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Gulfsands Expands its Interests in Tunisia
Gulfsands Petroleum announced that it has expanded its interests in Tunisia after agreeing to acquire additional 30-percent and 10-percent interests in the Chorbane and Kerkouane joint ventures respectively. Tullow strikes more oil deposits in Kenya
Tullow Oil plc announces that the Twiga South-1 exploration well in Block 13T, onshore Kenya, has encountered 30 metres of net oil pay with further potential to be assessed on test and has also encountered a tight fractured rock section with hydrocarbon shows over a gross interval of 796 metres. ExxonMobil looks to exit West Qurna
Iraqi officials claim ExxonMobil has told the government it wants to sell its share in the West Qurna-1 oilfield, the first official confirmation the US giant is looking to pull out of the project in southern Iraq. Yemen pipeline to be fixed in a week
A gas pipeline feeding Yemen's only liquefied natural gas export terminal will take about one week to be repaired following an attack on it last week, Reuters quoted the country's oil minister as saying. Qatargas signs new 15yr LNG deal with Japan’s Chubu Elec
Qatargas will supply 15mn tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Japan’s Chubu Electric Power Company over a 15-year period from 2013. Saudi Aramco to Invest $35B in Oil Exploration, Development
State-owned oil giant Saudi Arabian Oil Co., known as Saudi Aramco, plans to invest $35 billion over the next five years in crude oil exploration and development in a bid to keep its oil production portfolio robust, the firm's chief executive said. Sudan seeks production boom
Sudan is looking to boost oil production to 180,000 barrels per day early next year as it looks to double output in two years, according to a report. Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum Kurdistan Production Reaches 80,000 barrels per day on 4th Anniversary
Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum in their capacity as joint operator of the Khor Mor field, have announced that total production in their gas operations in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has reached 80,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day at the 4th anniversary of production. 
