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Licensing & Concessions

(9/8/2010) Suncor to sell non-core Petro-Canada UK North Sea assets

(9/8/2010) Chevron receives 3 deepwater blocks offshore Liberia

(9/8/2010) Endeavour sells its interest in UK North Sea Cignus Field

(9/8/2010) Bowood acquiring Alberta First Nation E&P rights

(9/8/2010) BLM awards 5 blocks in Alaska NPR land sale

(9/8/2010) Mountain Hawk takes major stake in Marathon CBM field

(9/8/2010) Three tracts in Canada's Jeanne d'Arc Basin up for bid

(9/7/2010) Eni Australia farming out stake in Timor Leste blocks

(9/7/2010) Whiting picks up Montana Williston Basin acreage

(9/7/2010) Cooper RWE JW score 6 contiguous Polish blocks

(9/7/2010) NZOG farming out New Zealand Kaupokonui Prospect

(9/7/2010) Linn Energy pays $352.2 million for Permian Basin properties

(9/7/2010) Drillsearch picks up stakes in 4 South Australia wet gas finds

(9/7/2010) CNOOC does PSC amendment with Chevron, BP & Devon

(9/6/2010) Mena farming into Kulczyk's Syria Block 9

(9/6/2010) Lundin sells stake in Indonesia's Kepala Burung Block

(9/3/2010) OMV sells Russian assets to CorSarNeft

(9/3/2010) Yemen to offer 15 offshore oil blocks in coming round

(9/3/2010) Pacific Rubiales farms out added stake in Colombian block

(9/2/2010) Algeria offering 24 blocks for bids in 3rd licensing round

(9/2/2010) Australia excises 2 Bight Basin leases from bidding

(9/2/2010) Alrosa & Zarubezhneft exiting Angola acreage

(9/2/2010) Tullow farms into 5 Africa Oil blocks in Kenya & Ethiopia

(9/1/2010) Husky adds 65 million cf/d Alberta gas properties

(8/31/2010) Noreco farms into E.On Ruhrgas Norge Norwegian Sea stake

(8/31/2010) KazMunaiGas farming into UK North Sea license

(8/31/2010) Bahamas suspends offshore licensing

(8/31/2010) UK North Sea Corvette Field on the block

(8/31/2010) Bayerngas takes stakes in 2 UK North Sea projects

(8/30/2010) ShaMaran acquiring stake in Kurd Iraq concession

(8/30/2010) ONGC claims pre-emptive rights in Cairn India sale to Vedanta

(8/30/2010) Gran Tierra farms into 4 onshore Brazil blocks

(8/29/2010) India set to launch 9th NELP licensing round

(8/29/2010) STX buys Encana gasfield in British Columbia

(8/29/2010) Chevron granted 3 deepwater blocks offshore Liberia

(8/29/2010) Texon equalizes South Texas Leighton Eagle Ford acreage

(8/27/2010) Uganda government seizes Kingfisher oilfield

(8/26/2010) Nordic sells major interest in Alberta heavy oil holding

(8/26/2010) BP out of running for Greenland license

(8/25/2010) Adira takes a 5% stake in 2 Israeli offshore blocks

(8/25/2010) Resolute farming into Marathon Oil's North Dakota Bakken acreage

(8/24/2010) DONG sells stake in 2 Danish North Sea blocks

(8/24/2010) Sun Resources farms out onshore Thailand block to Peak Oil & Gas

(8/24/2010) ENH takes a stake in Mozambique offshore block

(8/24/2010) Penn West forms JV with Mitsubishi for BC shale development

(8/24/2010) Buccaneer acquiring remaining interest in Cook Inlet unit

(8/24/2010) Noreco farming into Norwegian Sea's Dalsnuten Prospect

(8/23/2010) Pemex to contract foreign companies for Mexican Gulf E&P

(8/23/2010) Energen acquiring Permian Basin properties in Wolfberry Trend

(8/23/2010) Africa Petroleum farms into 2 Gambia offshore Blocks

(8/22/2010) OGX shifting 7 Campos Basin blocks to subsidiary

(8/22/2010) Rosneft to invest $630 million in Crescent JV

(8/22/2010) Oman launches bid round for 3 onshore blocks

(8/22/2010) Fenno Caledonian granted northeast Sudan concession

(8/20/2010) Tethys scores extension to Kazakh Kul-Bas contract

(8/19/2010) Bharat PetroResources farming into Australia's Perth Basin

(8/19/2010) Blackbird increases ownership of Texas prospect to 75%

(8/19/2010) Africa Oil acquires 80% operating stake in Ethiopia block

(8/18/2010) Apache farms into Western Australia northern Carnarvon permit

(8/18/2010) Mexco Energy buys royalty stakes Haynesville play

(8/18/2010) Europa scores 2 UK offshore coal gasification licenses

(8/18/2010) Africa Oil acquires Alberta Oilsands' Kenya interests

(8/18/2010) Kosmos terminates $4 billion sale of Ghana holdings

(8/17/2010) Devon stake in ACG split between BP, Chevron, Inpex, & Itochu

(8/17/2010) Faroe doubling stake in Norway's Clapton license

(8/17/2010) Eni enters DR Congo via farm-in into N'Dunda Block

(8/16/2010) Stanwell okays 2nd stage of farm-in into Icon's ATP626P

(8/16/2010) Vaalco farms out stake in onshore Gabon concession

(8/16/2010) Chariot shifts to renewal phase in Namibia offshore blocks

(8/16/2010) RAK farming out 50% stake in Oman block

(8/16/2010) Universal wins extension to Namibia work program

(8/15/2010) Ecuador's new service contracts give state 25% of profits

(8/15/2010) Kazakh government gets a slice of Karachaganak gasfield

(8/13/2010) Turkmenistan to offer 1st concessions to foreign firms

(8/13/2010) Paradigm adds 3 more Texas oil leases

(8/13/2010) ConocoPhillips takes 5 leases in BLM's NPR-Alaska licensing

(8/12/2010) Altima farms out interest in Alberta Rock Creek property

(8/12/2010) PetroKamchatka returns 3 blocks onshore Kamchatka

(8/12/2010) Penn Virginia picks up Texas Eagle Ford Shale acreage

(8/12/2010) Amendments made to ShaMaran PSCs for Kurd blocks

(8/11/2010) Suncor selling Alberta's Wildcat Hills gas properties

(8/11/2010) Two blocks up for bid in Russia's Tyumen Oblast

(8/11/2010) Mosaic completes sale of PNG gas discovery to Talisman

(8/11/2010) Black Dragon adds stake in Texas' Humble EOR Project

(8/11/2010) Rosnedra puts price tag on Yamal's Trebsa & Titova Fields

(8/11/2010) Camac Energy acquiring Nigeria Blocks OML120 & OML121

(8/11/2010) Tap relinquishes Philippines Sulu Sea concession

(8/10/2010) Todd farms into New Plymouth permit off New Zealand

(8/10/2010) Petsec farms into Louisiana state lease with Phoenix Exploration

(8/10/2010) Norwest farming out stake in Western Australia coastal blocks

(8/10/2010) Lakes Oil & Beach to exploit Victoria, Australia's tight gas

(8/9/2010) Eni selling Italy's Padana Energy to Gas Plus

(8/9/2010) Anadarko wins extension to Mozambique exploration period

(8/8/2010) Award of Western Australia Mentelle Basin block opposed

(8/8/2010) BP pays $2 billion for Devon stake in Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli

