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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
    (10/15/2006) Iraq bumps up security & restarts northern pipeline
    (10/15/2006) OPEC to meet next week in Doha - or not
    (10/13/2006) OPEC to cut output on 1 December by 1 million b/d (update)
    (10/12/2006) Peruvian Indians hold 40 Pluspetrol workers at worksites
    (10/12/2006) Last 8 hostages from Shell's Nun River released (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (10/15/2006) OGDCL finds oil in Pakistan's Sindh province
    (10/13/2006) Orchard begins northern California Forbes Project
    (10/13/2006) Contago discovers gas in US Gulf Dutch prospect
    (10/12/2006) Petrovietnam finds large Gulf of Tonkin gasfield
    (10/12/2006) Harriet JV's Hector-1 found all wet
    (10/12/2006) Victoria finds pay in Russia's West Medvezhye gasfield
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (10/13/2006) 10,000th well drilled offshore UK
    (10/13/2006) Lundin to put off Lagansky drilling until next year
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (10/15/2006) Bombed Persian Gulf field to produce 80,000 b/d
    (10/15/2006) 100% Nigeria local content platform commissioned
    (10/13/2006) Production tests at Sawn Lake not encouraging
    (10/13/2006) ExxonMobil ready to invest $10 billion in Natuna D-Alpha
    (10/12/2006) PetroChina hefting Tarim Basin's Hade Field output
    (10/12/2006) Petrobras to startup Jubarte Field with P-34 FPSO
    (10/12/2006) Total's Kharyaginskoe development probe routine - Trutnev
    (10/12/2006) Arc's Hovea-12 looks to tap untapped reserves
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (10/15/2006) Dune buying rest of Voyager's Barnett Shale assets
    (10/15/2006) China's Tarim Basin 12 blocks draw interest of majors
    (10/15/2006) Avenue exiting Turkey licenses for Appalachia
    (10/15/2006) Russia receives flack & backtracks on Sakhalin II
    (10/15/2006) MMS prepping for Chukchi Sea Lease Sale 193
    (10/13/2006) ONGC-Mittal offered stake in Kazakh block
    (10/13/2006) Cyprus launching licensing round
    (10/13/2006) GSPC picks 4 bidders for stake in 20 Tcfe field
    (10/13/2006) Chesapeake now operator of West Fork Barnett Shale project
    (10/13/2006) Lukoil loses 19 licenses in Komi & Khanty-Mansysk
    (10/12/2006) Argentina ends Tierra del Fuego tax breaks
    (10/12/2006) Rockford Panhandle adds J. M. Huber Texas Panhandle assets
    (10/12/2006) Arrow farm-in expands Bowen Basin presence
    (10/12/2006) Radial to join Utah's Uinta Basin gas exploration
    (10/12/2006) Verenex sells French producing assets
    (10/12/2006) True North farms into BP's Louisiana Tuscaloosa project
    (10/12/2006) Pakistan JV granted Arabian Sea deepwater block
    (10/12/2006) Range farms out 2 Puntland, Somalia blocks
    (10/12/2006) Gabon awards Petrol One major onshore block
    (10/12/2006) Equatorial Guinea to renegotiate foreign contracts
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (10/15/2006) SeaBird wins shallow water 3D shoot off Pakistan (update)
    (10/15/2006) USGS North Dakota Bakken shale study in review
    (10/13/2006) Primeline shoots final segment of East China Sea survey
    (10/12/2006) CanWest starts Saskatchewan seismic shoot
    (10/12/2006) TGS to make Uzbek well log data available
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (10/15/2006) Search continues for 2 missing in US Gulf explosion
    (10/13/2006) Fatal barge accident shuts down US Gulf field
    (10/13/2006) Norway Safety Authority shuts down Snorre A & Draugen (update)
    (10/12/2006) Snorre A onstream despite PSA denial of lifeboat exemption
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (10/13/2006) Grant Prideco acquires Anderguage
    (10/13/2006) Statoil pays $21 million to settle Iran bribery charge
    (10/13/2006) ODI contracted for project off India by Aker Kvaerner
    (10/12/2006) Keppel pegged for FPSO conversion and newbuilding
    (10/12/2006) Umbilicals for US Gulf Bass Lite Field tie-in contracted
    (10/12/2006) EPL & Stone nix merger
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Fri. 10/13
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 54.19
    0.0%
    Minas 55.37
    +0.9%
    Bonny Light 58.91
    -0.4%
    N. Sea Brent 59.52
    +1.3%
    Forties 57.76
    -0.6%
    Urals/Mediterranean 54.66
    -0.7%
    Alaska N. Slope 52.90
    +0.6%
    W. Texas Intermediate 58.57
    +1.2%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 4.40
    -11.6%
    UK Day Ahead** 26.50
    +1.0%
    *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 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
    October 20
    Oil & Gas Services in Russia, Moscow, Russia
    October 22-25
    AAPG International Conference & Exhibition, Perth, WA Australia
    October 22-25
    Geological Society of America Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
    October 23-25
    IPAA Annual Meeting, Grapevine, Texas USA
    October 24-26
    Dry Tree & Riser Forum, College Station, Texas USA
    October 24-27
    XIOGE 2006 - Xinjiang International Oil & Gas Exposition, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China
    October 28-November 4
    Association of Engineering Geologists Annual Meeting, Boston, Mass. USA
    ...More Events

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