unit of JKX Oil & Gas PLC has spudded Staro Oryahovo South R-1, the first of two wells that will test amplitude-supported gas prospects in Bulgaria.
....Tullow Oil PLC will greatly expand its position in East Africa rift basins by taking farmouts in Kenya and Ethiopia from Africa Oil Corp., Vancouver, BC.
....Petrodorado Energy Ltd., Calgary, is launching a three-well exploratory drilling program on the Buganviles and Talora blocks in Colombia’s Upper Magdalena Valley basin.
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Enterprise Products Partners LP reported its operating subsidiaries entered into long-term agreements with EOG Resources Inc. to provide comprehensive midstream energy services for EOG's growing crude oil and associated liquids-rich natural gas.......
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Fos Cavaou LNG terminal operating at full capacity
September 1,2010 --
The Fos Cavaou LNG terminal on France's Mediterranean coast has been authorized to operate at its full 8.25 billion cu m/year capacity, up from the 20% allowed since April when a restriction was placed on the facility.
....Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, increased its exploration holdings in Papua New Guinea by purchasing the stakes of two Australian companies—Cue Energy Resources Ltd. and Mosaic Oil Ltd.—in onshore retention lease PRL8 in the foreland.......
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MARKET WATCH: Crude oil futures price tumbles below $72/bbl
September 1,2010 --
The front-month crude price dropped 3.7% Aug. 31 in the New York market on “fears that Hurricane Earl would put a damper on East Coast Labor Day plans and gasoline demand,” said analysts in the Houston office of Raymond James & .......
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Sumitomo Corp. acquires more US shale gas acreage
September 1,2010 --
Rex Energy Corp. entered into a joint venture agreement with Sumitomo Corp. subsidiary Summit Discovery Resources II LLC, to sell and transfer interests valued at $140.4 million in its Marcellus shale assets in Pennsylvania.
....BP PLC tentatively planned to remove a capping stack from the top of the Transocean Ltd.’s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible blowout preventer on Sept. 2, pending the anticipated arrival of calmer seas in the Gulf of Mexico, a federal spo.......
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Petronas to buy BP's Malaysian ethylene, PE assets
September 1,2010 --
Petronas agreed to buy BP PLC’s Malaysian ethylene and polyethylene production for $363 million in a transaction expected to close by yearend, subject to certain conditions.
....The Christina Lake in situ oil sands project operated by Cenovus Energy in northeastern Alberta is testing what Baker Hughes Inc. calls the world’s first “ultra-temperature” electrical submersible pumping systems in steam-assi.......
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Indonesia
September 1,2010 --
PT Medco CBM Sekayu is drilling exploration wells on the Sekayu coalbed methane production sharing contract area in Indonesia’s South Sumatra basin, said partner CBM Asia Development Corp.
....Mitra Energy (Indonesia Sibaru) Ltd. plugged and abandoned the Mojo-1 exploratory well on the 3,180-sq km Sibaru block between East Java and East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
....Phoenix Exploration LP, Houston, is drilling a projected 18,800-ft exploratory well on the Marathon prospect in Atchafalaya Bay in South Louisiana.
....Despite concerns expressed by the oil and gas industry, protests and leasing delays have not significantly affected prices bid for federal onshore leases, the US Government Accountability Office said on Aug. 30.
....Neon Energy Ltd., Perth, has completed and turned to production at an average 230 b/d of oil its Lombardi 15-27H horizontal development well near the crest of the southern lobe of North San Ardo field in California’s Salinas basin.
....A Saudi investment group has joined a Bangladeshi industrial conglomerate to invest nearly $1 billion in an expansion of Bangladesh’s only refinery.
....The 50-50 engineering joint venture of Clough Australia, Perth, and BAM International, the Netherlands, has been awarded a letter of intent to proceed with the design and construction of the LNG and condensate offloading jetty proposed for Exxo.......
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MARKET WATCH: Crude oil falls below $75/bbl; ends 3-day rally
August 31,2010 --
Pulled down by a tumbling equities market despite a report that consumer spending hit a 4-month high, the front-month crude oil contract fell 1.3% to below $73/bbl, ending a 3-day rally Aug. 30 in the New York market.
....Trinidad and Tobago announced the offering of 11 deepwater blocks for bid in its 2010 licensing round.
....BP PLC is proceeding with its Andrew Area Development project in the central UK North Sea.
....Production from Kom Ombo Block 2 in southern Egypt is 700 b/d of 37° gravity sweet crude.
