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(5/8/2008) OPEC stands on status quo - no increases in output

(5/7/2008) OPEC exports to garner more than $1 trillion this year

(5/6/2008) MEND to halt oil industry attacks if Carter mediates

(5/4/2008) Another attack on Shell Nigeria cuts output further

(5/2/2008) Argentina claims UK violating joint declaration on Falklands

(5/2/2008) Colombian rebels bomb Cano Limon pipeline

(4/29/2008) Allegations of killings by pipeline guards said baseless

(4/29/2008) BP restarts North Sea Forties pipeline (update)

(4/27/2008) Another pipeline bombing in Niger Delta

(4/27/2008) North Sea Forties pipeline shutdown halts 700,000 b/d

(4/25/2008) MEND Cyclone strikes yet another Shell pipeline

(4/25/2008) Strike against ExxonMobil Nigeria suspends 765,000 b/d output

(4/21/2008) UN decision extends Australian shelf 2.5 million sq km

(4/21/2008) Wife of Lonestar CEO kidnapped in Niger Delta

(4/21/2008) Two more key Niger Delta pipelines bombed

(4/18/2008) MEND bombs another Shell pipeline in Niger Delta

(4/17/2008) Russia trades $4.5 billion in Libyan debt for oil deals

(4/17/2008) Western Ghana demands share of Tullow discovery

(4/16/2008) Venezuela's National Assembly passes windfall oil tax

(4/15/2008) Sudan's Darfur JEM rebels wants Chinese out

(4/14/2008) Rig worker killed in accident on Petrobras P-17

(4/14/2008) Sabotage in Niger Delta cuts Eni output 5,000 b/d

(4/11/2008) IEA oil demand forecast down almost half-million b/d

(4/11/2008) Militants shuts down Shell Nigeria Yenagoa Field

(4/7/2008) Yemen oil compound struck by rocket attack

(4/4/2008) Five Nigeria oilworkers kidnapped last month released

(4/4/2008) XTO wellsite bombed in New Mexico

(4/2/2008) Nigeria & Cameroon agree to joint border field projects

(3/28/2008) Western Australia wary of Cyclone Pancho

(3/27/2008) Bomb blast shuts down key Basra export pipeline

(3/26/2008) British oilworker killed, driver wounded in Nigeria attack

(3/24/2008) 18 crewmen trapped in sunken AHTS off Hong Kong

(3/23/2008) One killed, 5 injured in violence at Pluspetrol Amazon field

(3/23/2008) Qatar sentences American oil spy to 25 years

(3/21/2008) Fifteen-man geotech team released by Equatorial Guinea

(3/20/2008) Two arrested & charged with spying after TNK-BP raid (update)

(3/13/2008) Four killed, eight missing in China avalanche

(3/12/2008) IEA calls crisis meeting on soaring oil prices

(3/10/2008) Cyclone Jokwe strikes Madagascar & Mozambique

(3/9/2008) Ecuador, Venezuela & Colombia agree to peaceful settlement (update)

(3/6/2008) FARC cuts Colombia's Transandino pipeline

(3/5/2008) Prices not supply issue, no output change - OPEC (update)

(3/4/2008) OPEC unlikely to raise production

(3/3/2008) Militants attack Niger Delta Bonny Island terminal

(3/2/2008) Ahmadinejad in Baghdad to discuss joint oilfield development (update)

(2/29/2008) Landslide destroys pipeline, halts flow of 357,000 b/d

(2/28/2008) Norway to aid Ghana in oil industry development

(2/27/2008) UK earthquake shuts down Easington terminal

(2/26/2008) Total employee kidnapped at gunpoint

(2/22/2008) Operators resuming production after Cyclone Nicholas (update)

(2/22/2008) Kidnapped Agip Nigeria manager released (update)