(8/8/2010) Central farms into Rawson's northern Australia Pellinor Block

(8/6/2010) EOG Resources selling 180,000 acres in US shale plays

(8/6/2010) Plains E&P selling US Gulf interests for $1-2 billion

(8/6/2010) Chevron granted Beaufort Sea deepwater lease

(8/6/2010) ATP scores operatorship of Blythe discovery

(8/6/2010) Inpex acquires part of Petrobras stake in Peruvian block

(8/5/2010) Carrizo & Reliance Industries form Marcellus Shale JV

(8/4/2010) ExxonMobil farming out offshore Congo stake

(8/4/2010) Brigham adds 52,800 acres to its Williston Basin acreage

(8/4/2010) Tullow farming into Centric's NW Kenya concession

(8/4/2010) Beach acquires stakes in 2 Egyptian blocks from Kuwait Energy

(8/4/2010) Egdon & Star farmout UK onshore PEDL139 & PEDL140

(8/4/2010) Ithaca acquires several GDF Suez UK North Sea interests

(8/3/2010) Mainland adds 100% stake in western Mississippi

(8/3/2010) Pacific Energy adds stake in Utah Cedar Rim well

(8/3/2010) Wapiti buys Delta Rocky Mt & Texas Gulf properties

(8/3/2010) Talisman & Ecopetrol acquiring BP Colombia for $1.9 billion

(8/2/2010) Iraq postpones auction of 3 field development projects

(8/2/2010) NWest farming out stake in Gulf of St Lawrence prospect

(8/1/2010) BP exercises preferential rights on Permian Basin sale

(8/1/2010) BP, Imperial & ExxonMobil link for Beaufort Sea exploration

(7/30/2010) Melrose farming out stake in Rhone Maritime to Noble Energy

(7/30/2010) Global relinquishes Panama's Garachine Block

(7/29/2010) AWE to farmout Bass Strait block off Australia

(7/29/2010) Kea acquiring Genesis Power New Zealand E&P permit

(7/29/2010) Essar, Arrow, Great Eastern awarded 7 CBM blocks in India

(7/29/2010) Shell selling 5 Niger Delta oil leases in Nigeria

(7/29/2010) Monitor acquiring up to 90% interest in Trinidad licenses

(7/28/2010) Innamincka adds stake in South Australia Cooper Basin block

(7/28/2010) Cove farming into 5 deepwater blocks offshore Kenya

(7/27/2010) Buguruslanneft awarded Ivanovskoye license in Orenburg

(7/27/2010) Ecuador replacing PSCs with flat service fees

(7/27/2010) Tullow completes $1.35 billion buy of Heritage's Uganda stakes

(7/26/2010) Rosnedra recommends revocation of Total-Novatek JV license

(7/26/2010) Gazonor granted permit in France's Nord Pas de Calais

(7/26/2010) KazMunayGaz joins Shell in managing Kashagan Project

(7/26/2010) Delta selling non-core US assets to Wapiti for $130 million

(7/25/2010) Perenco's contract for Guatemala's Xan Field renewed

(7/25/2010) Heritage sale of Uganda stakes held up by tax issue

(7/23/2010) Red Sky farming into 4 Clarence Moreton NSW blocks

(7/23/2010) Northern Blizzard adds Nexen's Canadian heavy oil assets

(7/23/2010) Zambia to award exploration licenses to 7 companies

(7/23/2010) Exterra picks up 31 wells on 12 East Texas Field Woodbine leases

(7/23/2010) Po Valley's Adriatic license off Italy positively resolved

(7/22/2010) Trebsa & Titova Fields on the block at about $2 billion plus

(7/22/2010) Ecuador cancels Perenco PSCs for 2 blocks seized last year

(7/22/2010) Investcan farms into Petrolia's Gaspe Peninsula discovery

(7/21/2010) WestSide granted 2 Galilee Basin permits by Queensland

(7/21/2010) Beach bumps up stake in North Dakota Bakken Shale project

(7/21/2010) Shell turning over Nigeria's Ogoniland assets to NPDC

(7/21/2010) Dana farming into BG's El Manzala Concession off Egypt

(7/21/2010) Medco & South Sumatra Energy sign JOA for Sekayu CBM

(7/21/2010) Talisman farms into San Leon Polish shale play

(7/20/2010) Apache buys BP assets in Texas, New Mexico, Egypt, & Canada

(7/20/2010) Concho paying $1.65 billion for Permian Basin oil & gas assets

(7/20/2010) BP selling upstream holdings in Pakistan & Vietnam

(7/20/2010) AsherXino becomes operator of offshore block in Niger Delta

(7/19/2010) Sun Cal Energy acquires San Joaquin acreage

(7/19/2010) Linn adding acreage within East Texas Oil Field

(7/19/2010) Kazakhstan terminates Max Petroleum license

(7/19/2010) Noreco sells stake in Norwegian discovery to Talisman

(7/19/2010) Sasol, Statoil & Chesapeake win shale gas permit in South Africa

(7/18/2010) Shell & Chevron looking to farm into Philippines' Gindara Block

(7/18/2010) Iran's Khatam-ol-Anbia exits South Pars Phases 15 & 16

(7/18/2010) Fortress selling Alberta oil & gas assets to Terra Energy

(7/16/2010) Afren acquires added stake in Nigeria offshore concession

(7/16/2010) Texon sells stake in Texas' Leighton Olmos

(7/15/2010) Ascent augments stake in Netherlands North Sea acreage

(7/15/2010) Apache farms into Exmouth Sub-basin block off Western Oz

(7/15/2010) Total acquires Chevron's stake in Nigeria-Sao Tome JDZ block

(7/14/2010) Leni acquires further interest in shallow US Gulf projects

(7/13/2010) Ophir acquiring operation of Madagascar onshore block

(7/13/2010) Westmont buys 92 wells to move into Chattanooga Shale

(7/13/2010) Nextraction adds more Pinedale Anticline acreage in Wyoming

(7/13/2010) Suroco & Winchester win Colombia's Putumayo 12 Block

(7/13/2010) MEO adds more interest in Australia's Block WA-361-P

(7/12/2010) Pan Pacific gets okay to farm into block offshore Vietnam

(7/12/2010) Range acquires onshore Trinidad licenses

(7/12/2010) Edge farms into 5 sections of Edmonton Sands land in Alberta

(7/11/2010) Dynamic picks up 8 US Gulf fields in private purchase

