Friday, November 20, 2009 - According to the RigLogix team, Cameron leads the pack of BOP companies with approximately 422 BOPs working on offshore rigs.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Brinx Resources reports that the second well from the 09-2 Oklahoma Project drill program appears to be another new discovery well.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Houston-based Marathon is joining other big oil companies in tapping the eastern European oilpatch.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Maurel & Prom reported that the Onal 1002 well has reached a vertical depth of 1,195 meters, and has encountered 82 meters of hydrocarbon-impregnated reservoirs in the Kissenda Sandstone.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Petro Vista has reached TD at its Noellia #1 (the first of several planned wells) recently drilled in the Lower Magdalena Valley Basin Colombia, La Maye Block.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - The Lore-1 well, the first well of a 2 well program in the Timor Sea contract area JPDA 06-103, was spudded on November 20, 2009.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - The number of rigs drilling for oil in the U.S. climbed this week, but the gas rig total slipped as producers curbed output in response to low prices.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - An oil column was encountered at well 25/4-10S on the Viper prospect in the Norwegian North Sea. The discovery will likely be developed as a subsea tieback to the Alvheim FPSO.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - An Alaskan delegation has delivered a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar urging him to finalize any necessary revisions to the current five-year plan for offshore oil and natural gas leasing in Alaska.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - BP and ConocoPhillips have reduced their capital spending and developmental budgets for Alaska in 2010 because of higher costs to produce mature fields, disappointing exploratory results and the state's new tax regime, the companies said.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Brazil's oil regulator, the National Petroleum Agency, or ANP, said it will start drilling in a promising offshore oil patch in the first week of December.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - During the interim reporting period, Dana has drilled four exploration prospects and also drilled appraisal sidetrack wells on two of these discoveries (Tornado and Jetta).

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Origin Energy, on behalf of the T/18P Joint Venture, advised that the Trefoil 2 well had reached total depth on Thursday, November 19, 2009 and the current operation is running wireline logs.

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 - Chevron has dropped a program to develop more oil from aging Cook Inlet oil fields and plans to reduce its Alaska Cook Inlet production workforce by 10 percent.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - SK Energy, South Korea's leading refiner, has discovered an oil deposit at a jointly owned offshore field in Vietnam, the Seoul government said Wednesday.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Trans Energy has begun drilling the Whipkey No.1H well in Marshall County, West Virginia. The Whipkey No.1H will be drilled and completed horizontally in the Marcellus shale.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Afren and partner Oriental Energy have completed the Ebok-5 appraisal well, which has confirmed additional oil pay in two reservoirs.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - "Heritage is about to embark on its busiest period ever with high-impact multi-well drilling programs in Kurdistan and Uganda, providing the potential for a significant increase in oil volumes," said CEO Tony Buckingham.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Brinx Resources reported that the drilling of two new wells at the 2009-3 Oklahoma Project has commenced.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Has the oil business slowed down in Oklahoma? Not so fast jumping to that conclusion. While there may be some pumps idled on the side of the road, that isn't a sign things are bad in the industry, said Enid oilman Lew Ward.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Lacula Oil, a wholly owned subsidiary of ROC, advised that the Castanha-1 exploration well commenced drilling on November 13, 2009.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Petrobras has completed the drilling of exploratory extension well 3-MA-32A, which has resulted in a light oil discovery with a recoverable oil volume estimated at 25 million barrels.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Petroceltic with partner Sonatrach has successfully tested 4 million standard cubic feet per day of gas from the INE-2 well, located in the Isarene Block in Algeria.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Sonangol and Petrobras have discovered oil at the Manganes-01 well in Block 18/06, located in Angola's deep waters.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - With a possible tie-in point to the regional gas pipeline grid only 6 kilometers distant from Voitinel-1, the options for appraisal and the commercial exploitation of the discovery are now being examined.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - BP confirmed that an appraisal well to test a western extension of the Kaskida field has confirmed oil in Lower Tertiary reservoirs.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Brinx Resources reported that the first well of the 2009-3 Oklahoma Project drill program appears to be a significant new discovery.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - CNPC, China's leading oil and gas producer, has 81 overseas oil and gas cooperative projects in hand.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Fugro has been contracted to obtain a seafloor core at the Fuchsia-1 location in the Gulf of Hammamet, Tunisia.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Gas and condensate have been discovered by Statoil in the Beta West prospect, 1.5 kilometers from the main Sleipner West reservoir.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Keppel FELS has received a bonus for delivering the PV Drilling III rig ahead of schedule to commence operations in the Bach Ho field, offshore Vietnam.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - OGX's new discovery well 1-OGX-2A-RJS could hold between 400 million and 500 million barrels of recoverable oil, OGX said in a statement Monday.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Repsol is considering listing part of its Brazilian unit or seeking a partner to develop a series of new oil discoveries in a promising oil region in Brazil, Repsol Chairman Antonio Brufau said over the weekend.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Royal Dutch Shell sees a bigger role for North and South America as it seeks to boost global output of oil and natural gas in coming years, said Marvin Odum, president of the company's U.S. division.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Solimar announced that a new gas productive sandstone reservoir has been discovered in the Jack Hamar 2-13 well at the Company's 100% owned and operated Southeast Lost Hills gas project.

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 Argentine government will soon announce a new program aimed at giving companies more incentive to explore and produce natural gas.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - The newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship Discoverer Americas has commenced operations in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico for Statoil under a four-year drilling contract.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Toreador successfully commenced drilling the La Garenne LGA-1D conventional exploration well, which is located on the 100% owned Rigny le Ferron permit in the Paris Basin in France.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - With more than 65,000 acres leased in Susquehanna and Wayne counties, Hess Corp. officials hope to start drilling for natural gas by mid-2010.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - An Oklahoma-based energy company has applied for the first permits to drill for natural gas in Marcellus shale deposits in Western Maryland, the state Department of the Environment said Thursday.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan said here Friday that China is hoping to further enhance cooperation with Qatar on oil and natural gas fields.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Currently Eni has 10 rigs under contract -- one drillship, four jackups, and five semisubmersibles -- working in the Mediterranean Sea, off Brazil, off West Africa, in the North Sea, and in the Gulf of Mexico.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Det norske, as operator of production license 321, has concluded drilling operations on exploration well 6306/6-2. The well was dry and the drill bit did not encounter reservoir rocks in the upper Jurassic.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Europa Oil & Gas announced that drilling the main section of the Hykeham-1 exploration well, situated on the PEDL150 license near Lincoln, has commenced.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - InterOil has successfully logged 1,224 feet (373 meters) of the reservoir in the Antelope Reef structure.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Petrobras has drilled a fourth Tupi well and the results reinforce estimations of the potential of 5 to 8 billion barrels of recoverable light oil and natural gas in Tupi's pre-salt reservoirs.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - Tethys and partner CCED (operator) have contracted MB Petroleum to provide the MB 49 workover rig to conduct testing operations on Blocks 3 and 4 onshore Oman.

Friday, November 13, 2009 - The number of rigs drilling for oil in the U.S. climbed this week, but the gas rig total slipped as producers curbed output in response to low prices.