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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
    Key crudes drift further down in price
    (10/28/2008) Trade today at the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) and the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London was essentially the same as yesterday with continued selldowns due to the unrelieved flow of information showing dropping demand and economic dislocation around the globe but in particular in the planet's primary oil consuming countries - and this overriding factor continues to outweigh the pledge by...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (10/27/2008) Iraqi parliament committee rejects hydrocarbon law draft
    (10/27/2008) Sudanese rebels kill 5 kidnapped Chinese oil workers (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (10/29/2008) Neptune delaying Uganda drilling to wait for equipment
    (10/29/2008) Alaska Cook Inlet Point MacKenzie test well set
    (10/29/2008) Melrose makes Black Sea discovery offshore Bulgaria
    (10/29/2008) Apache makes oil & gas discovery in Egypt's Western Desert
    (10/27/2008) Norwood halts testing of Nicaragua wells as noncommercial
    (10/27/2008) Significant oil reserves seen in Sibir's Siberia license
    (10/27/2008) KOC to explore Kuwait's northeastern region
    (10/27/2008) New Frontier Slater Dome well tests 2.4 million cf/d
    (10/27/2008) NSE & Buru suspend Western Australia drilling
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (10/29/2008) Crosco sending Zagreb jackup to Gulf of Mexico
    (10/29/2008) Transocean newbuild ultra-deepwater drillship wins 5-year contract
    (10/29/2008) Green Dragon Gas completes first Shizhuang South vertical well
    (10/28/2008) StatoilHydro gets go-ahead to drill Curran Prospect
    (10/27/2008) Jindal delivers newbuild jackup to ONGC
    (10/27/2008) Saipem scores $1.1 billion in drilling contracts
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (10/29/2008) Melrose adds 2 producers on Egypt's West Dikirnis Field
    (10/29/2008) Pan-Orient's Thai Na Sunan East tested
    (10/29/2008) Primeline sets development of China's Lishui gas discovery
    (10/28/2008) BP boosts US Gulf Thunder Horse to 100,000 b/d
    (10/28/2008) Tri-Valley to drill 3 more Vaca Tar Sands wells in California
    (10/28/2008) Hardy spuds another producer in India's PY-3 Field
    (10/28/2008) Corridor completing 7 wells in McCully Field development
    (10/28/2008) Santos' Henry-2 producer flows 44 million cf/d
    (10/27/2008) Horizon development of PNG Stanley Field underway
    (10/27/2008) Red Fork hits pay with East Oklahoma well
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (10/29/2008) Bahrain launches deep onshore gas licensing round
    (10/29/2008) AuDAX & Kairiki close 2nd Sicily Channel permit
    (10/28/2008) Stetson partners with Red Willow in North Dakota project
    (10/28/2008) Victoria O&G options buy of Falcon & assets in Ethiopia & Mali
    (10/28/2008) NZOG buying Tap's New Zealand Canterbury holding
    (10/27/2008) Capricorn granted 2 blocks offshore Greenland
    (10/27/2008) Gazprom gets 4 blocks offshore Vietnam
    (10/27/2008) EdF acquires majority stake in UK North Sea gasfields
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (10/29/2008) Paradigm providing petrophysical consulting in Dubai
    (10/29/2008) NVIDIA Tesla S1070 1U system employed for RTM
    (10/29/2008) Tap Oil begins Block "M" Brunei aeromag survey
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (10/28/2008) Titan 1 jackup sinks in mid-Atlantic while in transport
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (10/29/2008) ABS selected to class Petrobras' Tupi FPSO
    (10/29/2008) Pemex a step closer to contracting foreign companies
    (10/29/2008) World largest subsea motors delivered for Tyrihans development
    (10/29/2008) Heerema contracts survey & positioning services
    (10/29/2008) Dockwise scores $40 million in transport & floatover services
    (10/28/2008) Maersk picks Prosafe accommodation unit
    (10/28/2008) Mustang contracted for Panna brownfield project
    (10/28/2008) Northern terminates agreement to buy 2 Transocean rigs
    (10/28/2008) BG acquiring Queensland Gas for $3.48 billion
    (10/27/2008) Bristow buys the rest of Norsk Helikopter
    (10/27/2008) Wintershall paying $750 million for Revus Energy
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    October 30
    Subsea UK, Houston, Islington, UK
    November 2-6
    ASME International Mechanical Congress & Exposition, Boston, Mass., USA
    November 3-6
    Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
    November 4-6
    3rd North African Oil & Gas Summit, Vienna, Austria
    November 4-6
    Valve World Conference & Exhibition 2008, Maastricht, Netherlands
    November 4-7
    UNCTAD 12th African Oil, Gas & Minerals, Trade and Finance, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
    November 4-7
    African Petroleum Services & Safety, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
    November 5-6
    Iraq Oil & Gas Summit, Houston, Texas USA
    November 5-7
    Mangystau International Oil & Gas Exhibition, Aktau, Kazakhstan
    November 6-7
    IADC Annual Meeting, Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA
    November 9-14
    Society of Exploration Geophysicists Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
    November 10-12
    IPAA Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, USA
    November 16-18
    Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico USA
    November 16-21
    American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    November 17-18
    Oil and Gas India 2008, Mumbai, India
    November 17-20
    London Oil Week 2008, London, UK
    November 22-25
    Saudi Energy Forum, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
    ...More Events

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