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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
    (1/22/2006) ULFA bombs 2 more pipelines in Assam
    (1/22/2006) Cyclone Daryl weakens off NW Australia (update)
    (1/22/2006) Bolivia's 1st Indian president pledges control of gasfields
    (1/22/2006) Emir succession crisis postpones Project Kuwait
    (1/20/2006) Operators off Western Australia brace for another cyclone
    (1/20/2006) OPEC says global economic growth driving demand
    (1/19/2006) Shell confirms another employee killed in Nigeria (update)
    (1/19/2006) MMS offshore facilities hurricane impact study completed (update)
    ...More World Industry News
      Exploration & Discoveries
    (1/22/2006) Cairn to boost Bangladesh E&P in 2006
    (1/22/2006) Bass Strait Fur Seal probe plugged & abandoned
    (1/20/2006) Statoil schedules 30-40 exploration wells this year
    (1/20/2006) Uganda's Mputa wildcat to be cased & suspended
    (1/20/2006) DNO to spud North Sea Jaguar well
    (1/20/2006) Santos' Nyari-1 off Indonesia plugged & abandoned
    (1/20/2006) SeRim commences Kazakh drilling program
    (1/19/2006) Premier prepping to drill its Indonesia Block A well
    (1/19/2006) Lakes to drill Loy Yang-2 onshore Victoria, Australia
    ...More Exploration & Discoveries
      Drilling & Completion
    (1/19/2006) COSL to drill Iran Caspian deepwater exploration well
    (1/19/2006) Oilex contracts workover rig for 2 Queensland wells
    (1/19/2006) Nexen & Noble contract Ensco 8501 ultra-deepwater semi
    ...More Drilling & Completion
      Development & Production
    (1/22/2006) Woodside to seek approval for offshore California LNG facility
    (1/20/2006) Petrobras putting $62 million into NE field redevelopment
    (1/20/2006) Statoil returns Asgard Field to full production (update)
    (1/19/2006) Imperial Energy drills 3rd Snezhnaya well in Tomsk
    (1/19/2006) Highest pressure gas re-injection train set for Kashagan
    (1/19/2006) Corridor completes drilling & testing of New Brunswick well
    (1/19/2006) Gaz de France brings 5 gasfields off Netherlands onstream
    ...More Development & Production
      Licensing & Concessions
    (1/22/2006) Talisman said selling minor UK North Sea assets
    (1/22/2006) FAR farming into Hunt Oil's Senegal blocks
    (1/20/2006) TNK-BP puts Udmurtneft up for sale to highest bidder
    (1/20/2006) Romania awards 3 blocks to OMV's Petrom
    (1/20/2006) Pacific Energy farms into Wyoming Green River project
    (1/20/2006) Gazprom seeking operation of 3 key Uzbek gasfields
    (1/20/2006) Northern & ATI awarded 4 Italy blocks
    (1/20/2006) BG farms into Nigeria's Block OPL332
    (1/20/2006) BG farms into Nigeria's Block OPL332
    (1/19/2006) Nexus Energy secures 100% of Timor Sea's Crux Field
    (1/19/2006) PA Resources farming into 8 DNO Norwegian licenses
    (1/19/2006) Total buys 60% share of Tullow's Bangladesh blocks
    ...More Licensing & Concessions
      Geosciences
    (1/22/2006) India's NGRI to conduct magnetic survey of Gulf of Kutch
    (1/20/2006) Seismic data over Mauritania's Taoudeni Basin reprocessed
    (1/19/2006) Fugro adds Geo Barents charter to extend seismic fleet
    ...More Geosciences
      Health Safety & Environment
    (1/20/2006) Stena Drilling warned not in HSE compliance
    (1/20/2006) Statoil evacuates 1,100 employees from Snohvit
    (1/19/2006) Norway's Safety Authority investigating Visund gas leak (update)
    ...More Health Safety & Environment
      Company News
    (1/22/2006) Venezuela cuts Shell's back tax bill to $13 million
    (1/22/2006) Iran Sadra launches country's first pipelay barge
    (1/20/2006) QGC makes takeover bid for Sydney Gas
    (1/20/2006) Fugro scores large Brazilian ROV contract
    (1/20/2006) Plexus to provide BP Egypt HP/HT wellhead equipment
    (1/20/2006) SeaDrill to build another semisubmersible
    (1/20/2006) Saudi Aramco establishes firefighting & rescue
    (1/20/2006) DNO boosts 2006 exploration budget to $100 million
    (1/19/2006) Kongsberg upgrades Saipem Scarabeo 5
    (1/19/2006) CTT chosen by BP to provide subterranean rotating device
    (1/19/2006) Kerr-McGee hefts US Rockies potential & Brazils' Chinook boe
    (1/19/2006) ONGC signs SCADA agreement with ABB
    (1/19/2006) Hydro contracts PWS for Norwegian well testing
    (1/19/2006) Deepwater Specialists to commission Tahiti Spar
    ...More Company News
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      Oil & Gas Prices
    Grade Fri. 1/20
    Oil (US$ per bbl crude)
    OPEC Basket 59.26
    0.0%
    Minas 59.46
    +0.8%
    Bonny Light 65.51
    +1.9%
    N. Sea Brent 66.43
    +1.8%
    Forties 65.46
    +1.9%
    Urals/Mediterranean 60.96
    +2.1%
    Alaska N. Slope 65.65
    +2.4%
    W. Texas Intermediate 68.35
    +2.3%
    Gas (US$ per mmbtu)
    Henry Hub* 8.44
    +2.8%
    UK Day Ahead** 71.20
    +25.6%
    *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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