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  • World Industry News

  • Exploration & Discoveries

  • Drilling & Completion

  • Development & Production

  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Geosciences

  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (10/11/2006) All but 8 hostages taken yesterday released today (update)
    (10/11/2006) IEA cuts 2007 global demand growth by 90,000 b/d
    (10/11/2006) Protestors try to prevent Shell's Corrib gas pipeline
    (10/10/2006) Niger Delta rebels seize Shell field & take 60 hostages
    (10/9/2006) Ecuador seeking rejection of Oxy injunctions
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (10/11/2006) Maxim gearing up to test Trinidad's South Erin well
    (10/11/2006) Oilexco's Sheryl appraisal produces 1,915 b/d
    (10/11/2006) Sunshine conducting DST on Champagne Creek-2
    (10/11/2006) Hardman & Tullow agree on Uganda Block 2
    (10/11/2006) Premier's Dua-5X a significant discovery off Vietnam
    (10/11/2006) Ithaca's North Sea Athena well hits 632-ft oil column
    (10/10/2006) 12 discoveries in US Gulf Lower Tertiary Trend
    (10/10/2006) US Gulf Mobile Bay drilling to begin with 2-3 wells
    (10/10/2006) Heritage to production test Uganda's Kingfisher-1
    (10/10/2006) Tap drilling New Zealand Cutter exploration well
    (10/9/2006) Dana moves on to test Mauritania's Block 7
    (10/9/2006) Vietnam's Ca Gnu Vang appraisal tests 7,050 boe/d
    (10/9/2006) Santos' East Java Wortel appraisal a dry hole
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (10/11/2006) Saipem's newbuild Scarabeo 8 wins 5-year contract
    (10/11/2006) Pearl terminates LOI for Deep Driller 3
    (10/11/2006) Galleon completes Puskwa, Alberta horizontal well
    (10/11/2006) Falcon to workover of Hungarian wells next month
    (10/10/2006) Apollo Drilling to commence 12-well program
    (10/10/2006) KMV to operate 5-well Oklahoma drilling program
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (10/11/2006) Buzzard about to begin production
    (10/11/2006) Austral Pacific drilling Cheal development wells
    (10/11/2006) CNOOC puts China's Bohai Bay Qikou Project onstream
    (10/10/2006) Novatek bumping up output from Khancheyskoye Field
    (10/10/2006) Alberta Strachan gaswell at total depth
    (10/10/2006) Output reduced on Roc & PetroChina Bohai block
    (10/9/2006) Sanctioning of Kambuna gasfield development by yearend
    (10/9/2006) Tri-Valley drilling 2nd California Temblor Valley producer
    (10/9/2006) Far East Energy achieves continuous gasflow in China well
    (10/9/2006) Shell restarts Niger Delta Cawthorne Channel Field
    (10/9/2006) Centurion completing producers in Egypt blocks
    (10/9/2006) Chevron to develop 2 gasfields in East Kalimantan
    (10/9/2006) Torrent's Methane Energy drilling Oregon CBM well
    (10/9/2006) Another producer added to Tullow's Bangora Field
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (10/11/2006) Transmeridian wins 2-year Kazakh license extension
    (10/11/2006) PetroMed granted block offshore Israel
    (10/10/2006) Shannon renews Prince Edward Island licenses
    (10/10/2006) Serica farms out stake in UK Block 54/1b
    (10/10/2006) Sundance joins North Dakota's Goliath Prospect
    (10/10/2006) ExxonMobil's Natuna D-Alpha project expired
    (10/10/2006) MOL buys partner stake in Russia's Surgut 7
    (10/10/2006) Rosneft claims victory in Vankorskoye arbitration
    (10/9/2006) Delek & Avner buy into Dead Sea blocks
    (10/9/2006) Gazprom to develop Shtokmanovskoye alone
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (10/11/2006) 2D shoot over Colombia's Primavera Block completed
    (10/9/2006) RXT to shoot 4C over Kashagan in the Caspian Sea
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (10/11/2006) Total pledges to end Nigeria gas flaring in December
    (10/10/2006) 4 die & 12 injured in Aker plane crash landing in Norway (update)
    (10/9/2006) Chevron honors conservationists in 52nd awards
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (10/11/2006) Statoil makes GTL technology breakthrough
    (10/9/2006) Statoil charters 3 newbuild North Sea anchor-handlers
    (10/9/2006) Keppel launches 1st Kazakh-built barge
    (10/9/2006) BJ Services wins Qatargas hammer services contract
    (10/9/2006) Encore & Island cooperating for mutual development
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 10/11
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 55.99
    0.0%
    Minas 60.62
    +1.4%
    Bonny Light 59.37
    -0.6%
    N. Sea Brent 60.61
    -1.2%
    Forties 59.32
    -0.6%
    Urals/Mediterranean 55.12
    -0.5%
    Alaska N. Slope 58.39
    -2.3%
    W. Texas Intermediate 60.55
    -1.7%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 4.55
    -2.6%
    UK Day Ahead** 17.20
    -23.6%
    *US$ per MMBTUs
    **UK pence per therm
    All prices are indicative only. OGI accepts no responsibility for their accuracy.
    Price Details & Analysis
      Industry Events
    October 11-12
    BBTC 2006 Bottom of the Barrel Technology Conference, Athens, Greece
    October 15-17
    IOGCC Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas USA
    October 15-18
    EAGE/EAGO/SEG International Conference & Exhibition, St Petersburg, Russia
    October 16-18
    SPE/IADC India Conference, Mumbai, India
    October 17-18
    European Autumn Gas Conference, Cannes, France
    October 17-18
    Saskatchewan & Northern Plains Oil & Gas Symposium, Regina, SK, Canada
    October 17-19
    ISA Expo, Houston, Texas USA
    October 17-19
    Permian Basin International Oil Show, Odessa, Texas USA
    October 18-19
    Russia Oil & Gas Projects 2006, Moscow, Russia
    ...More Events

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