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(8/28/2009) Westwood predicts industry growth by 2013
(8/23/2009) World's 20 largest oil fields & top producing nations
(8/20/2009) Hurricane Bill drawing bead on Canadian Maritimes
(8/16/2009) China says South China Sea project violates sovereignty
(8/12/2009) IEA ups estimate of oil demand 2009-10
(8/11/2009) Multi-million scheme to steal Mexican crude under investigation
(8/9/2009) Militant group bombs Shell's Utorogu Field
(8/4/2009) Malaysia proposes joint oil exploration with Brunei
(8/4/2009) Clinton Africa trip seen as a boon for oil interests
(8/3/2009) IEA paints dire oilfield depletion picture at end of decade
(8/2/2009) Another oil worker released in Colombia by FARC
(7/30/2009) IMCA disturbed by proposed Jones Act changes
(7/26/2009) Addax headquarters occupied by protesting employees
(7/23/2009) Venezuela still negotiating payment for nationalized companies
(7/23/2009) More than half Nigeria's oil production shut-in by insurgency
(7/22/2009) Sudan's Abyei oil region divided by Arbitration Court
(7/22/2009) Bolivia completes nationalization of oil and gas sector
(7/22/2009) MEND releases 6 more kidnapped seamen
(7/22/2009) Largest number of fixed platform installations forecast for Asia
(7/21/2009) Captive Tidewater employees freed in Cameroon (update)
(7/20/2009) Angola asks for same OPEC quota exemption as Iraq
(7/19/2009) TPAO gets go-ahead to explore offshore Cyprus
(7/17/2009) Jakarta Marriot hotel bombing injures Husky exec
(7/16/2009) Denmark joins Canada in planning Arctic military presence
(7/15/2009) Algerian Al-Qaeda splinter threatens Chinese oil workers
(7/15/2009) MEND declares 60-day ceasefire on release of leader
(7/14/2009) Japan sees Chinese vessels at Chunxiao disturbing
(7/13/2009) Operators returning to foot of Alaska volcano (update)
(7/11/2009) Chevron's just repaired Alero Creek pipeline bombed again
(7/10/2009) IEA forecasting oil demand to climb in 2010
(7/8/2009) Shell & Agip Nigeria pipelines bombed at Nembe Creek
(7/6/2009) Bomber strikes again at EnCana BC pipeline
(7/6/2009) Chevron's Niger Delta Okan Field struck by MEND
(7/5/2009) MEND strikes Shell facility linked to Bonny terminal
(7/1/2009) West Texas oil theft ring busted, 10 arrested
(6/29/2009) IEA says demand growth less than previously forecast
(6/29/2009) Forcados platform bombed, burning
(6/26/2009) MEND blows up 2nd Shell Afremo Field jacket
(6/25/2009) MEND destroys another major Shell export pipeline
(6/22/2009) Shell's offshore Afremo Field attacked by MEND
(6/21/2009) Ecuador threatens foreign oil companies for legal challenges
(6/21/2009) MEND hits 2 more Shell Niger Delta pipelines
(6/19/2009) MEND sabotages Agip Nigeria oil pipeline
(6/18/2009) Peru Congress overturns inflammatory licensing laws
(6/18/2009) Bombed pipeline shuts in more Shell Niger Delta output
(6/17/2009) Taliban kill Afghanistan oil & gas director
(6/15/2009) Niger Delta rebels hit Chevron's Abiteye Field
(6/14/2009) New attacks on Chevron Niger Delta pipelines
(6/12/2009) Weak gas prices slowing Texas oil and gas economy
(6/11/2009) Turkey condemns Greek Cypriot exploration plans
(6/11/2009) $500,000 ransom demanded for kidnapped Shell crew
(6/10/2009) MEND sets Chevron's Utonana Field facility ablaze
(6/7/2009) Nine Peruvian police killed in retaking of Petroperu Field (update)
