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| BG Group in alliance to develop US shale gas |
| 30 June 2009 |
| BG Group has entered into an alliance with EXCO Resources, a US oil and natural gas exploration and production company to develop US shale gas |
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| Chevron steamflood project achieves first steam injection |
| 29 June 2009 |
| Saudi Arabian Chevron achieves first steam injection at its Large Scale Pilot steamflood project at the Wafra Field, an Eocene heavy-oil carbonate reservoir in the onshore Partitioned Neutral Zone |
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| Lundin Petroleum abandons exploration well offshore Vietnam |
| 26 June 2009 |
| Lundin Petroleum AB reported that the exploration well 06/94-TV-1X (Toung Vi-1X) offshore Vietnam has reached a target depth of 2,700 meters |
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| BP to sell West Java interests to Pertamina |
| 25 June 2009 |
| BP has agreed the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary, BP West Java Limited (BPWJ), to Indonesian state-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina (Persero) |
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| Total acquires interest in Terneftegas |
| 24 June 2009 |
| Total has signed Heads of Agreement with Novatek to acquire a 49 per cent interest in Terneftegas, Novatek's wholly-owned subsidiary |
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| Chevron's first major upstream development in Brazil |
| 23 June 2009 |
| Chevron Corporation subsidiary Chevron Brasil Upstream Frade Ltda has commenced crude oil production from the Frade Field, the company's first operated deepwater development in Brazil |
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| AWE's Apium North-1 drilling update |
| 23 June 2009 |
| Australian Worldwide Exploration Limited (AWE) on behalf of the L1 joint venture, reported that the Apium North-1 well started drilling at 0130 hours (WA time) on Sunday June 21, 2009 |
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| Latest Apache North Sea well commences production |
| 22 June 2009 |
| Apache Corporation reported that its Forties Charlie 6-3 well commenced production at a rate of 10,500 barrels of oil per day |
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| PNG LNG reaches significant marketing milestone |
| 22 June 2009 |
| Santos reports PNG LNG Project participants agree on commercial terms with three major LNG buyers in the Asian region for sales of approximately 4.3 million tonnes per annum |
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| Saudi Aramco and Total award contracts for Jubail refinery |
| 18 June 2009 |
| Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP) awarded Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts for their Jubail joint venture refinery |
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| Mariner Energy starts production from Geauxpher Field |
| 27 May 2009 |
| Mariner Energy reported the startup of production from Geauxpher, a deepwater development in the Gulf of Mexico on Garden Banks Block 462 |
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| Sakhalin II gears up for full production |
| 27 May 2009 |
| Last major offshore gas well being completed at the Lunskoye platform in Russia's sub-Arctic Sea of Okhotsk preparing the way for full production capacity of LNG at Sakhalin II |
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| BP makes discovery in Angola |
| 27 May 2009 |
| Sonangol and BP Exploration (Angola) Limited reported the 'Oberon' oil discovery in ultra-deepwater Block 31, offshore Angola |
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| Tullow Oil disappointed with Awaka-1 exploration well |
| 27 May 2009 |
| Tullow Oil reports Awaka-1 exploration well, located in the Butiaba region of Uganda Block 2, encountered water bearing reservoir sands |
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| Dana Gas makes a new gas discover in Egypt |
| 23 May 2009 |
| Dana Gas, the Middle East's first and largest regional private sector natural gas company, has announced another gas discovery in one of the company's concessions in the Egyptian Nile Delta |
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| Geodynamics Habanero 3 now under control |
| 22 May 2009 |
| Geodynamics, Australia's most advanced specialist in hot fractured rock geothermal energy, reported a well incident at its drilling site in remote South Australia had been brought under control |
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| Carbon dioxide capture comes out of the lab |
| 21 May 2009 |
| Carbon dioxide (CO2) is now being captured by researchers in Australia's first pre-combustion carbon capture project |
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| Macedonia opens first natural gas co-gen plant |
| 19 May 2009 |
| Macedonia Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski formally opens country's first natural gas-cogeneration plant certified for international carbon credit financing in the capital city of Skopje |
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| Dragon Oil drilling update |
| 19 May 2009 |
| Dragon Oil plc reported the successful completion and initial testing of the Dzheitune (Lam) 13/133A development well |
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| Total offshore exploration in Nile Basin |
| 18 May 2009 |
