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Welcome to our July edition of Bright spots. This edition includes:
Topical
Yemen plans to host its fourth international bid
round
Deloitte sponsors energy map of the Middle East and
Caspian
Exploration permits awarded in New Zealand
SEG International Exposition 2007
Technical
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Libya's National Oil Corporation has launched its
fourth licensing round. Companies are invited to bid for
exploration and production sharing agreements covering
12 prospective gas areas across Libya's main basins.
These areas cover 41 blocks, 22 of which are offshore.
Libya has had three previous licensing rounds but this
is the first to focus on gas. Bid opening and
announcement is expected on December 9th, 2007.
The areas on offer will be included in
the July update of PetroView
North Africa.
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Yemen has recently announced its plans to host its
fourth international bid round. Concentrating on the
offshore region, the Petroleum Exploration and
Production Authority has drawn up a new offshore
concession map with 26 new concessions covering 22,610
sq km. All areas are previously unexplored, with little
seismic data.
Mr Khalid Bahah, the Minister for Oil and Minerals,
recently confirmed that Indian firms are very interested
in Yemeni Oil, with five considering participation in
this bid round. This follows the third bid round where
five out of eight blocks went to firms from the
sub-continent.
The updated offshore area for Yemen is available in
the July
PetroView Arabian Peninsula update.
For further information, please visit the
Petroleum Exploration and Production Authority of Yemen
website.
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We are pleased to announce our ongoing sponsorship
of the Energy Map of the Middle East and Caspian (5th
edition), published by the Petroleum Economist.
The map, featuring a third generation satellite
derived basemap, illustrates:
- Digital terrain modelling.
- All oil and gas fields, major oil and gas
pipelines, including those currently planned or
under construction.
- Major oil refineries, gas processing plants,
underground gas storage, and tanker terminals.
- LNG import and export plants, including those
under construction, planned or proposed and
independent power plants.
To order your copy of the map, visit the
Petroleum Economist website.
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Since tenders closed for the Great South Basin round
in New Zealand on April 2nd, 2007, five bids were
received and evaluated and a total of eight exploration
permits were awarded on July 11th.
Four areas of the Great South Basin were awarded to
two oil and gas consortiums. The first was led by
ExxonMobil New Zealand (Exploration) Ltd, whilst the
second was led by OMV New Zealand Ltd.
To view the full article detailing the awarded
blocks, please visit our
website.
(PDF, 48KB)
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We are exhibiting at the SEG International Exposition
in San Antonio, Texas between September 23-28, 2007.
Please visit our stand (number 4057) for a chance to
meet us and to review our products.
This event is geared towards all companies wishing to
enhance their business in the oil and gas sectors.
For more information, please visit the SEG
website.
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Launch of prospects and play module
We are pleased to announce the launch of our prospects
and play module for ArcGIS 9.2 and MapInfo 8.5. The
module is available for all PetroView datasets and
incorporates a customisable database schema enabling
companies to easily load, edit, view and query
information about their prospects and business
development opportunities.
One of the benefits of this module is that it enables
companies to combine and load information from disparate
files and varying file formats (e.g. PPT, XLS, DOC and
CAD) into a single spatially-enabled database. GIS users
across these organisations can then visualise and query
corporate prospect outlines and business development
opportunities alongside PetroView data and other GIS
layers.
For more information, please visit our
website.
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PetroView South Asia: Afghanistan added
We are pleased to announce that Afghanistan has been
added to our South Asia dataset. Afghanistan is
surrounded by several oil and gas producing countries
such as Iran, Turkmenistan and Pakistan. The majority of
known reserves have been found in northern Afghanistan
in the petroliferous Amu-Darya Basin and Afghan-Tajik
Basin.
The newly added country contains standard cultural data
layers (cities, roads, provinces and rivers) in addition
to the PetroView attribute tables: Wells, Blocks, Fields
and Pipelines. South Asia is available for the MapInfo
and ArcView (ESRI) GIS platforms and is updated on a
monthly basis.
For further information regarding
PetroView South Asia, please visit our website.
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We are pleased to present our latest Russia
wall and
pocket maps, which were released in July 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 Russia wall map)
Our maps illustrate the extent of
PetroView's coverage in specific regions and the
depth of information available within each.
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