(7/11/2010) NPR-Alaska lease sale set for next month

(7/9/2010) Dana farms into Eni's Anne Marie Block off the Faroe Islands

(7/9/2010) Canada's Flemish Pass blocks up for bid

(7/8/2010) Chevron in JV with Rosneft to develop Black Sea deepwater field

(7/8/2010) Azabache granted Colombia's La Mona Block

(7/7/2010) Delta terminates sale of Colorado Piceance Basin assets

(7/7/2010) Heritage sale to Tullow of Uganda stakes approved

(7/7/2010) GeoResources adds North Dakota Bakken shale acreage

(7/6/2010) MOL scores 3 blocks in Romania's 10th Round

(7/6/2010) Ecopetrol okayed to participate in Peruvian concession

(7/6/2010) Lukoil & Vanco take 2 Romanian Black Sea blocks

(7/5/2010) Zorlu finalizes sale of oil & gas operations to TransAtlantic

(7/5/2010) Chile gearing up for 2nd Magallanes licensing

(7/5/2010) GNPC rejects sale of Jubilee Field stake to ExxonMobil

(7/5/2010) Quest acquires B&B Oil's Texas producing wells & leases

(7/5/2010) Carnarvon farms into AWE Taranaki block off New Zealand

(7/5/2010) ADX scores new concession in Romania

(7/4/2010) Sao Tome & Principe add seismic data for licensing round

(7/4/2010) Bidding closed for Mozambique's 4th Licensing Round

(7/4/2010) Pakistan Petroleum farming out 4 onshore blocks

(7/4/2010) Shell selling interest in UK North Sea Blocks

(7/2/2010) Apco & Ramshorn score Colombia's Llanos Block 40

(7/2/2010) Novatek takes over Russia's Maloyamalskoye Field

(7/1/2010) 90 days to counter bids on St Pierre et Miquelon blocks

(7/1/2010) Ascent augments stake in Slovenia's Petisovic Project

(7/1/2010) Ecopetrol now operator of Colombia's Cupiagua oilfields

(6/30/2010) ONGC picking up 17 new blocks from latest India licensing

(6/30/2010) PDVSA & Petrovietnam sign contract for Venezuela's Junin-2

(6/30/2010) Total takes stakes offshore Brazil & onshore Yemen

(6/30/2010) Tethys scores extension on Kazakh exploration contract

(6/29/2010) $12 billion South Iraq gas project goes to Shell & Mitsubishi

(6/29/2010) Arrow granted 2 CBM blocks in Indian licensing round

(6/29/2010) Curlew adds Chin Coulee leases in SE Alberta

(6/29/2010) Cue joins Mosaic in selling PNG sub & assets

(6/29/2010) Alange awarded two exploration blocks in Colombia's Open Round

(6/29/2010) Cook Inlet Energy picks up 7 Cook Inlet tracts in Alaska sale

(6/29/2010) Adelaide Energy sells stake in Australia's Surat Basin block

(6/28/2010) Voyager farms into Slawson Niobrara drilling in Colorado

(6/28/2010) SOCO awarded DR Congo's Block 5

(6/28/2010) Interest shown in 2 blocks to be auctioned by Afghanistan

(6/28/2010) Running Foxes & Nighthawk add Kansas project

(6/25/2010) Encana & CNPC to jointly develop BC unconventional gas

(6/25/2010) Gazprom Neft granted 2 blocks off Equatorial Guinea

(6/25/2010) Essar Oil picks up 4 of India's 7 CBM blocks

(6/25/2010) Samson to sell part of its Goshen County, Wyoming Project

(6/25/2010) Global Petroleum gets option on Uganda Block EA5

(6/25/2010) Mosaic sells PNG subsidiary for $11 million

(6/24/2010) DRC withdraws Tullow & Divine rights to Lake Albert blocks

(6/24/2010) Sky Petroleum granted 3 blocks onshore Albania

(6/24/2010) Reliance buying into PNR's Eagle Ford Shale for $1.15 billion

(6/24/2010) Beach awarded Lake Tanganyika South Block

(6/24/2010) Statoil farms out part of stake in Norway's Gro license

(6/24/2010) Egdon selling French assets to eCORP

(6/23/2010) Rodinia granted 2 exploration permits in Western Australia

(6/23/2010) Norway cuts 6 blocks from 21st licensing round

(6/22/2010) Pertamina adds stake in Indonesia's Papua offshore block

(6/22/2010) Inpex farms into Petrobras-operated Peruvian jungle block

(6/22/2010) Roc selling stakes in Mauritania PSCs

(6/21/2010) 200 tracks go on sale in Colombia's 2010 Round

(6/21/2010) Hess pre-empts Total sale of North Sea stakes to BP

(6/21/2010) Mitsubishi farming into Buru's Western Australia permits

(6/20/2010) Sentry granted coal seam gas block in Eromanga Basin

(6/20/2010) Mozambique receives six applications for onshore blocks

(6/20/2010) US MMS requiring blowout contingency plans

(6/20/2010) Tap Oil awarded Offshore Accra Contract Area off Ghana

(6/18/2010) Consortium granted Israel's Samuel license

(6/18/2010) Rialto operator of Cote d'Ivoire block with CLNR buy

(6/18/2010) CNOOC completes buy of Devon stake off China

(6/18/2010) Statoil & Marathon swap North Sea license stakes

(6/18/2010) Myanmar awards NPCC & MOG JV onshore block

(6/17/2010) Lime Rock adds stake in Oklahoma field

(6/17/2010) Africa Oil farms into Ethiopia's South Omo Block

(6/16/2010) Exco acquiring Haynesville/Bossier Shale properties

(6/16/2010) Ireland opens up entire Atlantic Margin for 2011 licensing

(6/16/2010) Oromin farming out Santa Rosa Block in Argentina

(6/16/2010) Blue Dolphin acquiring TAC from Blue Sky

(6/16/2010) Running Foxes & Nighthawk farm into Anadarko acreage

(6/16/2010) Realm granted 3 shale concessions in Poland

(6/15/2010) Americas Petrogas farms into Argentine block for operatorship

(6/15/2010) AuDax sells its interest in South Australia license to Vicpet

(6/15/2010) Oilex-led JV relinquishes onshore Oman Block 56

(6/15/2010) Africa Oil farms out stake in Puntland blocks

(6/14/2010) Doxa doubles stake in Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas

