Friday, November 20, 2009 - Argenta has started a long term production test in well OA x-1, Covunco block, Neuquen basin, Argentina.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - A North Slope worker was killed Wednesday when a pickup truck pinned him against a section of pipe, according to BP.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Hoang Long Joint Operating Company signed a contract with Bumi Armada Berhad and its partner Vietsovpetro, for the provision of a FPSO for the Te Giac Trang Field Development Project in Vietnam.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Gasco has awarded Technip an EPC contract to revamp existing facilities to support an increase in oil production from the new ADCO facilities and accommodate additional associated gas from the existing Asab, Shah and Sahil oil fields.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Inpex signed an agreement with PT EMP Energi Indonesia, to transfer a 10% participating interest in the Masela Block in the Arafura Sea, Indonesia.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Expro will complete surface testing and subsea landing string services offshore Nova Scotia at EnCana's Deep Panuke field.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - There will be fewer stand-alone development projects on the Norwegian continental shelf in the next few years, whereas the number of satellite fields and maintenance investments will increase, according to Statoil's Stale Tungesvik.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Faroe Petroleum has provided a production update following the completion of the acquisition of interests in the producing Glitne and Enoch oil fields.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - CNPC has vowed to go in full swing to secure natural gas supply to the country's snowstorm-hit areas, in which the plummeting temperatures below zero have driven drastic civilian demand for fuels and gas for warming.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - RWE Dea UK has successfully commenced Production from the Topaz gas field. The field is located in the UK Southern Gas Basin in the RWE Dea operated Blocks 49/2a and 49/1a.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Stratic has provided an update on reserves and operating performance for the Petrofac-operated West Don field in the North Sea.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Technip and Schlumberger announced today the signing of a global cooperation agreement to jointly develop subsea integrity and surveillance solutions for flexible pipes used in deep offshore oil and gas production.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Two well tests on the Iracema appraisal well in the Tupi area, Santos Basin, Brazil, have proved the high productivity of the pre-salt carbonate reservoirs.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - BP Norge received consent to use the Borgland Dolphin semisub for production drilling on the Skarv field in the Norwegian North Sea.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Enterprise Products Partners and Duncan Energy Partners have received additional firm transportation commitments sufficient to support an increase in the capacity of its recently announced Haynesville Extension project.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare met with Lien Chan, the special envoy of the president of Taiwan, and took the occasion to reiterate his invitation to Taiwanese investors to join the country's second LNG development project.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - PetroChina, China's leading oil and gas producer, said Wednesday that the Sebei-Xi 'ning-Lanzhou natural gas pipeline is to start formal operation of a new parallel line in mid-December.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Petrobras' average oil production in Brazil in October was 2,000,708 barrels, 6.8% more than a year ago.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Pakistan's Prime Minister has expressed the hope that arrangements for the import of LNG from Qatar would be finalized in the near future.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - The Annamaria field will produce about 1.6 million standard cubic meters per day in full capacity, thus significantly contributing to gas supplies for both Croatia and Italy.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - The Shengli oil field is to add 103 million tons of proven crude oil reserve in 2009, while the controlled reserves and the prognostic reserves will be 107 million tons and 100 million tons respectively.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - MicroSeismic has been awarded a contract for a Buried Array microseismic monitoring program in the Haynesville Shale by the El Paso Corporation.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Flint Energy Services has been awarded contracts for module fabrication for Suncor Energy's Firebag 3 project. Work is currently underway and will be completed in the first quarter of 2010.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - BG Group has signed a JV Agreement with Petrobras focused on developing FLNG as an additional option to commercialize natural gas reserves in the Santos Basin pre-salt area.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Advanced Clean Technologies' new product may actually alter the overall economics of tar sands oil production, in particular throughout Canada and Utah.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Russia and Slovakia plan to establish a joint venture which will distribute Russian gas in Slovak, news agencies quoted Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as saying on Monday.