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  • World Industry News

  • Exploration & Discoveries

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  • Development & Production

  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (1/11/2006) API puts total US drilling costs in 2004 at $56.2 billion
    (1/9/2006) Australia & Timor Leste to sign Sunrise deal this week (update)
    (1/9/2006) Cyclone Clare shuts in offshore Western Australia platforms (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (1/11/2006) Tatneft sets 6-well Syria E&P program
    (1/11/2006) Beach spuds Udacha probe in South Australia
    (1/11/2006) Pemex allocates $748 million to Burgos Basin drilling
    (1/11/2006) Alberta Strachan well a probable Devonian gas discovery
    (1/11/2006) Ranhill scores gas discovery south of Jakarta
    (1/11/2006) Petrovietnam discovers oil & gas in Algeria
    (1/11/2006) Austral Pacific terminates NZ's Supplejack well tests
    (1/11/2006) Total confirms Gengibre ultra-deep Angola discovery
    (1/10/2006) Egdon discovers gas with UK Kirkleatham well
    (1/10/2006) Hound Dog wildcat drilling on Texas Lavaca prospect
    (1/10/2006) Drilling suspended on Harriet JV's Marley well off Western Oz
    (1/10/2006) ExxonMobil drilling Kogge Prospect in Norway's North Sea
    (1/10/2006) Century's UK North Sea Hendrix-1 set for plugging
    (1/9/2006) Tests on NSW Gloucester Basin show promising gasflows
    (1/9/2006) Petsec taps gas with US Gulf Main Pass well
    (1/9/2006) Nexus plugging & abandoning Culverin-1
    (1/9/2006) TAG spuds Arakamu-1 in New Zealand's Taranaki Basin
    (1/9/2006) Bayou City to complete 1st Live Oak County well
    (1/9/2006) Equator & Peak confirm gas discovery off Nigeria
    (1/9/2006) Canadian Superior prepping for 1st well offshore Trinidad
    (1/9/2006) Petrolifera's Argentine well tests 2,500 b/d
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (1/11/2006) Deep Rock spuds 1st of 4 northern Oklahoma wells
    (1/11/2006) Great Wall Drilling contracted for Kazakh Dolinnoe Field
    (1/10/2006) Abbot's KCA Deutag wins Russian & Saudi contracts
    (1/10/2006) Statoil secures 2 rigs for Algerian drilling projects
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (1/11/2006) Egypt's El Mansoura Block continues to produce for Melrose
    (1/11/2006) Petrobras okay's $18 billion Santos Basin development plan
    (1/11/2006) Storm halves oil production at Statoil Norne Field
    (1/11/2006) Production flowtesting commences at Sawn Lake
    (1/11/2006) Shell to develop oil shale in northeastern China
    (1/11/2006) Woollybutt appraisal to be suspended as producer
    (1/11/2006) Chevron to resume output off Western Australia (update)
    (1/11/2006) Independence Hub platform & pipeline project expanded
    (1/11/2006) Production commences at US Gulf's Main Pass 19
    (1/10/2006) Contact picks New Brunswick Stoney Creek drillsite
    (1/10/2006) Antrim drills another Tierra del Fuego producer
    (1/10/2006) Maverick to drill Texas & Arkansas shale projects
    (1/10/2006) Launch of $3.3 billion Camisea II development this week
    (1/10/2006) Shell puts Brunei's Champion West Phase III onstream
    (1/10/2006) Woodside to resume FPSO production tomorrow (update)
    (1/9/2006) Cano achieves improved recovery at Nowata
    (1/9/2006) Puffin Field development plan submitted
    (1/9/2006) OMV to put Yemen's Al-Uqlah Block on production
    (1/9/2006) Texas' Hidalgo Frio Project adds another producer
    (1/9/2006) AMEC to manage development of BG's Maria Field
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (1/11/2006) Double Eagle adds Nevada exploration acreage
    (1/11/2006) Petrobras acquires 50% interest in Equatorial Guinea block
    (1/11/2006) Pakistan Petroleum gets Baluchistan's Barkhan Block
    (1/10/2006) Sundance & Continental swap Oklahoma & Montana assets
    (1/10/2006) First Calgary granted extension on Algeria's Yacoub Block
    (1/9/2006) Total swaps for major stake in Norway's Victoria Field
    (1/9/2006) Petrolera Monterrico wins Peru's Block XX
    (1/9/2006) McElvain farms into Sundance well in Cooper Basin
    (1/9/2006) CNOOC acquires 45% stake in Total's Akpo Block off Nigeria
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (1/11/2006) Gulfsands completes 2D shoot over Syrian Block 26
    (1/11/2006) Quest completes Acadia North 3D seismic acquisition
    (1/10/2006) PGS completes Gullfaks 4C survey for Statoil
    (1/10/2006) Electromagnetic imaging included in Norway licensing conditions
    (1/9/2006) emgs deploys IBRIX Fusion parallel file system
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (1/9/2006) Precautionary mustering principle improves safety
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (1/11/2005) Poland's PKN Orlen entering upstream gradually
    (1/11/2005) Schlumberger awarded CDA Well DataStore contract
    (1/11/2005) Cal Dive converting vessel for deepwater pipelaying
    (1/11/2005) Triton American forms well services joint venture
    (1/11/2005) Hess pegs $3.1 billion for 2006 E&P
    (1/10/2005) BHP contracts SPS for wellbore prep on US Gulf Neptune
    (1/10/2005) Mustang doing detailed design for Blind Faith topsides
    (1/10/2005) Farstad chalks up $42.2 million in charters
    (1/10/2005) PTT Exploration plans $5.8 billion expansion
    (1/10/2005) BP extends subsea tech agreement with Aker Kvaerner
    (1/10/2005) GulfMark to build a 2nd Aker PSV09 supply vessel
    (1/9/2005) Varel expands large diameter bit manufacturing capacity
    (1/9/2005) SeaDrill trys again, bids $2.3 billion for Smedvig (update)
    (1/9/2005) Allseas orders an accommodation unit for Audacia
    (1/9/2005) Jumbo contracts heavy lift vessel from Damen Shipyards
    (1/9/2005) Total amends FMC's contract for Angola's Rosa Field
    (1/9/2005) GGS acquires Spectrum Energy & Information Technology
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 1/11
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 56.61
    0.0%
    Minas 59.46
    +1.8%
    Bonny Light 63.10
    +1.4%
    N. Sea Brent 62.72
    +2.6%
    Forties 64.00
    +1.4%
    Urals/Mediterranean 57.80
    +1.5%
    Alaska N. Slope 61.41
    +2.4%
    W. Texas Intermediate 64.21
    +2.3%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 9.26
    -0.1%
    UK Day Ahead** 66.00
    -6.4%
    *US$ per MMBTUs
    **UK pence per therm
    All prices are indicative only. OGI accepts no responsibility for their accuracy.
    Price Details & Analysis
      Industry Events
    January 11-14
    OCEANTEX International Offshore Conference & Technology Exhibition, Mumbai, India
    January 11-14
    Petrotech, Manama, Bahrain
    January 16-20
    API Tubular Goods Standards Meeting, Savanna, Georgia, USA
    January 17-19
    Offshore Asia Conference & Exhibition, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    January 17-19
    API Well Cement and Drilling Fluids Standards Meeting, Savanna, Georgia, USA
    January 22-25
    GTI National Gas Technology Conference, Orlando, Florida USA
    January 30-31
    LNG Economics & Technology, Houston, Texas USA
    January 30-February 01
    Underwater Intervention Conference, ew Orleans, Louisiana USA
    ...More Events

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