(2/20/2008) Agip manager kidnapped in Port Harcourt

(2/20/2008) IEA calls for OPEC to hold output steady

(2/19/2008) Iraq & Iran to jointly develop & produce border fields

(2/19/2008) Chevron resumes operations off Western Australia (update)

(2/18/2008) Cyclone Nicholas shuts in 40% of Australia production (update)

(2/14/2008) Mexico worried US may extract crude from Mexican reserves

(2/13/2008) StatoilHydro CEO points to more collaboration

(2/13/2008) World oil demand growing slower than expected - IEA

(2/11/2008) Militants kill 1, injure others in attack near Bonny Island

(2/11/2008) Venezuela threatens to halt oil to USA - again

(2/8/2008) Oil companies to return to Niger Delta or lose concessions

(2/7/2008) Shell declares force majeure at Nigeria's Bonny terminal

(2/7/2008) New Tabasco protest blockades thwart Pemex operations

(2/4/2008) Gunfight at Niger Delta oil hub ends with 11 dead

(2/4/2008) Pirates seize ice-breaking tug bound for Sakhalin II project

(2/1/2008) Russia to monitor polar hydrocarbons via satellite

(2/1/2008) Infield forecasts 65% growth in subsea spending

(2/1/2008) OPEC to keep its output at 29.67 million b/d

(1/31/2008) EU warns Poland to comply with rules on hydrocarbons access

(1/29/2008) US appeals to OPEC for more oil output

(1/28/2008) Iraq punishes SK Energy for Kurdistan operations

(1/27/2008) Gas producing countries considering "Gas OPEC"

(1/22/2008) Duties on imported offshore rigs cancelled in Russia

(1/21/2008) Niger Delta rebels call for George Clooney to mediate

(1/16/2008) IEA tweeks world oil demand by 150,000 b/d

(1/14/2008) MEND will end hostilities if leader freed from Angola prison

(1/13/2008) Worldwide exploration costs up 50% in 3 years

(1/11/2008) MEND destroys oil tanker in Port Harcourt

(1/10/2008) MEND planning "mother of all attacks" in Niger Delta

(12/14/2007) Bali Kyoto talks dividing by developed & developing nations

(12/11/2007) Russian naval exercises disrupt North Sea oil operations

(12/11/2007) Second CNPC-operated field attacked in Sudan

(12/9/2007) Protest halts OIL operations in Assam

(12/5/2007) OPEC gives Angola & Ecuador production quotas

(12/5/2007) OPEC will not raise its official total output

(12/4/2007) One killed, one injured in new Niger Delta attack

(12/4/2007) Lukoil executive detained in Libya licensing investigation

(11/28/2007) Saudis arrest 208 for planning oil installation attacks

(11/26/2007) Heritage Oil seismic surveyors arrested by DR Congo troops (update)

(11/25/2007) Cyclone Hagibis shuts down offshore Vietnam oilfields

(11/20/2007) Sudan rebels release kidnapped Schlumberger employees (update)

(11/15/2007) Massive bombing blasts Shell's Forcados crude line

(11/15/2007) Category 4 cyclone shuts down Bay of Bengal operations

(11/14/2007) Analyst forecasts record UKCS activity to 2010

(11/13/2007) IEA lowers demand forecast due to declining consumption

(11/13/2007) World has a century of remaining oil reserves - Jumah

(11/13/2007) Qua Iboe export terminal evacuated of non-essentials

(11/12/2007) Darfur rebels release hostages seized at CNPC field (update)

(11/11/2007) Big Brazilian discovery sets stage for OPEC membership

(11/9/2007) Oil & Gas construction costs reach new high

(11/8/2007) Cambodia to resume joint development talks with Thailand

(11/8/2007) 12 killed in tribal confrontation at Yemen oilfield

(11/7/2007) IEA global forecast pessimistic

(11/6/2007) North Sea production shuts down in face of storm

(11/5/2007) Darfur rebels to release 5 kidnapped oil workers

(11/5/2007) MEND threatens destruction of Shell's Bonga Field

(11/4/2007) Three Schlumberger employees kidnapped in Sudan (update)