....Iroquois Gas Transmission System LP began a binding open season Aug. 30 for its Wright Transfer Compressor (WTC) project, which would add as much as 15,400 hp of transfer compression at Iroquois' existing interconnection with Tennessee Gas Pipe.......
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Louisiana
August 31,2010 --
EXCO Operating Co. LP’s Thomas 36-1 well in North Louisiana’s Johnson Branch field had a post-completion clean-up rate of 15 MMcfd of gas with 7,000 psi flowing casing pressure from the Haynesville shale, said 37% working interest o.......
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Iraq
August 31,2010 --
Eni let a multimillion dollar contract to Halliburton to provide integrated energy services toward redeveloping giant Zubair oil field near Basra in southern Iraq.
....SK Energy Co. Ltd., Seoul, plans to shoot 3D seismic over La Mocha Consuelo, highest-potential prospect on the 570,000-acre SSJN-5 block in Colombia’s Lower Magdalena basin based on encouraging results from reprocessed 2D seismic.
....Nelson Energy Inc., Shreveport, is drilling a horizontal Austin chalk exploratory well east of North Bayou Jack oil and gas field in eastern Avoyelles Parish, La.
....BG Group PLC will farm out a 35% interest in the P1722 license in the UK Central North Sea to KazMunaiGas Exploration Production, Astana, Kazakhstan.
....Natural gas prices continued to deflate with the front-month contract falling more than 4% on Aug. 27 in the New York market, but crude continued to climb for a third consecutive session, closing above $75/bbl.
....Seas with 6-8 ft waves caused BP PLC and its contractors to wait for calmer weather before proceeding with plans to replace Transocean Ltd.’s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible blowout preventer with another BOP, a federal spokesman said A.......
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DOE lab breakthrough could enhance gas, methane hydrate use
August 30,2010 --
A process and related technology that research at the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) helped to develop could enhance the use of natural gas and the world’s vast methane hydrate resources,.......
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Contract let for Kuwaiti water injection
August 30,2010 --
Kuwait Oil Co. has let a contract valued at $430 million to Petrofac for water-injection work in two northern Kuwaiti oil fields.
....The first hydraulic fracturing operation in a shale gas reservoir in North Africa took place earlier this year in El Franig field in west-central Tunisia in the Ghadames basin, said Cygam Energy Inc., Calgary.
....Amid indications the economic recovery is slowing, the front-month crude contract price fell for five consecutive sessions to an 11-week low of $71.63/bbl Aug. 24 on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
....Frontier Oil Corp. has restarted the crude unit at its 52,000-b/d refinery at Cheyenne, Wyo., after a fire-related shutdown.
....ShaMaran Petroleum Corp., Vancouver, BC, acquired a 33.5% of the shares of General Exploration Partners Inc., a subsidiary of Aspect Energy International LLC.
....Canacol Energy Inc., Calgary, said the Los Cuervos-Barco reservoir at its Rancho Hermoso-6 development well in Colombia made 6,205 b/d of 35° gravity oil with 7% water cut on an electric submersible pump from perforations at 9,726-43 ft mea.......
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Tunisia
August 30,2010 --
Chinook Energy Inc., formerly Storm Ventures International Inc., plans to spud the TT3 appraisal well on the Sud Remada permit in Tunisia in early October 2010, said Cygam Energy Inc., Calgary.
....Sagres Energy Inc., Calgary, completed its phase one commitments under production sharing agreements with Petroleum Corp. of Jamaica on blocks 9, 13, and 14 on Pedro Bank off Jamaica.
....Investcan Energy Corp. began shooting seismic on Exploration License 1107 in the Hopedale basin off Labrador.
....Drilling costs and operating expenses in the Gulf of Mexico are apt to escalate in the aftermath of the explosion on Transocean Ltd.’s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible and the subsequent oil spill from BP PLC’s Macondo well off Lou.......
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Enbridge, Suncor partner on Wood Buffalo oil sands line
August 27,2010 --
Enbridge Inc. announced Aug. 26 it entered into an agreement with Suncor Energy Inc. to build a 95-km, 30-in. OD crude oil pipeline, the Wood Buffalo Pipeline, connecting the Enbridge Athabasca Terminal, adjacent to Suncor's oil sands plant, to.......
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Unconventional gas resources changing more than markets
August 27,2010 --
Development of unconventional gas resources is overhauling more than markets. It’s changing companies, too.
....Kuntur Transportadora de Gas SAC said two pipelines it plans to construct in southern Peru will cost about $3 billion—twice the amount of earlier estimates.
....A unit of TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd., Dallas, has completed acquisition of two subsidiaries of Zorlu Enerji Elektrik Uretim AS for $96.5 million.
