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Unconventional Play - Recent Activity 2015

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This report is updated weekly and summarises the top events related to the unconventional sector. From breakthroughs in new technology, exploration successes, drilling activity, production milestones, M&A announcements, to geopolitical and environmental issues. 

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    • Wintershall increases Vaca Muerta interest by 40% - 30 December 2015
    • Success in UK onshore shale licensing – 24 December 2015
    • Dow and ExxonMobil augmenting investments in Vaca Muerta – 17 December 2015
    • ConocoPhillips and Canacol sign updated Colombian contract with ANH - 8 December 2015
    • Central UK government to decide on shale gas exploration in Lancashire – 4 December 2015
    • Pakistan announces planned shale gas pilot project – 25 November 2015
    • Shale gas environmental assessment underway in the Karoo basin – 20 November 2015
    • Indonesia releases new unconventional bid round and regulations – 12 November 2015
    • IGas advances with shale well approval process – 6 November 2015
    • Falcon Oil & Gas accelerates Beetaloo shale program – 30 October 2015
    • Apache completes study of Egyptian shale gas – 23 October 2015
    • Triple Energy to acquire CBM blocks in the Ordos basin – 16 October 2015
    • Total to focus on unconventional gas in Argentina – 9 October 2015
    • South Africa plans to develop coalbed methane projects – 2 October 2015
    • Sinopec announces record Fuling well result – 24 September 2015
    • Rogersville shale gaining steam with new American Energy firm – 17 September 2015
    • KazTransGas announces start of CBM exploration program – 11 September 2015
    • American Energy Partners and EIM Capital to explore Mexican shale – 3 September 2015
    • 88 Energy prepares to spud North Slope shale well – 27 August 2015
    • Total abandons Denmark's first shale exploration well – 19 August 2015
    • UK government announces new rules to fast track shale gas development – 13 August 2015
    • YPF provides Vaca Muerta operational update – 6 August 2015
    • Goodrich Petroleum sells Eagle Ford assets – 30 July 2015
    • First deep coal well comes online in Australia's Cooper Basin – 23 July 2015
    • Netherlands bans shale gas drilling for five years – 16 July 2015
    • Mexico to offer liquids-rich unconventional acreage in Round One – 10 July 2015
    • Lancashire Council rejects Cuadrilla's hydraulic fracturing applications – 1 July 2015
    • YPF, PAE and Wintershall to announce new Vaca Muerta investment – 25 June 2015
    • Lancashire planners recommend shale project approval – 18 June 2015
    • ConocoPhillips exits Poland shale – 11 June 2015
    • YPF and Petrolera Pampa extend tight gas partnership – 4 June 2015
    • Canadian regulator releases new Canol tight oil resource assessment – 28 May 2015
    • Texas passes bill limiting local hydraulic fracturing bans – 21 May 2015
    • AWE records discovery in Perth Basin tight gas formation – 14 May 2015
    • Sintana announces spud of Colombia shale well – 7 May 2015
    • Range Resources discloses record Marcellus wet gas well – 30 April 2015
    • PetroChina expands processing infrastructure at Changning shale block – 24 April 2015
    • New agreement signed for Kazakh CBM exploration – 16 April 2015
    • WPX and Prometheus to power unconventional operations with LNG – 9 April 2015
    • Germany closer to banning hydraulic fracturing in some formations – 2 April 2015
    • CNOOC pauses shale gas exploration at Wuhu block, Anhui province – 26 March 2015
    • Canada's Tourmaline Oil acquires West Edson assets from Perpetual Energy – 19 March 2015
    • New South Wales government extends coal seam gas permit buy-backs – 13 March 2015
    • Pemex discloses new Burgos Basin shale gas discovery – 5 March 2015
    • Chevron exits Romanian shale – 26 February 2015
    • China's Sinopec leads new shale oil research centre – 20 February 2015
    • Exxon transfers unconventional Argentina operations to XTO – 13 February 2015
    • U.S. Department of the Interior to release federal hydraulic fracturing rules – 5 February 2015
    • YPF inks MOU with Sinopec to develop Vaca Muerta – 30 January 2015
    • Mexico schedules unconventional blocks tender release for March-April – 23 January 2015
    • UK’s Environment Agency permits country’s next shale wells – 19 January 2015
    • Sonatrach reiterates $70 billion investment over 20 years to develop Algeria's unconventional resources - 16 January 2015
    • Utah prepares to file a land lawsuit as federal government misses deadline - 9 January 2015

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