(June 17, 2008, 10:06 AM)
Petrolia Inc., Rimouski, Que., will spend $1 million to verify the natural gas potential of its Dalhousie property in New Brunwick in mid-2008.

(June 17, 2008, 10:06 AM)
Jim Walter Resources reported a completion rate of 80 Mcfd of gas and 1,100 b/d of water from Mississippian Floyd shale at a discovery well in Tuscaloosa County, Ala.

(June 17, 2008, 10:06 AM)
Trinidad and Tobago has granted approval for a consortium comprising OCNG Mittal Energy and Petrotrin to explore and develop Block NCMA 2 in the shallow marine area off northern Trinidad.

(June 17, 2008, 9:06 AM)
Gran Tierra Energy Inc. has completed drilling the Costayaco-4 well in Costayaco field on Colombia's Chaza block. The well reached 8,884 ft TMD.

(June 16, 2008, 4:06 PM)
State-run Indian Oil Corp. and Oil India Ltd. are to spend $27 million each in picking up 12.5% equity stakes from Reliance Industries as farm-in partners in the latter's offshore oil block in East Timor.

(June 16, 2008, 2:06 PM)
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met recently with top foreign oil and gas company executives in a closed-door meeting.

(June 16, 2008, 10:06 AM)
Epsilon Energy Ltd., Concord, Ont., signed an exclusive study agreement with the Ministry of Mines & Energy covering 96,233 sq miles in northwestern Ethiopia.

(June 15, 2008, 8:06 AM)
Serica Energy PLC said it finished the production testing of all three Kambuna gas wells in the Malacca Straits 40 km off North Sumatra, Indonesia.

(June 13, 2008, 4:06 PM)
ExxonMobil plans to undertake exploratory operations in the Sulu Sea in the Philippines and could begin drilling exploratory wells in a year's time, according to a senior official.

(June 13, 2008, 3:06 PM)
The government of Sri Lanka awarded the Indian subsidiary of Cairn Energy Ltd., Edinburgh, an exploration license in the Mannar basin 100 miles north of Colombo.

(June 13, 2008, 3:06 PM)
Zulu Energy Corp. spudded its first coalbed methane (CBM) exploration well on the Pandamatenga licenses in northeastern Botswana.

(June 13, 2008, 3:06 PM)
Tethys Petroleum Ltd., Toronto, signed Tajikistan's first production-sharing contract with the minister of energy and industry in Dushanbe.

(June 13, 2008, 3:06 PM)
The consortium led by Brazil's Petrobras said a second well drilled on Block BM-S-9 in the ultradeep waters of the Santos basin has confirmed light oil.

(June 13, 2008, 10:06 AM)
Six flow tests in 10 rock units of deeper formations in northern California's Eel River basin indicated insufficient permeability to produce gas at commercial rates, said Foothills Resources.

(June 12, 2008, 2:06 PM)
A group led by McMoRan Exploration has set intermediate casing and plans to apply to deepen the Gulf of Mexico shelf well to 35,000 ft to evaluate the primary targets.

(June 12, 2008, 11:06 AM)
Hess Corp. has made a natural gas discovery with its first well drilled off Western Australia.