
Clayton Williams Energy Inc., Midland, Tex., has drilled and is producing from a horizontal well to Cretaceous Eagle in Burleson County, Tex., on acreage underlying the company’s Austin chalk properties.
....Vegas Oil and Gas SA, Athens, completed the fourth appraisal well in the Al-Amir SE discovery area on the Northwest Gemsa concession in Egypt’s Suez basin.
....A group led by Ascent Resources PLC has completed the PEN-101 well in the Peneszlek area of the Nyirseg exploration permits in eastern Hungary.
....Methanex Corp., Vancouver, BC, will participate in exploring the Tranquilo and Otway blocks in the Magallanes basin in southern Chile.
....Installation of a buried array system for 3D passive seismic imaging is complete in the Williston basin in North Dakota.
....A subsidiary of Miller Petroleum Inc., Huntsville, Tenn., reworked and returned to production its West McArthur River Unit-5 well in Alaska’s Cook Inlet at the rate of 557 b/d of oil and 131 Mcfd of gas from the Oligocene Hemlock formatio.......
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MOL tests Bijeel oil find in Iraq Kurdistan
March 9,2010 --
A unit of MOL Hungarian Oil & Gas PLC has gauged oil and gas at the Bijeel-1 exploratory well in Iraqi Kurdistan.
....The head of China's National Energy Administration, reiterating earlier remarks, announced plans to construct more LNG terminals, pipelines, and storage facilities in southern Guangdong province as part of an effort to secure greater imports of.......
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MARKET WATCH: Crude climbs, while natural gas declines
March 9,2010 --
Crude prices continued climbing, up less than 1%, and natural gas prices continued falling, down more than 1% Mar. 8 in the New York market.
....The European Commission has selected 31 gas and 12 electricity projects to receive grants totaling a record €2.3 billion for energy infrastructure.
....Robert Moore, former executive manager of the Bank of Montreal’s commodity derivatives group, agreed to pay a $150,000 fine to settle charges relating to the mismarking and misvaluing of a natural gas options book by a trader he supervise.......
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French workers reject Dunkirk refinery plan
March 9,2010 --
Another strike threatens France’s refining industry as workers at the 137,000-b/d Flanders Refinery at Dunkirk rejected a plan Total SA presented to a labor committee not to resume refining operations and to convert the site to other uses.......
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CERAWeek: Aramco calls upon industry to invest
March 9,2010 --
Saudi Aramco’s chief executive officer and president called upon the oil industry to increase investments to help fulfill the world’s growing oil demand, saying he was concerned about the volatility of investment across cycles.
....Energy demand is shifting from the developed world to the developing world, and Asia is expected to account for much of the growing demand during the next 20 years, speakers told CERAWeek attendees on Mar. 8.
....The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed more than $3 million in fines as it cited a BP North America Inc. and BP-Husky Refining LLC refinery near Toledo, Ohio, on Mar. 8 for 42 alleged willful violations of federal workpla.......
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Australia
March 8,2010 --
Lion Petroleum Pty. Ltd. agreed to drill an exploratory well in the coastal EP 439 Permit in Western Australia’s onshore Carnarvon basin in a farmout from the Empire Oil & Gas NL-operated EP 439 Joint Venture.
....Canacol Energy Ltd., Calgary, completed reworking the Rancho Hermoso-4 well in Colombia’s Llanos basin in the Guadalupe and Los Cuervos formations and is in the process of applying for commerciality of the Los Cuervos formation in the wel.......
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Mitsubishi makes bid for Donggi-Senoro LNG plant
March 8,2010 --
Mitsubishi Corp. is ready to provide as much as $2.5 billion for the construction of an LNG plant to be built near Donggi and Senoro natural gas fields in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province.
....After failing to sustain pushes above $80/bbl in four previous sessions, April crude closed at $80.87/bbl Mar. 3, up $1.19 for the day in the highest closing for a front-month contract in 7 weeks in the New York market as the euro strengthened .......
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Shell, PetroChina make joint offer for Arrow Energy
March 8,2010 --
Royal Dutch Shell PLC and PetroChina have made a joint takeover offer worth $3.3 billion (Aus.) for Brisbane-based coal seam methane gas (CSM) player Arrow Energy Ltd.
....Energy prices climbed Mar. 5 in the New York market with crude and petroleum products wiping out their losses from the previous session.
....The value of global upstream mergers and acquisitions jumped 40% during 2009 to just under $150 billion, IHS Herold Inc. reported Mar. 8 in its annual Global Upstream M&A Review.
....G. Thomas Gamble has become chairman and Maston N. Cunningham chief executive officer of Tri-Valley Corp., Bakersfield, Calif., with the retirement of F. Lynn Blystone after 29 years of service.