(6/14/2010) KKR & Hilcorp JV to develop Eagle Ford Shale assets

(6/13/2010) Spring sells stake in Norwegian exploration license

(6/10/2010) MEO adds interest in Western Australia operated block

(6/9/2010) Petrolia takes lands surrounding Haldimand discovery

(6/8/2010) PDC expands Wattenberg Niobara acreage in Colorado

(6/8/2010) Farmout of Colorado's Jolly Ranch Project underway

(6/7/2010) Gulfsands exercises option for added interest in AuDAX permits

(6/7/2010) Clayton Williams sells North Louisiana properties

(6/7/2010) C-NLOPB offering two Atlantic Jeanne d'Arc Basin tracts

(6/7/2010) Aegean commits to 4 Egypt farm-in exploration wells

(6/6/2010) Bridge wins UK North Sea license

(6/6/2010) Rosneft farms into Sharjah Onshore Concession

(6/4/2010) Venezuela awards PDVSA & Eni JV new concession

(6/4/2010) India's DGH lining up a 9th licensing round

(6/4/2010) Total to explore Kazakhstan's Zhenis Block

(6/4/2010) Maersk picks up Wintershall stake in Norwegian license

(6/3/2010) Noble selling onshore US assets for $550 million

(6/3/2010) Det Norske farms out North Sea Ulvetanna stake to Repsol

(6/2/2010) WestSide alliance with Mitsui to include Queensland CSG

(6/2/2010) Lynden takes stake in option on 101,495 acres in West Texas

(6/1/2010) Caza farms out stake in Texas Bongo Prospect

(6/1/2010) Petroceltic farms out stake in Italian Adriatic block

(6/1/2010) Noreco farms into Danish license for operatorship

(6/1/2010) Petrobras awarded exploration permit in Raukumara Basin

(5/31/2010) Arrow picks up PSC from PetroChina for Dajing Block

(5/30/2010) Carthago seeking farmout of Tunisia's Medjerda permit

(5/28/2010) Shell buys East Resources' Marcellus Shale assets

(5/28/2010) Penn Virginia buys Marcellus Shale acreage for $19.5 million

(5/27/2010) Maurel & Prom swaps assets to operate Llanos Basin block

(5/27/2010) Madalena wins extension of 3 Neuquen, Argentina blocks

(5/26/2010) European Gas' French exploration permits renewed

(5/26/2010) BG's farm-in offshore southern Tanzania approved

(5/25/2010) Magnum Hunter & Hunt Oil link for Texas Eagle Ford Shale

(5/25/2010) Aminex picks up North Korea PSC for East Sea block

(5/25/2010) NextEra buying into PetroQuest Woodford acreage

(5/21/2010) Indonesia puts up 27 blocks for bid in 2010 round

(5/21/2010) Habanero buys former partners' stakes in Alberta oil sands

(5/21/2010) Statoil sells 40% stake in Brazil's Peregrino Field to Sinochem

(5/21/2010) Stuart granted South Australia exploration license

(5/21/2010) PDC trades Michigan gas producers for West Texas oil producers

(5/20/2010) Pancontinental farms into DVM's Queensland permit

(5/20/2010) BNK adds another German concession to portfolio

(5/20/2010) Mitsui acquiring stake in two onshore Oman blocks

(5/20/2010) Nexen selling Canadian heavy oil assets for $975 million

(5/20/2010) Devon farming into Caza's Windham Wolfberry Prospect in Texas

(5/20/2010) Roc picks up new stakes offshore Taranaki, New Zealand

(5/19/2010) One-year extensions granted on Zion's 2 Israeli blocks

(5/19/2010) ONGC invites 4 majors to buy into key Krishna Godavari block

(5/19/2010) Lundin awarded 2 blocks off Sabah, Malaysia

(5/19/2010) Anadarko farms into Global NZ Taranaki Basin license

(5/18/2010) Mitra & Kufpec take PSC for Vietnam offshore block

(5/18/2010) AED Oil farming out stake in Rombebai PSC onshore Papua

(5/18/2010) HRT & Universal Power awarded blocks offshore Namibia

(5/17/2010) Voyager picks up Bakken leases in North Dakota & Montana

(5/17/2010) Realm granted concession in Germany's Lower Saxony

(5/17/2010) CNOOC & TPAO granted Iraq's Maysan oil fields contract

(5/17/2010) Tullow awarded Suriname deepwater block

(5/17/2010) Australia launches 2010 licensing round

(5/16/2010) Cook Inlet Lease Sale set for 26 May

(5/16/2010) Shell & PetroChina granted Qatar's Block D

(5/16/2010) Indonesia grants 14 blocks in latest licensing round

(5/13/2010) China Investment paying $805 million for Alberta heavy oil stake

(5/13/2010) MegaWest farms out major stake in Montana's Teton Prospect

(5/13/2010) Apache farms into Western Australia's Zola Block

(5/12/2010) Papuan Oil Search calling for Tunisian farm-in

(5/12/2010) CNOOC & Sinochem said bidding for Brazil's Peregrino Field

(5/12/2010) New Sage joining Louisiana's Valentine Project

(5/12/2010) India rejects CBM-IV bids by Deep CH4 consortium

(5/12/2010) Quicksilver adds more interest in Texas' Fort Worth Basin

(5/12/2010) Aegean farms into Egypt block for operatorship

(5/12/2010) Candax farms out stake in onshore Tunisia concession

(5/11/2010) Empire signs off for Tasmania Basin block

(5/11/2010) Hess farming into Toreador's Paris Basin permits in France

(5/10/2010) Galizien farms into EuroGas CBM properties in Ukraine

(5/10/2010) Energas pick up Colorado Kiowa County prospect

(5/10/2010) Total acquires stake in ConocoPhillips' Arafura Sea blocks

(5/10/2010) BG acquiring 50% stake in EXCO's US Appalachian assets

(5/9/2010) Encana establishes new gas shale position in Michigan

(5/9/2010) Novus farms into Dodsland, Saskatchewan acreage

(5/9/2010) Brazil okays Ecopetrol buy into Espirito Santo block

(5/7/2010) CNOOC offering 13 offshore blocks for foreign participation

(5/7/2010) Iraq calls for bids on 3 gasfields

(5/7/2010) Marathon taking over Alvheim FPSO operation

(5/7/2010) US Interior Secretary halts all offshore drilling leases

(5/6/2010) Cuba extends Petrobras drilling deadline

(5/5/2010) Spring acquiring Wintershall interests in Norwegian North Sea

(5/5/2010) Colombia's next round registers 83 companies

(5/5/2010) Brunei asks Petronas to develop 2 newly gained blocks

(5/5/2010) Treaty buys into Princess Petroleum's Belize concession

(5/5/2010) San Leon Energy awarded Szczawno Concession in Poland

(5/4/2010) Vanguard buying stakes in Texas, New Mexico & Mississippi

(5/4/2010) Egdon granted France's Navacelles Exploration Permit

(5/3/2010) Petrobras to explore Portugal's deepwater Alentejo Basin

(4/30/2010) Devon sells stake in block off China to CNOOC Limited

(4/29/2010) Eni exits Iran's Darkhovin Field operatorship

(4/29/2010) Woodside farms into Cue's Carnarvon Basin permit

(4/29/2010) Dune selling stake in Louisiana field for $30 million

(4/29/2010) Philippines amends Otto's SC55 work program & budget

(4/29/2010) Exterra acquiring major interest in large Texas oilfield

(4/28/2010) Otto withdraws from Ascent-operated Italian block

(4/28/2010) MEO Australia scores renewal of Timor Sea permit

(4/28/2010) Hemisphere adds interest in BC's Trutch property

(4/27/2010) Total sells stakes in 2 Norwegian fields to BP

(4/26/2010) Petrel turns over Iraq's Subba & Luhais development to Makman

(4/25/2010) Carnarvon picks up new Carnarvon Basin permit

(4/25/2010) Buru Energy JV granted West Kora 1 production license

(4/23/2010) Solo Oil farming into Aminex's Ruvuma PSA blocks

(4/23/2010) Atlas & Reliance jointly acquire 42,000 Marcellus Shale acres

(4/21/2010) Malaysia-Brunei agreement ends Murphy's Blocks L & M PSCs

(4/21/2010) Edison International farming out Iran offshore block

(4/20/2010) No more extensions of Indonesia's Langgak lease for Chevron

(4/20/2010) Mosaic farms into Queensland Cooper Basin block

(4/19/2010) PetroChina signs for Junin 4 JV with PDVSA

(4/18/2010) Jordan nixes Dead Sea deal with Trans-Global

(4/18/2010) Agora farming into Premier & Valiant UK licenses

(4/16/2010) US MMS hands over US Gulf's Entrada to ATP

(4/16/2010) Venoco sells Texas producing properties

(4/16/2010) Iraq to auction licenses for 3 more fields

(4/16/2010) Trinidad & Tobago offering 46 offshore blocks

(4/16/2010) Petrobras discussing sale to Sinopec of stakes in 2 blocks

(4/15/2010) Baytex buys heavy oil assets in SW Saskatchewan

(4/14/2010) Beach farms into Lakes Oil onshore Gippsland Basin licenses

(4/14/2010) Liberty picks up Bulgaria's A-Lovech Block

(4/14/2010) Mosaic farming into New Zealand Taranaki Basin block

(4/14/2010) Petrobras acquires 1st Australian license for $39 million

(4/14/2010) Vicpet gets go-ahead to acquire South Australia permits

(4/13/2010) Total evaluating EuroGas' western Ukraine CBM assets

(4/13/2010) Mariner adds interest in 54,000 Wyoming's DJ Basin acres

(4/13/2010) Devon to receive $1.05 billion for US Gulf assets (update)

(4/12/2010) Gazprom to get a stake in Libya's giant Al Fiil Field

(4/12/2010) ConocoPhillips selling stake in Syncrude to Sinopec

(4/12/2010) TransAtlantic picks up 2 projects onshore Turkey

(4/12/2010) Goodrich adds Eagle Ford Shale acreage in Texas

(4/11/2010) Goldnev boosts stake in Pasquia Hills oil shale block to 100%

(4/11/2010) Apache nearing acquisition of Devon's shallow US Gulf assets

(4/9/2010) Tunisia grants offshore frontier licenses to Shell

(4/9/2010) Reliance paying $1.7 billion for US Marcellus Shale stake

(4/9/2010) Entek farms out Galveston Island block to Peregrine

(4/8/2010) VHGI successful bidder on Texas state water leases

(4/8/2010) W&T Offshore acquiring Total's stakes in 3 US Gulf blocks

(4/8/2010) Eurogas buys Ontario's largest oil & gas assets

(4/7/2010) Baraka farms out interest in Australia's Georgina Basin permits

(4/7/2010) Aegean farms into Egypt Gulf of Suez block

(4/7/2010) Chevron to produce or give up Cambodian concessions

(4/7/2010) Talisman selling Canadian non-core assets for $1.89 billion

(4/7/2010) Audax does another Tunisia farmout with Bombora

(4/6/2010) Cadogan farming out stake in Ukraine licenses

(4/6/2010) Petroceltic & Sonatrach win 2-year Isarene extension

(4/6/2010) Pebble Petroleum farms out Flat Lake stake to Crescent Point

(4/6/2010) Cote d'Ivoire block passes to Rialto with CLNR buy

(4/6/2010) Kodiak adds Bakken & Three Forks acreage in North Dakota

(4/5/2010) Syria launches licensing round for 8 onshore blocks

(4/5/2010) Denbury brings in $900 million in sale of Encore assets

(4/5/2010) Medco Energi takes over Libya's Area 47 operation

(4/4/2010) Statoil & Petrobras quit ONGC Bay of Bengal JV

(4/4/2010) Putin & Chavez seal deal for Orinoco block development

(4/4/2010) WestSide & Mitsui acquiring Queensland's Dawson CSG lease

(4/4/2010) Linn picks up Permian Basin leases for $305 million

(4/2/2010) Imperial assumes operation of Kentucky wells in receivership

(4/2/2010) Ramba acquires Ellipse & Jatirarangon gasfield

(4/1/2010) New strategy for US offshore E&P (update)

