News Topics: Property Acquisitions & Divestitures

Monday, June 17, 2013 Ithaca Energy farms out interests in Handcross prospect to Edison International, while also arranging a farm-out deal with Shell.

Monday, June 17, 2013 CNOOC and Shell among firms awarded permits in latest Australian licensing round.

Monday, June 17, 2013 Chevron completes a transaction to acquire another oil exploration deal in Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdistan region, the US company said in a statement.

Monday, June 17, 2013 Natural Resources Partners purchase assets in the Williston Basin, located in North Dakota and Montana.

Monday, June 17, 2013 New World Oil and Gas secures a six-month extension to deadlines for its work program on the Danica Jutland project in Denmark.

Friday, June 14, 2013 Cuadrilla resources received interest from Total, Exxon, Shell and Statoil about its shale asset.

Friday, June 14, 2013 Rosneft and Lukoil awarded shares in three exploration licenses in the Norwegian Barents Sea.

Friday, June 14, 2013 Three state-run Indian firms will bid for eight oil and gas blocks in Myanmar, according to an Indian oil minister.

Thursday, June 13, 2013 Centrica buys 25-percent stake in Cuadrilla Resources’ Bowland shale gas license in Lancashire, northern England.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Inpex has been awarded exploration permit WA-494-P in Browse Basin, Western Australia by the government.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Eni and Statoil awarded interests in several licenses to explore for oil and gas in the Barents Sea as part of Norway's 22nd licensing round.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Continental acquires a shareholding stake in Visionaire Energy AS.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 RWE Dea joins forces with Petronas by grabbing a 40 percent stake in a license off the coast of Suriname.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Chevron announces plans to auction interest in oil mining leases offshore Nigeria.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Brazil will hold its first auction of pre-salt oil and natural gas exploration acreage Oct. 22, a director of the country's National Petroleum Agency says.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Russia's Lukoil farms into Block CI-504 offshore Cote d'Ivoire.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Statoil will acquire an interest in four exploration permits and two exploration permit applications in Australia's Northern Territory.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Western Australia invites bids for six petroleum exploration leases, including onshore blocks.

Monday, June 10, 2013 Brownstone Energy Inc. will terminate its remaining interest in the Llanos 21 block in the Llanos basin in Colombia.

Monday, June 10, 2013 Atlas Resource Partners agrees to buy 466 billion cubic feet of natural gas proved reserves.

Monday, June 10, 2013 ONGC and Oil India agree to buy a 10% stake in a Mozambique oil and gas field from a unit of Videocon Industries for $2.47 billion.

Thursday, June 06, 2013 Cubic Energy announces that the closing of the previously announced purchase of Gastar's East Texas properties has been extended.

Thursday, June 06, 2013 Addax Petroleum says it has not received official notification from the government of Gabon of its intentioned not to renew one of its oil field licenses.

Thursday, June 06, 2013 Epsilon Energy acquires its operating partner's 50-percent joint venture interest in Saskatchewan.

Wednesday, June 05, 2013 Mediterranean Oil and Gas completes the sale of its interests in 13 non-core exploration and production gas assets.

Wednesday, June 05, 2013 Brazil's Congress is considering a bill that would reduce the burden placed on Petrobras to develop pre-salt oil fields, potentially opening up the promising offshore region to greater private-sector investment.

Tuesday, June 04, 2013 Crew Energy exercises the option to purchase the balance of Terra's Montney assets in northeast British Columbia.

Tuesday, June 04, 2013 DNO International agrees a farm-in deal for the Sfax Offshore Exploration Permit and Ras El Besh Concession in Tunisia.

Tuesday, June 04, 2013 Petrovietnam Exploration Production Corporation signs agreement to transfer part of its interest in the M2 Mottan Block, offshore Myanmar, to Maurel & Prom.

Monday, June 03, 2013 Abu Dhabi National Oil Company completes the acquisition of the Harding field and other North Sea assets from BP.

Monday, June 03, 2013 Andes Energia signs a joint venture deal with Imetame Energia to explore Imetame's onshore assets in Brazil.

Monday, June 03, 2013 Mediterranean Oil & Gas says it is joining Cairn Energy in the exploration of Malta’s offshore Area 3.

Friday, May 31, 2013 Nostra Terra exercises an opportunity to increase its Working Interest to 20% in the High Plains Prospect, located in Texas.

Friday, May 31, 2013 Peru's government launches a public auction for offshore oil concessions, attracting the interest of international oil firms like ExxonMobil and Chevron, the agency responsible for the auction says.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Northern Petroleum enters and secures a position in an Australian oil shale play.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013 NorthWestern Energy agrees to purchase operating and non-operating natural gas production interests in northern Montana's Bear Paw Basin from Devon Energy Production Company.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 OMV reports that it has agreed to sell a nine percent stake in the Nabucco pipeline project to GDF Suez.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Rango announces it will acquire working interests in exploration/development projects in Central California covering over 12,000 acres of reserve potential.

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Royal Dutch Shell renews exploration focus on West Africa after the failure of a second attempt to gain a foothold in new gas discoveries off East Africa.

Monday, May 27, 2013 India's government has allowed state-run ONGC Videsh to buy a minority stake from ConocoPhillips in an oil field in Kazakhstan for $5.5B, a senior ONGC executive says.

Friday, May 24, 2013 Exxon Mobil is considering investing in InterOil Corporation's natural gas assets in Papua New Guinea.

Friday, May 24, 2013 Statoil farms into Block 6, offshore Tanzania, for a 12-percent stake.

Thursday, May 23, 2013 Marathon Oil says discussions to sell its 20% outside-operated stake in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project in Alberta were unsuccessful and talks with a prospective buyer have been terminated.

Thursday, May 23, 2013 Occidental may consider selling its overseas assets or splitting into three separate companies in order to fund a stock buyback and improve its share price, Chief Executive Steve Chazen tells investors.

Thursday, May 23, 2013 Osaka Gas buys stakes in natural gas assets in Papua New Guinea from Horizon Oil.

Thursday, May 23, 2013 Virginia Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine introduce legislation that would open up acreage offshore Virginia for energy leasing.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Laredo sells assets to raise capital for drilling activities in the Permian basin.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Qatar Petroleum International and Total sign a framework of Agreement whereby QPI will participate in Total E&P Congo through its subscription to a 15% share capital increase of this company.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 Tangiers Petroleum executes a farm-out agreement for two Australian exploration permits located in the Bonaparte Basin.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Europa says it is relinquishing licenses in Romanian and the Saharawi Arab Democratic Rebublic to focus on projects in Western Europe.