Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - Ascent Resources' subsidiary PetroHungaria has commenced the drilling of the PEN-101 well, part of the Penszlek Project in eastern Hungary.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - Alange Energy reported that the Barranquero-1 well, drilled to explore the prospectivity of the Carbonera C-7 formation in Polygon B of the Cubiro Block, found 15 feet of net oil sand.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - Det norske, operator of production license 476, has finished drilling of exploration well 6507/11-10. The well was dry and will be permanently plugged and abandoned.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - Gastem reported the initial test results of the single frac completions at La Presentation No1 and St-Hyacinthe No1 vertical wells, located in the St. Lawrence Lowlands, Quebec.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - Encore and its co-venturers have procured rigs for both Catcher (late March to early April spud) and Cladhan (late May to early July spud), both located in the UK North Sea.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - Nexen, operator of production license 419, is in the process of completing the drilling of wildcat well 35/9-5, which will be classified as dry.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - Max Petroleum has received approval to drill the first exploration well in 2010 for the Astrakhanskiy License.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - Pacific Rubiales announced a new oil discovery at the Quifa-6 well, and another successful appraisal well on Prospect "E", within the Quifa Block located in the Llanos Basin of Colombia.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - Realm Energy is in negotiations to acquire an additional European shale gas play.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - Stratic Energy has provide a business update and review of its plans for 2010.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 - Victoria Oil & Gas noted that the La-106 well was spudded on February 6, 2010 at its Logbaba gas and condensate project in Douala, Cameroon.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - IRG has updated on the appraisal campaign that is designed to demonstrate commercially-viable natural gas flow from the Fiume Bruna coal seam, located near Grosseto, Italy.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - Iran has discovered an oil field and a gas field, the Oil Ministry's news agency said late Saturday.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - Lacula Oil Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of ROC, has provided an update on activity at the Cabinda Onshore South Block, Angola.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - Elixir Petroleum has agreed to acquire the large Moselle Permit located in the East Paris Basin, onshore Northeastern France.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - ExxonMobil has successfully drilled and cased PTU-15, the first development well for the Point Thomson project on Alaska's North Slope.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - FormCap has entered into a Consulting and Option Agreement to develop and execute the drilling and development plan for the Weber City Prospect, located in the Permian Basin.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - Forest Gate Energy has entered into an exclusive option agreement with a private Denver, Colorado-based oil company to acquire a 50% interest in oil licenses in the state of Utah.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - Dejour has reported sharply increased Montney Shale activity in the region of its Buick Creek, Peace River Arch project.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - AGR Petroleum Services off the Falklands Islands this month on behalf of two operators.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - Pertamina is almost certain to take over the operation of the West Madura block, off the northern coast of East Java, from PT Kodeco Energy.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - PetroLatina has announced a new exploration discovery at the Zoe-1 exploration well, which has now been completed and is undergoing testing operations.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - Tethys reported the initial results of testing on the upper zone of the AKD01 oil discovery in Kazakhstan.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - Triangle Petroleum announced a new strategic initiative in the Bakken Shale play of North Dakota and the acquisition of 4,000 net acres in Williams and McKenzie counties.

Monday, February 08, 2010 - WesternZagros has provided an update on the progress made at its Kurdamir-1 exploration well in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Friday, February 05, 2010 - BGP has been awarded two new seismic contracts in Cameroon, the acquisition of which will commence in February 2010.

Friday, February 05, 2010 - Melrose Resources has announced a new exploration discovery. Additionally, the company has commenced seismic data acquisition in Egypt.

Friday, February 05, 2010 - Samson Oil & Gas advised that the Gene No.1-22H was laying down drill pipe, and has completed the drilling of the 8 and inch hole to a measured depth of 11,547 feet, true vertical depth (TVD) of 11,226 feet.

Friday, February 05, 2010 - Zion Oil & Gas is mobilizing its drilling rig, currently situated at the Elijah No.3 well, to resume production testing operations on the Ma'anit-Rehoboth No.2 well within two weeks.

Thursday, February 04, 2010 - Lundin Petroleum has commenced drilling on exploration well 16/4-5 on the Luno High prospect in the Greater Luno Area.

Thursday, February 04, 2010 - Frontera has completed a new phase of drilling operations at the Mirzaani and Mtsare Khevi Fields within its Shallow Fields Production Unit, Block 12, in the country of Georgia.

Thursday, February 04, 2010 - Dubai announced the discovery of a new offshore oil field in the Persian Gulf that could boost its economy and reduce its debt woes.

Thursday, February 04, 2010 - Signature E&P has released updated information about the drilling of its Koliba Prospect in Victoria County, Texas.

Thursday, February 04, 2010 - The information session with Dr. Armando Zamora in Houston is the first stop in the United States for the 'Open Round Colombia 2010' global roadshow promoting foreign investment in Colombia's hydrocarbons sector.

Thursday, February 04, 2010 - The Marcellus Shale Coalition has provided the facts regarding water use and flowback water management in the development of natural gas from the Marcellus formation.

Thursday, February 04, 2010 - The rig Latco-02 has been contracted by Amerisur Resources and is currently rigging up over the well Iguasa-1 in the Fenix block, onshore Colombia.

Thursday, February 04, 2010 - VOG has provided an update on the passive seismic spectroscopy survey at its Logbaba gas and condensate project in Douala, Cameroon.

Wednesday, February 03, 2010 - Based on the final well information combined with the 3D seismic data interpretation, OGX estimates recoverable oil volume of between 500 and 900 million barrels for all OGX-3's reservoirs.

Wednesday, February 03, 2010 - In its quarterly report, Karoon Gas reviews the exploration and production testing of Poseidon-2 offshore Australia.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - Leed Petroleum reported that the Ship Shoal 201 A-6 well was spudded on February 1, 2010. The well is targeting one proved undeveloped sand containing audited gross 2P reserves of 2,537 mboe (85% gas).

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - Ivanhoe Energy's first appraisal well (IP-15) in the Pungarayacu field in Ecuador has reached total depth with extensive oil shows in both the Napo and Hollin formations.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - During January 2010, Patterson-UTI Energy had an average of 136 drilling rigs operating, including 122 rigs in the United States and 14 rigs in Canada.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - Cove Energy has provided an update on various commercial and operational matters for its offshore Mozambique drilling campaign.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - Ascent will commence the re-drilling of the Fontana-1 well in Hungary the next few days.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - Rockhopper has been formally assigned two slots with the Ocean Guardian drilling rig to drill the Sea Lion and Ernest prospects during its forthcoming drilling campaign in the Falklands.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - Sterling reported that the Sangaw North-1 exploration well in Kurdistan was spud on February 1, 2010.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - The 2010 operating plan for Dejour USA, which concentrates on low risk well defined development opportunities on its properties located primarily in the natural gas prone Piceance Basin, has been approved.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - The operator, Vision Resources LLC, has informed Pantheon that the second well on the Tyler County acreage is now expected to spud in early March.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - Well testing of the Objective Devonian F2 formation at well INW-2 has been successful, with a gas well test rate of 16.7 million standard cubic feet per day.

Monday, February 01, 2010 - Allied Energy has built 2.2 miles of road and the drill-site location in preparation of drilling its initial horizontal test location in the historic "Giddings Field Area" of East Texas.