(4/1/2010) American nets $46 million for Powder River assets

(4/1/2010) Namibia renews license for Block 1711

(4/1/2010) IFR sells Britcana Energy sub to Nexen

(4/1/2010) Hess selling UK North Sea gas assets for $423 million

(3/31/2010) Total picks up Montelimar Permit in France

(3/31/2010) Valiant farms out Viola & Tybalt UK North Sea prospects

(3/31/2010) Statoil farms out interest in Tanzania offshore block to ExxonMobil

(3/31/2010) Maersk acquiring Devon stake in Brazil Campos Basin block

(3/30/2010) Shell adds Eagle Ford Shale acreage in south Texas

(3/30/2010) Tap Oil takes Ghana's Offshore Accra concession

(3/29/2010) Xtract farming out Candarli Bay license in Turkey

(3/29/2010) TNK-BP sub scores rights to Orenburg, Russia gasfield

(3/29/2010) SW Energy awarded New Brunswick exploration licenses

(3/28/2010) Sinopec spending $2.46 billion for Angola stakes

(3/26/2010) Lukoil exiting Iran project due to US pressure

(3/26/2010) DR Congo to offer blocks at Lakes Tanganyika & Kivu

(3/26/2010) Bridge to sell UK Southern North Sea portfolio

(3/26/2010) Gabon's 10th licensing round to offer deepwater blocks

(3/26/2010) Santos sells its interest in Evans Shoal to Magellan

(3/26/2010) Statoil acquires stake in Chesapeake Marcellus Shale

(3/25/2010) Norse buy into Texas Barnett Shale cancelled

(3/25/2010) Cooper awarded Indonesian block with oil fields

(3/24/2010) KrisEnergy & Enovation farming into Neon's Vietnam block

(3/24/2010) Suncor selling gas properties for about $229.2 million

(3/24/2010) Magellan picks up permit offshore Australia's Northern Territory

(3/24/2010) EnCore Oil selling onshore UK assets to Egdon

(3/23/2010) AuDAX terminates Tunisia farmout to DNO

(3/23/2010) Celtic granted facility license for Kaybob, Alberta

(3/23/2010) Tower asks to continue exploring Uganda's Block EA5

(3/23/2010) Netherlands awards onshore Zuid-Friesland III license

(3/23/2010) CNPC & Shell submit PSC for gas E&P in Sichuan, China

(3/22/2010) Gulfsands farming into AuDAX Tunisian & Italian permits

(3/21/2010) BNK sub granted 3 Polish Baltic Basin blocks

(3/19/2010) India okays $2.18 billion investment in Venezuela

(3/19/2010) Licenses for Russia's Nenets Trebsa & Titova Fields for sale

(3/19/2010) Slow moving Indian government approves 33 block awards

(3/19/2010) Gulf United joins Upland in Peru concessions

(3/18/2010) Delta sells stake in Colorado Vega area assets

(3/18/2010) Consol pays $3.47 billion for Dominion's Appalachian E&P business

(3/18/2010) No compensation for TNK-BP if Kovyktinskoye expropriated

(3/18/2010) Noreco takes over operation of Barents Sea license

(3/18/2010) Salamander farms into Vietnam Song Hong Basin block

(3/17/2010) Red Sky joins Resolve in CSG prone permit area

(3/17/2010) Total takes 50% of Kazakhstan's OTG Concession

(3/17/2010) US MMS receives almost $1 billion in Central US Gulf sale bids

(3/16/2010) Two Bulgarian blocks being divvied up

(3/16/2010) TG World farms into Philippines' Tindalo & Yakal Fields

(3/16/2010) US MMS launching Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale

