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Maersk Oil strikes more oil in Block 16, Angola
Maersk Oil Angola A/S (Maersk Oil), together with concessionaire Sonangol E.P., and partners Sonangol P&P and Odebrecht Oil and Gas Angola Ltd, has successfully completed drilling the Caporolo-1 exploration well in the Lower Congo Basin with positive results.

Maersk Drilling secures two year contract in Cameroon
Maersk Drilling expands its activities in West Africa with the signing of a contract for the jack-up Maersk Endurer with Addax Petroleum owned by Sinopec, which is one of the largest oil and gas producers in the world. The contract duration is two years and the value is around USD 100 million. Expected commencement is late October 2012.

Noble Energy Completes The Sale Of Dumbarton And Lochranza In The North Sea
Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL) announced today that it has closed the previously announced sale of the Dumbarton and Lochranza properties in the North Sea to Maersk Oil North Sea Limited (OMX: MAERSKB). Proceeds from the transaction were $117 million and included final closing adjustments from the effective date of January 1, 2012.

Maersk Oil to drill HPHT exploration well in Denmark
Maersk Oil will drill an exploration well on the Maja licence in the Danish North Sea after the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) granted it a two-year extension to two licences in the region.

Noble Energy Announces The Sale Of North Sea Assets
Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Maersk Oil North Sea Limited (OMX: MAERSKB) for the sale of certain assets located in the North Sea of the UK. The sale includes the Company's thirty percent non-operated working interest in the Dumbarton and Lochranza properties, which produced approximately 4,400 barrels of oil equivalent (Boe) per day, net to Noble Energy, in the first quarter of 2012. At the end of 2011, net proved reserves at Dumbarton and Lochranza were 5.6 million Boe.

Baker Hughes to Bring State-of-the-Art Fracturing, Stimulation Vessel to North Sea in 2013
Baker Hughes Incorporated (BHI—NYSE) announced that its subsidiary has chartered a new state-of-the-art pressure pumping vessel that will provide offshore stimulation services to Maersk Oil in the North Sea. Upon completion, scheduled for late 2013, the Blue Orca™ will become the eighth vessel in the Baker Hughes fleet.

Maersk Oil completes drilling T-Rex well in Norway
Maersk Oil has finished drilling the T-Rex prospect in Norway. The well, drilled in Production Licence 431 in the Norwegian Sea, did not discover hydrocarbons in commercial quantities.

Expro secures multi-million pound Maersk Oil UK contract
Leading international oilfield services company Expro has recently secured a multi-million pound contract win with global oil and gas company Maersk Oil.

Maersk Oil strikes oil with its first pre-salt well in Angola
Sociedade Nacional de Combustíveis de Angola Empresa Pública (Sonangol, E.P.), Maersk Oil and other partners declared the Azul-1 deepwater exploration well, located in Block 23 in the Kwanza Basin, a discovery well.

BP Successfully Completes Deepwater Appraisal Well off Brazil
BP today announced that a Notification of Discovery for the Itaipu-2 pre-salt appraisal well, located in block BM-C-32 in the deepwater sector of the Campos Basin, has been lodged with the Brazilian National Petroleum Agency (ANP). The well, approximately 130km offshore Brazil, was drilled to a total depth of 4,877 metres in 1,420 metres water depth. Itaipu-2 delineates the discovery made in 2009-10 in Itaipu-1 some 7km to the northwest.