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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.