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Welcome to our June edition of Bright spots. This edition includes:
Topical
Sri Lankan licensing round
Technical
-Topical-
Thailand's Ministry of Energy
(Department of Mineral Fuels) announced the opening of
its 20th Concession Bidding Round on 23rd May 2007, for
a period of one year. 65 concessions covering a total of
235,606 square kilometres are on offer, with 56 blocks
located onshore and nine offshore in the Gulf of
Thailand.
This comes shortly after the 19th
Bidding Round closed nearly a year ago, with a total of
16 concessions (21 explorations blocks) awarded by April
2007.
Acreages offered under Thailand's 20th
Concession Bidding Round are available in the PetroView
Asia Pacifc June 2007 update.
For more information, please visit the
Department of Mineral Fuels'
website.
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Sri Lanka's Ministry of Petroleum & Petroleum
Resources Development has announced the Mannar Basin
Licensing Round 2007. The offshore Mannar Basin has been
divided into eight blocks. Blocks 2, 3 and 4 are
available for bidding in this round. Blocks 7 and 8 have
been allocated for Indian and Chinese state-owned oil
companies. The remaining three blocks will be offered at
a later date. Roadshows for the licensing round have
been preliminary scheduled in London on 20th August
2007, Houston on 27th August 2007 and Kuala Lumpur on
3rd September 2007. Companies will need to submit their
bids by the end of January 2008.
For more information, please visit the official
website.
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PetroView South Asia goes monthly
We are pleased to announce that the
PetroView South Asia dataset has moved from
quarterly to monthly updates from May 2007.
The June release of PetroView South Asia includes a
new data layer, OPENBLOCKS. This layer is an archive of
historic blocks that have been offered in South Asian
countries including, for example, India's NELP-VI round
blocks offered in 2006. Current open block opportunities
are maintained within the main blocks layer alongside
existing licensed acreage.
Our PetroView South Asia clients can download the
June update online from our
website.
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Updated wall and pocket maps
We are pleased to present our latest
wall and
pocket maps for North West Europe and Arabian
Peninsula, which were released in June 2007. These maps
form part of our popular series of A1 wall maps, which
are available for you to download and print from our
website at no cost.
Alternatively, to request an A1 printed copy please
fill in our
contact us form stating clearly which maps you
require.
(Screenshot of Arabian Peninsula wallmap)
Our maps illustrate the extent of PetroView's
coverage in specific regions and the depth of
information available within each.
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PetroView Caspian - Kazakhstan launched
Delayed We are pleased to announce the release of
PetroView coverage for Kazakhstan.
The first release, launched on 15th June 2007, will
include licence, field, prospect, well and company data.
Pipelines and facilities will also be incorporated as
part of the first quarterly update. Coverage for
Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan will be added in turn to
complete the Caspian region during the second half of
2007.
Once completed, PetroView Caspian will move to a monthly
update cycle.
For more information or if you’d like a demonstration
please
contact us.
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