(3/16/2010) Brigham buying 10,000 more acres in Rough Rider Project

(3/15/2010) Brazil to hold non-presalt licensing round

(3/15/2010) Mainland sells Haynesville Shale interest for $27 million

(3/15/2010) Longford now operator of Chia Surkh Block

(3/15/2010) Grid acquires assets in Wyoming's SE Jonah Field

(3/15/2010) Petrohawk sells stake in Louisiana's Terryville Field

(3/15/2010) Nevada BLM leases 81,302 acres for $372,897

(3/12/2010) GAIL, GSPC, & Bengal win Tamil Nadu concession

(3/12/2010) Alberta cuts oil & gas producers' royalty rates

(3/12/2010) Perenco awarded offshore block in Cameroon basin

(3/12/2010) Red Sky farm-in with Central Petroleum held to Pedirka Basin

(3/12/2010) AED operator of Brunei Block L after Nations takeover

(3/11/2010) Yilgarn farming out stake in Philippines block to TG World

(3/11/2010) Total adding more shale gas acreage to portfolio

(3/11/2010) BKM acquiring SMG & Mongolia's Block XXX

(3/11/2010) BP buying Devon's Brazil, US Gulf & Azeri assets for $7 billion

(3/10/2010) Strike unable to agree to terms quits Philippine farm-in

(3/10/2010) GeoPark re-jigs participations in Chilean blocks

(3/10/2010) Tullow to sell stakes in Namibia gasfield concession

(3/10/2010) Socar & RWE to explore Caspian Sea's Nakhichevan

(3/9/2010) CNOOC-led consortium granted Iraq's Maysan field complex

(3/9/2010) Leni divesting its holdings in Zala Gas & PetroHungaria

(3/9/2010) Statoil & Chevron pre-empt Devon sale of US Gulf St Malo stake

(3/9/2010) Sea Dragon links with Tanmia for Egypt projects

(3/8/2010) TG World relinquishes stake in Alaska's Sak River-1A well

(3/8/2010) Pacific Asia amends Oyo Field stake purchase

(3/7/2010) Equator exercises option on 2 Sao Tome blocks

(3/5/2010) Alamo becomes operator of 4 UK onshore blocks

(3/5/2010) Petrobras buys into Repsol-Statoil block in Campos Basin

(3/5/2010) Sonangol to partner Galp & Petrogas in Sao Tome block

(3/4/2010) RussNeft granted E&P license for Russia's Lusianinskoye Field

(3/4/2010) Petroceltic takes over operation of Italy's Elsa discovery

(3/4/2010) Resolute joins GeoResources in North Dakota Bakken Shale project

(3/4/2010) Valiant to acquire Antrim causeway & stake in Causeway Field

(3/4/2010) Lion farming into onshore Western Australia Carnarvon Basin block

(3/3/2010) Statoil withdraws from ONGC-operated block off India

(3/3/2010) BP picks up 50% stake in Texas Eagle Ford shale play

(3/3/2010) Sao Tome & Principe puts 7 blocks up for bid

(3/2/2010) Tullow joins SW Energy in Ethiopia concession

(3/2/2010) Iran to put 8 new exploration blocks up for bid

(3/2/2010) Pearl & Carnarvon pick up 2 more Thai concessions

(3/2/2010) Jamaica launches 2nd Formal Licensing Round 2010

(3/2/2010) Apco farms into Coiron Amargo Block in Argentina

(3/2/2010) EQT adding 58,000 Marcellus Shale acres in Pennsyvania

(3/2/2010) Tap farm-in to Rangkas Block wins Indonesia approval

(3/1/2010) Kogas joins EnCana in 3 BC gasfields

(3/1/2010) San Leon's Polish sub farms out stake to Talisman

(3/1/2010) AWE going it alone with CalEnergy for BassGas stake

(3/1/2010) Petrohawk selling stake in Oklahoma field

(3/1/2010) 3D Oil extends farmout of Australia Gippsland Basin block

(3/1/2010) GeoPetro sells Alaska Cook Inlet Project to Linc Energy

(3/1/2010) Storm Ventures farms out stake in Tunisian block

(2/28/2010) Four onshore Thailand blocks awarded

(2/28/2010) AWE farms into Westralian North Perth Basin permit

(2/28/2010) Serica farming out stake in Spanish prospect

(2/26/2010) American Oil & Gas selling its Wyoming Powder River assets

(2/26/2010) Norse buying 19,700 acres of Texas Barnett oil & gas

(2/25/2010) Neon Energy granted block in Vietnam's Song Hong Basin

(2/25/2010) Anadarko farming into Origin's NZ Canterbury Basin permit

(2/25/2010) X-Terra & Brownstone add St Lawrence Lowlands acreage

(2/25/2010) Chevron picks up Poland's Grabowiec Concession

(2/24/2010) InterOil swaps stake in Llanos block for drilling services

(2/24/2010) Cobalt scores offshore Angola Blocks 9 & 21

(2/24/2010) JAG transferring Quebec concessions to Olitra

(2/24/2010) Manas Petroleum completes Albanian transaction

(2/23/2010) Anterra picks up 2 more sections of Cardium and Bakken lands

(2/23/2010) Caspian Energy selling stake in Aral Petroleum & block

(2/22/2010) Sirius farms into marginal Nigeria concession

(2/22/2010) Negotiations for Iraq's An Nasiriyah Field deadlocked

(2/21/2010) GS Caltex buys stake in Bangladesh block

(2/21/2010) No more Iraq field development contracts for foreign firms

(2/19/2010) Brazil's ANP okays Inpex stake in Shell Brasil block

(2/19/2010) Both CNOOC & Total may share in Tullow's Uganda assets

(2/19/2010) ExxonMobil & MOL quit Falcon JV in Hungary

(2/19/2010) Simba wins extension to Liberia reconnaissance permit

(2/19/2010) Det Norske farms into Shell's Norwegian Sea license

(2/19/2010) Norway launches 2010 awards in predefined areas

(2/18/2010) New US MMS audit plan to assure royalties due are paid

(2/18/2010) Egypt extends Apache concessions in Western Desert

(2/17/2010) BP & Rosneft relinquish license for Sakhalin 5 block

(2/17/2010) PA swaps 3 UK licenses for 2 license extensions

(2/17/2010) Providence awarded option on Baltimore heavy oil block

(2/17/2010) Jamaica launching new licensing round 1 March

(2/17/2010) Oman to award 11 E&P contracts in 2010

(2/16/2010) EGAS makes last year's awards official

(2/16/2010) Africa Oil taking over Platform Resources' Kenya blocks

(2/16/2010) Brinx joining 09-3 Oklahoma Project

(2/16/2010) Anadarko farms out Marcellus Shale stake to Mitsui

(2/16/2010) ERHC Energy granted 2 blocks of Sao Tome & Principe

(2/15/2010) Farm-in into MEO Australia gas block nearing finalization

(2/15/2010) Forum converts Philippines service contract into license

(2/15/2010) Maurel & Prom farming into Dominion's Tanzania blocks

(2/14/2010) Stake in Brazil's Peregrino Field for sale

(2/12/2010) Vicpet sells stakes in Australia's Northern Perth Basin

(2/12/2010) Mubadala sub scores Sarawak PSC

(2/11/2010) MMS issues final notice of Central US Gulf lease sale

(2/11/2010) LG buying Roxi's stake in Kazakh Galaz concession

(2/11/2010) DVM acquires Morocco's Tarfaya Offshore Block

(2/11/2010) Chevron and Repsol consortia win Carabobo projects

(2/10/2010) New Zealand offering Taranaki Kahili Block

(2/10/2010) Petrobras & partners sign for Uruguayian blocks

(2/9/2010) Marathon sells stake in Angola block with 12 discoveries

(2/9/2010) Epsilon sell its stake in Yemen's onshore Block 41

(2/9/2010) Ghana blocks ExxonMobil $4 billion buy into Jubilee Field

(2/8/2010) Triangle acquires North Dakota Bakken Shale acreage

(2/8/2010) Forest Gate options 50% interest in Utah acreage

(2/8/2010) Elixir acquiring France's largest onshore exploration block

(2/8/2010) Anadarko awarded 5 blocks offshore Kenya

(2/8/2010) Range selling Ohio properties to EV Energy Partners

(2/7/2010) Statoil scores extension to 3 Faroese licenses

(2/7/2010) Egypt grants 2 development leases to Apache

(2/7/2010) Petronas and UNOG awarded deepwater Myanmar blocks

(2/7/2010) Oilex seeking unpaid debt from cancelled West Kampar farmout

(2/5/2010) AED buys Nations' East Java & Papua Indonesia stakes

(2/5/2010) CGC nearing exit from Ecuador Amazon block

(2/4/2010) Sea Dragon adds stake in Egypt's Kom Ombo 2

(2/4/2010) Uganda approves Tullow's pre-emption buy of Heritage stakes

(2/3/2010) Petrovietnam granted Uzbekistan exploration block

(2/3/2010) AuDAX farms out vacated stakes in Romanian AIM

(2/2/2010) Avalon buys into Bayside's Mississippi field prospect

(2/1/2010) Arawak acquires 50% stake in Russia's Tomsk license

(2/1/2010) Russian consortium takes Venezuela's Junin-6

(2/1/2010) Circle awarded 2 more Rharb Basin permits in Morocco

(1/31/2010) Chevron extends Cambodian concession

(1/31/2010) Lukoil & Statoil take Iraq's West Qurna 2 Field

(1/29/2010) Black Elk picks up 6 fields in US Gulf Texas waters

(1/29/2010) Shell sells Nigeria assets to locally led consortium

(1/29/2010) Onshore Bangladesh blocks open to international companies

(1/29/2010) Carabobo round pulls in bids for each block offered

(1/28/2010) EuroGas granted 3 Ukraine unconventional gas blocks

(1/28/2010) Centric scores PSC for Kenya Rift Valley concession

(1/28/2010) Gazprom Neft signs deal on Iraqi oil deposit development

(1/28/2010) Petrolifera farming out Argentina's Vaca Mahuida Block

(1/28/2010) Afren farms into Nigeria's Block OML115

(1/27/2010) Trans-Global to post $2 million to keep Jordan concession

(1/27/2010) Northern Empire adds 9 sections in Alberta's Redwater

(1/27/2010) UK offers record 2,818 licenses in 26th round

(1/27/2010) CNPC-led JV takes Iraq's Halfaya Field contract

(1/27/2010) Either Total or CNOOC to partner Tullow in Uganda Blocks (update)

(1/27/2010) Modiin farming into Adira stake in Gabriella Block off Israel

(1/27/2010) Strike extends option period for Philippine acquisition

(1/26/2010) Groundstar swapping Egypt assets with KTE

(1/26/2010) Sonangol signs for Iraq's Qayarah & Najmah Fields

(1/26/2010) Pennant to participate in Badger offset

(1/26/2010) Eni signs to partner PDVSA in Venezuela heavy oil project

(1/26/2010) TAG Oil adds rest of Kawakawa oil shale acreage

(1/26/2010) Chesapeake sells Total stake in Texas Barnett Shale

(1/26/2010) Tullow signs $1.5 billion agreement for Heritage's Uganda stakes (update)

