Friday, November 20, 2009 - Maurel & Prom reported that the Onal 1002 well has reached a vertical depth of 1,195 meters, and has encountered 82 meters of hydrocarbon-impregnated reservoirs in the Kissenda Sandstone.

Friday, November 20, 2009 - Brinx Resources reports that the second well from the 09-2 Oklahoma Project drill program appears to be another new discovery well.

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - An oil column was encountered at well 25/4-10S on the Viper prospect in the Norwegian North Sea. The discovery will likely be developed as a subsea tieback to the Alvheim FPSO.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - SK Energy, South Korea's leading refiner, has discovered an oil deposit at a jointly owned offshore field in Vietnam, the Seoul government said Wednesday.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - The Redback South 1 well will be flare tested over a 3-4 day period and then shut-in for a 7 day pressure build-up.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - Beach Petroleum reported to its partner Drillsearch Energy that a flow test on the Chiton-1 oil discovery well has been successfully completed.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Petroceltic with partner Sonatrach has successfully tested 4 million standard cubic feet per day of gas from the INE-2 well, located in the Isarene Block in Algeria.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Petrobras has completed the drilling of exploratory extension well 3-MA-32A, which has resulted in a light oil discovery with a recoverable oil volume estimated at 25 million barrels.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - With a possible tie-in point to the regional gas pipeline grid only 6 kilometers distant from Voitinel-1, the options for appraisal and the commercial exploitation of the discovery are now being examined.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - Sonangol and Petrobras have discovered oil at the Manganes-01 well in Block 18/06, located in Angola's deep waters.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Solimar announced that a new gas productive sandstone reservoir has been discovered in the Jack Hamar 2-13 well at the Company's 100% owned and operated Southeast Lost Hills gas project.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - OGX's new discovery well 1-OGX-2A-RJS could hold between 400 million and 500 million barrels of recoverable oil, OGX said in a statement Monday.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Gas and condensate have been discovered by Statoil in the Beta West prospect, 1.5 kilometers from the main Sleipner West reservoir.

Monday, November 16, 2009 - Brinx Resources reported that the first well of the 2009-3 Oklahoma Project drill program appears to be a significant new discovery.

Thursday, November 12, 2009 - Dana and its co-ventures have discovered oil in the Jetta sidetrack well (25/8-17 A) offshore Norway.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - Reliance Industries has reported its first oil discovery in the onshore exploratory block CB-ONN-2003/1 awarded under the NELP-V round of exploration bidding.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - New Zealand's methane hydrates potential is one of the largest in the world according to studies by GNS Science, and possibly about 10 times as big as the giant Maui gas field when it was first found.

Friday, November 06, 2009 - Petrobras confirmed Friday the company has made a natural gas find in Peru's Block 58, possibly containing up to 5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Thursday, November 05, 2009 - Caza Oil & Gas announced a further hydrocarbon discovery and provide an operational update on its activities in the Abo/Wolfcamp horizontal oil play in New Mexico, USA.

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 - DONG Energy has completed drilling of two successful appraisal sidetracks on the Glenlivet discovery, along the Atlantic Margin West of the Shetland Islands.

Monday, November 02, 2009 - OMV's first operated exploration well in deepwater West of Shetlands has resulted in a discovery and successful sidetrack.

Friday, October 30, 2009 - Spanish oil firm Repsol has made two new significant oil discoveries at the Shenzil field in the Gulf of Mexico, which will help increase future production potential for the area.

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - Eni and Sonangol have discovered oil at the Cabaca Norte-1 well, offshore Angola, the results of which exceeded pre-drill expectations.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - BG Group's extensive work program offshore Brazil has delivered outstanding results and confirms the technical and economic robustness of the pre-salt play in the Santos Basin.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - Operator ExxonMobil and its license partners have discovered oil at the Jetta prospect offshore Norway, close to the Jotun producing oil field.

Monday, October 26, 2009 - Pioneer Natural Resources has announced a significant discovery at the Sinor No. 5 well in in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas.

Friday, October 23, 2009 - Total and partner Sonangol have discovered oil at the Gardenia prospect, located on Block 17/06 in the deep waters of the Angolan offshore.

Thursday, October 22, 2009 - Gulf Keystone has announced the results of a preliminary evaluation of the Shaikan-1 discovery located in northern Iraq.

Monday, October 19, 2009 - Until relatively recently, big oil gave little thought to sub-Saharan Africa beyond the coast of Nigeria and Angola.

Monday, October 19, 2009 - Chevron has announced an additional natural gas discovery in the Greater Gorgon area's Carnarvon Basin, Australia's premier offshore hydrocarbon zone.

Friday, October 16, 2009 - Eni, in partnership with Repsol, confirmed that its world class gas discovery offshore Venezuela contains a reserve potential of more than 6 trillion cubic feet of gas.

Thursday, October 15, 2009 - Royale Energy announced that after reaching a total depth of 6200 feet, it has set pipe on what the company believes to be a significant new discovery.

Thursday, October 15, 2009 - Oil has been discovered by StatoilHydro in the Frigg Delta prospect in the North Sea, with proven recoverable volumes put at 18-35 million barrels.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - OGX has estimated that the recoverable oil volume at its Vesuvio prospect offshore Brazil is between 500 million and 1.5 billion barrels.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - A consortium led by OMV has made an oil and gas discovery at the Tornado prospect, offshore West of Shetland, UK.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - Dana Gas' two new discoveries, located in the Egyptian Nile Delta, will add a combined pay of 86 billion cubic feet of gas to the company's Egypt reserves.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - Pacific Rubiales has made another oil discovery at its Quifa-10 well on the Quifa Block, located in the Llanos Basin of Colombia.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - Nostra Terra has announced a hydrocarbon discovery on the Boxberger property in Kansas, USA.

Thursday, October 08, 2009 - Gas has been discovered in the Tiendeveen-1 exploration well, located in the Drenthe III license, onshore The Netherlands.

Wednesday, October 07, 2009 - OGX has identified the presence of oil at the 1-OGX-1-RJS well, located in the BM-C-43 block in the shallow waters of the Campos Basin.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009 - Caza Oil & Gas has announced a hydrocarbon discovery in the Abo/Wolfcamp horizontal oil play in New Mexico, USA.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009 - Gulf Keystone has announced an oil discovery in the upper portions of the Triassic section of the Shaikan-1 exploration well, located in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Friday, October 02, 2009 - Maersk and partner OGX have reported indications of hydrocarbons in the well 1-MRK-2A-SPS, located in the BM-S-29 block in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin.

Thursday, October 01, 2009 - BP, along with concessionaire Sonangol, has announced the Tebe oil discovery, the oil major's 19th discovery in Block 31 offshore Angola.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - G. Allen Brooks argues that even a 20-billion barrel discovery year will do little to alter the challenge the industry faces in growing oil output to meet rising global oil demand.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - Energy group Chevron (CVX) has made the biggest gas discovery in at least a decade in energy-starved Bangladesh, almost doubling the size of a field it is drilling there, a government official said Wednesday.