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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
    Profit-taking continues to push prices down
    (10/2/2007) Prices of our monitored benchmarks all continued to fall as speculators continued to take profits again today against the prospect of a strengthening US dollar and worries about the direction of the world economy. Activity at both London's InterContinental Exchange (ICE) and the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex)...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (10/3/2007) DR Congo cancels Lake Albert negotiations with Uganda
    (10/1/2007) Five killed in 4 Assam pipeline bombings
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (10/3/2007) Sharon completes successful Texas Yegua Black Owl gaswell
    (10/3/2007) TXCO joins EnCana in Texas Maverick Basin exploration
    (10/3/2007) Stuart plugging & abandoning South Australia Patron-1
    (10/3/2007) Contango's US Gulf Mary Rose-1 hits target
    (10/2/2007) Triangle drilling Kennetcook-2 shale gas well in Nova Scotia
    (10/2/2007) Drillsearch's Western Australia offshore Marina-1 a dry hole
    (10/2/2007) Tullow successfully drills & tests Uganda appraisal well
    (10/2/2007) NIOC makes Baba Habib discovery in Iran's Kuhdasht Block
    (10/2/2007) Oilexco drilling appraisal of UK Huntington discovery
    (10/2/2007) Clayton Williams' Texas Bossier wildcat dry so far
    (10/2/2007) PA completes drilling of Tunisia onshore exploration well
    (10/2/2007) Vicpet plugging & abandoning South Australia test well
    (10/1/2007) TPAO drilling Bati Eskikale test well in Turkish Black Sea
    (10/1/2007) San Miguel Field discovered in Chile's Fell Block
    (10/1/2007) France's Bay of Biscay exploration well abandoned
    (10/1/2007) Innamincka's Flax East looks to be Australia's largest onshore find
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
    Global Pacific & Partners
      Drilling & Completion
    (10/3/2007) Drilling liner run through tar section in US Gulf well
    (10/2/2007) Lexington secures shallow gas drilling contract
    (10/1/2007) Dragon dual drilling on Dzheitune Field in Caspian Sea
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (10/3/2007) Crescent completes UAE Sharjah offshore development drilling
    (10/3/2007) Transmeridian resumes production from Kazakh South Alibek Field
    (10/3/2007) Oilex-GSPC re-entry set for India's Bhandut Block
    (10/3/2007) Canoro finds 2 additional reservoirs in Assam, India well
    (10/3/2007) EnCana wins government approval for Deep Panuke development
    (10/2/2007) Aladdin finishes workover of 2nd of 7 Bogdanovskaya wells
    (10/2/2007) JKX completes & tests another Ukraine Poltava well
    (10/2/2007) Production begins at Angola's deepwater Greater Plutonio
    (10/1/2007) Pan American puts Texas' Hammond-1 on production
    (10/1/2007) Samson's Stage Coach East-1 cased for completion
    ...More Development & Production
    Eye for Energy
      Licensing & Concessions
    (10/3/2007) Iraqi Kurds proclaim 4 more production sharing contracts
    (10/3/2007) Arrow signs CBM agreements with Indonesia's Pertamina
    (10/3/2007) Helix sells stakes in 3 US Gulf oilfields
    (10/3/2007) KazMunaiGas pays $930 million for CITIC stake
    (10/3/2007) MMS Central Gulf Sale nets record $2,904,321,011 in bids (update)
    (10/3/2007) Madalena adds 2 more blocks in Argentina's Neuquen Province
    (10/3/2007) CityView acquires right to control Cameroon Field
    (10/2/2007) Heritage Oil does deal with Kurds for Miran Block
    (10/2/2007) Central US Gulf Lease Sale 205 receives 1,428 bids on 723 tracts
    (10/2/2007) Baraka acquires interest in producing Colombia oilfield
    (10/2/2007) Antrim wins Tres Nidos Sur Block in Argentina's Negro Province
    (10/2/2007) Sundance sells Oklahoma & Montana stakes for $46 million
    (10/2/2007) Baseline adds South Texas properties for $96.6 million
    (10/2/2007) BHP farming into FOGL's Falkland licenses
    (10/1/2007) Noreco adds stakes in 4 offshore Norway licenses
    (10/1/2007) Brownstone farming into BrazAlta blocks onshore Brazil
    (10/1/2007) Pan Terra acquires Stealth's Saskatchewan assets
    (10/1/2007) PetroHunter sells Montana & Utah heavy oil assets to Pearl
    (10/1/2007) Russia limiting foreign access to Sakhalin 3 as strategic
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (10/2/2007) PTTEP to shoot new seismic surveys in northeast Thailand
    (10/1/2007) Imperial IDs 3 new reservoirs in 3D from Kiev-Eganskoye Field
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (10/3/2007) Suncor extinguishes oil sands fire, expects to restore output soon
    (10/3/2007) Chevron's Tengizchevroil fined $609 million by Kazakh Ecology Ministry
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (10/3/2007) Arcapita buying Varel drillbit maker for $369 million
    (10/3/2007) EB wins contract to supply complete J-lay system
    (10/2/2007) Pemex contracts ICA Fluor to construct 2 offshore platforms
    (10/1/2007) KBR to provide FEED support for Egypt's West Mediterranean Deep
    (10/1/2007) Halliburton picked for Kazakhstan drilling program design
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    October 4-5
    Symposium on Capture & Geological Storage of CO2, Paris, France
    October 5-9
    Saudi Mega Projects Exhibition & Conference, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
    October 6-9
    AAPG Rocky Mountain Section, Snowbird, Utah, USA
    October 7-11
    American Institute of Professional Geologists Annual Meeting, Traverse City, Michigan
    October 9-10
    IADC Drilling HSE Europe Conference & Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark
    October 10-12
    Deep Offshore Technology Conference, Stavanger, Norway
    October 11-12
    International Bottom of the Barrel Technology Conf & Exhibition, Athens, Greece
    October 14-17
    Gasification Technologies 2007, San Francisco, California USA
    October 15-18
    Pumps Compressors & Valves Expo, Moscow, Russia
    October 15-19
    Oil Shale Symposium, Golden, Colorado USA
    October 17-19
    SPE Eastern Regional Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky USA
    October 18-20
    National Ocean Industries Association Fall Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona USA
    October 21-23
    American Association of Petroleum Geologists Gulf Coast Meeting, Corpus Christi, Texas USA
    October 21-23
    Louisiana Independent Oil & Gas Association Gulf Coast Prospect Expo, Corpus Christi, Texas USA
    ...More Events

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