(6/5/2009) UK to leave contingent & 5 vessels to guard Gulf platforms
(6/4/2009) Ethiopian rebel group ONLF warn against oil exploration
(6/2/2009) Minimum of 10 oil industry personnel on missing Air France flight (update)
(6/1/2009) MEND says British hostage wants to stay
(5/31/2009) 195 gaswells in Turkmenistan shut down by pipeline explosion
(5/29/2009) Most Arctic hydrocarbons lie within Russian territory
(5/28/2009) OPEC staying the course toward high prices
(5/28/2009) US strippers unhappy with Obama tax proposals
(5/26/2009) Thursday's OPEC meeting keeping current output
(5/26/2009) Nigerian navy foils attempt to attack Amenam rig
(5/25/2009) Alberta sitting in on OPEC dialogues
(5/25/2009) MEND sabotages oil flow from 5 Chevron fields
(5/24/2009) IEA predicting $170 billion drop in E&P investment this year
(5/21/2009) Venezuela expropriates another 35 service companies (update)
(5/20/2009) Nigerian soldiers battle MEND fighters at Chevron field
(5/18/2009) Protest halts oil flow in Peru export pipeline
(5/18/2009) MEND blocking Niger Delta waterways to oil traffic
(5/17/2009) Niger Delta insurgents bomb 2 Escravos pipelines
(5/15/2009) MEND declares Niger Delta a war zone
(5/14/2009) IEA predicts demand lowest this year since 1981
(5/12/2009) US Interior asks for ruling on Bush 5-year leasing plan
(5/8/2009) Venezuela seizing foreign service company assets
(5/7/2009) TNK-BP employee & brother convicted of spying
(5/7/2009) Obama to cancel oil & gas company "tax loopholes"
(5/6/2009) Iraq's Bai Hassan Field pipeline bombed
(5/4/2009) Iraqi Oil Ministry hit by two bombs killing four
(5/4/2009) Talisman operations occupied, Peru officials taken hostage
(5/1/2009) Western Canada drilling to drop 41% this year
(4/30/2009) OTC to go ahead as planned despite swine flu
(4/30/2009) Gunman kills 13 at Azerbaijan Oil Academy
(4/26/2009) IEA sees serious crude shortage in four years
(4/26/2009) Shut-in Chevron Cook Inlet wells may not be restarted (update)
(4/26/2009) Brit held a fortnight in Niger Delta released (update)
(4/24/2009) Argentina claims seabed surrounding Falklands
(4/23/2009) Iraq mending pipeline alliances with Syria & Iran
(4/22/2009) Darling introducing incentives for more UK E&P
(4/20/2009) MEND release British captive held 7 months
(4/15/2009) Norway sets limit to northern seabed short of North Pole
(4/15/2009) OPEC says world oil demand shrinking this year
(4/15/2009) Border dispute suspends Myanmar development
(4/14/2009) EIA again cuts forecast of global oil demand
(4/13/2009) Shell's Niger Delta Nembe Creek Field attacked
(4/10/2009) IEA drops global demand forecast a million b/d
(4/9/2009) Mexico & US take up issue of overlapping border oilfields
(4/7/2009) UN warns of mines & cluster bomb danger in South Iraq
(4/6/2009) Japan to join Venezuela in local oil & gas projects
(4/6/2009) Brit kidnapped in Port Harcourt, Daewoo facilities attacked
(4/6/2009) Shell facing court in death of Nigerian activists
(3/25/2009) Nigeria's oil workers suspend strike (update)
(3/23/2009) Niger Delta oil workers striking tomorrow
(3/19/2009) Japan & Venezuela agree to energy cooperation
(3/19/2009) Quest predicts 12.1% annual subsea activity growth
(3/18/2009) US crude stocks at two-year high
(3/16/2009) Low oil investment could hinder economic recovery
(3/16/2009) Niger Delta militants attack Chevron pipeline
(3/16/2009) Malaysia & Brunei resolve maritime boundary dispute
