International Unconventional
There has been substantial recent interest in shale gas potential in Eastern Europe. ExxonMobil has been working to identify shale gas resources in Germany and other large end-user markets. E&P companies have selected about a dozen basins in Europe for initial exploration, including the Cambrian Alum in southern Sweden, the Vienna Basin in Austria, multiple locations in Poland (especially the promising Gdansk Basin), the Weald Basin in England, the East Paris Basin in France (as well as two other locations in France), the Lower Saxony Basin in Germany and the very large Mako Trough in Hungary. China is another important area for shale gas, as is India. Chinese and American geologists have said that China’s shale gas potential is massive and could easily rival the largest basins in the US.
International Unconventional News
Total gains access to Australian shale gas acreage
Nov 7, 2012
ASX-listed junior oil and gas exploration and production company Central Petroleum has engaged in a farm-out agreement with France’s Total for exploration of six million acres in the Southern Georgina Basin of Australia prospective for shale gas. |
BNK Petroleum provides update on Poland Gapowo B-1 well
Oct 31, 2012
BNK Petroleum Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Indiana Investments Sp. z o.o., has received additional data on the whole core from the Gapowo B-1 well in Poland. |
TransAtlantic Petroleum provides update on horizontal producing well in Turkey
Oct 31, 2012
TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd. has provided initial production results of the Goksu-3H, the company's first horizontal producing well in Turkey. |
Liberty Energy encouraged by neighboring Transatlantic natural gas asset in Bulgaria
Oct 25, 2012
Houston, TX-based Liberty Energy Corp. has provided an update on its Bulgarian natural gas asset. |
3Legs Resources names new CEO, focuses attention on Poland shale gas
Oct 18, 2012
3Legs Resources plc, an independent oil and gas group focusing on the exploration and development of unconventional oil and gas resources, has named Kamlesh Parmar as CEO. |
Petsec adds to Alberta shale play acreage
Sep 27, 2012
Petsec Energy Ltd. has expanded its shale oil project area in the Western Sedimentary Basin of Alberta, Canada, the company said September 26. |
Western Australia sees opportunity in unconventional gas sector
Sep 27, 2012
As the global unconventional gas market gains momentum, activity in the Western Australian (WA) petroleum sector is heating up, said a senior WA government official. |
Global Oil Shale Holdings hopes to unlock oil shale industry in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Sep 26, 2012
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan signed a deal with Canada’s Global Oil Shale Holdings Ltd. (GOSH) to study the economic feasibility of an oil shale project Jordan. |
Quebec's natural resources minister wants complete ban on hydraulic fracturing
Sep 20, 2012
The former Liberal government in Quebec previously suspended shale gas exploration following pressure to continue investigations related to the ecologic effects of hydraulic fracturing, and now, Martine Ouellet, Quebec's new natural resources minister, has stated that she believes a complete moratorium on the practice should stand, reported Vancouver Sun. |
Petrofrontier closes second tranche of private placement for $10M
Sep 19, 2012
Calgary, Alberta-based Petrofrontier Corp. has closed the second tranche of its $10.0 million non-brokered private placement. |
European shale gas development still unlikely to replicate US growth
Sep 17, 2012
The shale gas revolution taking place in the US is unlikely to be repeated in Europe, at least at the pace currently taking place in North America. |
Goldwyer Shale program progressing for ConocoPhillips, New Standard Energy
Sep 4, 2012
Australia-based New Standard Energy Ltd. recently provided an update on the three well drilling program that kicked off in late August with ConocoPhillips in Australia’s Goldwyer Shale. |
Argentina looks to boost shale oil, shale gas production by way of China
Aug 3, 2012
A net energy importer for the first time in almost 20 years, Argentina is looking to boost output, in part, by seeking foreign partners to help unlock what the country sees as its vast unconventional oil and gas resources.
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Diversity characterizes Apache, but emphasis is on US onshore
Aug 1, 2012
AN INTERVIEW WITH APACHE CORPORATION |
Horizontal drilling boosts production in Mississippi Lime
Aug 1, 2012
Technology typically used for drilling and completing wells in shale formations has created a resurgence of interest in a non-shale play, the Mississippi Lime in northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas. |
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