| Total has been awarded a 90 per cent participation in and the operatorship of Block 4 (East El Burullus Offshore) in conjunction with partner ENEL |
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| Panax drilling rig arrives |
| 18 May 2009 |
| Panax Geothermal Ltd reported the arrival in Australia of drilling rig for first deep production well at its Penola Project in South Australia's Otway Basin |
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| MOL and OMV join Dana Gas and Crescent in Iraq |
| 17 May 2009 |
| Dana Gas PJSC and Crescent Petroleum sign strategic partnership agreements with OMV and Hungarian oil and gas company MOL |
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| RWE Dea enters Clipper South Gas Field |
| 14 May 2009 |
| RWE Dea AG has reached an agreement with Fairfield Energy to farm-in to the undeveloped gas field Clipper South in the Southern British North Sea |
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| BG Group signs LNG agreement with CNOOC |
| 13 May 2009 |
| BG Group has signed a liquefied natural gas (LNG) Project Development Agreement with one of China's leading integrated energy companies, China National Offshore Oil Corporation and its affiliates (CNOOC) |
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| Lugar applauds progress on Nabucco Pipeline project |
| 13 May 2009 |
| US Sen. Dick Lugar applauded an agreement last week between European Union member states, Turkey and Azerbaijan to move forward on the Nabucco Pipeline project |
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| StatoilHydro in new North Sea discovery |
| 13 May 2009 |
| StatoilHydro drills exploration well about 35 kilometres east of Gudrun in the North Sea and roughly 30 kilometres south of Grane |
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| World's largest offshore wind farm gets green light |
| 12 May 2009 |
| DONG Energy, E.ON and Masdar building the first 630MW phase of the London Array offshore wind farm in the Thames Estuary |
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| Husky encouraged by South China Sea discovery |
| 11 May 2009 |
| Husky has completed drilling and testing of the second appraisal well at the Liwan 3-1 field on Block 29/26, South China Sea |
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| Dana Gas increases production in Egypt |
| 10 May 2009 |
| Dana Gas has increased production through its El Wastani gas plant in the Nile Delta region of Egypt to 170 million standard cubic feet of gas per day |
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| First oil from Tahiti field in Gulf of Mexico |
| 6 May 2009 |
| Chevron Corporation reported that it has started crude oil production from its Tahiti Field, the deepest producing field in the Gulf of Mexico |
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| New Moho-Bilondo discovery, Republic of Congo |
| 6 May 2009 |
| Total reported positive results for the Moho Nord Marine-4 (MHNM-4) well, approximately 75 kilometres offshore of the Republic of Congo |
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| Heritage Oil major oil discovery in Kurdistan Region of Iraq |
| 6 May 2009 |
| Heritage Oil Limited reported a major oil discovery in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the completion of an initial test program on the Miran West-1 well |
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| Marathon awarded third Indonesian offshore exploration block |
| 5 May 2009 |
| Marathon subsidiaries entered into a Production Sharing Contract with the Indonesian Government for a combined 49 per cent interest in the Kumawa Block offshore Indonesia |
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| Technip awarded contract for Daniel Boone field in GoM |
| 5 May 2009 |
| Technip awarded a contract by W & T Offshore Inc. for the Daniel Boone field development in the Gulf of Mexico |
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| GE Energy's wind turbine maintains top spot in US |
| 4 May 2009 |
| GE Energy's 1.5-megawatt (MW) wind turbine continues to hold its position as the best selling wind turbine in the United States |
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| GDF SUEZ and Total team up for the EPR project in Penly |
| 4 May 2009 |
| The French Prime Minister Francois Fillon has granted GDF SUEZ a 33.33 per cent block of shares plus one share in the company formed to build and operate the EPR in Penly |
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| Lundin Petroleum awarded two licences in Norwegian round |
| 4 May 2009 |
| Lundin Petroleum subsidiary, Lundin Norway AS, awarded two new exploration licence interests in the 20th Norwegian Licencing Round |
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| Horizon Terminals, Taeyoung Industries terminal project |
| 2 May 2009 |
| Horizon Terminals Limited and Taeyoung Industries inaugurate Horizon Taeyoung Korea Terminals the second largest chemical terminal project in Ulsan, Korea |
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| First commercial oil production from Tupi, Santos Basin, Brazil |
| 1 May 2009 |
| BG Group reported first commercial oil production commenced on the Tupi field in the BM-S-11 concession in the Santos Basin, offshore Brazil |
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| Chevron awarded exploration rights in Norwegian Sea |
| 1 May 2009 |
| Chevron Europe, Eurasia and Middle East, an affiliate of Chevron Corporation, has successfully bid for the exploration rights in nine blocks awarded in the 20th Norwegian Licensing Round |