(3/16/2009) OPEC holding to 4.2 million b/d cut, says will comply
(3/13/2009) 2008 global upstream oil & gas transaction value fell 32%
(3/9/2009) Shell declares force majeure at Nigeria's Forcados (update)
(3/8/2009) New South China Sea territorial dispute emerges
(3/6/2009) Conflicting claims to Antarctica being tackled
(3/6/2009) BC revs up competition with Alberta for industry investment
(3/4/2009) Alberta cuts take, providing credits to promote drilling
(3/3/2009) Pipeline explosions shut down Shell Niger Delta production
(2/27/2009) Tropical cyclone shutting in Western Australia oilfields
(2/26/2009) Obama budget to repeal oil & gas industry tax breaks
(2/25/2009) Agip crew copter hit by gunfire today
(2/23/2009) Nine killed in attack on Sonelgaz security post in Algeria
(2/18/2009) China advancing Petrobras $10 billion for future oil supply
(2/18/2009) ExxonMobil residential compound attacked in Niger Delta
(2/17/2009) China swaps $25 billion loan for 20-years of Russian oil
(2/17/2009) Another armed attack on Shell's Niger Delta operations
(2/16/2009) Gaddafi calls for distribution of Libya's oil revenues to citizens
(2/16/2009) Ecuador to freeze Repsol & Perenco assets
(2/16/2009) IEA predicts oil supply shortage in 2010
(2/13/2009) Top economists say risks to increase without right steps
(2/13/2009) OPEC says persistent inventory overhang challenges market
(2/12/2009) Shell again declares force majeure at Bonny terminal
(2/11/2009) BP & Shell CEOs tell industry to invest to meet coming demand
(2/11/2009) EIA & IEA again lower 2009 world oil demand forecasts
(2/10/2009) Interior Sec Salazar setting aside Bush OCS drilling plan
(2/10/2009) Polish geologist beheaded by Taliban in Pakistan
(2/9/2009) 35 oil development projects shelved by OPEC members
(2/9/2009) Nigerian oil workers on strike for more security
(2/8/2009) MEND attacks Shell Nigeria 300 million cf/d gas facility
(2/6/2009) Shell Nigeria employee's son freed by kidnappers (update)
(2/5/2009) Addax security vessel attacked off Nigeria
(2/4/2009) Foreign operators warned to leave Niger Delta or face massacre
(2/4/2009) Three separate kidnappings in Niger Delta
(2/3/2009) Court of Justice draws line between Ukraine & Romania
(1/30/2009) Obama's Interior Dept to reexamine MMS ethics & policies
(1/29/2009) Abductors kill Shell Nigeria employee's daughter, kidnap son
(1/28/2009) Obama may okay expanded US offshore drilling
(1/28/2009) Western Australia offshore operations resume after cyclone
(1/26/2009) Cyclone forms off Western Australia shutting in operations
(1/23/2009) Attack on ExxonMobil supply vessel off Nigeria
(1/22/2009) Gaddafi considering nationalizing oil companies in Libya
(1/18/2009) OPEC will consider further cuts in March - Khelil
(1/18/2009) Shell's Bonny loading platform attacked by Nigerian rebels
(1/16/2009) OPEC & IEA see oil demand dropping even more in 2009
(1/13/2009) 11% of US Gulf oil & 15% of gas production still offline
(1/13/2009) Pirates attack Eidesvik service vessel off Nigeria
(1/13/2009) US stakes claim to Arctic with presidential directive
(1/9/2009) Ecuador suspends foreign oil company production
(1/8/2009) ExxonMobil's Akwa Ibom platform attacked off Nigeria
(12/11/2008) Study shows upstream costs high despite economic slowdown
(12/7/2008) OPEC warns markets to brace for severe output cut
(12/5/2008) EU establishing new energy directorate general
