TOP NEWS OF THE LAST WEEK

• Tropical Storm Don Halts Energy Operations In Gulf, Personnel Evacuated
• GDF SUEZ Boosts Portfolio With An Additional 20% Share In Njord Field, Norway
• Statoil Delivers 129% Increase In Net Income Amounting To NOK 61.0 Billion
• Statoil Receives Go Ahead To Explore Well 2/4-21 In The North Sea
• Spectrum Acquires 2D Marine Multi-Client Library From CGGVeritas
• Petroceltic Enter Iraq in Joint Venture with Hess
• Tullow Enjoy First day of trading on the Ghana Stock Exchange

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NORTH SEA

• Xcite Energy Awaits DECC Approval, Bentley Field FDP Submitted
• 5 Oil Mega Structures You Need to See
• Absoft's Turnover Raises By 21% On Client Base Expansion
• OilEdge: Transforming the North Sea!
• New TGS Multi-client 3D Survey in the Faroe-Shetland Basin

GULF OF MEXICO

• 5 Oil Mega Structures You Need to See
• Tropical Storm Don Halts Energy Operations In Gulf, Personnel Evacuated
• Delta Completes Second Texas Prospect Well
• Texas Clean Energy Project to Sell CO2 to Whiting Petroleum Corporation
• Resaca Provide Operations Update

WEST EUROPE

• Egdon Resources Issues Operations And Production Update
• Kongsberg Maritime Secures SAS Contract From BW Offshore
• Heritage Oil Acquires 276,450 Ordinary Shares Towards Treasury
• Xtract Energy Signs Heads Of Agreement Extension With Merty
• Xcite Energy Awaits DECC Approval, Bentley Field FDP Submitted

NORTH AMERICA

• Flexlife Appoints Vice President For North America Operations
• Cairn Energy To Abandon LF7-1 Well, But Optimistic Of Greenland Acreage
• Nighthawk Releases Jolly Ranch Production And Operation Update
• Solo Oil Releases Ausable Field Update
• Nostra Terra Confirms Spudding Of Verde Prospect Well In Colorado

EAST EUROPE

• Europa Receive Approval For Deepening of the Barchiz-1 Exploration Well
• PKN ORLEN Issues Short Term Bonds To ORLEN PetroCentrum
• PGNiG Estimates $9.7 Billion Capital Expenditure
• PKN ORLEN Signs Agreement with STASCO for Crude Oil Deliveries to ORLEN Lietuva
• San Leon Continue to Make Steady Progress

MIDDLE EAST

• Expro Offers BOP/Riser Inspection Service
• Syrian Protests Intensify, Protesters Blow Up Oil Pipeline Near Homs
• Oil Search Goes Ahead With Taza Block PSC, The Contract Approved By KRG
• Petroceltic Enter Iraq in Joint Venture with Hess
• Circle Oil Operating Update Egypt

RUSSIA - FSU

• Shelton Confirm Presence of Oil on the Aysky block
• Integra Group and Schlumberger Establish a Single Computing Center
• Max Petroleum Zhana Makat Production Update
• Matra Petroleum Russia Operations Update
• Dragon Oil Provide Drilling Update

AUSTRALASIA

• Metgasco's Share Purchase Plan Successfully Raises $15.3 Million
• Planet Gas' Mead's Crossing-1 Exploration Corehole Spudded
• Global Petroleum Board Unanimously Appoint Mr Peter Hill As New CEO
• Beach Energy Encounters Oil Reserves At Bauer-1 And Rincon-1
• Buru Energy Stalls Valhalla-2 Operations Indefinitely

SOUTH AMERICA

• Americas Petrogras Successfully Cases Hua.x-1 Well, Awaits Log Results
• Peru Eyes Private Investments To Bolster State Energy Firms Expansion
• Petrobras Reports Lateral Continuity Of Reservoir 3-SPS-82A, Santos Basin
• Petroecuador Reports 360 BCF Of Untapped Natural Gas Reserves In Amistad
• La Cortez Marches Forward With Puerto Barco Block Re-Initiation Operations

CENTRAL AMERICA

• BP Awarded Two Trinadad Deepwater Blocks
• Leni Gas & Oil Farm-in Trinidad
• Bahamas Petroleum Appoint New Director
• Treaty Energy Announces Recent Developments and Activities in Belize
• New World Oil and Gas Raise £3 Million Towards Portfolio Expansion

AFRICA

• Blackthorn Resources Readies For Phase 5 Drilling In Mumbwa, Zambia
• Oando Reveals Acquisition And Financing Transaction With Exile Resources
• Petroceltic International AT-5 Well Fails To Meet Expectations
• Dominion Petroleum Secures Block L15 Offshore Kenya
• Bowleven Tests Sapele To Successful Results

NORTH AFRICA

• ADX Energy Reports Further Delay In Sidi Dhaher Well Spudding
• Occidental Profits Surge
• Circle Oil Post First Full-Year Profit
• ADX Receives Go ahead for Sidi Dhaher Exploration Well in Tunisia
• Longreach Oil and Gas Announces Morocco Farm-in Agreement

SOUTH EAST ASIA

• Reliance Closes Production Facility On MA Oil Field In Eastern India
• Japan Drilling Company Awarded $13 Million Well Drilling Contract
• Pan Orient Energy Confirms SE Tiung-1 Well To Be Water Bearing
• Hardy Oil and Gas Temporarily Suspends Operations At PY-3 Field
• Dragon Oil Dzheitune 28/158 Development Well Flows At 2,876 Bopd

WORLDWIDE

• 5 Oil Mega Structures You Need to See
• OilEdge: The wrong AIM!
• IEA 30-Day Review of Libya Collective Action
• Citigroup Predict Water Will Be Bigger Than Oil
• Noble Posts Sharply Lower Profit

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