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Sinopec will see its overseas equity oil output top 10 million tons this year.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Telvent will install its OASyS DNA 7.5 supervisory control and data acquisition system and enterprise Gas Measurement and Analysis System into the largest natural gas transmission pipeline in Western Australia.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Total oil produced and sold for the Kochmesskoye No.7 well at Timan-Pechora, Russia, was 28,840 barrels with an average daily production rate of 1,442 barrels per day.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - U.S. Energy Corp. has announced the initial production rate from its Lee 16-21 No.1H Bakken well and provided an operations update regarding its Williston Basin drilling program.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - CNPC has maintained 4000 bb l/d production of its Peruvian marginal oil fields in Block 6 and Block 7 for 30 days, the highest level in the past 10 years for these blocks.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Currently, steam injection at the Long Lake Project is approximately 75,000 bbl/d and, while early in the ramp-up process, bitumen production now exceeds pre-turnaround levels and is approximately 15,000 bbl/d with 47 well pairs on production.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - A 20% increase in oil output by 2011 from its mainstay Cooper Basin production center has been forecast by Stuart Petroleum.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - ExxonMobil Production Company received a 2009 Continuing Excellence award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under its Natural Gas STAR Program.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Dresser-Rand will supply advanced turbomachinery for the FPSO vessel destined for Noble Energy's Aseng Field offshore Equatorial Guinea.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Foster Wheeler confirmed that its joint venture with WorleyParsons has been contracted for FEED services by Woodside for Train 2 and 3 of the Pluto LNG project in Australia.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - SSP Offshore's proprietary platforms have reached a major development milestone with the completion of global environment performance tests carried out at the LabOceano/Coppe testing basin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - States do a fine job of regulating the drilling process of "fracking," and transferring that regulatory authority to the federal government is not necessary, according, to West Virginia oil and natural gas industry executives.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - The Alaska Journal of Commerce The Regulatory Commission of Alaska has approved a contract for Enstar Natural Gas Co. to purchase new natural gas from the small North Fork field east of Anchor Point on the Kenai Peninsula.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Kinder Morgan and Copano Energy have entered into a letter of intent for a 50/50 joint venture to provide gathering, transportation and processing services to natural gas producers in the Eagle Ford Shale resource play in south Texas.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Gas production from the D6 Block commenced in April 2009 and has increased Niko's total production by 122 percent compared to total production prior to start-up.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Following conclusion of the conceptual field development plan for the Hammamet West oil field in the Gulf of Hammamet, Tunisia, Cooper Energy announced that the field is estimated to contain more than 200 million barrels of oil in place.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Anadarko reported Friday that the Independence Hub is producing at pre-shut in rates near 700 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Blue Dolphin Pipe Line Company has contracted with a new shipper to provide gas and condensate transportation services for the shipper's production to be delivered into the Galveston Area Block 350 Pipeline.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Cano Petroleum announced that production was in line with guidance for the first quarter which averaged 1,218 BOEPD, down 6.9% from the fourth quarter of FY 2009 and down 1.7% from the prior year first quarter.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - The Bulgaria-Azerbaijan JV will explore the possibilities for the delivery of natural gas from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria through the Nabucco gas transit pipeline.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - The Minerals Management Service Continuity of Operations Plan team is concluding its activities related to Tropical Storm Ida. As of yesterday morning, only one production platform was still evacuated, with Gulf production nearly 100% online.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 - CNPC, the parent company of PetroChina, is conducting the preparatory work to build the second phase of the Central Asia-China natural gas pipeline from Kazakhstan's Beyneu to Shymmkent.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 - CNOOC Limited announced Thursday that the Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel "Haiyangshiyou 113" shifted from its moorings by strong winds in the Bohai Bay area, has been safely secured.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 - China will produce 30 billion cubic meters of coalbed methane (CBM) by 2020 and the emerging industry will enter a period of rapid growth from 2010, according to Li Fubing, a researcher with the Ministry of Land and Resources.