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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
    Week ends with all prices down on up-bound dollar
    (11/26/2010) Traders returned to the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex) after the Thanksgiving Day holiday in the United States and Canada to trim prior sessions' gains and join their counterparts at the InterContinental Exchange (ICE) in London in sending all of our monitored benchmarks down across the board - but not by great margins. The driving force of the day was the continued climb of the US dollar in value against the euro and a number of other major international currencies...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (11/19/2010) Weatherford manager kidnapped & killed in Mexico
    (11/19/2010) Oil & Gas UK objects to limiting non-EU workers in industry
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (11/28/2010) Buru prepping to spud Nangu-1 test well in Western Australia
    (11/26/2010) Well test confirms Petrobras discovery in Amazon
    (11/25/2010) Azerbaijan confirms 7.06 Tcf of gas in Caspian field
    (11/25/2010) Bowleven finds more pay with Sapele-1 off Cameroon
    (11/25/2010) Woodside makes gas discovery off Western Australia
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (11/26/2010) US rig count grows by 10 rigs this week
    (11/26/2010) Petrobras receives bids for 28 rigs to be built in Brazil
    (11/25/2010) Keppel FELS building new jackup for Standard Drilling
    (11/25/2010) Norwest lines up Hunt to drill Redhill South-1
    (11/25/2010) MOG workover of S. Teodoro onshore Italy successful
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (11/26/2010) Denmark's South Arne Field gets okay for 3rd phase development
    (11/26/2010) Protests shut down C&C's Colombia Llanos operations
    (11/26/2010) Santos gives blessing to East Java Wortel development
    (11/26/2010) Statoil's Kvitebjorn platform getting compression module
    (11/25/2010) Kuwait adding 120,000 b/d to northern fields output
    (11/25/2010) Kavala prepping for Prinos Field development drilling
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (11/28/2010) Verus farms into ADX's Chorbane Block onshore Tunisia
    (11/28/2010) Qatar Petroleum calls for bids to explore its Block A
    (11/28/2010) Maersk granted Greenland's Baffin Bay Block 9
    (11/28/2010) Pre-emption waved in DEO acquisition of North Sea Perth assets
    (11/28/2010) Sterling gets okay for 5 Netherlands North Sea blocks
    (11/26/2010) Shell awarded 2 blocks offshore Greenland in Baffin Bay
    (11/26/2010) BP granted Indonesia's onshore Papua North Arafura PSC
    (11/26/2010) Total acquires stakes in 3 onshore Gabon blocks
    (11/26/2010) Tullow unable to halt award of DRC blocks to rivals
    (11/25/2010) Nexus pegs $34.3 million for Crux Field gas rights
    (11/25/2010) Pemex sets date for 1st auction of operating contracts
    (11/25/2010) Statoil hands over operation of Gjoa to GDF Suez
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (11/24/2010) SeaBird taps down OBN off Nigeria for Shell
    (11/24/2010) Tap completes 3D seismic shoot onshore Brunei
    (11/24/2010) Samson commences Wyoming North Platte 3D shoot
    (11/24/2010) Regional oil seep study offshore Newfoundland underway
    ...More Geosciences
      LNG/LPG
    (11/25/2010) Beach & Itochu looking for South Australia LNG site
    (11/24/2010) Inpex transfers stake in Indonesia's Abadi LNG Project to EMPI
    ...More LNG/LPG
      Health Safety & Environment
    (11/28/2010) Woodside gas hub on Western Australia's Kimberley coast protested
    (11/28/2010) Enviro groups protest next Montana & North Dakota lease sale
    (11/26/2010) Montara Commission calls for PTTEP license review
    (11/26/2010) 187,000 sq miles of polar bear habitat off limits to drilling
    (11/26/2010) H2S buildup on SeaRose FPSO triggers evacuation
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (11/28/2010) Halliburton's Lagos offices raided by anti-corruption police
    (11/28/2010) CNOOC-Bridas JV pays $7.06 billion for BP's stake in PAE
    (11/26/2010) Petrofac takes stake in Nigeria's Seven Energy
    (11/26/2010) Cabot completes sale of remaining Canadian interests
    (11/26/2010) Breagh Field development pipeline contract goes to Allseas
    (11/25/2010) Maxim to acquire Trinidad & Tobago's Jasmin Oil & Gas
    (11/25/2010) Aker Solutions to supply subsea system for CNOOC field
    (11/25/2010) Expro scores Bunga Mas multi-service contract
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    November 29
    IADC Well Control Middle East Conference & Exhibition, Manama, Bahrain
    November 29 - December 1
    Maghreb &Mediteranean Oil Week, Marrakech, Morocco
    November 30 - December 2
    Successful EPC Contracting in India, Mumbai, India
    November 30 - December 3
    Offshore Southeast Asia 2010, Singapore
    December 1-3
    SPE Latin American & Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference, Lima, Peru
    December 7
    International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC), Doha, Qatar
    December 8-10
    Deep Gulf 2010, Galveston, Texas USA
    December 9
    Annual Meeting Society for Underwater Technology, London, UK
    December 9-10
    Hydraulic Fracturing: Challenges to Shale Gas Production, Denver, Colorado USA
    ...More Events

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