(1/25/2010) TransGlobe farming into Egypt's East Ghazalet Concession

(1/25/2010) ExxonMobil signs for Iraq's West Qurna-1 Field

(1/25/2010) Tri-Valley extends California Racetrack Hill lease

(1/25/2010) Maersk's buy of Devon US Gulf deepwater stakes preempted

(1/25/2010) Statoil acquiring stake in 50 ConocoPhillips Chukchi Sea leases

(1/24/2010) Pakistan divided into prospectivity & geological risk zones

(1/24/2010) Aker's deepwater license offshore Ghana tagged invalid

(1/24/2010) US Energy opts to participate in 3rd series of Brigham wells

(1/22/2010) Drillsearch gives up Carnarvon Basin block

(1/22/2010) Venezuela rejects Total & Statoil for Orinoco Belt block

(1/22/2010) Consortium signs for Iraq's Zubair Field redevelopment

(1/20/2010) Participants exiting Turkmenistan Caspian concession

(1/20/2010) New Zealand opens bidding for Reinga Basin blocks

(1/20/2010) Drillsearch buy of Magellan Aussie unit brings 3 licenses

(1/20/2010) Petronas and Japex score Iraq's Gharraf oilfield contract

(1/20/2010) Brownstone & Quetzal acquiring Fenix Colombia concession

(1/20/2010) Serica farms out UK East Irish Sea blocks to Agora

(1/19/2010) Epsilon farms out Marcellus Shale stake to Chesapeake

(1/19/2010) Norway offers 38 APA 2009 production licenses

(1/19/2010) Egdon farms out stakes in 2 UK licenses

(1/19/2010) NZOG awarded new exploration permit offshore Taranaki

(1/18/2010) Repsol & partners sign for Algeria's Sud-Est Illizi

(1/18/2010) Not a single bid for Venezuela's Mariscal Sucre

(1/17/2010) Woodside farms out 3 Western Oz blocks to PTTEP

(1/17/2010) Tullow acts to preempt Heritage sale of Uganda assets to Eni

(1/17/2010) ONGC follows Mittal out of Trinidad & Tobago gas block

(1/17/2010) Shell & Petronas sign Iraq Majnoon Field development contract

(1/15/2010) Shell acquires interest in Egypt's Alam El Shawish

(1/15/2010) ExxonMobil farming into Petrobras' Turkish Black Sea block

(1/15/2010) Sea Dragon farming into Egypt's Kom Ombo Concession

(1/15/2010) Alamo farming into 4 UK onshore blocks

(1/15/2010) BHP Philippine farm-in to fund 3D shoot

(12/15/2009) Gazprom stake in Libya's Elephant Field imminent

(12/15/2009) Carrizo sells stake in Texas Barnett Shale to Sumitomo

(12/14/2009) Det Norske takes a stake in ExxonMobil's Jetta

(12/14/2009) Bengal scores 100% of Queensland Cooper Basin block

(12/14/2009) Somalia's Puntland revises Dharoor & Nogal PSAs

(12/13/2009) Premier picks up licenses for 3 Russian fields in acquisition

(12/13/2009) Iraq expands Zubair Field & Eni ups target output

(12/12/2009) Iraq licensing led by Lukoil-Statoil JV winning West Qurna

(12/11/2009) BP sells stake in Tengiz Field & Caspian Pipeline to Lukoil

(12/11/2009) Tag takes over New Zealand's Winchester Permit

(12/11/2009) Poland awards Chevron Zwierzyniec exploration permit

(12/11/2009) Empyrean joins Krescent in Texas Hercules drilling

(12/11/2009) Sonangol buying Marathon's stake in Angola Block 32

(12/11/2009) Shell & Petronas win Iraq's giant Majnoon Field contract

(12/10/2009) Planet Gas picks up South Australia exploration license

(12/9/2009) Stuart granted new South Australia permit

(12/9/2009) Europa exiting Egyptian exploration license

(12/9/2009) Forest Gate farms into Vanterra's Utah licenses

(12/9/2009) CGX looking for partner in Guyana's Corentyne Block

(12/9/2009) Octanex granted New Zealand permit between Maari and Maui

(12/9/2009) ConocoPhillips exercises option on Western Australia blocks

(12/8/2009) License holders withdrawing from Sudan block

(12/8/2009) Mozambique 4th licensing round underway

(12/8/2009) Forest Oil farming into Quebec's Lorraine & Utica Shale

(12/8/2009) Total joins French Guiana's Guyane Maritime JV

(12/8/2009) Iraq to auction 10 oilfield projects despite today's bombings

(12/8/2009) EVEP & EnerVest farming out West Virginia acreage

(12/7/2009) InterOil dropping out of Oil Search PNG block

(12/7/2009) Apco does dual farm-in onshore Colombia

(12/7/2009) Corridor farms out New Brunswick interest to Apache

(12/7/2009) Falcon acquiring Sweetpea stakes in Australia's Beetaloo permits

(12/7/2009) Talisman granted Indonesia's Andaman 3 Block

(12/7/2009) Dana Petroleum farming into deepwater concession

(12/7/2009) Serica selling Southeast Asia interests

(12/6/2009) Tethys' Tajikistan sub seeking farmout of Bokhtar PSC

(12/6/2009) Magellan sells all interests in Australia's Cooper Basin

(12/4/2009) CNSOPB calls for bids on Sable Sub-basin shallow water parcels

(12/4/2009) Ecopetrol farms into 2 deepwater blocks in Colombia

(12/4/2009) Albania approves terms & conditions for Bankers PSA

(12/4/2009) Petroamerica farming into Colombia's Playon Block

(12/3/2009) Brownstone & Quetzal farm-in at Colombia's Llanos Block 27

(12/3/2009) Salamander farming out 5 blocks in Thailand, Laos & Vietnam

(12/3/2009) Goodrich buying 12,000 acres in Texas Haynesville Shale

(12/3/2009) Denbury purchasing Texas' Conroe Field for $430.7 million

(12/2/2009) Dejour adds more acreage in NE British Columbia

(12/2/2009) Uganda won't allow pre-emption of Heritage sale to Eni

(12/1/2009) Indonesia offering another 24 new blocks

(12/1/2009) CAVU farming into Anadarko acreage in Colorado

(12/1/2009) NIOC offers 40% of South Pars 12 to Indian JV

(12/1/2009) VAALCO extends its exploration permit off Gabon

(11/30/2009) Husky acquires Lloydminster area heavy oil properties

(11/30/2009) Greymouth granted New Zealand Moturoa Permit

(11/30/2009) SandRidge buying Forest Oil assets for $800 million

(11/30/2009) Venezuela eases up on Carabobo licensing terms

(11/30/2009) Cairn sub Capricorn swapping interests with Dyas

(11/30/2009) Vanguard to acquire Permian Basin properties

(11/29/2009) BP-Eni JV takes Indonesia's Sanga-Sanga Block

(11/29/2009) Baron acquiring additional assets in East Texas

(11/29/2009) DualEx sells stakes in Portuguese concessions

(11/27/2009) Duty being dropped on 13 Eastern Siberia fields

(11/27/2009) Tap farming into Lundin's West Java concession

(11/27/2009) BHP assuming operation of Philippines block

(11/27/2009) Court settles Algeria's Gassi Touil dispute

(11/27/2009) Argenta farms out stake in Colombia's La Mona Block

(11/27/2009) Zarubezhneft receives stakes in Russian oilfield

(11/26/2009) Petroecuador & Sinopec JV to develop Ecuador block

(11/26/2009) Artumas wins Tanzania approval of farmout

(11/26/2009) Noreco pre-qualifies for Greenland 2010 licensing

(11/26/2009) GNPC to get first shot at Kosmos' Jubilee interests

(11/25/2009) Indonesia awards 3 oil and gas blocks & 3 CBM blocks

(11/25/2009) ERHC negotiating for stake in Nigeria's Eremor Field

(11/25/2009) Pacific Rubiales farms out Colombia & Peru stakes

(11/25/2009) Cooper farms out stake in South Australia permit

(11/24/2009) Woodside sells Libya onshore assets to GdF Suez

(11/24/2009) Ethiopia to offer exploration blocks in next 3 years

(11/23/2009) Concho buying Texas Permian Basin assets for $225 million

(11/23/2009) Manas selling part of Albania interest

(11/23/2009) Bontan adds stakes in 3 blocks off Israel

(11/23/2009) Pacific Asia buys CAMAC stake in Nigeria field

(11/23/2009) Energy XXI adding Mitsui US Gulf interests

(11/22/2009) Nippon & Inpex in line for $8 billion Iraq development

(11/22/2009) Marathon granted gas shale license in Poland

(11/22/2009) Heritage selling Uganda operations to Eni for $1.3 billion

(11/20/2009) PetroVietnam pre-empts Pan Pacific's Vietnam stake

(11/20/2009) Lukoil & Rosneft ask Putin for licensing clarification

(11/20/2009) CNPC & Petronas swap Sudan interests

(11/20/2009) Tullow wins extension of exploration period in Uganda

(11/20/2009) ExxonMobil wins renewal of 3 Nigeria licenses

(11/20/2009) Players swap interests in western Newfoundland

(11/19/2009) Nordic picks up 10 new Alberta licenses

(11/19/2009) Timberlake adds 3 more oil leases in Kansas

(11/18/2009) AED Oil acquiring Nation's Brunei Block L

(11/18/2009) Ivanhoe acquisition of PanAsian brings Mongolian interests

(11/18/2009) Zambia picks 7 of 8 bidders for exploration blocks

(11/18/2009) Spring & Wintershall swapping North Sea assets

(11/18/2009) Mittal withdraws from Kazakh Caspian concession

(11/18/2009) New Zealand action plan promotes E&P

(11/16/2009) Suntera JV withdrawing from India concessions

(11/16/2009) Fortune adds Molopo stake in Shanxi CBM block

(11/16/2009) Hansa takes over Serica's stakes in UK gas blocks

(11/16/2009) Monitor farms out piece of its PEL115 interest

(11/16/2009) Solo Oil farming into Aminex's Ruvuma Block in Tanzania

(11/16/2009) MASS makes Western Canadian Basin buy

(11/15/2009) MMS shortening lease terms for US Gulf Sale 213

(11/15/2009) OIL farming out stake in Assam Arakan Basin block

(11/15/2009) FAR wins extension to 3 Senegal concessions

(11/13/2009) Stratic farming out stakes in North Sea licenses

(11/13/2009) Ecopetrol takes over operation of Cupiagua fields

(11/12/2009) Junex earns stake in St Lawrence Lowlands permit

(11/11/2009) Entek gets 3 US Gulf blocks, Rocksource 1 more

(11/11/2009) Gazprom Neft signs for 2 Iranian oilfields

(11/11/2009) Lake Maracaibo JV lining up for Petrovietnam

(11/11/2009) Alaska North Slope Lease Sale pulls in $8.5 million

(11/11/2009) Petrovietnam picks up Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake PSC

