:: Bahrain offers entire offshore fields for bidding
Posted: 26 March 2007
Raising t he possibility of new discoveries and recovering more from the existing fields, Bahrain is offering four blocks for exploration and production sharing agreements.

:: RasGas LNG Train 5 completed
Posted: 26 March 2007
Qatar Petroleum and Exxon Mobil Corporation announced the completion of RasGas Train 5. RasGas Company Limited is a joint venture owned by Qatar Petroleum (QP) and ExxonMobil RasGas Inc.

:: Shooting seismic in Libya
Posted: 26 March 2007
Operator Statoil is preparing to shoot seismic in Libya . During the year, around 2,000 kilometres of 2D seismic will be gathered from the Kufra licence in the south-east of the country.

:: TAQA aims bigger role in Europe
Posted: 26 March 2007
The Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC ( TAQA) announced its intention to see one of its European companies, TAQA Energy B.V., play an increasing role in the region’s energy sector.

:: Odim wins contract from Eastern Echo
Posted: 26 March 2007
Odim was awarded a contract worth NOK 200 million by the seismic company Eastern Echo of Dubai for an extensive delivery of automated handling systems for 3D seismic.

:: OMV finds gas in Pakistan
Posted: 26 March 2007
OMV announced a discovery and successful testing of gas in its Latif 1 exploration well in the Latif Exploration Block in Northern Sindh province/Pakistan.

:: MMEER acquires support vessels from Nabors
Posted: 26 March 2007
Mike Mullen Energy Equipment Resources, Inc. thru a subsidiary, MMEER Cayman Ltd., has entered into a contract to purchase from Nabors the following service and accommodation units

:: Dana Gas appoints Saudi head
Posted: 26 March 2007
Dana Gas has appointed a new General Manager to its Saudi Arabian office in the city of Al Khobar. Salah Abdulrahman Al-Huzami, with over 20 years of experience in banking, trading and industry, Al-Huzami is the choice of Board of Directors to take forward the company’s operations in Saudi Arabia as it seeks to increase its presence and activities in the natural gas business within the Kingdom.

:: Crosco provides drilling services for Gulfsands in Syria
Posted: 26 March 2007
Crosco Integrated Drilling & Well Services Co. announced the commencement of drilling services for Gulfsands Petroleum PLC in Syria . Drilling services are being provided with Crosco's 2000 HP drilling rig EMSCO 602 (Emsco C-2 II). Currently, Crosco is drilling the Khurbet East exploration well KHE 1.

:: Calibre waiting on equipment for Northern Iraq well test
Posted: 26 March 2007
Calibre Energy said that the Bina-Bawi 1 exploration well, located in Iraqi Kurdistan, was waiting on material and testing equipment for the planned testing of the well.

:: DNO updates progress of 2007 Yemen drilling program
Posted: 26 March 2007
DNO has an extensive drilling program in Yemen during 2007 and rig capacity has been secured for all the wells. A total of 22 wells are planned to be drilled this year; 13 exploration wells and 9 appraisal / development wells. To date three exploration wells and one infill well have been completed.

:: ExxonMobil completes expansion of ethylene capacity in Singapore
Posted: 26 March 2007
ExxonMobil Chemical said it has completed the expansion of its steam cracker in Singapore . The expansion project, announced in 2005, has increased the ethylene capacity of the world-scale Singapore Chemical Plant by 75,000 tonnes per year to more than 900,000 tonnes per year.