....US drilling activity continued increasing for the 12th consecutive week with 1,656 rotary rigs working, 5 more than the previous week and up sharply from 999 during the comparable period in 2009, Baker Hughes Inc. reported.
....Oil prices continued climbing for a second session Aug. 26 in the New York market, with the front-month crude contract up 1.16%, topping $73/bbl in its recent trend of trading as a financial instrument while ignoring market fundamentals of supp.......
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Colorado
August 27,2010 --
Lexam Explorations Inc., Toronto, agreed to participate in a process to prepare a new document in compliance with the US National Environmental Policy Act regarding its authority to drill exploratory wells at the Baca oil and gas project in Sag.......
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BP to cut Macondo drill pipe; swap BOP
August 27,2010 --
BP PLC was unable to remove three pieces of pipe from the blown-out Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, and it now plans to retrieve the Transocean Ltd.’s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible blowout preventer (BOP) with two pieces of pipe i.......
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Tullow expects 'slow down' in Uganda due to tax dispute
August 27,2010 --
Tullow Oil PLC, which announced a 152% half-year rise in profits, said it expects “some slow down in activity” in its effort to develop assets in the Lake Albert Rift basin due to an unresolved dispute over capital gains tax (CGT) b.......
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ConocoPhillips, OU to study biocorrosion
August 27,2010 --
The University of Oklahoma, with start-up funding from ConocoPhillips, is creating a research function on biocorrosion and fuel biodeterioration in the oil and gas industry.
....Production of light oil is approaching 10,000 b/d from an oil field newly on stream in the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman, according to Masoud Mirkazemi, Iran’s petroleum minister.
....Shell Canada Energy has commenced its commercial-scale atmospheric fines drying field demonstration for managing tailings from its Muskeg River bitumen mine in the Athabasca area of northern Alberta.
....Zion Oil & Gas Inc. has spudded the Ma’anit-Joseph-3 well on the Joseph license onshore northern Israel.
....A group led by PetroAsian Energy Holdings Ltd. has spudded the Sidi Toui-4 exploratory well on the 5,608-sq km Ksar Hadada permit in southeastern Tunisia adjoining Ghadames basin discoveries to the south in Libya.
....Gran Tierra Energy Inc., Calgary, gauged oil at a delineation well near its Moqueta new field discovery on the Chaza block in the Putumayo basin in southern Colombia.
....Oil & Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. reported a new field discovery at the Vadatal-1 exploratory well in NELP Block CB-ONN-2004/2 in the Tarapur area of coastal Maharashtra state 100 km north of Mumbai.
....Parex Resources Inc., Calgary, leads a group that has drilled a second indicated discovery on the Moruga block in southern Trinidad and Tobago.
....The Unified Area Command, which oversees the response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has expanded its techniques to determine any presence of oil in the waters off Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle.
....Crude oil prices rose Aug. 25, with the front-month crude contract up 1.2% to once again top $72/bbl, ending a 5-session losing streak in the New York market.
....Pressure pumping capacity in North America, crucial to activity in burgeoning unconventional oil and gas plays, is set to increase by 40-45% through the end of next year, says Simmons & Co. International.
....Inpex Corp. was approved by the government of Congo (former Zaire) to acquire a 20% participating interest of the onshore Nganzi block with Soco Exploration & Production DRC, a subsidiary of Soco International PLC.
....More robust science is clearly needed in federal offshore oil and gas planning, several witnesses told US President Barack Obama’s independent commission on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and offshore drilling on Aug. 25.
....Shell International Petroleum Co. and Cosan SA, Piracicaba, Brazil, have signed binding agreements to form a $12 billion joint venture for production and sale of ethanol and electric power from sugar cane.
....Ensco PLC reported that it retrieved Ensco 69, an independent-leg slot jack up, from Venezuela and moved the rig to Trinidad and Tobago.
....Petrobras America has entered a joint development agreement with KL Energy Corp., Rapid City, SD, to develop technology for producing ethanol from sugarcane bagasse.
....Far East Energy Corp., Houston, said coalbed methane production from a pilot area on the Shouyang block in China’s Shanxi Province has surpassed 1 MMcfd.
....Ecopetrol SA incorporated a new special-purpose company, Oleoducto Bicentenario de Colombia SAS, to construct and operate a 960-km, 450,000-b/d oil pipeline to move crude from the Llanos basin to the port of Covenas for export.
....Resolute Energy Corp., Denver, signed a deal with Marathon Oil Corp. to develop 19,000 gross acres in the Bakken oil and gas trend in McKenzie County, ND.
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