(11/11/2009) AWE & Innamincka take greater share of BassGas Project

(11/11/2009) Shell acquires stake in Guyane Maritime Permit

(11/10/2009) Brazil's Congress to approve new oil & gas regulations

(11/10/2009) Pennsylvania to lease 32,000 acres for gas E&P

(11/9/2009) Caithness adds Morocco & UK blocks

(11/8/2009) Zambia receives bids from 8 companies for 23 blocks

(11/8/2009) Bonterra sells Saskatchewan assets to Eagle Rock

(11/8/2009) Majors & NOCs vying for Venezuela's Carabobo

(11/6/2009) Sonangol to invest $1.5 billion in Ecuador

(11/6/2009) Canacol farms out stake in Guyana license to Sagres

(11/6/2009) Stratic sells entire Italian portfolio to Enel Trade

(11/6/2009) Eni & KazMunayGas targeting Caspian's Isatay & Chagala

(11/5/2009) Epsilon exits Oman's EPSA for Block 55

(11/5/2009) Verenex agrees to Libya's preemptive acquisition

(11/5/2009) Gabon preparing 40-block licensing round in 2010

(11/5/2009) Silver Wave wins South Africa exploration rights

(11/5/2009) Iraq's West Qurna contract goes to ExxonMobil & Shell

(11/5/2009) Shell wins South Africa Orange Basin exploration rights

(11/4/2009) Zarubezeneft scores 4 blocks in northern Cuba

(11/4/2009) CNOOC taking stakes in 4 Statoil-operated US Gulf fields

(11/4/2009) ExxonMobil & Shell in line for Iraq's West Qurna-1

(11/4/2009) Afren farms into block off western Nigeria

(11/4/2009) Vicpet buys Bow's interest in Queensland Surat Basin

(11/4/2009) PrimeGen granted Russia's Baltic Basin Layevozhskoye license

(11/3/2009) Roc sub farming out stake in Cabinda onshore block

(11/3/2009) Stuart withdraws from Australia Gippsland Basin permit

(11/3/2009) Talisman increases Marcellus & Montney Shale acreage

(11/3/2009) BP & CNPC to develop Iraq's super-giant Rumaila Field

(11/2/2009) Eni, Oxy & Kogas initial Iraq Zubair Field agreement

(11/2/2009) Adelaide & Austin modify PEL105 farm-in agreement

(11/2/2009) Woodside sells its Otway Gas Project stake to Origin

(11/2/2009) Premier Energy buying Russian licensees Speckrit & Karbon

(11/2/2009) Finder farms out stakes in Australia Browse Basin blocks

(11/2/2009) UTS sells half its Alberta Oil Sands interests

(11/2/2009) AMG sub Adira Energy awarded offshore Israel license

(11/1/2009) Petrotrin sublets 7 fields onshore eastern Trinidad

(11/1/2009) Endeavour adds stake in Texas-Louisiana fields

(10/30/2009) Ithaca buying Maersk interest in UK North Sea Stella Field

(10/30/2009) American Energy adds stakes in Pakistan blocks

(10/30/2009) Brazil's ANP to launch licensing Round 11

(10/29/2009) Antares acquires major Eagle Ford shale project

(10/29/2009) European Gas awarded Valenciennois CBM exploration permit

(10/29/2009) Force takes 50% of Alberta well shut-in since 2007

(10/29/2009) Provident selling Alberta heavy oil assets to Emerge

(10/27/2009) Falcon granted tech evaluation permit in South Africa

(10/26/2009) Talisman-Petronas Carigali JV scores 2 Sabah blocks

(10/26/2009) Stuart selling stake in Timor Sea permit

(10/25/2009) Avro adds 11 southern Arkansas producers

(10/25/2009) Beach farming into Queensland permit with Icon Energy

(10/25/2009) Jordan grants BP development of Risheh gasfield

(10/23/2009) Uruguay awards onshore gas exploration project to Schuepbach

(10/22/2009) Uruguay awards 2 blocks to Petrobras & YPF

(10/22/2009) Kairiki sub farms out stake in Philippines Tindalo block

(10/22/2009) Contango farming into Patara Cotton Valley project

(10/22/2009) Black Dragon & Kingdom Energy terminate agreement (update)

(10/22/2009) Kea wins onshore Northland NZ exploration permit

(10/22/2009) AWE, Mitsui & Mighty River granted New Zealand permit

(10/22/2009) Northern awarded Netherlands gas exploration license

(10/21/2009) Bengal provisional winner of India Cauvery Basin block

(10/20/2009) US Interior opens federal lands to oil shale R&D

(10/20/2009) US BLM putting up 51 parcels for bid tomorrow

(10/20/2009) Great Southern pre-empting Northern Territory farm-in

(10/20/2009) Miller buying Cook Inlet Energy Tennessee assets

(10/20/2009) Comet Ridge awarded Queensland coal seam gas permit

(10/20/2009) Cue Energy farms into Todd Taranaki permits

(10/19/2009) Petrolia increases its working interest in Haldimand

(10/19/2009) MEO Australia & Petrofac terminate farm-in

(10/19/2009) Dana signs for stake in offshore Guinea gas concession

(10/19/2009) Red Sky acquiring Surat Basin coal seam gas permits

(10/19/2009) Horizon farms into Todd-operated offshore New Zealand permit

(10/18/2009) Lukoil & ConocoPhillips pledge higher West Qurna output

(10/18/2009) Sonangol to buy into Ecuador Amazon blocks

(10/18/2009) CNOOC talking to StatoilHydro to buy 5 blocks in US Gulf

(10/17/2009) Magellan adds Montana acreage with Nautilus Poplar buy

(10/16/2009) AuDAX farms out stake in Tunisian concession to DNO

(10/15/2009) Pertamina looking for partners for Natuna D-Alpha Block

(10/15/2009) Egdon sells stakes in 4 UK onshore licenses

(10/15/2009) Antares increases interest in Texas' Yellow Rose Project

(10/14/2009) Colombia to put 178 blocks up for bid in December

(10/14/2009) Sky to add Suntera stakes in 2 onshore Nigeria blocks

(10/14/2009) Bangladesh may offer onshore gas blocks

(10/14/2009) Oman Oil buys into Reliance blocks offshore Oman

(10/14/2009) Hess joins Newfield in Marcellus Shale exploration

(10/14/2009) Cairn farming out stake in 6 Greenland blocks

(10/14/2009) Cygam farming out onshore Tunisia permit

(10/13/2009) Mozambique offering stake in onshore block

(10/13/2009) Pan Pacific loses one & wins one in Asia farm-ins

(10/13/2009) Eni granted Iraq's giant Zubair Field

(10/13/2009) BNK farms out stake in 3 Polish concessions

(10/12/2009) Brouhaha brewing over sale of Kosmos' Jubilee stake

(10/12/2009) Sao Tome e Principe to auction blocks in 2010

(10/12/2009) Jordan okay's JV for Al-Risha gasfield

(10/12/2009) Just half the blocks in India's latest round receive bids

(10/12/2009) Rocksource receives 2 more US Gulf leases

(10/12/2009) Oando farm-in at Akepo Field wins approval

(10/9/2009) Southern Pacific adds Saskatchewan heavy oil project

(10/9/2009) American farms out stake in Wyoming Powder River field

(10/9/2009) US Interior okay's some Bush era parcels in Utah for lease

(10/8/2009) Red Sky adding 7 CGS permits in NSW, Australia

(10/8/2009) Altai granted new St Lawrence Lowlands permits

(10/8/2009) ExxonMobil wins extension to New Zealand frontier license

(10/8/2009) Ramba Energy acquires stake in Sumatran block

(10/8/2009) Petrolifera obtains Magdalena license in Colombia

(10/7/2009) Contango takes 5 blocks offshore Texas for $800,000

(10/7/2009) International Goldfields acquiring Eastern Petroleum

(10/7/2009) International Sovereign selling stake in Ecuador block

(10/7/2009) Cantrell farming into Petro Vista Colombia concessions

(10/7/2009) TNK-BP sub granted Russia's Saratov region's Kameliksky area

(10/6/2009) ExxonMobil buying Kosmos' share of Ghana Jubilee Field

(10/6/2009) DNO to restart operations in Kurdistan region of Iraq

(10/6/2009) Roxi extends LG access to Kazakh asset info

(10/6/2009) Brownstone & Quetzal to acquire Fenix interests

(10/6/2009) Total & GdF join Kazakh JV for Khvalynskoye Field

(10/5/2009) Isis to assist Baraka in Central Australia's Georgina Basin

(10/5/2009) Metgasco buys remaining interest in 2 NSW permits

(10/5/2009) Morgan Creek takes on Oklahoma North Fork 3D prospect

(10/5/2009) BPMigas approves 4 of 6 Indonesia PSC extensions

(10/5/2009) CNPC takes a bigger slice of Iraq's Rumaila development

(10/4/2009) Perenco adds Marathon's stakes in 3 blocks off Gabon

(10/4/2009) Pakistan grants licenses for 41 blocks

(10/4/2009) PDVSA buys ConocoPhillips stake in Venezuela's Deltana

(10/4/2009) Ten new blocks awarded off northwestern Australia

(10/4/2009) Empire applies for exploration license over Tasmania discoveries

(10/4/2009) Toreador sells Turkish & Hungarian operations

(10/4/2009) Red Sky farms into Central Australia tenements

(10/1/2009) Lundin farms out stake in Norwegian block to Bayerngas

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