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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
    Choppy trading leaves prices mixed
    (9/29/2009) Trade at both the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and London's InterContinental Exchange (ICE) seesawed throughout the day today as traders reacted to a range of factors, speculation, and concerns about the near-term prospects for oil. Leading the list is, of course, the ongoing consideration of demand and whether it will continue its languid increase or shift into a more positive improvement as the energy-consuming winter season in the Northern Hemisphere approaches...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (9/28/2009) EIA reports US independents income down 68%
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (9/30/2009) Glenlivet sidetrack confirms significant gas reserves
    (9/30/2009) ConocoPhillips & Karoon extends Browse Basin program
    (9/30/2009) Pryme plugging & abandoning Louisiana Four Rivers well
    (9/30/2009) UBX's Gavea sees oil in onshore Brazil appraisal
    (9/29/2009) OMV drilling Tornado in UK waters West of Shetlands
    (9/29/2009) Beach suspends Wakefield well to test commerciality
    (9/29/2009) East Kakwa well tests prove NW Alberta play
    (9/28/2009) Petrominerales taps 10,000 b/d in Colombia sidetrack
    (9/28/2009) BP gearing up to drill offshore Libya
    (9/28/2009) Tethys sets program for Oman Blocks 3 & 4
    (9/28/2009) Peru test well misses mark for conventional gas, finds shale gas
    (9/28/2009) Kontiki test well fizzles off Western Australia
    (9/28/2009) China finds gas hydrates in frozen Tibetan Plateau
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (9/30/2009) Caspian mobilizing rig to Kyrgyz's East Mailisu Prospect
    (9/30/2009) Diamond Offshore acquires semisubmersible PetroRig II
    (9/28/2009) Cairn seeking 2 rigs to drill off India & Sri Lanka
    (9/28/2009) Deepwater Horizon wins 3-year US Gulf contract extension
    (9/28/2009) C.A.T. extends Russian sidetrack drilling contracts
    (9/28/2009) Norway's PSA finds regulatory faults on Rowan Gorilla VI
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (9/30/2009) TransAtlantic putting Turkey's Selmo Field well onstream
    (9/30/2009) Gazprom cutting gas output on demand drop
    (9/30/2009) Po Valley to put Italy's Castello gasfield onstream
    (9/30/2009) Lack of power delays well on Russia's Arkhangelovskoe Block
    (9/29/2009) Orinoco Belt's Junin 2 Project onstream in 18 months
    (9/29/2009) Connacher resuming output from Alberta SAGD project
    (9/29/2009) Doral recompleting New Mexico well drilled by Anadarko
    (9/29/2009) Production at Kambuna Field off Indonesia suspended
    (9/28/2009) Afren & Oriental drilling producers on Nigeria's Ebok Field
    (9/28/2009) Northern completes fraccing Netherlands producers
    (9/28/2009) Oliver appraisal well to determine field development
    (9/28/2009) China's Chuandongbei set to go onstream in 2010
    (9/28/2009) OMV's M2A Maari appraisal off New Zealand a winner
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (9/30/2009) ANP extends Petrobras licenses on 19 blocks
    (9/30/2009) ExxonMobil sells interest in Indonesian blocks to Petronas
    (9/30/2009) Eni, Shell & PPL win Pakistan's Sukhpur Block
    (9/30/2009) EXCO selling Ohio & Pennsylvania assets
    (9/30/2009) Pan Pacific farms into Timor Sea JPDA block
    (9/29/2009) CNOOC negotiating $30 billion buy of 20 Nigeria blocks
    (9/29/2009) CNPC buys majority stake in Iran's giant South Azadegan Field
    (9/29/2009) Todd awarded new offshore Taranaki NZ block
    (9/29/2009) Russia's Rosnedra returns license to Astrakhan Oil & Gas
    (9/29/2009) Fairfied acquiring UK North Sea NW Hutton licenses
    (9/29/2009) C-NLOPB calls for nominations for 2010 round
    (9/28/2009) PetroSA teaming with PDVSA to develop Venezuela block
    (9/28/2009) UK comes to aid of Cadogan in Ukraine dispute
    (9/28/2009) Gazprom & TPAO link to bid for Iraqi blocks
    (9/28/2009) Eni acquires majority stakes in 2 blocks offshore Ghana
    (9/28/2009) Chariot sub wins Namibia license extension
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (9/30/2009) Hyperdynamics signs BOS to shoot 2D off Guinea
    (9/29/2009) Rock Solid scores CGX project offshore Guyana
    (9/29/2009) Blom to carry out North Sea aeromag survey
    (9/29/2009) TGS completes US Gulf wide azimuth 3D shoot
    (9/28/2009) DOF Subsea scores Noble geotech contract
    (9/28/2009) Second 2D shoot started off Seychelles
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (9/28/2009) Todd Energy building LPG plant in New Zealand's Taranaki
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (9/30/2009) Greenpeace blockades Suncor oil sands facilities
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (9/30/2009) Resaca & Cano Petroleum merge in stock deal
    (9/30/2009) Cal Dive scores 2nd China project
    (9/30/2009) Aker Solutions awarded Gullfaks A drilling facilities contract
    (9/30/2009) CIC buys minor stake in KazMunaiGas E&P
    (9/30/2009) Beach Petroleum rescues Essential Petroleum Resources
    (9/29/2009) Wood Group to provide 125 wellheads & trees for Pemex
    (9/29/2009) Transeuro & RAG settle Ukraine joint venture dispute
    (9/29/2009) Apache receives approval for "gas plus" program in Argentina
    (9/29/2009) Cameron picks up $500 million Petrobras subsea tree contract
    (9/29/2009) KBR granted Saudi Aramco's Shaybah FEED contract
    (9/28/2009) Aibel wins contract for concept study of Troll A compressor trains
    (9/28/2009) ODIM wins Talisiman deal for Yme Field workover rig
    (9/28/2009) Total E&P extends riserless mud recovery contract
    (9/28/2009) JV formed for high-speed drillstring telemetry systems
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    October 1-2
    Offshore Decommissioning Summit - Asia Pacific 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    October 4-6
    Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission Annual Meeting, Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
    October 4-7
    SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    October 5-8
    Canadian Offshore Resources Exhibition & Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    October 5-9
    World Gas Conference Triennial International Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    October 6-9
    Kazakhstan International Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Almaty, Kazakhstan
    October 10-14
    AAPG Mid-Continent Section Meeting, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
    October 12-15
    API Fall Petroleum Measurement Standards Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    October 13-15
    Filtech Exhibitions Germany 2009, Wiesbaden, Germany
    October 14
    Oil & Gas Technology Indonesia 2009, Jakarta, Indonesia
    October 14-15
    Unconventional Oil, London, UK
    October 14-17
    International Oil & Gas Exploration & Production Exhibition, Jakarta, Indonesia
    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
    ...More Events

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