Thailand’s latest oil and gas round has attracted 41 applications for 21 mostly landward blocks — an eclipse of last year’s interest — with local supermajor Chevron seeking out three offshore blocks, Reuters reported Friday. 
Genesis Petroleum has hired AGR Petroleum Services to undertake a complete well services project and make available the Byford Dolphin semi-submersible rig to drill the company’s first U.K. well early in 2008. 
Venture Production expects 2007 to end with the company producing 60,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day after a year in which downtime sent volumes lower by three percent for a damaged tanker, foul weather and gas “blow down”. 
Southern Pacific Resource Corp. has received the results of the updated resource report from Degolyer MacNaughton Canada Ltd. (“D&M”) in regard to their South Leismer area. The Leismer South area consists of 25 contiguous sections of 80% owned lands in Townships 75–76-10W4. The Corporation’s bitumen resource base increase reflects the completion of the seismic and successful drilling at South Leismer, which was completed in the spring of 2007. 
Statoil would neither confirm nor deny on Tuesday the Norwegian state champion had been invited by Gazprom Neft, the gas monopoly's oil business, to help develop a field offshore Sakhalin island. 
Irish explorer Pan Andean Resources has won two oil and gas blocks “in a competive round” which cover Peruvian highlands and lowlands, including an area near the “world class” Camisea gas-condensate field in the Ucayali basin. 
Det Norske Oljeselskap has spudded a wildcat on the Norwegian continental shelf aimed west of the Grane field to depths of 2,200 metres. 
Dublin-based independent, Island Oil & Gas, has struck a farm-in agreement and license-developmen alliance with Supernova Energy, a business of Bluewater Group in the Netherlands, another “promote” type alliance in the North Sea periphery. 
Unicorp, Inc. has begun operations to restore production on two of the shut-in wells it recently acquired in its Welsh Field acquisition located in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. 
U.K.-listed independent Irvin Energy has bought a 50 percent stake in 52,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Oklahoma from local producer Metro Energy Group for $11.1 million, in a deal that includes shale developments. |
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Gulf Sands Petroleum and Emerald Energy have honoured their Syrian hosts and extended their stay on the prospective Block 26, where a production-sharing contract with the Arab country is in effect. 
U.K.-based Kazakh player Max Petroleum reported Friday that a “competant persons” audit of the reserves in its Kuzbak prospect suggest “risked” resources of 250 million barrels of oil equivalent. 
Swiss-based West African explorer Adax Petroleum has discovered oil and gas offshore Nigeria for a third time, with block OML137 showing “potential for signficant gas exports”. 
Black Dragon Resource Companies, Inc. management today announced that 63 more wells were made operational in June, bringing the Company's total to 513 wells. 
London-based explorer Indago Petroleum Ltd. and operating partner RAK Petroleum have seen the cost of drilling in the Omani desert rise $8.2 million at one well, after finding ”tectonic movements” produced “stressed” rock formations. 
Libya’s National Oil Corporation has launched a licensing round aimed at its “prospective gas areas throughout the prolific geologic basins”, including four offshore blocks of some 10,300 square kilometres. 
Calgary-based North Sea explorer Antrim Energy has declared its latest Central Causeway well flowed a combined 6,300 barrels of light crude oil per day from two rock strata. 
Electromagnetic Geoservices has been awarded a contract by an unnamed energy company to determine the hydrocarbon content of potential reservoirs offshore eastern Canada using seabed-logging technology. 
London-listed Calgary oil company Solana said it has a gusher in the in southern Colombia, where a Chaza Block wildcat well in the Putumayo Basin has struck oil. 
Delmar Systems, Inc. under an EPCI (Engineer, Procure, Construct, Install) contract with Shell Exploration & Production Co., Inc., delivered preset MODU (mobile offshore drilling unit) moorings for the Perdido Deepwater Development located in Alaminos Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. Using the latest in deepwater mooring technology, Delmar provided multiple mooring systems for this development drilling project. |
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