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Peru: Gas giant backtracks on exploration in UNESCO World Heritage Site
2013-02-18 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Survival International: The Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol has publicly backtracked on plans to expand the notorious Camisea gas project in southeast Peru into one of the most biodiverse places on earth, following a shock exposure this week by The Guardian newspaper and Survival International. The company has released a statement in which it admitted planning what it described as 'superficial geological studies for scientific interest,` in Manu National Park, but promising that it had now abandoned these plans. The...
Lundin Petroleum commences drilling of North Sea exploration well
2013-02-14 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Lundin Petroleum has annuonced that it has started drilling of exploration well 16/1-17 in PL338, to target the Jorvik prospect, east of the Edvard Grieg field in the North Sea, offshore Norway.
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Tethys Oil finds oil in exploration well in Oman
2013-02-14 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Sweden-based energy company Tethys Oil has drilled the onshore block 4 exploration well 4 (B4EW4) in Oman to a total depth of 3,030m, and has encountered oil in four separate formations.
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Gran Tierra Energy discovers oil in Bretaa exploration well in Peru
2013-02-12 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Canada-based oil and gas company Gran Tierra Energy has announced that it has drilled and obtained well-log results from the Bretaa Norte 95-2-1XD exploration well in Peru.
Petition to halt oil exploration in Ecuadorean Amazon gets 1m signatures
2013-02-06 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A global campaign to stop oil exploration in a pristine corner of the Ecuadorean Amazon has collected more than a million online signatures in little more than a week. The show of support is a major boost to the small indigenous community of Sani Isla that has been resisting intrusions by Ecuador's state-run oil company Petroamazonas. It is also a rebuke to Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, as he campaigns for re-election. The petition, which was organised by the campaign group Avaaz, calls...
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