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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
    Big crude price rebound parallel's stock market climb
    (9/30/2008) It took just 24 hours for investors to realize the world was not coming to an end today because the US House of Representatives rejected the Bush administration's proposed US$700 billion bailout of failed Wall Street financial houses yesterday. All of our monitored benchmarks regained about half the losses they suffered yesterday in the massive sell-down at both the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London, with recognition...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (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
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (10/1/2008) PA Resources drilling Didon North Prospect in Tunisia
    (10/1/2008) Fourth Red Fork well extends West Tulsa Project
    (10/1/2008) PetroQuest spuds 2nd Louisiana Highlands well
    (10/1/2008) Central spuds Simpson-1 in Pedirka Basin
    (10/1/2008) Rough Range drilling onshore Carnarvon Basin
    (10/1/2008) BG Norge appraisal proves Norwegian North Sea discovery
    (9/30/2008) Anadarko makes big pre-salt discovery off Brazil
    (9/30/2008) Vicpet's Warhawk-1 being readied for production
    (9/30/2008) Heritage spuds two wells in Uganda
    (9/29/2008) Golden Gate's Louisiana Bullseye well tests positive
    (9/29/2008) Timor Sea's Puffin SW penetrates oil-bearing sands
    (9/29/2008) Afren gets go-ahead to drill Nigeria's Ebok Field
    (9/29/2008) Verenex strikes gas & oil in Libya's Ghadames Basin
    (9/29/2008) RWE Dea makes another discovery onshore Libya
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (10/1/2008) CLIP drilling riser being tested by 2H Offshore
    (9/29/2008) CNOOC contracts Songa drillship for Eq. Guinea drilling
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (10/1/2008) Shell restores 65,000 b/d from US Gulf fields
    (10/1/2008) Texas Crude reaches TD in Sugarloaf Kowalik-1H well
    (10/1/2008) Buccaneer drilling 3rd Texas US Gulf Pompano well
    (9/30/2008) Gulfsands boosting Syria's Khurbet East Field output
    (9/30/2008) Maple begins development drilling on Peru oilfields
    (9/30/2008) Santos to redrill Bass Strait Henry well
    (9/30/2008) Shell puts UK North Sea's Curlew C Field onstream
    (9/29/2008) Indus preparing for SGL Field development
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (10/1/2008) Ethiopia grants license to Trans Global Petroleum
    (10/1/2008) Victoria Oil wins Kazakhstan license ruling
    (10/1/2008) Forest buys Texas-Louisiana acreage from Cordillera
    (10/1/2008) Dominion assigns Marcellus Shale rights to Antero
    (9/30/2008) Pacific Asia buying into China onshore production blocks
    (9/30/2008) Jura & PEL farm out stakes in six Pakistani concessions
    (9/29/2008) Delta adds EnCana leases in Washington
    (9/29/2008) BHP awarded 7.7 million acres in Colombia's Llanos Basin
    (9/29/2008) Premier Oil disqualified from Iraqi bidding
    (9/29/2008) EnCore farms out stake in UK North Sea blocks
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (10/1/2008) First of 3 SCAN newbuild seismic vessels launched
    (9/30/2008) BGP completes Petro Matad seismic program in Mongolia
    (9/30/2008) CGGVeritas wins Oman multi-year acquisition project
    (9/29/2008) Seabird & Wavefield to shoot 2D & 3D off Namibia
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (9/29/2008) Rosneft & World Bank sign emissions reduction agreement
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (10/1/2008) StatoilHydro's Statfjord Field part of Norwegian cultural heritage
    (10/1/2008) Forbes-Merco Ingenieria JV formed for Mexico oilfield services
    (10/1/2008) Subsea 7 scores contracts worth $20 million
    (10/1/2008) J. Ray McDermott wins offshore Vietnam project
    (9/30/2008) Global to lay pipe for Pemex in Bay of Campeche
    (9/30/2008) Devon contracts WorleyParsons for Jackfish 2 Project
    (9/29/2008) Serica rejects Salamander acquisition offer
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    October 5-8
    Geological Society of America Annual Meeting & Exposition, Houston, Texas, USA
    October 5-9
    Materials Science & Technology 2008 Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
    October 6-8
    EAGE Caspian & Black Sea 2008, Baku, Azerbaijan
    October 6-8
    IPAA 2008 Oil & Gas Investment Symposium, San Francisco, California USA
    October 6-10
    Africa Oil Week 2008
    October 7-10
    Canadian Offshore Resources Exhibition & Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    October 7-10
    KIOGE Kazakhstan International Oil & Gas Exhibition & Conference, Almaty, Kazakhstan
    October 8-9
    Association of Energy Engineers 31st World Energy Engineering Congress, Washington, D.C., USA
    October 8-9
    IADC Drilling West Africa Conference & Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal
    October 8-10
    Chad International Oil Mining & Energy Conference & Exhibition, N'Djamena, Chad
    October 8-10
    TAPG Northern Arabian Plate Oil & Gas Summit, Antalya, Turkey
    October 9-10
    EPC 6th International Bottom of the Barrel Technology Conference, Barcelona, Spain
    October 11-15
    AAPG Eastern Section 2008 Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
    October 12-15
    IQPC Middle East Offshore Projects, Abu Dhabi, UAE
    October 13-17
    28th Oil Shale Symposium Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado USA
    ...More Events

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