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Thursday, January 15, 2009
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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
    Sub-zero temperatures in US & Saudi cuts push up prices
    (1/13/2009) Blizzards across northern and northeastern United States and seasonal snow storms in Europe today drove per bbl prices of the major crudes among our monitored benchmarks higher, and Saudi Arabia's announcement that it has slashed its oil output gave the day's reversal a further impetus...Complete Daily Prices & Analysis
      World Industry News
    (1/14/2009) 11% of US Gulf oil & 15% of gas production still offline
    (1/13/2009) Pirates attack Eidesvik service vessel off Nigeria
    (1/13/2009) US stakes claim to Arctic with presidential directive
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (1/14/2009) ExxonMobil drilling Foldeak exploration well in Hungary
    (1/14/2009) Lab tests confirm New Zealand Goodwin-1 CSG potential
    (1/14/2009) Santos' Fletcher-4 sidetrack appraisal at TD
    (1/14/2009) Gastar's East Texas Bossier test taps 71 ft of pay
    (1/14/2009) Metgasco finds gas in New South Wales Walloon coals
    (1/14/2009) Paca-2 an oil discovery in Brazil's Sergipe Alagoas Basin
    (1/14/2009) Oilex completes 4-well Oman drilling program
    (1/13/2009) InterOil's Antelope-1 finds 611 meters of gas & liquids
    (1/13/2009) Buru deferring Australia Canning Basin exploration
    (1/13/2009) Beach's South Australia Gunyah-1 a duster so far
    (1/13/2009) StatoilHydro makes discovery near Norne in Norwegian Sea
    (1/13/2009) Heritage's Giraffe-1 a major oil discovery in Uganda
    (1/12/2009) Ophir finds 2 new gasfields offshore Eq Guinea
    (1/12/2009) Dana Gas discoveries in Egypt to double reserves
    (1/12/2009) Verenex confirms oil & gas discovery onshore Libya
    (1/12/2009) Arrow kicks off northern Vietnam drilling program
    (1/12/2009) StatoilHydro's Barents Sea appraisal non-commercial
    (1/12/2009) Test well on Ghana's Jubilee Field flows 16,750 b/d
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (1/12/2009) Transocean cancels Burgundy contract for semi
    (1/9/2009) Norway's PSA okays 3 rigs for StatoilHydro & Marathon
    (1/8/2009) Songa Venus set for Zeus drilling off Western Australia
    (1/8/2009) Newbuild West Phoenix drilling Total's Victoria Field
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (1/14/2009) BP declares force majeure at Angola's Plutonio Field
    (1/14/2009) Contango adds US Gulf Mary Rose & Dutch producers
    (1/14/2009) PetroNeft wins approval of new discovery reserves
    (1/14/2009) Gulf Keystone scores with 6th Hassi Ba Hamou well in Algeria
    (1/14/2009) Deepwater US Gulf Raton gaswell goes onstream
    (1/13/2009) ONGC to spend $5.3 billion to develop KG Basin gas
    (1/13/2009) Dragon puts Turkmen Caspian producer onstream
    (1/12/2009) Reliance to complete second phase of MA Field
    (1/12/2009) Gazprom to develop Yamal gas in three zones
    (1/12/2009) InterOil puts last of South Mirador, Peru wells onstream
    (1/12/2009) Regal spuds Mekhediviska-Golotvshinska producer
    (1/12/2009) Chevron boosts Bangladesh's Bibiyana Field output
    (1/12/2009) Saratoga puts Louisiana's Grand Bay Field onstream
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (1/14/2009) Syria postponing license awards due to economic crisis
    (1/14/2009) CNPC to develop Iran's giant North Azadegan Field
    (1/14/2009) Oil Search farms out PNG stakes to Nippon Oil
    (1/13/2009) Iceland pushes back 1st licensing launch
    (1/13/2009) Seychelles set to offer offshore acreage this year
    (1/13/2009) Occidental wins Bahrain's offshore Block 1
    (1/12/2009) Stakes adjusted in Norway's Grane Field
    (1/12/2009) Oando buys into 2 deepwater blocks off Nigeria
    (1/12/2009) Oilexco removed as UK North Sea Huntington operator
    (1/12/2009) Oilex backs away from added stake in Indonesia's PSC
    (1/12/2009) Cubic to participate in Chesapeake Haynesville Shale well
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (1/14/2009) Petris acquires Intervera Data Solutions & ZEH Software
    (1/12/2009) Fugro-Geoteam defies protests to survey off Western Sahara
    (1/12/2009) New SeisSpace software designed for large pre-stack processing
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (1/14/2009) Enviro group keeps NM's Santa Fe Forest off limits
    (1/13/2009) Spill clean-up near complete at Alaska's Kuparuk Field
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (1/14/2009) Imperial selects AMEC for Kearl Oil Sands Project
    (1/14/2009) PetroProd sells MT Arc FPSO conversion
    (1/14/2009) Total acquires 50% ownership of American Shale Oil
    (1/14/2009) StatoilHydro to spend $2.7 billion in 2009 for exploration
    (1/14/2009) McDermott contracted for BHP's Angostura project
    (1/14/2009) Aker scores re-up of West of Shetlands subsea services
    (1/13/2009) Fluor part of China's Penglai production start-up
    (1/13/2009) CETCO contracted to provide Libya water treatment services
    (1/12/2009) Signal providing components for Noble drillship upgrades
    (1/12/2009) J. Ray completes share of Trinidad's Poinsettia
    (1/12/2009) Prosafe accommodation semi off to Mexico
    (1/12/2009) Acergy Piper semi pipelay barge sold to Saipem
    (1/12/2009) Neptune acquires Subsea Engineering Services
    ...More Company News
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      Industry Events
    January 14-16
    Produced Water Society Annual Seminar, Houston, Texas, USA
    January 19-21
    SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, The Woodlands, Texas USA
    January 19-21
    World Future Energy Summit, Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates
    January 19-23
    API Exploration & Production Winter Standards Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA
    January 24-27
    Nano Petroleum, Gas and Petro-Chemical Industries Conference, Cairo, Egypt
    January 26-28
    Global E&P Summit, Barcelona, Spain
    January 27-29
    SPE Applied Technology Workshop: Improving the Reservoir/Facilities Interface, London, UK
    February 2-4
    SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, The Woodlands, Texas, USA
    February 3-4
    International Association of Drilling Contractors Health, Safety, Environment & Training Conference & Exhibition, Houston, Texas, USA
    February 4-6
    Russia Offshore 2009, Moscow, Russia
    February 5-6
    NAPE Expo, Houston, Texas USA
    February 9-13
    American Association of Petroleum Geologists Sixth Annual Winter Education Conference, Houston, Texas USA
    February 10-11
    E&P Information and Data Management, London, UK
    February 11
    Risks of Major Accidents in an Environmental Perspective, Stavanger, Norway
    February 11-12
    Gas Arabia 2009, Abu Dhabi, UAE
    February 11-12
    Subsea 09, Aberdeen, UK
    ...More Events

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