(12/4/2008) Deepwater to see yearly $27 billion investment to 2013
(12/4/2008) Addax operation offshore Niger Delta attacked, 3 kidnapped
(12/1/2008) OPEC ready to cut another million b/d this month (update)
(11/29/2008) OPEC puts off decision on output cut (update)
(11/28/2008) Scottish oil worker kidnapped at gunpoint in Niger Delta
(11/28/2008) Hurricanes Gustav & Ike destroyed 60 US Gulf platforms (update)
(11/25/2008) UK Chancellor's proposed North Sea industry incentives applauded
(11/23/2008) Kurd rebels bomb Iraqi oil export pipeline inside Turkey
(11/21/2008) Shell Nigeria's Nembe Creek Field attacked
(11/17/2008) Chevron oil pipeline bombed in Niger Delta
(11/17/2008) Pirates seize Saudi supertanker carrying 2 million bbl oil
(11/16/2008) Greece protests Turkish survey near Kastelorizo island
(11/13/2008) IEA cuts 2009 oil price estimate from $110 to $80
(11/13/2008) OPEC to meet in 2 weeks in Cairo on falling oil prices
(11/12/2008) Kidnapped Bourbon Sagitta crew released (update)
(11/12/2008) World's largest gas producers not planning cartel - Putin
(11/10/2008) MEND releases 4 pirate-kidnapped hostages
(11/9/2008) Bangladesh-Myanmar border standoff cooling (update)
(11/9/2008) OPEC to cut output again if no price rally
(11/9/2008) Norway & Iceland agree to boundary for exploration
(11/7/2008) Attack at Chevron Niger Delta field leaves one dead
(11/6/2008) None of Bakassi kidnap victims killed - NDDSC (update)
(11/6/2008) Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil export pipeline bombed
(11/6/2008) IEA predicting crude price to average $100 a bbl
(11/5/2008) Crewmen kidnapped off Cameroon killed in failed rescue (update)
(11/4/2008) Standoff between Bangladesh & Myanmar escalates (update)
(11/3/2008) Abducted Niger Delta Shell oil workers released
(11/2/2008) Bangladesh protests Myanmar exploring disputed waters
(11/2/2008) EnCana wellhead bombed, leaking gas in British Columbia
(10/31/2008) Another kidnapped CNPC worker found in Sudan
(10/31/2008) Pirates kidnap ten French oil workers off Cameroon
(10/30/2008) Three oil workers killed, two kidnapped in Sudan
(10/27/2008) Iraqi parliament committee rejects hydrocarbon law draft
(10/27/2008) Sudanese rebels kill 5 kidnapped Chinese oil workers (update)
(10/26/2008) China & Vietnam to resolve Spratly Islands dispute
(10/26/2008) Three service vessels attacked off Niger Delta, hostages taken
(10/24/2008) OPEC cuts official output by 1.5 million b/d
(10/21/2008) Gas cartel to be formed by Russia, Qatar, & Iran
(10/21/2008) 38.6% of US Gulf oil production still shut-in (update)
(10/21/2008) Demand drop may send OPEC output down 2-2.5 million b/d (update)
(10/21/2008) Shell oilworker's children kidnapped in Nigeria
(10/20/2008) IEA cautions OPEC output cut will hurt economic recovery
(10/19/2008) Nine Chinese oil workers kidnapped in Sudan
(10/16/2008) OPEC to hold emergency meeting in one week
(10/16/2008) 2nd EnCana pipeline bombed in British Columbia
(10/15/2008) RCMP investigating attempted pipeline sabotage in BC
(10/13/2008) 43.3% of US Gulf oil production still shut-in
(10/12/2008) Oil concession scandal results in firing of full cabinet (update)
(10/10/2008) OPEC expected to cut official output in November
(10/9/2008) Iran proposes joint development of Dorra/Arash Field
(10/8/2008) Deteriorating economy forces cut in oil production growth
(10/8/2008) New Zealand continental shelf extended 42%
