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ATP Hits Additional Paydirt at Deepwater Telemark Hub

Thursday, September 10, 2009

ATP has discovered additional pay sands at the Mirage Prospect located at Mississippi Canyon Block 941(MC 941) at ATP's deepwater Telemark Hub in the Gulf of Mexico. The MC 941 #3 well, located in approximately 4,000 feet of water, encountered more than 250 feet of logged net oil and gas pay, more than doubling the pre-drill estimates. The 7 5/8 inch casing has been set at 17,089 feet measured depth through the pay intervals


Mirage is one of the three Telemark Hub fields that will be tied back to the ATP Titan to be located at MC 941. ATP has a 100% WI and is the operator of the Telemark Hub.

Commenting on the announcement, ATP Chairman and CEO T. Paul Bulmahn stated, "ATP is exceptionally pleased with these initial results. Not only have we encountered the development sands at greater thicknesses than expected but we have logged other hydrocarbon-bearing sands that were not present in the original wells, beyond even what was discussed and projected at the ATP Titan post-christening breakfast update held on August 27th. These additional pay sands should lead to upgraded production and reserve estimates greater than currently booked in our third party reserve reports, and we were already predicting ATP's Telemark Hub is projected to more than double ATP's production beginning in 2010."
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MPN Gets Go-Ahead for North Sea Exploration Drilling

Marathon Petroleum Norge AS (MPN) has been given permission to conduct exploration drilling in the northern North Sea with Songa Dee semisub.


Approval applies to drilling exploration wells 24/9-9 S is part of production license 340. The well has the following geographic coordinates: N 59 degrees 19 '40, 414 ', E 01 degrees 50' 17.110 ". The depth of water at the location is 120 meters.

Drilling is scheduled to begin in September / October 2009. This activity has an estimated period of 36-53 days.

Songa Dee (formerly Stena Dee) is a semisubmersible drilling of the type "Mitsubishi MD-602". That was completed in 1984.
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United States

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

America (usually referred to as the United States, the United States, the United States, or America) is a federal constitutional republic which is composed of fifty states and the federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where the adjacent 48 states and Washington, DC, the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. State of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also has several areas, or areas of the island, the Caribbean and the Pacific


At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with about 307 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by land area and population. The United States is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries.[7] The U.S. economy is the largest national economy in the world, with an estimated 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) of US $14.3 trillion (23% of the world total based on nominal GDP and almost 21% at purchasing power parity).[4][8]

The nation was founded by thirteen colonies of Great Britain located along the Atlantic seaboard. On July 4, 1776, they issued the Declaration of Independence, which proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and their formation of a cooperative union. The rebellious states defeated Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, the first successful colonial war of independence.[9] The Philadelphia Convention adopted the current United States Constitution on September 17, 1787; its ratification the following year made the states part of a single republic with a strong central government. The Bill of Rights, comprising ten constitutional amendments guaranteeing many fundamental civil rights and freedoms, was ratified in 1791.

In the 19th century, the United States acquired land from France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Russia, and annexed the Republic of Texas and the Republic of Hawaii. Disputes between the agrarian South and industrial North over states' rights and the expansion of the institution of slavery provoked the American Civil War of the 1860s. The North's victory prevented a permanent split of the country and led to the end of legal slavery in the United States. By the 1870s, the national economy was the world's largest.[10] The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a military power. In 1945, the United States emerged from World War II as the first country with nuclear weapons, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, and a founding member of NATO. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union left the United States as the sole superpower. The country accounts for approximately 50% of global military spending and is a leading economic, political and cultural force in the wor
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Massey Energy CEO explosion climate bill

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

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The chief executive's biggest coal mine blasted supporters of Massey Energy climate change legislation and environmental issues that affect other coal industry in a free Labor Day concert and the campaign in southern West Virginia.

CEO Don Blankenship said he wanted to show people on the show how the government regulations that hurt the coal industry, raise energy prices and make the country less competitive.

"We hope that through their network that will educate their neighbors and that they all be begging to talk," said Blankenship. "We think that will make a difference."
Richmond, Va.-based Massey, which operates mines in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia, is the lead sponsor of the rally, which Blankenship said cost about $1 million to stage.

Organizers had predicted the event, headlined by country star Hank Williams Jr., could draw as many as 100,000 people to a reclaimed Logan County strip mine. An attendance estimate was expected in the afternoon, but the morning crowd appeared to be smaller.

Headlining the event were Fox News personality Sean Hannity and Williams, while rocker Ted Nugent served as master of ceremonies and played briefly.

"Today's the day when the American worker takes back this country," Nugent said.

Some came to support coal mining, while others were more interested in the music.

"This is like the backbone of this area, I mean whether you're a miner or not," said Joe Walters, an electrician who drove an hour from Kentucky.

Miner Dennis Blankenship, no relation to Don Blankenship, drove from southwestern Virginia to show support for mining.

"The industry is being attacked by the Obama administration," said Dennis Blankenship. "We don't mine coal, we don't live."

Hurricane resident Walter Neal came toting signs opposing climate-change legislation because it would increase energy prices and force more U.S. jobs overseas.

"It's cap and tax," Neal said. "What concerns us is China and India further gaining the advantage."

Others were less politically motivated.

Chapmanville resident Roger Dalton said he came mostly for the music. So, too, did Jason Bolling.

"More or less for the coal miners, plus the show," said Bolling, who works at a Massey mine in eastern Kentucky.

For Massey, however, the event was an opportunity for Blankenship to highlight what he calls attacks on American workers.

"Let's send the message to Washington that the politicians have to stop giving our jobs away. If they don't, it's the politicians that need to retrain and relocate," he said.

"We don't need a government that wants to shut down our coal mines. We don't want a government that wants to increase our power bills. ... We don't want a government that is run by people who believe they can change the earth's temperature when they can't balance a budget."
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