PETROCELTIC, IN ASSOCIATION with its partner Sonatrach, announced that well testing of the Objective Devonian F2 formation at well INW-2 has been successful, with a gas well test rate of 16.7 million standard cubic feet per day ("mmscf/d") (19,740 cubic meters/hour) with a flowing wellhead pressure of 347.5 PSIG on a 96/64"' choke setting.

EGYPT HAS GIVEN preliminary approval to sending Jordan more gas through the Arab gas pipeline project, according to reports.

PETROCELTIC HAS ISSUED an operational update on its Isarene permit in the Illizi Basin in South Eastern Algeria. As previously announced, a gas column in excess of 80 meters

CHEVRON CORP’S CABINDA joint venture is spending US$2.3bn over five years to reduce flaring

TOTAL E&P ANGOLA and BP Angola (Block 18) BV let a contract to Acergy SA for the installation of more than 70 km of pipeline from Angola’s Block 2 to the onshore pipeline for the 5.2 million tonne/year Angola LNG liquefaction facility near the town of Soyo in Zaire province.