(11/2/2007) Oil & gas workers' strike hits Trinidad & Tobago

(10/31/2007) 2 killed, 3 injured in Shell EA Field security gunfight

(10/30/2007) Crewmen kidnapped from Eni Saipem's FPSO released today (update)

(10/30/2007) "Don't blame us for $93 oil" - OPEC

(10/29/2007) Four Indians among the latest Niger Delta kidnap victims (update)

(10/26/2007) Six Eni crewmen kidnapped from Mystras FPSO off Nigeria

(10/25/2007) Darfur rebels claim Canadian & Iraqi oil workers kidnapped

(10/24/2007) Kazakh president gives blessing to breaking contracts

(10/23/2007) Seven kidnapped & released from Shell Niger Delta field

(10/23/2007) Chile joins in the race for Antarctica aquatory

(10/19/2007) Protest ends that shutdown Ecuador's Block 15 (update)

(10/19/2007) Chevron opposes Myanmar sanctions requiring asset liquidation

(10/19/2007) Argentina to challenge UK Antarctic claim (update)

(10/17/2007) OPEC tags speculation as cause of record oil prices

(10/17/2007) Caspian confab ends without division of sea

(10/17/2007) UK to claim a million sq km of Antartic seabed

(10/16/2007) Five injured by Ecuador troops guarding Petroecuador oilfield

(10/12/2007) Japan & China sit down for 10th East China Sea talks (update)

(10/10/2007) Qatar's Minister al-Attiyah says oil price should be over $100 per bbl

(10/10/2007) Two more foreign hostages released in Niger Delta (update)

(10/5/2007) Hydrodive manager rescued from Niger Delta kidnappers (update)

(10/3/2007) DR Congo cancels Lake Albert negotiations with Uganda

(10/1/2007) Five killed in 4 Assam pipeline bombings

(9/28/2007) 1 expat killed 3 kidnapped in Niger Delta attack on Saipem

(9/27/2007) Norway lends full support to Transparency Initiative

(9/27/2007) North Atlantic's Rockall claimed by 4 countries

(9/26/2007) Rebel threats end Nagaland exploration activity

(9/26/2007) Oil companies under pressure to end Myanmar investment

(9/25/2007) Another pipeline bombed in northern Iraq

(9/24/2007) MEND threatens resumption of attacks on oil industry

(9/24/2007) Storm-bypassed US Gulf basically back to normal (update)

(9/20/2007) Storm entering Gulf triggers wide shut-ins, evacuations (update)

(9/20/2007) Disputed Atlantic waters divided by arbitration

(9/20/2007) Russia claims research proves Arctic is Russian territory (update)

(9/19/2007) Taking no storm chances, majors sending non-essentials to shore

(9/19/2007) Northern Iraqi oil pipelines sabotaged

(9/18/2007) Typhoon Wipha skirting China's Chunxiao-Pinghu

(9/17/2007) French ask its companies not to bid on Iranian tenders

(9/13/2007) Iraq oil law looks to be dead in the water (update)

(9/11/2007) OPEC increases output a half-million b/d

(9/10/2007) Kidnapped chairman of Atlantic LNG escapes

(9/10/2007) Guerrillas sabotage Mexican oil pipelines

(9/7/2007) Niger Delta umbrella militant group threatens reprisals

(9/7/2007) Congo wants to share Lake Albert oil wealth with Uganda (update)

(8/28/2007) Kidnapped Total employee freed from month's captivity

(8/28/2007) Kidnappers release Iraqi deputy oil minister

(8/27/2007) Saudi Arabia establishing 35,000-man oil security force

(8/23/2007) Thai-Cambodia standoff over Pattani Troug

(8/22/2007) Hurricane Dean spares Mexico's Campeche production (update)

