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Kea Petroleum plans to drill sidetracks later at Beluga
- 29 June 2010 - Kea Petroleum has suspended its onshore Taranaki Beluga-1 well, where earlier gas shows were reported, and will later drill a sidetrack into two potentially more productive targets.
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Comet Ridge moves to test first CSG pilot well on West Coast
- 28 June 2010 - Brisbane-based Comet Ridge Ltd has completed and fitted for production testing its first coal seam gas pilot well in New Zealand, the Macdonald 4P well near Greymouth.
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Tui partners suspend Tui SW-2 and now move to Kahu-1
- 25 June 2010 - One of the partners in the exploration programme near the Tui oil field confirmed that the exploration well Tui SW-2 had been suspended to determine the potential use as a gas injection well.
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Gas shows found at Kea’s Beluga-1 well
- 18 June 2010 - Kea Petroleum has reported gas shows from its onshore Taranaki deep well Beluga-1.
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2010 New Zealand Petroleum Conference
- 16 June 2010 - Crown Minerals has released the high-level programme for this year’s New Zealand Petroleum Conference, to be held on September 19-22 at the SKYCITY Convention Centre in Auckland.
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Solid Energy plans $22m Underground Coal Gasification pilot in Waikato
- 11 June 2010 - Solid Energy has announced plans to build a $22 million test pilot project to generate gas by gasification of coal deep underground in the Waikato.
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Petroleum conference keynote speaker, Farouk Al-Kasim
- 9 June 2010 - One of the keynote speakers for the New Zealand Petroleum Conference has a wealth of experience in the petroleum sector and a large part of it was in two climatic extremes – the Middle East and Scandinavia.
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AWE brings in two partners for Tuatara-1
- 4 June 2010 - Sydney-based oil explorer AWE Ltd has brought in two partners Kea Petroleum and Roc Oil as partners for the drilling of the Tuatara-1 well near D’Urville Island in the next few months.
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Roc Oil JV awarded Kaheru permit off south Taranaki
- 3 June 2010 - Sydney-based Roc Oil (New Zealand) Ltd and three partners have been awarded a permit over the Kaheru prospect off the south Taranaki coast.
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TAG well stimulation increases flows at Cheal A7
- 2 June 2010 - TAG Oil Ltd has substantially increased oil flows from its Cheal A7 well at its onshore Taranaki field following fracture stimulation at the company’s Cheal oil and gas field.
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Petrobras awarded big exploration permit
- 1 June 2010 - Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee today awarded New Zealand’s first petroleum exploration permit over the Raukumara Basin off the North Island’s East Coast to Petrobras International Braspetro B.V.
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Solid Energy looks at turning lignite into oil and upgraded coal
- 30 May 2010 - Solid Energy has secured the New Zealand rights to technology to turn low energy lignite feedstocks directly into synthetic crude oil and high grade coal.
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Solid Energy places big order for upgrade of Stockton mining fleet
- 30 May 2010 - Solid Energy has placed a second large order for mobile plant and equipment for its Stockton opencast coking coal mine near Westport.
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Petroleum Exploration and Geosciences Initiative (PEGI) Project
- 26 May 2010 - Crown Minerals has executed a contract with GNS Science for delivery of the Petroleum Exploration and Geosciences Initiative (PEGI) project, a major two year work programme aimed at the promotion of oil and gas exploration around New Zealand.
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Major petroleum project begins
- 25 May 2010 - The government today announced a major two-year work programme aimed at promoting oil and gas exploration around New Zealand.
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NZOG acquiring offshore south Taranaki regional seismic
- 17 May 2010 - Wellington-based New Zealand Oil & Gas is acquiring a series of regional seismic lines across the offshore south Taranaki Basin including traverses across its recently defined Kaupokonui prospect in NZOG’s 100% owned PEP 51311.
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Origin drills first of three Manutahi oil wells in Kauri field
- 17 May 2010 - Origin Energy has begun drilling three development wells into the Manutahi oil reservoir in the onshore Kauri field.
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Newmont begins drilling Wharekirauponga prospect north of Waihi
- 17 May 2010 - Newmont Waihi Gold recently began drilling at the Wharekirauponga (‘WKP’) gold prospect about 10 km north of Waihi.
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Placer Gold International to join Glass Earth in Otago mining
- 17 May 2010 - Glass Earth Gold Ltd has signed a letter of intent with Placer Gold International Corp. to develop two placer targets in two adjacent prospects in central Otago.
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Bathurst aims for late 2011 production from Buller coalfield
- 14 May 2010 - Perth-based coal developer Bathurst Resources Ltd says it plans to begin a new export coking and thermal coal export mine from Buller by late 2011.
