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Statoil announces another high-impact natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania

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Statoil announced its fifth discovery in Block 2 offshore Tanzania. The discovery of an additional 2-3 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas in place in the Mronge-1 well brings the total of in-place volumes up to 17-20 Tcf in Block 2. (1 1 Tcf gas = 180 million barrels of oil equivalent.). Click to enlarge.

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Statoil makes another high-impact gas discovery offshore Tanzania

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Statoil reports another high-impact gas discovery offshore Tanzania; the discovery in the Piri prospect is Statoil’s and co-venturer ExxonMobil’s sixth discovery and the fifth high-impact discovery in Block 2 offshore Tanzania. 1 Tcf = 180 million barrels of oil equivalent). 1 Tcf = 180 million barrels of oil equivalent).

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Statoil and ExxonMobil report another large-impact gas discovery in deepwater offshore Tanzania

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Statoil and partner ExxonMobil report a large gas discovery (Lavani) in the Statoil-operated Block 2 licence offshore Tanzania. This is the second large offshore Tanzania discovery (Zafarani) reported by the partners. The results so far mark an important step towards a possible natural gas development in Tanzania.

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Pancontinental says first oil discovered offshore Kenya

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Australia-based Pancontinental Oil and Gas NL says it has verified that its recently completed Sunbird-1 well off the southern Kenyan coast has intersected an oil column—the first such discovered off the East African coast. The gross oil column is assessed to be 14m thick beneath a gross gas column of 29.6m

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Benthic sets new water depth drilling record of 2,776 meters

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miles) was set on a Statoil project in Tanzania, and was beaten with two deployments to 2,776 meters (9,108 feet) a few weeks later on the Anadarko project off the coast of Mozambique. Benthic, a global geosciences company, broke its own water depth record using the Portable Remotely Operated Drill unit 3 (PROD3) seabed drill.

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Once More: Can Bajaj Auto repeat its CNG success? | Autocar Professional

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With limited gas outlets in the initial days, drivers were forced to endure 10- to 12-hour waits for fuel, eroding their daily earnings, and visions of jubilant auto rickshaw drivers celebrating their new green friend were replaced by the reality of irate buyers demanding their money back. The answer can be summed up in one word: Ubiquity.

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