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Greymouth on the hunt at Kaimiro
(Monday, 6 September 2010)

GREYMOUTH Petroleum’s Tiger Rig is on the prowl again – this time moving to drill another appraisal/infill well in the onshore Taranaki Kaimiro gas field after completing the Ohanga-2 sidetrack well as a possible future petroleum producer.
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Zola-1 drilling delayed
(Monday, 6 September 2010)

APACHE Energy has pushed back the drilling of the Zola-1 prospect, the largest undrilled structure in Western Australia’s Carnarvon Basin, to November.
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Aiming to Strike it lucky
(Monday, 6 September 2010)

STRIKE Energy is set to resume an aggressive US Gulf Coast drilling program that could increase the company’s reserves and production five-fold over the next 3-6 months.
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ADX gets good signs from Tunisian well
(Wednesday, 1 September 2010)

ADX Energy is moving to run wireline logs in its Lambouka-1 well in Tunisia after encountering preliminary positive indications in the Abiod reservoir section.
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CalEnergy, Key to spin drillbit in Perth Basin
(Tuesday, 31 August 2010)

CALENERGY Resources and Key Petroleum are poised to kick off in October a two-well drilling program in the North Perth Basin’s EP 437.
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Advent locks in offshore Sydney well site
(Monday, 30 August 2010)

ADVENT Energy has confirmed the location of the upcoming New Seaclem-1, the first well to be drilled in the offshore Sydney Basin.
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Tap shrugs off loss, anticipates drilling rewards
(Friday, 27 August 2010)

TAP Oil’s decision to relinquish its interest in SC41 in the Sulu Sea, Philippines, has resulted in the company recording a net loss after tax of $18 million for the half year ended June 30, 2010.
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Beach poised for shale gas campaign
(Thursday, 26 August 2010)

BEACH Energy is set to begin a two-well shale gas exploration program in the heart of the Cooper Basin that could potentially be a game-changing opportunity.
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Westside, Mitsui cranking up CSG output
(Wednesday, 25 August 2010)

WESTSIDE Corporation and Mitsui E&P are pushing ahead with the first of a series of wells under a $14.5 million work program aimed at increasing production and reserves at the Meridian SeamGas field.
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Peak sees light in L20/50
(Wednesday, 25 August 2010)

PRIVATE company Peak Oil & Gas, which is planning an ASX listing in December, is set to participate in a drilling program in onshore Thailand that will test up to 60 million barrels of unrisked oil resources.
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Sino back at work at Tuban
(Tuesday, 24 August 2010)

FOLLOWING weather-related delays, Sino Gas & Energy is set to take a key step in its reserves upgrade program at the Tuban field in China with the drilling of the TB-08 well, a step-out of the successful TB-07.
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Clarence Moreton drilling nears for Red Sky
(Tuesday, 24 August 2010)

RED Sky Energy is set to spud its first coal seam gas well in the prospective Clarence Moreton Basin, New South Wales, late next month after securing a rig and landowner approval.
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Interra spuds Burma infill well
(Tuesday, 24 August 2010)

Interra Resources has spudded the YNG 3235 infill development well in the Yenangyaung oil field, Burma. The well, a direct offset of the producing YNG 2589 and YNG 3234 wells, is being drilled by Goldpetrol’s Cooper LTO 350 rig in the northern area of the field.
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Cooper misses in Indonesia
(Monday, 23 August 2010)

COOPER Energy has shrugged off the disappointing Girgi East-1 results and will turn its attention to deeper plays in South Madura, Indonesia.
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Buru set to resume work at Leander-1
(Friday, 20 August 2010)

BURU Energy is preparing to sidetrack the Leander-1 well in the Canning Basin after it was unsuccessful in removing a stuck drill pipe in the well bore.
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Indian joins Norwest’s Perth Basin quest
(Thursday, 19 August 2010)

NORWEST Energy has entered into a $15 million farm-out agreement with Indian upstream company Bharat PetroResources to fund its shale gas and conventional exploration in two Perth Basin permits.
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Stuart to spin Kerinna drill bit
(Wednesday, 18 August 2010)

STUART Petroleum is set to start drilling the Kerinna-2 exploration well in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin as part of plans to increase the company’s oil production for the 2011 financial year.
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Falling anvil goes up against the deep side
(Tuesday, 17 August 2010)

WOODSIDE and Chevron have both announced gas discoveries in Western Australia’s Carnarvon Basin as they race to find more gas to underpin expansion plans for their liquefied natural gas projects.
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Stanwell injects $30M into Icon’s Surat CSG campaign
(Tuesday, 17 August 2010)

STANWELL Corporation has firmed its belief in Icon Energy’s ATP 626P permit in Queensland’s Surat Basin, committing a further $30 million to proceed with stage 2 of its farm-in agreement.
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Tuatara disappoints
(Tuesday, 17 August 2010)

AWE and its partners are plugging and abandoning the shallow offshore Tuatara-1 well near the top of New Zealand’s South Island after encountering only minor oil shows in the main Miocene-aged target.
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Easternwell ready for Barrow Island
(Tuesday, 17 August 2010)

EASTERNWELL Group is set to start its five-year $50 million well servicing contract for Chevron’s Barrow Island oil operations in Western Australia’s northwest.
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Chevron scores again in WA
(Friday, 13 August 2010)

CHEVRON has found more gas to support its long-term liquefied natural gas growth plans in the Asia Pacific region, with a natural gas discovery in the frontier Exmouth Plateau area of Western Australia’s Carnarvon Basin.
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Aussies aiming for success with US farm-ins
(Thursday, 12 August 2010)

PETSEC Energy’s farm-in to a new prospect in the US Gulf Coast has given the company an immediate drilling interest with 20-78 billion cubic feet of gas potential.
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AWE to study Tuatara gas shows
(Tuesday, 10 August 2010)

THE shallow offshore Tuatara-1 wildcat well in the southern Taranaki Basin has encountered intermittent gas shows that will be assessed by wireline logging after the target depth has been reached, probably next week.
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STOS planning more Kapuni wells
(Friday, 6 August 2010)

ENCOURAGED by the results of its last two development wells, Kapuni gas field operator Shell Todd Oil Services is thinking of drilling up to three more next year in New Zealand's oldest producing petroleum resource.
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Cooper shale gas campaign imminent
(Thursday, 5 August 2010)

A TWO-well shale gas exploration program in PEL 218 of the Cooper Basin is on track to start at the end of the month, operator Beach Energy said.
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Origin hits another Southeast Asian duster
(Thursday, 5 August 2010)

ORIGIN Energy and Salamander Energy have been unlucky again in their drilling program across five exploration blocks in Southeast Asia with the Bang Nouan-1 exploration well in Laos a dry hole.
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Central optimistic about Ooraminna potential
(Wednesday, 4 August 2010)

CENTRAL Petroleum is hopeful of finding other locations for commercial gas production from the Ooraminna structure in the Amadeus Basin after the Ooraminna-2 well did not intercept any significant fractures.
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Jupiter mapping out Kazakhstan play
(Monday, 2 August 2010)

JUPITER Energy is planning to drill a step-out development well from its J-50 well in Block 31 of the Mangistau Basin, Kazakhstan.
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Molopo getting a closer look at Timmy
(Monday, 2 August 2010)

MOLOPO Australia has spudded the first of five planned cored exploration wells over the Timmy coal seam gas project in Queensland.
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