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  • World Industry News

  • Exploration & Discoveries

  • Drilling & Completion

  • Development & Production

  • Licensing & Concessions
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  • Geosciences

  • Health Safety & Environment

  • Company News

  • Oil & Gas Prices

  • Events
    •   World Industry News
    (1/18/2006) Venezuela caps deductibles on gas production
    (1/17/2006) IEA foresees US & China demand driving 2006 growth
    (1/17/2006) Assam insurgents demand ONGC pay $113 million
    (1/17/2006) Situation worsens in Nigeria militant standoff with Shell (update)
    (1/16/2006) Shell considering pullout from Niger Delta after latest fatal attack (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (1/18/2006) Oilexco's North Sea Palomino a dry hole
    (1/18/2006) Origin spuds Queensland's Kyeen Creek-1 well
    (1/18/2006) Western Australia's Yarri exploration well to spud
    (1/18/2006) Swift's latest Lake Washington Louisiana wells test completed
    (1/18/2006) Tullow expecting oil reserves in Bangladesh's St Martine
    (1/18/2006) Indago plugs & abandons UAE Haagil-1 well
    (1/18/2006) PCPP consortium finds oil off Sarawak, Malaysia
    (1/18/2006) Te Giac Trang appraisal spudded in Vietnam
    (1/18/2006) Shell makes 4th oil & gas discovery off Sabah, Malaysia
    (1/18/2006) Petsec achieves 2nd successful Main Pass well in US Gulf
    (1/17/2006) Poland's Sroda-5 to be plugged as non-commercial
    (1/17/2006) Falcon's 1st Louisiana Gemini Project well at TD
    (1/17/2006) Talisman finds gas in Alberta & BC, Canada
    (1/17/2006) Woodside spuds Dore exploration well off Mauritania
    (1/17/2006) Uganda's Mputa-1 exploration well has oil shows
    (1/17/2006) Coastal spuds Montana Lodgepole Reef probe
    (1/17/2006) Talisman scores dual discoveries in North Sea & Peru
    (1/16/2006) BP puts Prudhoe west wing appraisal well back on schedule
    (1/16/2006) Ottoman drilling 2nd exploration well in Turkey's Thrace Basin
    (1/16/2006) Cooper to spud Strickland Bay onshore South Australia
    (1/16/2006) Emerald & Gulfsand get rigs to drill in Syria
    (1/16/2006) PTTEP makes Oman discovery with Shams-4 well
    (1/16/2006) Vietnam's Binh Thuan proves exploration potential
    (1/16/2006) Tunisia's Oum Zoughar-2 suspended as low-perm reservoir
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (1/18/2006) Cabot successfully drills range of wells across Texas
    (1/18/2006) BOT mills world's first 16-inch one-trip casing exit
    (1/18/2006) Forty rigs coming into market will be absorbed by deficit
    (1/17/2006) Petro Andina contracts 2nd rig for Argentine drilling
    (1/17/2006) Smedvig charters 2 tender rigs to Carigali Triton
    (1/17/2006) Unit Rig 31 destroyed in Oklahoma blowout
    (1/17/2006) Halliburton picked to manage Hungary & Romania drilling
    (1/17/2006) Worldwide dayrate SCORE up in December
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (1/18/2006) Buttes to begin drilling UAE's Mubarak Field infill
    (1/18/2006) Statoil again cuts production on Norne Field
    (1/18/2006) TNK BP reports early output from Verkhnechonskoye
    (1/18/2006) Deep Rock drilling 2nd well in 4-well Oklahoma project
    (1/18/2006) Anzon spuds Manta-2 producer off Victoria, Australia
    (1/18/2006) Carpathian to develop oil zone in Romania's Nadlac Field
    (1/17/2006) Four wells on M'Boundi Field boost output to 67,000 b/d
    (1/17/2006) EGPI Firecreek's 1st Wyoming CBM well onstream
    (1/17/2006) Marion completes Kenilworth Railroad well in Utah
    (1/17/2006) McAlester prepping to spud 7th Texas' Mission River well
    (1/17/2006) Technical problem delaying restart of Cossack production
    (1/17/2006) Statoil assessing carbon injection on Volve Field
    (1/16/2006) FirstAfrica Oil spuds 1st well offshore Gabon
    (1/16/2006) Statoil's Norne Field back onstream at 80%-90% output
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (1/18/2006) CPC granted exploration license in Chad
    (1/18/2006) Total closes US Gulf swap with Shell
    (1/18/2006) Chesapeake pays $796 million for major oil & gas acreage
    (1/17/2006) Solana farm-in projects in Colombia expanding
    (1/17/2006) PNR sells Argentina operations to Apache for $675 million
    (1/17/2006) Western Sahara offering 12 blocks for bid
    (1/16/2006) AGL hefts offer for Oil Search PNG stake by $100 million
    (1/16/2006) Silverstone JV farming into North Sea Vanquish block
    (1/16/2006) Shell granted Browse Basin block off Western Australia
    (1/16/2006) Mart to join Del-Sigma in developing Nigeria's KE Field
    (1/16/2006) Burren adds exploration interests in Yemen & Oman
    (1/16/2006) Husky increases holdings in Jeanne d'Arc Basin
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (1/18/2006) Long View shooting 2D on 27,000-acre Saskatchewan permit
    (1/17/2006) Veritas shooting wide-azimuth survey in US Gulf
    (1/16/2006) OHM doing electromagnetic survey in Falklands
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (1/16/2006) Statoil's Asgard B, Mikkel & Kristin Fields shutdown
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (1/18/2006) Kerr-McGee launches new logo
    (1/18/2006) Niko agrees to compensate for Bangladesh blowout
    (1/18/2006) Safe Scandinavia stay in US Gulf extended
    (1/18/2006) BJ Tubular contracted for offshore Brazil running services
    (1/17/2006) Mustang wins Mangala FEED contract from Cairn
    (1/16/2006) Heerema set another deepwater installation record
    (1/16/2006) COSL secures CNOOC contracts in Myanmar
    (1/16/2006) Technics contracted for Tui FPSO as compression modules
    (1/16/2006) Prosafe wins contract extension in Egypt
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Wed. 1/17
    Oil (US$ 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 22-25
    GTI National Gas Technology Conference, Orlando, Florida USA
    January 30-31
    LNG Economics & Technology, Houston, Texas USA
    January 30-February 1
    Underwater Intervention Conference, ew Orleans, Louisiana USA
    February 2-3
    NAPE Expo, Houston, Texas USA
    February 7-8
    IADC Health, Safety, Environment & Training Conference & Exhibition, Houston, Texas USA
    February 7-9
    Mediterranean Petroleum Conference & Exhibition, Tripoli, Libya
    February 7-9
    Multiphase User Roundtable: Pumping and Metering, Margarita Island, Venezuela
    February 8-9
    Strategic Development of Russia's Offshore Oil & Gas Resources, Moscow, Russia
    February 13-16
    Pipeline Pigging & Integrity Management Conference & Exhibition, Houston, Texas USA
    February 14
    6th Annual NPF North Sea Decommissioning Conference, Os (near Bergen), Norway
    ...More Events

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