Drilling & production

Lanco Infratech Ltd, a major Indian infrastructure company, has acquired Western Australian coal miner, Griffin Coal Mining Co. Pty Ltd and Carpenter Mine Management Pty Ltd (Griffin Coal).

Tullow Oil and its Jubilee partners are celebrating First Oil from the Jubilee field today. The first shipment is expected to be exported in January 2011.

Clean Coal technologies has signed an MOU to license its clean coal technology to Huamin Senior Funding Group, of China for US$ 1.5 million.

The Government of Rwanda has secured loans to help increase its national power output and develop its geothermal resources.

Chatham House has released a new report that discusses the uncertainties the oil and gas industry will face over the next 10 years.

LNG imports into Europe have reached a record high of 302 billion ft3 in November 2010.

Charles T. Drevna’s comment on a ruling made by the US Court of Appeals Association.

Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Services have been awarded a five year US$ 428 million contract for uranium conversion services.

Chevron Corporation has announced a US$ 26 billion capital and exploratory spending programme for 2011. Approximately 85% of the 2011 spending programme is for upstream oil and gas exploration and production projects worldwide. Another 10% is associated with the company's downstream businesses.

Xstrata plc has announced that it has approved the US$ 1.36 billion development of the Ravensworth North opencast mine in the in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales, Australia.

CNOOC has acquired a 50% interest in Exoma’s Queensland portfolio of coal seam gas and shale gas exploration blocks; it will contribute AU$ 50 million towards exploration costs as part of the agreement.

Husky Energy Inc. has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Husky Oil China Ltd., has signed a Heads of Agreement with China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), specifying the key principles of cooperation for funding and operation of the Liwan 3-1 deep water gas field development.

The series of exploration successes for RWE Dea in Norway continues. Having already made a major gas discovery in the Zidane licence area in mid-September, the semisubmersible drilling rig Bredford Dolphin just made another discovery in the Titan prospect (PL 420), with a promising oil discovery.

Osyka Corporation has found its recently acquired interests in the Placedo East field in Texas to be gas-productive.

Cuadrilla Resources has found shale gas after drilling 4000 ft down into the Bowland Shale formation in Lancashire, Northern England.