(10/8/2008) Kidnapped British oil worker freed in Somalia
(10/7/2008) 54 US Gulf platforms destroyed by Hurricane Ike
(10/7/2008) Tropical Storm Marco prompts Pemex platform evacuations
(10/6/2008) Ecuador President Correa gives operators ultimatum
(10/6/2008) Peru minister & head of Petroperu resign in scandal
(10/6/2008) Unknown gunmen kidnap 6 from oil service vessel
(10/5/2008) US Gulf survey finds 48.2% of oil & 44.6% of gas still shut-in
(10/5/2008) MEND releases pirate-kidnapped oil workers
(9/30/2008) Pemex shuts in 5 wells due to Veracruz floods
(9/28/2008) Safer oilfield pipeline bombed in Yemen
(9/28/2008) Polish geophysical worker kidnapped in Pakistan
(9/23/2008) US offshore drilling ban to be lifted next week
(9/21/2008) After week of "war" MEND calls ceasefire
(9/21/2008) EU not opposed to Arctic drilling for oil & gas
(9/19/2008) Another Shell pipeline bombed in Nigeria's Niger Delta
(9/18/2008) 49 US Gulf platforms destroyed by Hurricane Ike (update)
(9/17/2008) Operators restarting production in hurricane-hit US Gulf (update)
(9/16/2008) $21 million pledged for hurricane relief by major oil companies
(9/16/2008) Nigeria's MEND launches war on foreign oil companies
(9/16/2008) Results of Hurricane Ike beginning to be known (update)
(9/15/2008) Hurricane Ike toll: 30 damaged platforms 2 missing rigs (update)
(9/12/2008) Ike potentially catastrophic for oil & South Texas (update)
(9/12/2008) MMS employees accused of contract-rigging, improprieties
(9/11/2008) 40 US Gulf platforms damaged by Hurricane Gustav (update)
(9/11/2008) Ike intensifying to major hurricane to hit Texas tomorrow (update)
(9/10/2008) IEA cuts global oil demand estimate for 2008-09
(9/10/2008) Net importer Indonesia suspended from OPEC
(9/10/2008) OPEC cuts official output by 520,000 b/d (update)
(9/9/2008) Hurricane Ike entry into US Gulf triggers more shut-ins (update)
(9/9/2008) No output cut from OPEC - keeping to targets instead
(9/8/2008) Eni Nigeria supply vessel attacked, crew member killed
(9/7/2008) US Gulf operations vis-a-vis Hurricanes Gustav & Ike
(9/7/2008) Another hurricane on track for US Gulf of Mexico
(9/5/2008) Record dev. spending, minimal reserve growth, flat profits in 2007
(9/3/2008) US Gulf sees little damage but almost all output shut-in (update)
(9/2/2008) First check: Hurricane Gustav spares US Gulf (update)
(9/1/2008) US Gulf oilfields shutdown ahead of Gustav (update)
(8/28/2008) Gustav looks to be serious threat to US Gulf oil & gas (update)
(8/27/2008) Evacuations begin in US Gulf ahead of Gustav (update)
(8/26/2008) Hurricane Gustav said a major threat to US Gulf oil
(8/25/2008) Bolivian troops dispatched to guard oil & gas installations
(8/20/2008) BP to resume operations of BTC Pipeline next week (update)
(8/18/2008) More Caspian oil export halted by bombed Georgia rail bridge
(8/15/2008) Protests shutdown Petruperu' Norperuano Pipeline
(8/15/2008) OPEC makes 5th cut in estimated global oil demand growth
(8/14/2008) BP restarts gas pipeline across Georgia to Turkey (update)
(8/13/2008) Danish claim to Arctic subsea strengthened by Canada research
(8/12/2008) US-Canadian expedition mapping Arctic seabed
(8/12/2008) Nigeria to relinquish Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon
(8/12/2008) Another Niger Delta pipeline bombed by militants
(8/12/2008) Pluspetrol Peru field shutdown by local tribesmen
