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Week of December 5, 2011Volume 1, No. 12

Exploration Game Changers: Anadarko and Noble 

Mozambique and Eastern Mediterranean

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Anadarko: Mozambique 15-30 Tcf

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Noble: Leviathan 16 Tcf

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Offshore Exploration: Global Highlights


November 28, 2011

McMoran: GOM Deep Shelf


October 17, 2011

Murphy: 3.5 BBOE gross target


November 15, 2011


Ophir Exploration Seeking Partners


November 3, 2011

The slide above shows the results of offshore activity in 2011 as well as HIGH IMPACT 2012 wells.  Key learnings include 1) Guyana basin as a West Africa analogue, 2)  East Falklands commercial, 3) Cuba exploration commencing, 4) Caspian succeeds, Black Sea disappoints.

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McMoran Oil & Gas has over 100 Tcfe potential in the GOM shelf Ultra Deep play and three discoveries to date. Two (Blackbeard East and Blackbeard West) are in the Miocene/Wilcox and Oligocene/Frio plays. One (Davy Jones) is in the Wilcox/Cretaceous play.  Another 11 prospects are in the wings and under lease. One - Lafitte - is currently drilling.

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Murphy Oil Company is also hunting the world in a managed approach.  The 2011/2012 exploration program is focused on oil with 18 to 32 wells on the docket. Exploration wells will occur in the GOM (3), Congo (1-3), Kurdistan (2 ), Malaysia (5 - 8), Brunei (5 -12), Indonesia (1-2) and Australia (1-2). Targeting 3.5 billion boe gross (350 MMBOE net).

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Ophir Exploration debuted publicly in July 2011 in one of the largest UK E&P IPO's and is potentially a world class Africa resource play.  The portfolio includes 17 projects across all of Africa (West, North, East) and Ophir is actively SEEKING PARTNERS.  Track Record: 5 significant discoveries (Tanzania and Equatorial Guinea).

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featured.transactions from PLS global M&A database

DateHeadlineValue
12/01/11Plains All American acquires BP's Canadian NGL business$1,670 MM
11/30/11Samsung and KNOC acquire Parallel Petroleum (8,400 boe/d) from Apollo $772 MM
11/29/11Inpex, JGC enter into Horn River, Cordova, Liard basin (BC) JV with Nexen$675 MM
11/29/11Shell buys 7.5% interest and operatorship of Evans Shoal gas field (Australia) from ENI$66 MM

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