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  • Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
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  • World Industry News
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  • Exploration & Discoveries
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  • Drilling & Completion
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  • Development & Production
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  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Geosciences
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  • Health Safety & Environment
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  • Company News
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  • Industry Events
    •   Oil and Gas Prices & Analysis
    Dollar drops to year's low, boosts oil prices
    (10/13/2009) Traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London took to the floor today to trade on the strength of the US dollar dropping to its lowest value against the euro and other major international currencies so far this year, and thereby boosting oil as an attractive investment. With this and forecasts by such organizations as the International Energy Agency (IEA)...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (10/14/2009) Study shows offshore project costs skyrocketing
    (10/13/2009) OPEC ups forecast of world oil demand
    (10/12/2009) UK North Sea exploration up 75% last quarter
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (10/14/2009) InterOil's Antelope-2 in PNG tests concluded
    (10/14/2009) BNK's Black Warrior well in Alabama drilled & cased
    (10/14/2009) OGX finds 200-meter oil column in shallow water well
    (10/14/2009) OMV's Tornado a UK West of Shetland discovery
    (10/13/2009) PetroChina to assist Ramba in Indonesia block
    (10/13/2009) Pacific Rubiales scores again on Colombia's Quifa Block
    (10/13/2009) Lundin completes tests of North Sea Luno Field
    (10/13/2009) ConocoPhillips spuds Poseidon-2 appraisal
    (10/13/2009) Dana Gas scores 86 bcf discoveries in Egypt
    (10/12/2009) CNOOC gearing up to drill test well in northern Kenya
    (10/12/2009) Caspian spuds East Mailisu-1 in Kyrgyz
    (10/12/2009) Det Norske drilling Norway's North Sea Jetta Prospect
    (10/12/2009) Empire gearing up to drill Western Australia test well
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (10/14/2009) Saudi Aramco using in-situ laser to perf wells
    (10/13/2009) Hungary's Foldeak-1 to be fractured again
    (10/12/2009) Aramco to contract South Ghawar drilling services
    (10/12/2009) Suncor drilling with Songa Delta wins PSA approval
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (10/14/2009) Pan Orient scores with appraisals onshore Thailand
    (10/14/2009) TNK-BP seeing output rise at Uvat & Russkoye Fields
    (10/14/2009) Centrica puts South Morecambe back onstream
    (10/14/2009) Arrow expanding Queensland CBM operations
    (10/14/2009) Friendly puts 7th Barnett Shale well onstream
    (10/14/2009) Headline & lead: Dragon adds 2 more producers off Turkmenistan
    (10/13/2009) Energy XXI completing 3 Main Pass 61 producers
    (10/12/2009) Aztec drills a multi-payzone producer in Palo Pinto, Texas
    (10/12/2009) Texon drilling 5th Leighton well in South Texas
    (10/12/2009) Cadogan suspends Eastern Ukraine well
    (10/12/2009) Interoil completes producers in Peru & Colombia
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (10/14/2009) Colombia to put 178 blocks up for bid in December
    (10/14/2009) Sky to add Suntera stakes in 2 onshore Nigeria blocks
    (10/14/2009) Bangladesh may offer onshore gas blocks
    (10/14/2009) Oman Oil buys into Reliance blocks offshore Oman
    (10/14/2009) Hess joins Newfield in Marcellus Shale exploration
    (10/14/2009) Cairn farming out stake in 6 Greenland blocks
    (10/14/2009) Cygam farming out onshore Tunisia permit
    (10/13/2009) Mozambique offering stake in onshore block
    (10/13/2009) Pan Pacific loses one & wins one in Asia farm-ins
    (10/13/2009) Eni granted Iraq's giant Zubair Field
    (10/13/2009) BNK farms out stake in 3 Polish concessions
    (10/12/2009) Brouhaha brewing over sale of Kosmos' Jubilee stake
    (10/12/2009) Sao Tome e Principe to auction blocks in 2010
    (10/12/2009) Jordan okay's JV for Al-Risha gasfield
    (10/12/2009) Just half the blocks in India's latest round receive bids
    (10/12/2009) Rocksource receives 2 more US Gulf leases
    (10/12/2009) Oando farm-in at Akepo Field wins approval
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (10/14/2009) Pitkin picks BGP to shoot 2D on Mindoro Island
    (10/14/2009) WesternGeco's US Gulf subsalt surveys underway
    (10/13/2009) Joint project to develop imaging for complex geology
    (10/13/2009) 2D seismic shoot underway in Peru's Maranon Basin
    (10/12/2009) Prize shooting 3D over Madhya Pradesh block in India
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (10/14/2009) Kentz scores 2 Western Oz LNG project contracts
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (10/14/2009) ConocoPhillips & Subsea 7 need to improve diver risk
    (10/13/2009) PSA said ConocoPhillips failed to monitor safety zone
    (10/13/2009) PTTEP fails again to stop Montara leak (update)
    (10/13/2009) Suncor oil sands upgrader fire extinguished
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (10/14/2009) Dynamic buys Beryl Oil & Gas to boost US Gulf portfolio
    (10/14/2009) CNOOC signs master services agreement with Fugro Survey
    (10/14/2009) Neptune's dry underwater welding qualified to 70msw
    (10/13/2009) Shell picks Saipem to provide Bonga flowlines
    (10/12/2009) UK well service contract to Aker Solutions
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    October 18-21
    Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA
    October 18-21
    SPE/EAGE Reservoir Characterization & Simulation Conference, Abu Dhabi UAE
    October 19-21
    4th LNG Tech Global Summit 2009, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    October 19-21
    Drilling & Completing Trouble Zones, Galveston, Texas USA
    October 25-27
    Western States Energy & Environment Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
    October 25-30
    SEG International Exposition & Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, USA
    October 26-27
    Native Title & Cultural Heritage 2009, Brisbane, NSW Australia
    October 26-28
    SPE Middle East Drilling Conference & Exhibition, Manama, Bahrain
    October 27-28
    Gas to Liquids 2009, London, UK
    October 27-29
    Louisiana Gulf Coast Oil Exposition, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
    November 3-5
    Deep Offshore Technology Conference, Monte Carlo, Monaco
    November 3-5
    World Heavy Oil Congress, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela
    November 4-6
    IPAA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    November 9-10
    IADC Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, USA
    November 13-19
    ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA
    November 16-19
    Latin America LPG Seminar, Miami, Florida USA
    November 16-20
    Singapore International Energy Week, Singapore
    ...More Events

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