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March 26, 2009

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Each Thursday, Oil & Gas Journal Weekly E&D Report delivers news about the global search for and development of hydrocarbons. Selected and written for industry professionals by editors of Oil & Gas Journal, the stories originate in the Exploration & Development section of Oil & Gas Journal Online and include the Area Drilling section, with reports from around the world. For general interest articles and news about other industry operations, visit http://www.ogjonline.com.

CONTENTS

•Tullow makes oil discovery off Ghana

•SPD extends Halliburton E&P services in Siberia

•OCS revenue shares outlined for Gulf Coast states

•Alberta Slave Point gas discovery gauged

•AWE to expand into oil exploration off Vietnam

•Heritage plans $2 million for Uganda 'social' works

•Afghanistan to launch oil, gas licensing round in April

•Nigeria

•Peru

•British Columbia

•Iraq

•Italy

•Northwest Territories

•Ireland

•Vietnam

•Alberta

•UK

•Texas-Gulf Coast

•Colombia

•India



STORIES

Tullow makes oil discovery off Ghana
Tullow Oil said that it has discovered oil-bearing sands in the deeper section of the Tweneboa-1 exploration well offshore Ghana.
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SPD extends Halliburton E&P services in Siberia
Salym Petroleum Development, a JV of Shell and Sibir Energy, has signed a contract extension with Halliburton for E&P services in the Khanty-Mansi autonomous district of western Siberia.
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OCS revenue shares outlined for Gulf Coast states
More than $25 million will be paid to four Gulf Coast states as their share of oil and gas bonuses and leases from the latest federal gulf lease sale, US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar said on Mar. 23.
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Alberta Slave Point gas discovery gauged
Arcan Resources Ltd., Calgary, has gauged a Devonian Slave Point gas-condensate discovery in the Chinchaga-Ladyfern area of northwestern Alberta.
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AWE to expand into oil exploration off Vietnam
Australian Worldwide Exploration has added Vietnam to the list of countries it operates in after signing a farmin agreement for offshore Block 06/94 in the South China Sea off Vietnam.
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Heritage plans $2 million for Uganda 'social' works
Heritage Oil Corp, now exploring for oil in Uganda where it faces scrutiny from neighboring countries, as well as local lawmakers and militants, will spend $2 million to help develop social programs in the districts where it operates.
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Afghanistan to launch oil, gas licensing round in April
Afghanistan has announced the launch of a licensing round to award exploration and production-sharing contracts for three blocks bearing oil and gas in the north of the country.
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Nigeria
Consulting engineers estimated at least 52 million bbl and perhaps as much as 106 million bbl of oil is recoverable from Ebok field on OML 67 off southeastern Nigeria.
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Peru
BPZ Resources Inc., Houston, reached total depth and cemented casing in the sidetrack of the CX11-15D well in Corvina field in Block Z-1 off northwestern Peru.
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British Columbia
British Columbia will spend $187 million over 4 years to upgrade a road into the Horn River basin, where one of North America's largest shale gas drilling plays is brewing.
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Iraq
Al-Waha Petroleum Co. Ltd. began shooting its first seismic survey in Iraq after 6 years of war.
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Italy
AleAnna Resources LLC was awarded the Ponte del Diavolo exploration permit in northern Italy's Po basin just west of its Corte dei Signori permit, where it just finished shooting 80 sq miles of 3D seismic.
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Northwest Territories
Consulting engineers tallied best estimates of the contingent resource in the Ellice J-27 discovery well at 283 bcf in the Aklak zone and 25 bcf in the Taglu zone, said MGM Energy Corp., Calgary.
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Ireland
Serica Energy PLC expects to secure a rig shortly to drill the Bandon exploration prospect in PEL 01/06 in the Slyne basin off Ireland's west coast.
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Vietnam
Australia Worldwide Exploration Ltd. will take a farm out from Serica Energy PLC of part of Serica's interest in Block 06/94 off Vietnam, subject to waiver of a preemptive right by state PetroVietnam and government approval.
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Alberta
Stealth Ventures Ltd., Calgary, moved its Cretaceous Colorado shale biogenic gas project at Wildmere, eastern Alberta, to a development play from an exploration play in 2008.
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UK
Venture North Sea Gas Ltd. said logs at the 43/21b-5z Carna well in the UK North Sea indicate a gas column of more than 1,490 ft true vertical depth and 127 vertical ft of net pay.
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Texas-Gulf Coast
GeoPetro Resources Co., San Francisco, plans to reduce inlet pressure at its Madisonville, Tex., gas treatment plant and complete two more wells to feed the plant.
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Colombia
Petro Vista Energy Corp., San Clemente, Calif., acquired 100% interest in the VMM-13 block in Colombia's Middle Magdalena basin.
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India
Hardy Oil & Gas PLC proposed to revise the appraisal program for its Ganesha nonassociated gas discovery in the CY-OS/2 block off Pondicherry in the northern Cauvery basin.
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