(8/22/2007) Congo & Uganda presidents to meet over Lake Albert border (update)

(8/22/2007) Hurricane Dean strikes Mexico's oil province (update)

(8/20/2007) Pemex evacuating 407 platforms ahead of Hurricane Dean

(8/19/2007) Threats halt 5 companies' Pakistan exploration operations

(8/17/2007) Prospect of Hurricane Dean entering US Gulf increases (update)

(8/17/2007) Troops & insurgents battle in Niger Delta's Port Harcourt

(8/16/2007) Hurricane Dean heading toward the US Gulf

(8/15/2007) US Gulf storm triggering evacuations, close watch

(8/14/2007) Iraq's Deputy Oil Minister kidnapped

(8/13/2007) Niger Delta kidnapped oil worker dies on release

(8/12/2007) Canada, USA, & Denmark hasten to make own Arctic claims (update)

(8/10/2007) Congo admits firing on Heritage barge in Lake Alberta (update)

(8/10/2007) UK's Hydrodive manager kidnapped in Niger Delta

(8/9/2007) Largest Niger Delta militant group to renew oil attacks

(8/9/2007) Pipeline to carry 200,000 b/d oil from Iraq to Iran

(8/8/2007) Ethiopia's Ogaden rebels again warning oil companies to stay out

(8/8/2007) Kidnapped Expro Group employees freed

(8/7/2007) South Korea to underwrite state companies' foreign projects

(8/6/2007) Uganda increasing security for oil operators (update)

(8/6/2007) Polish cargo vessel crashes into ConocoPhillips North Sea platform

(8/5/2007) Corruption probe triggers special session on Alaska oil profits tax

(8/5/2007) British artillery his Iraq oil pipeline in Basra

(8/3/2007) Atlantic hurricane predictions down to 8 this season

(8/3/2007) Nigeria's Bonny terminal boats attacked, three killed

(8/3/2007) One dead in attack on Heritage Oil boat on Uganda's Lake Albert

(8/2/2007) Total employee abducted in Niger Delta

(7/31/2007) China's Shengli Field oil thieves sentenced to death

(7/26/2007) Nigeria's president takes 2nd role as petroleum minister

(7/25/2007) Criminal inquiry underway into Nigeria briberies

(7/24/2007) Niger Delta oil official's home attacked, 2 killed

(7/22/2007) Iran to privatize oil exploration sector

(7/22/2007) One kidnapping, one attempt, & one killing in Niger Delta

(7/18/2007) Shell's Trans-Niger pipeline burning more than month

(7/17/2007) Earthquake shuts down Japan Niigata field production

(7/17/2007) Turkey ignores US objections to Iran deal

(7/13/2007) Lonestar Drilling rigworkers released in Niger Delta (update)

(7/11/2007) Russia & Norway sign treaty fixing Barents Sea boundary

(7/10/2007) Mexican guerrilla group says sabotaged Pemex pipeline

(7/10/2007) Canada reinforcing claim to Northwest Passage

(7/10/2007) Nigerian rebels attack Agip project operated by Daewoo

(7/10/2007) British & Bulgarian hostages being held in Niger Delta (update)

(7/9/2007) Four new kidnappings in Niger Delta

(7/8/2007) UN team to delineate Nigeria-Cameroon border

(7/8/2007) Chinese oil worker kidnapped in Niger

(7/6/2007) Child of oil consultant kidnapped in Niger Delta

(7/5/2007) Melee at PetroOriental Ecuador oil facilities

(7/5/2007) Australia admits oil reason it joined US Iraq invasion

(7/5/2007) Future oil supply inter-dependent, not independent - NPC

(7/4/2007) New Iraq hydrocarbons law facing major opposition (update)

(7/4/2007) Niger Delta insurgents attack rig, kidnap 5 foreign workers

(7/3/2007) Iraqi cabinet approves amended oil law

(7/2/2007) Syrian oil worker kidnapped in Port Harcourt

(6/26/2007) China & Japan try again to solve East China Sea border (update)

