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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
    Crude prices rise on API inventory report
    (10/6/2009) The American Petroleum Institute (API) today said that last week's inventories experienced an unexpected drawdown, although not by a great volume, just 254,000 bbl from crude stocks when expectations were a 2.2 million bbl increase. Likewise, the Institute said distillates were down 2.9 million bbl last week when they were expected to rise about 300,000 bbl...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (10/6/2009) No secret talks to replace US dollar in oil trade
    (10/5/2009) Court declines to hear appeal of Anadarko royalties case
    (10/5/2009) Iraq pushing back hydrocarbons law until after election
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (10/7/2009) Total drilling 1st test well onshore Mauritania
    (10/7/2009) Petrobras to drill subsalt well offshore Bahia, Brazil
    (10/7/2009) Medco taps down Indonesia's 1st CBM exploration well
    (10/7/2009) Gastem drills & cases Utica Shale test well in New York
    (10/7/2009) OGX discovers 100-meter oil column in Brazil's Vesuvio
    (10/7/2009) 3D Oil IDs potential 100 million bbl prospect in Bass Strait
    (10/7/2009) TPAO spuds South Akcakoca Black Sea test well
    (10/6/2009) Origin drilling Trefoil-2 in Australia's Bass Strait
    (10/6/2009) Caza makes New Mexico oil discovery
    (10/6/2009) Gulf Keystone scores oil discovery with Kurd Iraq well
    (10/5/2009) AusTex's 3rd Oklahoma well sees hydrocarbons
    (10/5/2009) Oil & gas discovered in Russia's Bashkiria field
    (10/5/2009) Shell to drill test well on Philippines' Malampaya Field
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (10/7/2009) Reliance to halt exploration if drilling moratorium not granted
    (10/7/2009) New Hughes Christensen PDC bits engineered for stability
    (10/7/2009) International rig count up 39 from August
    (10/6/2009) Seadrill scores 2-well assignment off Sudan
    (10/6/2009) Drydocks World delivers Perro Negro 6 jackup
    (10/5/2009) Rowan resuming 4th jackup rig construction
    (10/5/2009) Last week's US working rigs up to 1,024
    (10/5/2009) Greymouth adds Tiger rig to New Zealand fleet
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (10/7/2009) Third producer set for drilling on Ukraine's Lelyaki Field
    (10/7/2009) Texas Crude prepping to stim & complete Sugarloaf wells
    (10/7/2009) Algeria approves Timimoun gas project development plan
    (10/7/2009) Chevron to redevelop hurricane destroyed US Gulf field
    (10/7/2009) DONG finds temporary output solution for Siri (update)
    (10/6/2009) Total's Joslyn oil sands project to await higher oil prices
    (10/6/2009) Crown Point completes 2nd El Valle well in Argentina
    (10/6/2009) Cirrus starts production on Netherlands L8-D Field
    (10/6/2009) JKX's 1st workover on Russia's Koshekhablskoye Field successful
    (10/5/2009) Goldpetrol puts new Chauk Field oil producer onstream
    (10/5/2009) Tengizchevroil hits highest output to date
    (10/5/2009) Enbridge to lay and operate US Gulf ultra-deep pipeline
    (10/5/2009) CUT UK aids Heerema in NW Hutton platform decom
    (10/5/2009) First oil expected from PetroSA-PDVSA JV in 2 years
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (10/7/2009) Contango takes 5 blocks offshore Texas for $800,000
    (10/7/2009) International Goldfields acquiring Eastern Petroleum
    (10/7/2009) International Sovereign selling stake in Ecuador block
    (10/7/2009) Cantrell farming into Petro Vista Colombia concessions
    (10/7/2009) TNK-BP sub granted Russia's Saratov region's Kameliksky area
    (10/6/2009) ExxonMobil buying Kosmos' share of Ghana Jubilee Field
    (10/6/2009) DNO to restart operations in Kurdistan region of Iraq
    (10/6/2009) Roxi extends LG access to Kazakh asset info
    (10/6/2009) Brownstone & Quetzal to acquire Fenix interests
    (10/6/2009) Total & GdF join Kazakh JV for Khvalynskoye Field
    (10/5/2009) Isis to assist Baraka in Central Australia's Georgina Basin
    (10/5/2009) Metgasco buys remaining interest in 2 NSW permits
    (10/5/2009) Morgan Creek takes on Oklahoma North Fork 3D prospect
    (10/5/2009) BPMigas approves 4 of 6 Indonesia PSC extensions
    (10/5/2009) CNPC takes a bigger slice of Iraq's Rumaila development
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (10/7/2009) Providence survey confirms Spanish Point potential off Ireland
    (10/6/2009) Northern & Shell to shoot 3D offshore Sicily
    (10/5/2009) Fugro-Jason's latest version of PowerLog released
    (10/5/2009) Large complex reservoir simulation software released
    (10/5/2009) SeaBird scores 6 2D acquisition project
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (10/6/2009) PNG LNG stalled by landowner injunction
    (10/5/2009) Woodside agrees to NW Western Australia LNG project
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (10/7/2009) Shell shuts in UK North Sea Brent Charlie output
    (10/6/2009) PTTEP's first try at plugging Montara oil spill fails (update)
    (10/5/2009) Greenpeace protestors arrested at Shell oil sands project (update)
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (10/7/2009) Completions manufacturing plant opened in Saudi Arabia
    (10/7/2009) ABS establishes Arctic technology center in St John's
    (10/6/2009) Wood Group wins Chevron contract for North Sea fields
    (10/6/2009) Topaz amassing fleet of 100 oil service vessels
    (10/6/2009) Boots & Coots deal offers well control risk management
    (10/6/2009) T-3 Energy picks up Pemex diverter contract
    (10/6/2009) Bisso Marine adds 12-man SAT diving system
    (10/5/2009) BJ launching world's largest stim vessel
    (10/5/2009) Edge Petroleum files for bankruptcy, selling assets
    (10/5/2009) Lighter, stronger deepwater mooring connectors to be shown
    (10/5/2009) Halliburton addresses unconventional gas challenges
    (10/5/2009) Oando to partner GNPC in Jubilee Field gas project
    (10/5/2009) Suncor & EnCana to sell $2.33 billion in non-core assets
    (10/5/2009) New self elevating jack-up barge set for launch in 2010
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    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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