South Asia
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September 15, 2017
As the U.S. and its allies look to impose even stricter measures against North Korea, leader Kim Jong Un could find inspiration from oppressive regimes of yesteryear in Nazi Germany and Apartheid-era South Africa.
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September 14, 2017
India will offer larger areas with higher oil and natural gas reserves in the next auction of discovered fields later this year as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government seeks to curtail rising crude oil imports.
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September 2017
As exploration efforts go into deeper, hotter and more remote offshore basins, the need for more advanced downhole drilling and logging tools is palpable. Accordingly, a new LWD toolstring that provides real-time downhole data, while withstanding 410°F temperatures, has been developed and tested in the harsh Gulf of Thailand.
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September 12, 2017
India’s oil consumption in August shrank 6.1%, the most since April 2003, as floods ravaged several parts of the country curbing demand for diesel and gasoline.
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September 11, 2017
The U.S. has watered down a proposal to punish North Korea for its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, omitting an oil embargo and a freeze of Kim Jong Un’s assets, according to a European diplomat.
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September 11, 2017
Petronet LNG Ltd. has reached an agreement to rework a liquefied natural gas supply agreement with ExxonMobil Corp., the second such renegotiation by the Indian company for gas supplies after reaching a similar deal with Qatar.
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September 08, 2017
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd. and its partner BP Plc are reviving investment plans for a gas block close to a military missile launching facility in the Bay of Bengal.
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August 24, 2017
Oilex Ltd. is pleased to announce that the C-23z core analysis has been completed. The analysis, by Schlumberger and Baker Hughes has confirmed that the EP-IV tight siltstones at Cambay can be effectively stimulated, and that commercial gas flowrates are potentially achievable.
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August 23, 2017
The Royal Government of Cambodia and KrisEnergy Ltd. have announced the signing of fiscal and technical agreements for the nation’s first oil field development in Cambodia Block A in the Gulf of Thailand.
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August 21, 2017
Ten sailors are missing and five were injured after a U.S. warship collided with a petroleum tanker near Singapore on Monday, the second crash involving an American naval vessel in Asia in a matter of months.
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August 07, 2017
Woodside has advised that the Pyi Thit-1 exploration well in Block A-6 in the Southern Rakhine basin, located offshore Myanmar, has intersected a gross gas column of approximately 65 m. A net gas pay interval of approximately 36 m has been interpreted within the primary target sandstone reservoir.
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August 07, 2017
Pakistan’s state-owned companies are spending record amounts on energy exploration, including in areas more known for separatist insurgency, as old fields start to dry up.
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August 03, 2017
Indonesia wants Chevron Corp. and ConocoPhillips to submit proposals to renew their licenses to operate oil and gas fields as the former OPEC member seeks to reverse a decline in energy investments.
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August 02, 2017
Rosneft celebrates 15 years of safe offshore operations in Vietnam Rosneft Vietnam B.V., a Rosneft subsidiary operating Block 06.1 on Vietnam shelf celebrates 15 years of safe offshore operations.
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August 01, 2017
CNOOC Limited has announced that BD gas field in Indonesia has already commenced production.
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July 31, 2017
Premier Oil has provided the following update on drilling operations in the North Sea, Mexico and Indonesia.
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July 25, 2017
Energy services company Proserv has been awarded a series of contracts worth around $4 million for its well severance, platform and FPSO decommissioning services in the Asia-Pacific region.
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July 20, 2017
The Philippines has shortlisted six countries and will choose one from them as a partner for its planned $2-billion receiving and distribution facility for imported LNG, an official from the state-run energy firm PNOC said on Thursday.
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July 19, 2017
India approved the sale of a $4.6 billion stake in state-run refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corp. to the country’s biggest oil and gas explorer, according to a person with knowledge of the decision.
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July 18, 2017
Ethos Energy has been awarded a multi-million-dollar, five-year maintenance service agreement by Brunei Shell Petroleum for the provision of engineers and improvement of compressor packages on the Champion 7 offshore platform in the South China Sea, off the coast of Brunei.
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July 14, 2017
Xodus Group has won a contract with Cairn Oil and Gas of Vedanta Ltd. to conduct exploration and appraisal work on its Rajasthan block in northwest India over the next two years.