(6/25/2007) Tropical Cyclone 03B sweeping Pakistan Arabian Sea

(6/24/2007) 800 rig workers fired from nationalized rigs in Venezuela

(6/24/2007) Four Schlumberger hostages released in Niger Delta

(6/24/2007) Security guard kills 2, wounds 5 Oxy oil workers in Yemen

(6/22/2007) Hamas supports BG Gaza gas project, not sale to Israel

(6/21/2007) Baghdad & Kurdistan agree on oil revenue sharing

(6/21/2007) Yar'Adua sends in army to recapture Eni field (update)

(6/20/2007) Nigeria general strike is on but not yet affecting oil flow (update)

(6/19/2007) Nigeria general strike set to begin tomorrow

(6/19/2007) Eni declares force majeure at Ogbainbiri (update)

(6/18/2007) Chevron's Niger Delta Abiteye Field attacked

(6/17/2007) Militants take over Eni oilfield in Nigeria

(6/17/2007) Five new kidnappings & ten releases in Niger Delta

(6/13/2007) New Nigeria regime trying to thwart further violence (update)

(6/11/2007) Norway & Russia set Barents Sea boundaries

(6/8/2007) UK tells citizens to leave Niger Delta

(6/7/2007) Rapid response to US Gulf deepwater pipeline disruption planned

(6/7/2007) Cyclone Gonu moving into Strait of Hormuz (update)

(6/6/2007) OPEC Sec-General calls for cartel-private company cooperation

(6/6/2007) Iraqi military intervenes in oil workers strike (update)

(6/6/2007) Cyclone Gonu bypassing Oman, targeting Iran (update)

(6/5/2007) Iraqi oil workers strike over proposed law, work conditions

(6/4/2007) Cyclone Gonu bearing down on Persian Gulf (update)

(6/4/2007) Arabian Peninsula producers prepping for cyclone

(6/2/2007) Four Schlumberger workers kidnapped in Port Harcourt

(6/2/2007) MEND offers truce, releases hostages

(5/31/2007) Four foreigners released, six more promised

(5/30/2007) Shell Nigeria output hit again by Ogoni protestors

(5/30/2007) MMS says US Gulf operators better prepared for hurricanes

(5/30/2007) Namibia seeking to extend its Atlantic shelf

(5/30/2007) Niger Delta militants threaten to kill 7 hostages

(5/27/2007) Sea bottom scan set to resolve Guyana-Suriname boundary

(5/27/2007) Ten oilworkers taken from Conoil pipelay vessel off Niger Delta (update)

(5/25/2007) Eight crewmen from pipelaying vessel kidnapped off Nigeria

(5/24/2007) Insurgents strike oilfield in northern Iraq

(5/22/2007) Lebanese oil services worker seized in Niger Delta

(5/20/2007) Iraq's VP opposes draft hydrocarbons law

(5/20/2007) Indian oil workers kidnapped in Niger Delta

(5/17/2007) Niger Delta kidnappers release Compass Group manager

(5/15/2007) Shell declares force majeure on Bonny crude

(5/15/2007) Chevron bringing Niger Delta fields back onstream

(5/14/2007) Agip manager abducted in Niger Delta

(5/13/2007) US report reveals 2 million bbl Iraqi oil missing

(5/11/2007) Hundreds of Chevron oil workers exiting Nigeria's offshore

(5/9/2007) Militants release 11 & kidnap 4 in Niger Delta (update)

