Managua. Norwood Resources Ltd. announces that on February 15, 2010, the Company completed testing on the San Bartolo-1X2 sidetrack well. The well reached total depth of 6428ft on January 31, 2010.

Port-au-Prince. A paratrooper unit called the Green Falcons arrived at a basketball court atop a hill here to dispense food and water to a Haitian camp, but the men also carried with them the necessary amount of patience and restraint.

Cuba - Cuba produced some four million tons of oil equivalent in 2009, roughly the same amount as the previous year, and is now setting its sights on exploring new deposits with the aim of replacing output from fields that have slid into decline, the official media reported.

London. UK supermajor BP said it plans to pump the first natural gas from the Serrette field in Trinidad & Tobago in 2011. The first phase of the project in the Northern Area of the Columbus basin about 32 miles (51 kilometers) north of the Mango field will capture as much as 700 million cubic feet of equivalent with five wells, BP said on its Web site.