....The new Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 drillship, owned by a joint venture of Transocean Ltd. and Pacific Drilling Ltd., has begun work under a 5-year contract with Reliance Industries Ltd. off India.
....Dana Gas, Sharjah, reported gas production at three wells in Egypt’s Nile Delta.
....Uzbekistan GTL LLC has let to Technip a reimbursable services contract for a detailed feasibility study of the gas-to-liquids project it plans to build 40 km south of Qarshi, Uzbekistan (OGJ, Nov. 16, 2009, p. 20).
....Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp., Toronto, said its Quifa-26X well on 12,950-acre Prospect F in the northern part of the Quifa Block that surrounds Rubiales heavy oil field in Colombia’s Llanos basin cut a gross 65-ft oil column with 41 ft o.......
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India
March 8,2010 --
Reliance Industries Ltd., Mumbai, began drilling off India with the Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 newbuild ultradeepwater drillship.
....Neon Energy Ltd., Perth, plans further cyclic steam trials, including one on a horizontal well, in North San Ardo heavy oil field in California’s Salinas basin.
....Sea Dragon Energy Inc., Calgary, formed an alliance with Tanmia Petroleum Co., a 100% owned affiliate of Egyptian General Petroleum Corp., under which the two will jointly appraise, develop, and produce hydrocarbons in Egypt.
....Petroceltic International PLC took a farmout from Cygam Energy Inc., Calgary, on the B.R268.RG Permit in the Adriatic Sea off Italy.
....Norway’s Environment Ministry plans to release a report in April detailing plans for the future management of the oil-rich but environmentally sensitive area off the Lofoten Islands.
....Meeting goals set by the Obama administration for carbon dioxide emissions would require sharp increases in fuel prices and strict regulation, a new report says.
....US drilling activity continued to increase with 1,396 rotary rigs working in the week ended Mar. 5, 23 more than the previous week and up from 1,170 a year ago, Baker Hughes Inc. reported.
....Mitsui OSK Lines has signed separate deals with ExxonMobil Corp. for the construction and charter of LNG carriers earmarked for the Papua New Guinea LNG and Gorgon-Jansz LNG projects.
....Energy futures prices fell Mar. 4 after two consecutive days of gains, but the front-month crude contract continued to hold above $80/bbl in the New York market.
....Saying that states should have the final say on LNG terminals, Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and four other US Senate Democrats reintroduced their bill on Mar. 2 to strip the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of that authority, which it received under .......
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Williams solicits Marcellus shippers for Transco expansion
March 5,2010 --
A unit of Williams Partners LP has initiated a binding open season Mar. 4-26 for expansion of its Transco natural gas pipeline, providing incremental firm gas transportation capacity from the Marcellus shale to markets in New York and New Jerse.......
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Contract let for Camisea cryogenic gas processing plant
March 5,2010 --
Pluspetrol Peru Corp. SA, operator of Peru’s Camisea natural gas project, has hired CB&I, Houston, to supply a cryogenic natural gas processing plant in Malvinas as part of an expansion of the project.
....Shareholders and unitholders of Quest Resource Corp., Quest Energy Partners LP, and Quest Midstream Partners LP approved a recombination as PostRock Energy Corp., Oklahoma City.
....Petrofac Ltd. has begun transporting oil by pipeline from West Don and Don Southwest fields in the UK North Sea to the Thistle platform, operated by Lundin Petroleum AB, 12 km south.
....Primeline Energy Holdings Inc., London, signed a turnkey drilling contract with China Oilfield Services Ltd. to drill the Lishui 35-3-1 exploration well in East China Sea Block 25/34 using the COSL 942 jackup.
....Xcite Energy Ltd., Aberdeenshire, UK, said Challenger Minerals (North Sea) Ltd. will provide $4 million of the cost of drilling the 9/3b-R well to earn a 4% working interest in Bentley heavy oil field in the UK North Sea.
....Russia’s Sovcomflot oil line will undertake a trial shipment of oil to Japan this summer, reported to be the first shipment ever to sail the entire Northern Sea Route from northwest Russia to Asia.
....US Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) introduced a bill to suspend potential US Environmental Protection Agency regulation of greenhouse gases from stationary sources for 2 years.
....Antrim Energy Inc., Calgary, is moving toward development of Fyne oil field and nearby fields off eastern Scotland in the UK North Sea.
....Petrofac PLC plans to combine its UK North Sea assets with those of Lundin Petroleum AB’s to form a new company called EnQuest PLC.
....Statoil said the Lower Lunde well confirmed the existence of oil in the Tampen area in the northeastern area of Snorre field in the Norwegian North Sea.
