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Oilbarrel News headlines February 09, 2010

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Feature: February 09, 2010

Expect The Unexpected As Oil Markets Start 2010 In Ebullient Mood

If high oil prices are a good thing – which of course depends on whether you’re a producer or a consumer – then the year started with a bang. The record US$147 per barrel price of mid-2008 seems a long way off now, but in the

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News: February 08, 2010

Sovereign Oilfield Group Continues To Seek Lending Support After Difficult Year

The latest trading update from Sovereign Oilfield Group, issued last month, had little news to cheer beleaguered investors. As previously reported, the acquisitive oil services group is locked in talks with its lenders after

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Market Overview: February 05, 2010

Analysts Look For Positive News for Oil Prices But the Markets Decline to Buck Up

The oil market continues to look for signs of positive growth in the global economy, but week after week, the news fails to thrill. The oil market got a boost earlier in the week with prices close to US$77 but the gains were

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News: February 05, 2010

North Sea Old Lady Beatrice Continues To Deliver For Ithaca Energy

Shares in Ithaca Energy ticked over the 90 pence marker in morning trading on Thursday after the AIM and TSX Venture listed company announced a better-than-expected result from well interventions on the Beatrice field in the UK

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News: February 04, 2010

Good News From North Africa – This time from Egypt Where The Geyad-2X STI Oil Well Has Started Production In The Onshore NW Gemsa Concession

The last time we wrote about Circle Oil we said the latest good news was out of Morocco. Circle has two success stories going on in North Africa with what seems like an unbroken string of drilling results from both Morocco and

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News: February 04, 2010

PetroNeft Resources Says It Is On Course For Output Of 4,000 Bopd By Year End 2010 From Its Development Projects In Russia

When PetroNeft Resources presented at our most recent conference last November, it was just emerging from a rough patch. The AIM company is focused on the resource rich West Siberian Basin, one of the most prolific oil and gas

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News: February 03, 2010

MEC Resources Fine Tunes Its Seismic Sets Ahead Of Summer Test Of Potentially Gas-Rich Waters Off New South Wales

Australia’s booming natural resources sector, particularly its massive expansion in LNG capacity, means there is interest in any company claiming to sit on a serious amount of natural gas. And when that gas could lie just 20 km

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News: February 03, 2010

Oil Services Companies Plexus Holdings And Rheochem Bag New Contracts

Much of the success of Plexus Holdings, the specialist wellhead supplier, has been its ability, even against a backdrop of falling rig counts, to win repeat business and grow its order book. This, says Plexus says, demonstrates

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News: February 02, 2010

Another Report On Gulf Keystone’s Large Kurdistan Discovery To Deeper Zones Than The Jurassic Upgrades The Mean Resources Of Oil-In-Place

Gulf Keystone’s potentially company-making find in Iraqi Kurdistan is getting to be one of the most analysed wells around even though it is still some way from full appraisal.

 

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News: February 02, 2010

Aurora Oil & Gas Encouraged By Initial Flow Rates From Kennedy-1H As The Sugarkane Project Gains Momentum

Having successfully inked farm-in terms for its promising Sugarkane project at the back end of last year, Aurora Oil & Gas can report an acceleration of activity across the South Texas gas and condensate field including the

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News: February 01, 2010

Wessex Exploration Joins PLUS With Its Eyes On The Prize In Guyane

As we’ve noted before on these pages, Tullow Oil is the current darling of the London oil patch. Like Cairn Energy before it, the London-listed company has transformed its fortunes by unearthing major oil finds in under-explored

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Market Overview: January 29, 2010

Oil Price Is Becalmed This Week But Traders Are Encouraged By Upbeat Forecasts Of US Demand Later This Year

As world leaders of industry gathered in Davos and President Obama spoke of hope and a long road to recovery, the oil price weakened slightly as traders saw little immediate impact to the up side. But the good news for the

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News: January 29, 2010

Little Altona Energy Makes Real Progress With Its Joint Venture With China’s 3rd Largest Oil Company In Its Coal-to-Liquids Project in Australia

"We no longer have a putative project, we have a business". So says Chris Lambert, Chairman of Alton Energy, a London listed, Australia-based company involved in a coal-to-liquids scheme in South Australia.

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News: January 28, 2010

Afren Adds Another Piece To Its Planned Production Hub In Nigeria With Farm-In To OML115

Afren plc, the ambitious E&P stitching together a patchwork of development projects in Nigeria, has added to its footprint in the West African energy powerhouse by agreeing joint venture terms with Oriental Energy and Energy

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News: January 28, 2010

As Petroceltic International’s Spanish Investors Retreat, Its Main Shareholders Pay A Premium To Back An E&P With Real Potential In Algeria

Petroceltic International plans to return to its Ain Tsila gas/condensate discovery in south-eastern Algeria later this year, keen to sustain the momentum created by its recent three-well programme on this giant structure in the

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