The American Energy Group, Ltd. announced that Hycarbex-American Energy, Inc. has updated its scheduling for the construction of its surface treatment facility for its Haseeb #1 Well and for its new exploratory well on Yasin Block (2768-7). The American Energy Group, Ltd. owns an 18% gross royalty in the Yasin Block (2768-7) Concession, including the [...]

Jura Energy Corporation announce the drilling of the Kandra 4D well commenced on August 16, 2008 at 11:30 am local time. The target depth of the well is 2,350 meters, which will allow for the evaluation of three separate geological horizons that have been identified as prospective hydrocarbon bearing formations.
The Kandra 4D well is the [...]

A consortium that includes Italian oil company Eni SpA and Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) have made an onshore gas discovery in Pakistan, Eni said on Monday.
The discovery was at the Saqib 1A well in the Mubarak exploration block, Sindh province, Eni said in a statement. The block’s operator is Petronas Carigali Pakistan Ltd., with [...]

Murli Deora, the petroleum minister of India, has reconfirmed his visit next week to Islamabad to pick up the pieces of the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline that faltered amidst a row between the two countries and Pakistan’s internal political strife.
Deora will also announce its formal partnership in the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline, the Business Standard reports.
“We will meet Pakistan [...]

Iran and Switzerland signed an agreement Monday to major exports of Iranian gas to a Swiss company, in a rare energy deal between Tehran and the West in their nuclear tug-of-war drags on.
“Today we have witnessed the signing of a gas contract between the two countries,” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced at a joint press [...]

Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission has claimed to have discovered around 1,000 uranium favourable sites, which could provide the required fuel for its proposed nuclear power plants.
Four of the 1000 sites were being mined and another nine with potential uranium reserves had been identified as very promising, Dawn quoted officials [...]

Mitsui & Co, Japan’s second-biggest trading company, has set a deadline of next Monday for bids for its 51 percent stake in Indian iron ore exporter Sesa Goa Ltd., the Business Standard reported on Monday.
Sesa Goa, India’s largest private-sector iron ore exporter, said last month that Mitsui wanted to sell its stake in the company. [...]

Exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and refined petroleum products recorded a double digit growth in 2006, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) said.
Exports of LNG, which accounted for 29.4 percent of total exports of minerals and mineral fuels in 2006, increased by 12 percent to RM23.29 billion, MITI said in the 2006 [...]

The Chinese embassy in Pakistan has barred its country’s services companies from oil and gas exploration and production work in Balochistan for security reasons. This can adversely hit Pakistan’s efforts to restart drilling activities in the province.
Chinese embassy’s advisory put Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) into limbo as after M/s Great Wall Drilling Company (GWDC) denial [...]

The European Union (EU) has joined the international concern at Pakistan’s plans to mine and fence a part of its 2500 km volatile border with Pakistan to check illegal movement of arms, men and drugs.
Joining the UN and Canada, EU’s envoy and German Ambassador Gunter Mulack urged that Pakistan explore ‘other means’ before mining its [...]