Japan Exploration (Japex)

Monday, March 04, 2013 Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. agrees with Petronas to buy 10% of a Canada liquefied natural gas venture and shale gas project controlled by the Malaysian state-owned energy company.

Friday, February 08, 2013 Delays in getting equipment to the Garraf oil field in southern Iraq has delayed the start of production.

Friday, December 14, 2012 Japex plans to increase output at its bitumen facility in Canada, as it looks to develop its customer base among refineries in the U.S.

Thursday, December 10, 2009 Competition is expected to be fierce between international companies for some of Iraq's 10 oil and gas fields at a licensing auction in Baghdad Friday and Saturday.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Japan Petroleum Exploration Co. plans to spend Y110 billion on overseas oil and gas development projects from fiscal 2008 through fiscal 2012 to help spur production growth.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 Japex Philippines Ltd. decided to relinquish SC 46 block, located in Tanon Strait, the Philippines because of the lack of a commercial oil and gas discovery.

Monday, April 14, 2008 Thirty-five international oil companies are qualified to bid for future oil and gas contracts to develop one of the world's largest oil fields.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Premier Oil signed agreements for the sale of gas from the Natuna Sea Block A and North Sumatra Block A in Indonesia.

Thursday, June 28, 2007 The Songa Saturn has secured a contract with a consortium of oil companies led by Nippon Oil Exploration Limited for drilling operations offshore Libya.

Friday, June 22, 2007 Japex has confirmed production of natural gas and oil at its offshore test well in Niigata prefecture in northeastern Japan.

Friday, March 02, 2007 PT Energi Mega Persada has entered in to a heads of agreement (HOA) with Mitsubishi and Japex whereby they will assume an indirect 50% working interest in the Kangean PSC.

Thursday, February 08, 2007 Honduras' government and Japan's Japex Geoscience Institute (JGI) have signed a cooperation agreement to advance hydrocarbons exploration efforts, an official from Honduras' energy department told BNamericas.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007 PT Medco Energi Internasional and its partner Premier Oil have signed a share sale and purchase agreement to obtain ownership of Block A PSC from ConocoPhillips.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 Premier Oil plc said Wednesday that it plans to announce its interim results for the 6 months to June 30, 2006, on Sept. 21, 2006. In advance of these results, the company reported the following update.

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 Premier Oil and its partners Medco and Japex have acquired a stake in the North Sumatra Block A PSC located onshore Indonesia from a subsidiary of ExxonMobil which holds a 50% working interest in the block.

Friday, December 09, 2005 Nippon Oil successfully concluded the Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement ("EPSA") for Area 2 Block 1 & 2 with National Oil Corporation, the state oil company of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.

Tuesday, October 04, 2005 Nippon Oil, Japan Petroleum Exploration and Mitsubishi Corporation have jointly been awarded interests in two exploration blocks (Block 2-1/2 and Block 40-3/4).