....Russia faces a difficult natural gas market in short and medium terms, with both prices and market share coming under pressure.
....Grizzly Oil Sands ULC submitted applications to the Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board and Alberta Environment for developing the 11,300 b/d Algar Lake steam-assisted gravity drainage oil sands project.
....WestSide Corp. Ltd., Brisbane, and Mitsui E&P Australia Pty. Ltd. plan to acquire the Dawson Seamgas coal seam gas assets in Queensland’s Bowen Basin from Anglo American and Mitsui Moura Investment Pty. Ltd.
....GeoResources Inc., Houston, and Resolute Energy Corp., Denver, will develop Bakken shale trend acreage in Williams County, ND.
....US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar defended plans to increase oil and gas royalties and fees on federal leases as he testified Mar. 3 before a US Senate committee on his department’s fiscal 2011 budget request.
....Chevron Australia awarded contracts to units of GE to supply equipment for the Gorgon LNG project on Barrow Island in Western Australia.
....Energy prices continued to waffle with crude temporarily topping $80/bbl in intraday trading Mar. 2 but still unable to sustain that price level in the New York market.
....A project team has begun to inject carbon dioxide into Alabama’s Citronelle field as part of a $7.9 million pilot project to determine whether the field is ideal for simultaneous enhanced oil recovery and CO2 storage, the US De.......
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Mandy is Mississippi Canyon oil discovery
March 3,2010 --
A group led by LLOG Exploration Co. LLC, Covington, La., private explorer, said the Mandy exploration well on Mississippi Canyon Block 199 is a conventional amplitude oil discovery in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.
....Nido Petroleum Ltd., Perth, awarded two major equipment contracts for development of Tindalo oil field in the Palawan basin off the Philippines.
....GDF Suez SA reported it will take a 9% stake in Nord Stream AG before construction of that 1,200-km natural gas pipeline that will link Russia and the European Union via the Baltic Sea.
....Fire at an asphalt tank under construction at Holly Corp.’s 100,000 b/d Navajo Refinery in Artesia, NM, killed at least one contract worker and left another worker missing and feared dead, Holly said.
....Central Petroleum Ltd., Perth, notified the Northern Territory Department of Resources of the discovery status of the CBM107001 coal seam gas exploration well in EP 107 in central Australia’s Pedirka basin.
....Salamander Energy PLC agreed to acquire a 20% interest in the Bontang PSC from PT Eksindo Petroleum Tabuhan, giving Salamander 90% interest in the PSC in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
....Junex Inc., Quebec City, plans to drill two exploration wells in 2010 on its 108,360-acre Lyster property 15 km from the St. Edouard-1A well in Quebec’s St. Lawrence Lowlands.
....Independent producers converged on US Senate and House members’ offices Mar. 2 to advocate for federal policies that encourage the development of natural gas.
....Anadarko Petroleum Corp. on Mar. 2 said it plans capital expenditures of $5.3-5.6 billion this year compared with $4.6 billion in 2009.
....Calgary independents have spud the first well in a five-well exploratory drilling program in the Boise basin.
....Chile’s state-owned oil company Empresa Nacional del Petroleo (Enap) said its 97,650-b/d Aconcagua refinery will be online next week but that no date could be given for the restart of its 113,000-b/d Bio Bio facility.
....Canoro Resources Ltd., Calgary, estimated start-up for early in the third quarter of 2010 of a condensate stripping and gas reinjection facility at Amguri field in Assam, northeastern India.
....Energy prices fell Mar. 1, giving up much of the gains from the previous session as the euro weakened against the dollar with renewed concerns over the financial crisis in Greece.
....BP PLC on Mar. 2 outlined its annual strategy presentation in which Chief Executive Tony Hayward said the company hopes to boost its profits before taxes by more than $3 billion/year within 3 years.
....The ExxonMobil Corp.-led PNG LNG joint venture has completed an agreement with CPC Corp. of Taiwan for the sale of 1.2 million tonnes/year of LNG for 20 years from the Papua New Guinea project (OGJ Online, Dec. 11, 2009).
....Dallas-based refiner and marketer Alon USA Energy Inc. has appointed Paul Eisman as president.
....ROCH SA and Madalena Ventures Inc. signed a farmout under which Apco Oil & Gas International Inc., Tulsa, Okla., can earn up to a 45% participation interest in the 100,000-acre Coiron Amargo Block in Argentina’s Neuquen basin.
....The Export Development Canada agency is to provide a $48 million loan to Russia’s Gazprombank to finance the purchase from Thermo Design Engineering Ltd., Edmonton, of Canadian-made systems that capture and process formerly flared gas.
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