(5/8/2007) UK offshore workers unions near merger

(5/8/2007) Rebels shutdown Nigeria's Brass export terminal

(5/7/2007) Chevron field in Niger Delta shutdown by protestors

(5/6/2007) NNPC declares force majeure at Okono-Okpoho

(5/6/2007) Gunmen seize 2 more expats in Niger Delta

(5/4/2007) Norway awards Madagascar grant for oil & gas management

(5/3/2007) 20 foreign workers seized in 3 attacks in Niger Delta

(5/1/2007) Aging offshore oil & gas workforce a myth - Oil & Gas UK

(5/1/2007) Six Chevron workers kidnapped from FPSO off Niger Delta

(4/30/2007) Industry survey reveals UK leads in R&D activities

(4/29/2007) Ethiopia's Ogaden rebels release Chinese oil workers (update)

(4/29/2007) Rebel Tamil Tiger aircraft bomb Shell gas facility

(4/27/2007) Ogaden rebels apologize for Chinese deaths & seized workers (update)

(4/27/2007) Total contractors escape kidnapping in Port Harcourt

(4/24/2007) New association for companies active in UK offshore

(4/24/2007) 74 Sinopec oil workers killed in Ethiopia

(4/23/2007) Ireland extends its continental shelf

(4/22/2007) Companies working in Libya must change names

(4/20/2007) 3 kidnapped, 6 injured in Niger Delta attack on rig

(4/12/2007) Vietnam counters China sovereignty claim

(4/11/2007) Oxfam calls for Cambodia to "avoid the oil curse"

(4/10/2007) SPE approves new Petroleum Resources Management System

(4/9/2007) Gas OPEC on horizon but not now - GECF ministers

(4/8/2007) Gas co-operation, not cartel is Iran's goal - Ardebili

(4/7/2007) Two Turkish oil workers kidnapped in Niger Delta

(4/6/2007) Industry needs to raise platforms to survive US Gulf hurricanes

(4/5/2007) Ecuador's President Correa confirms return to OPEC

(4/5/2007) Insurgents bomb southern Iraq export pipeline

(4/4/2007) Four Niger Delta hostages released (update)

(4/3/2007) UK union calls for British withdrawal from Niger Delta

(4/2/2007) Two more foreign workers kidnapped in Niger Delta

(4/1/2007) UK rig worker seized from semi off Niger Delta

(3/28/2007) Argentina nullifies joint exploration treaty with UK

(3/27/2007) Powerful US Gulf of Mexico hurricane threat looming

(3/26/2007) Daewoo target of protests in 15 countries

(3/26/2007) Two Setraco hostages released in Niger Delta (update)

(3/26/2007) Cyclone Kara shuts down Western Australia fields

(3/26/2007) Worker riot damages LNG terminal in Yemen

(3/25/2007) 8 not 2 Setraco employees kidnapped in Niger Delta (update)

(3/23/2007) Three new kidnappings in Niger Delta

(3/21/2007) Venezuela & Trinidad unitize offshore reserves

(3/21/2007) US Bush administration warns against Iran operations

(3/21/2007) Sinking Nabors' Dolphin III grounded on Texas coast

(3/19/2007) Three new kidnappings in Nigeria

(3/18/2007) All but one Western Australia offshore operations resume

(3/16/2007) Last kidnapping hostage released in Niger Delta

(3/16/2007) Russian oilfield services a $22.5 billion market by 2011

(3/15/2007) Nigerian rebels release Italian hostages (update)

(3/15/2007) OPEC holding to present output restrictions

(3/14/2007) Four oilworkers disappear in northeast Colombia

(3/13/2007) Two killed in attack on Nigeria LNG vessel

(3/13/2007) IEA justifies increase this week in OPEC output

(3/12/2007) Kidnapped Hydrodive employees rescued in Niger Delta (update)

(3/9/2007) Tropical Cyclone George leaves West Oz output down (update)