(8/12/2008) Caspian oil flow cut with shutdown of Georgia pipelines (update)
(8/10/2008) BTC Pipeline continues to burn (update)
(8/10/2008) Russia & Georgia border battle threat to key export pipeline
(8/6/2008) Shell patches up sabotaged Niger Delta pipelines (update)
(8/6/2008) Explosion on Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline halts flow
(8/6/2008) Disputed Arctic claims mapped
(8/6/2008) Norway rejects Russian drilling plan west of Spitsbergen
(8/4/2008) Kidnapped Colombian oil workers freed by army
(8/4/2008) 23 US Gulf platforms evacuated, some output shut-in (update)
(8/4/2008) Wary eye on Tropical Storm Edouard in northern US Gulf
(8/3/2008) Two French oil workers kidnapped in Niger Delta
(7/29/2008) Sabotage triggers another Shell force majeure on Bonny Light (update)
(7/28/2008) Niger Delta Nembe Creek pipeline sabotaged
(7/27/2008) Eight oil workers kidnapped in Niger Delta released
(7/25/2008) Two Damas engineers kidnapped by Nigerian gunmen
(7/23/2008) USGS says Arctic holds 90 billion bbl oil, 1.67 Qcf gas
(7/23/2008) First of 40 stranded British crewmen leave Barents Sea rig (update)
(7/22/2008) US Gulf operators evacuating platforms & rigs ahead of Hurricane Dolly (update)
(7/22/2008) Northern Offshore rig in Barents Sea barred from crew change
(7/21/2008) Tropical Storm Dolly tracking across US Gulf toward Texas
(7/18/2008) Petrobras production not affected by 48-hr walkout (update)
(7/17/2008) Chevron restores Niger Delta sabotaged output, Eni output hit
(7/14/2008) Nationwide oilworkers' strike against Petrobras starts tomorrow (update)
(7/14/2008) Bush lifts executive ban on offshore drilling
(7/14/2008) Brazilian oilworkers' strike shuts down 33 Campos Basin platforms (update)
(7/13/2008) Brazil's Campos Basin oilworkers strike starts tomorrow
(7/1/2008) Shell denies attack & worker beheading in Niger Delta
(6/30/2008) OPEC assertion speculators cause of high oil prices called a myth
(6/30/2008) Nigeria's Tebidaba Field explosion kills 1, injures others
(6/27/2008) Brazil expecting invitation to join OPEC
(6/26/2008) Niger Delta kidnapped oil workers released (update)
(6/25/2008) World energy consumption to grow 50%
(6/23/2008) Rebels shutdown Colombia's Cano Limon pipeline again
(6/22/2008) Saudi producer-consumer summit agrees prices too high
(6/22/2008) Chevron's Escravos terminal feed pipeline bombed
(6/19/2008) Shell declares force majeure after Bonga attack yesterday (update)
(6/19/2008) MEND shuts down Shell's 200,000 b/d Bonga Field
(6/18/2008) India & Myanmar object to Bangladesh licenses
(6/18/2008) No border decision, but China & Japan to jointly develop gas (update)
(6/17/2008) Resolution at hand in East China Sea gasfields stand-off (update)
(6/15/2008) Mexico worried about US tapping Mexican oil
(6/11/2008) Another attack on Addax ops off Niger Delta (update)
(6/9/2008) Russia & Norway talking Barents border settlement
(6/9/2008) BP CEO maintains markets not well supplied
(6/9/2008) Iraq talking to Iran & Kuwait on joint field developments
(6/9/2008) One killed in Niger Delta security patrol vessel attack
(6/6/2008) Kurdish militia seizes northern Iraqi oilfield
(6/6/2008) Oil hits new high on Iran threat & $150/bbl prediction
(6/4/2008) Indian oil worker kidnapped in Sudan found (update)
(6/3/2008) Kidnapped wife of Total Nigeria manager freed
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