December
2007
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Welcome
to our December edition of Bright spots. May we take this
opportunity to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a
prosperous New Year.
Topical
GEO 2008 - Manama, Bahrain, March 3rd-5th, 2008
Technical
- Topical -
New Zealand's 2007 onshore Taranaki petroleum
blocks offer
New Zealand's Associate Energy Minister, Harry Duynhoven,
announced one of the largest onshore blocks offers in recent
years, by opening the Onshore Taranaki Petroleum Blocks
Offer on December 3rd, 2007. 11 petroleum permits are
available for bidding in the Taranaki basin with
applications being accepted up until 5.00 p.m. on Friday May
30th, 2008. These petroleum permits will be available in the
PetroView Asia Pacific December update.
For further information regarding application procedures,
please contact
Crown Minerals, Ministry of Economic Development.
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India launches NELP-VII licensing round
India's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources has
announced the seventh New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP-VII)
licensing round. A total of 57 blocks are on offer for
exploration of oil and gas, comprising of 19 deep-water
blocks, nine shallow-water blocks and 29 onland blocks.
Roadshows for the round have been tentatively planned in
Mumbai, London, Houston and Calgary throughout January 2008.
The schedule for roadshows in Dubai, Perth and Singapore
will be released at a later date. Companies will need to
submit their bids by April 11th, 2008.
The provisional block shapes for the NELP-VII round can be
accessed via the OPENBLOCKS layer in the
PetroView South Asia dataset. For a comprehensive
overview of the fiscal, regulatory and contractual terms
applicable to upstream petroleum operations in India, our
Fiscal and Regulatory Guide for India is now available.
Our off-the-shelf discounted cash-flow model,
PetroScope, is also available for India. To find out
more about these products, please
contact us.
For more information about the NELP-VII licensing round,
please visit the official
website.
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GEO 2008 - Manama, Bahrain, March 3rd-5th, 2008
We
will be exhibiting at GEO 2008 in Manama, Bahrain at the
Bahrain International Exhibition Centre. A diverse
collection of exploration and development products,
services, technology and techniques will be on display at
more than 150 booths.
Please
visit us at booth number 267, for a chance to meet us and
review our
products.
For
more information, please visit the
GEO 2008 website.
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Updated wall and pocket maps
We are
pleased to present our latest South America
wall map, which we updated in November with data from
PetroView. In addition to this map, we have updated the
Alaska, Gulf of Mexico and South America
pocket maps.
These
maps form part of our popular series of
wall and
pocket maps, which are available for you to download and
print at no cost.
Alternatively, to request a printed copy please fill in our
contact
us form stating clearly which maps you require.

(Screenshot of South
America map)
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