(3/9/2007) Kidnapped Filipino contractor released in Niger Delta

(3/7/2007) Cyclone George shuts down Western Australia oilfields

(3/5/2007) Oilworkers union Baghdad offices raided by US military

(3/5/2007) 4 Stroitransgaz workers killed in Algeria bus bombing

(3/4/2007) Expanded joint projects offered to end China-Japan impasse

(3/2/2007) 45,000 Indian oil workers set to strike

(3/1/2007) Another Lebanese worker seized in Niger Delta

(2/27/2007) PDVSA to hold 60% of all Venezuela oil & gas projects

(2/27/2007) Vessel operated by Nigeria's NNPC attacked

(2/26/2007) Two Italians kidnapped Friday released today

(2/25/2007) Italian government calls for citizens to leave Niger Delta

(2/23/2007) Storm-tossed Port Reval rig evacuated

(2/23/2007) Lebanese oil worker shot dead in Niger Delta

(2/22/2007) MEND says Lebanese hostage escaped, was not freed (update)

(2/21/2007) Kidnapped Lebanese Eni employee freed in Niger Delta

(2/20/2007) Timor Leste ratifies Timor Sea treaties with Australia

(2/20/2007) Baluchi rebels blow up another gas pipeline

(2/19/2007) Three-quarters of Deltana field goes to Venezuela

(2/19/2007) Three more oilworkers kidnapped in Niger Delta

(2/18/2007) Kidnapped US oil worker released in Nigeria

(2/14/2007) New Turkmen president pledges continued contracts

(2/13/2007) UK offshore operators urge North Sea more competitive

(2/13/2007) IEA reports year's demand up quarter million b/d

(2/13/2007) Kidnapped Filipinos freed by Niger Delta captors

(2/12/2007) Subsea processing joint industry study begun

(2/11/2007) Pakistan's Baluchi tribesmen bomb another pipeline

(2/8/2007) Unprecedented growth forecast across subsea sector

(2/8/2007) Two more kidnappings in Niger Delta

(2/6/2007) Another Filipino oil worker abducted in Niger Delta

(2/5/2007) Bolivia to restructure hydrocarbons sector

(2/4/2007) Nine kidnapped CNPC workers in Niger Delta released

(2/2/2007) Oil workers threatening to withdraw from Niger Delta

(2/2/2007) North American gas producers see higher costs, lower returns

(2/2/2007) Addax oil worker in Niger Delta killed by captors (update)

(2/1/2007) Chunxiao Field on production despite Japan objections

(2/1/2007) Survey shows increased globalization by larger oil & gas firms

(1/31/2007) Russia outlines draft laws on foreign investment

(1/31/2007) Addax oil worker kidnapped in Niger Delta

(1/30/2007) Turkey warns against oil exploration offshore Cyprus (update)

(1/28/2007) Cyprus rejects sharing oil & gas with Turkish Cypriots (update)

(1/26/2007) China confirms 9 CNPC workers kidnapped in Niger Delta (update)

(1/25/2007) CNPC workers kidnapped in Niger Delta

(1/24/2007) US Strategic Petroleum Reserve to be doubled

(1/23/2007) Insurgents set northern Iraq oilfield ablaze

(1/21/2007) China & Vietnam setting mutual boundaries

(1/18/2007) Iraq hydrocarbons law set for cabinet & parliament approval

(1/18/2007) Hostages released: 5 Chinese oil workers & ill Agip worker (update)

(1/17/2007) MEND negotiating release of Niger Delta hostages

(1/16/2007) Four oilworkers killed near Nigeria's Bonny oil terminal

(1/16/2007) Shell evacuates 2 Niger Delta installations due to violence

(1/14/2007) Private companies okay as minority Orinoco owners (update)

(1/12/2007) Latest hostages seized in Niger Delta released (update)

(1/12/2007) Ship-platform collision narrowly averted (update)

(1/11/2007) Force 10 gales driving Cargo ship toward North Sea gas platform

(1/10/2007) Japan & China meeting again on East China Sea rights

(1/10/2007) Ten oil workers kidnapped in Niger Delta

(1/9/2007) Venezuela to nationalize Orinoco Belt projects

(12/18/2006) Agip & Shell Nigeria compounds hit by car bombs (update)

(12/18/2006) Shell Nigeria compound hit by car bomb

(12/17/2006) Norway expands Oil for Development to Madagascar

(12/15/2006) Shell's Niger Delta Nun River Field struck again

(12/14/2006) OPEC to cut another half-million b/d in February

(12/13/2006) Angola may become a member of OPEC tomorrow

(12/12/2006) US Supreme Court rules no time limit on retro royalties due

(12/12/2006) Libya rules foreign companies must have local JVs

(12/12/2006) Algeria imposing "exceptional profits" tax

(12/11/2006) 9 Halliburton KBR employees attacked in Algeria

(12/11/2006) MEND says will hold hostages indefinitely (update)

(12/10/2006) Nigerian Navy deploys 16 combat ships in Niger Delta

(12/8/2006) MEND responsible for latest Niger Delta kidnapping

(12/7/2006) UK Exchequer promoting North Sea output with tax exemption

(12/7/2006) 4 kidnapped, 1 killed in Brass terminal raid off Niger Delta

(12/6/2006) Timor Leste to ratify Sunrise agreement by yearend

(12/6/2006) Mighty Servant 3 sinks after offloading drilling platform

(12/5/2006) Embattled Iraqi government has drafted oil investment law

(12/5/2006) UK North Sea play mergers & rig crunch predicted

(11/30/2006) Angola joining OPEC early in 2007

(11/28/2006) UN to set new Norway's shelf boundaries in 2007

(11/27/2006) Sudanese rebels attack CNPC oilfield in Kordofan

(11/27/2006) Another oil pipeline bombing south of Baghdad

(11/27/2006) New Ecuadorian president says will rejoin OPEC

(11/26/2006) Inupit family suing US agency for unpaid royalties

(11/23/2006) British hostage killed in Niger Delta gunfight (update)

(11/22/2006) Hostages taken from Saipem FPSO off Niger Delta

(11/21/2006) Global energy future vulnerable, dirty & expensive - WEO

(11/20/2006) Indonesia lifts import duties on E&P equipment & supplies

(11/20/2006) Agip hostages in Niger Delta freed after 2 weeks (update)

(11/19/2006) Attiyah calls for OPEC to cut another half to full million b/d

(11/19/2006) Two oilwells bombed in Chechnya

(11/17/2006) US Gulf storm damages & sets adrift Hercules liftboat

(11/16/2006) PetroSA, ENH & Namcor link for joint E&P

(11/15/2006) ULFA hits ONGC pipeline in Assam

(11/15/2006) Shell's Nun River attack repelled by security force

(11/14/2006) Operators in Africa must fight its poverty or leave

(11/14/2006) Head of Russia's National Oil Institute Fund murdered

(11/13/2006) Canada planning terrorist defense for offshore platforms

(11/13/2006) Another major IOC pipeline bombed in Assam (update)

(11/12/2006) Agip's Clough Creek Field struck again by Delta militants (update)

(11/12/2006) Oil India Ltd pipeline sabotaged in Assam

(11/10/2006) North Sea divers vote to end strike (update)

(11/9/2006) A few Agip field workers flee from Tebidaba flow station (update)

(11/7/2006) Again Agip's Tebidaba Field attacked in Niger Delta (update)

(11/7/2006) Ransomed PGS hostages released in Niger Delta (update)

(11/6/2006) Assam bombing takes 12 lives, 40 wounded

(11/6/2006) Niger Delta Agip field attacked again

(11/5/2006) Bush confesses Iraq war is about oil

(11/3/2006) Assam rebels say won't allow exploring Brahmaputra River

(11/2/2006) PGS crewmen kidnapped at gunpoint from seismic vessel

(11/1/2006) North Sea divers strike over unresolved pay issues (update)

(11/1/2006) Semi Bredford Dolphin breaks tow and now adrift

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